PHY621: Advanced Quantum Mechanics | 6 credits (40-20-0) |
Objectives
To expose the operator formalism and the extension of the concept to second quantization, quantization of fields and the relativistic quantum theory.
Contents
Quantum mechanical representations, symmetries , transformations , angular momentum ,Clebsch Gordon coefficients, spherical tensors, tensor operators, time dependent perturbations, relativistic wave equations Dirac equations , approximate methods (perturbation theory) and many body systems, Identical particles, applications of second quantization spin half-bosons, spin waves, magnons, Hartree-Fock method