PHYS402-notes
Typeset notes for UBC's PHYS 402 "Application of quantum mechanics" course. The notes cover the following topics:
- Fundamental Concepts
- The beginnings of quantum mechanics
- The Stern-Gerlach experiment
- Basic formalism
- Observables
- Quantum measurement
- Position and momentum
- Quantum Dynamics
- The Schrodinger equation
- The Heisenberg picture
- Ehrenfest's theorem
- The quantum harmonic oscillator
- Quantum Information and Foundations
- Entanglement and its applications
- The no-cloning theorem
- Density operators
- Quantum cryptography
- Bell inequalities
- The Kochen-Specker Theorem
- Symmetries and Angular Momentum
- Parity symmetry
- Lattice translation and Bloch's theorem
- Rotation symmetry
- Noether's Theorem
- Eigenvalues of Angular Momentum
- Addition of Angular Momentum
- The Wigner-Eckart Theorem
- Approximation Methods
- Time-independent perturbation theory
- Time-dependent perturbation theory
- The WKB Approximation