| Academic Year: | 97/98 |
| Instructor: | Malcolm McMillan |
| Credits: | 3 or 6 (determined in consultation with the Physics Graduate Advisor) |
| Term: either term if 3 credits; both terms if 6 credits | |
| Lecture hrs/week: 3 | |
| Prerequisites: | one of PHYS 402 or 452 or equivalent |
| Text: | M. McMillan, "Quantum Leaps and Bounds" (see Instructor Notes below) |
| Recommended for further reading: | R.H. Landau, ÒQuantum Mechanics IIÓ, 2nd ed., John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 1996 |
Notes:
Non-relativistic quantum mechanics with applications to atomic, nuclear and particle physics. Elementary field-theory techniques for many-body systems. The Dirac equation. Introduction to the quantum field theory of electrons and photons.
The course text is the six-volume set of lecture notes, Quantum Leaps and Bounds(QLB). The items in the Course Outline below are titles of the volumes of QLB.
A number of the topics discussed in PHYS 500 are also discussed in more specialized and more application-driven graduate courses on condensed matter physics (PHYS 502, 503), nuclear and particle physics (PHYS 505) and relativistic quantum field theory (PHYS 508). The aim of PHYS 500 is to present and discuss the basic ideas and formalism of quantum mechanics in a coherent manner with some applications and to try to give students a broader bac kground in the subject than might be available in the more specialized courses.
Quantum Mechanics in Fock Space
Relativistic Quantum Mechanics