| Lecture |
Date |
Reading/Homework |
What was covered |
Supplementary Links |
| 1 |
Sept. 4 |
None |
Course introduction |
|
| 2 |
Sept. 6 |
Read Ch.1,HW#1 assigned |
1.1-1.4 |
Wave-Particle Duality and Interpretations keynote presentation |
| 3 |
Sept. 11 |
Read Ch. 2 |
1.4-1.6 |
Mermin, Physics Today, April 1985, pp. 38-47||random bit generator (patent)||id Quantique |
| 4 |
Sept. 13 |
HW#1 due, HW#2 assigned, Read 2.1-2.2(Ch.2 first part) |
2.1 - stationary states |
CAP competition announcement |
| 5 |
Sept. 18 |
Read 2.2-2.3(Ch.2 first part) |
2.2, infinite square well, multi-particle states |
- |
| 6 |
Sept. 20 |
HW#2 due, HW#3 assigned, Read Mermin, Physics Today, April 1985, pp. 38-47 and 2.3 and 2.4(Ch.2 first part) |
quantum entanglement, spukhafte Fernwirkungen, and Bell inequality |
scan of class notes |
| 7 |
Sept. 25 |
- |
2.3.1 |
- |
| 8 |
Sept. 27 |
HW#3 due, HW#4 assigned |
2.3.2 |
features of the harmonic oscillator
||world record- 500 pK atomic gas |
| 9 |
Oct. 2 |
Read 2.4-2.6(Ch.2 second part) |
2.4 - free particle |
Quantum
physics online (great wave function simulators) |
| 10 |
Oct. 4 |
HW#4 due, HW#5 assigned |
2.5 |
Quantum
physics online |
| 11 |
Oct. 9 |
HW#5 due |
2.6 |
Quantum
physics online |
| 12 |
Oct. 11 |
Read Appendix - Linear Algebra, HW#6 assigned. |
Midterm I |
- |
| 13 |
Oct. 16 |
Read Appendix - Linear Algebra |
Review of Midterm I, Formalism |
The Leggett inequalities: nonlocal hidden-variables incompatible with quantum mechanics.
|
| 14 |
Oct. 18 |
HW#6 due, HW#7 assigned |
Formalism: Vector spaces, Hilbert space |
- |
| 15 |
Oct. 23 |
Read 3.1-3.5 |
Observables, Hermitian operators, eigenfunctions |
- |
| 16 |
Oct. 25 |
HW#7 due, HW#8 assigned, Read 3.6 and 4.1 |
Formalism: Generalized statistical interpretation |
- |
| 17 |
Oct. 30 |
Read 4.1-4.2 |
Formalism: generalized uncertainty principle, energy-time uncertainty principle |
References on the historical and conceptual development of quantum mechanics |
| 18 |
Nov. 1 |
HW#8 due, HW#9 assigned, Read 4.1-4.2 |
Formalism: Dirac notation |
- |
| 19 |
Nov. 6 |
Read 4.1-4.2 |
Quantum mechanics in 3D |
- |
| 20 |
Nov. 8 |
HW#9 due, HW#10 assigned. This one is short. |
Hydrogen Atom |
- |
| 21 |
Nov. 13 |
HW#10 due |
Angular Momentum |
- |
| 22 |
Nov. 15 |
no hwk. |
Midterm II |
- |
| 23 |
Nov. 20 |
- |
Review of MT II, teaching evaluations. |
- |
| 24 |
Nov. 22 |
HW#11 assigned |
Spin angular momentum, Larmor precession, Stern Gerlach experiment |
- |
| 25 |
Nov. 27 |
Read 4.4 and 5.1 |
Addition of angular momenta, Clebsch-Gordan coefficients |
- |
| 26 |
Nov. 29 |
- |
Identical particles and wave function symmetries. |
- |
| - |
Nov. 30 |
HW#11 due at 5pm on Friday.
Give directly to TA |
- |
- |