WT24/25: Theoretical Physics III - Advanced Quantum Mechanics

Abstract

The largest part of the lecture is devoted to completing the education in quantum mechanics at the level required for those who wish to pursue an academic degree beyond the bachelor's level. All topics are of equal relevance for future studies in experiment and theory: perturbation and scattering theory, time-dependent problems and elementary many-body physics.

Lecturer

• Prof. Dr. Ferdinand Evers

Quick Links

• GRIPS

• SPUR

First Meetings

• The first lecture will be taught on Monday, 14.10.2024, 10:00 - 12:00, room H33

• The first plenary exercise will be on 17.10.2024, start 13:15 (change!), room PHY 5.1.03

• The exercises start in the 1st semester week, from 14.10.2024 on

• Please prepare for the first exercise classes by going through the exercise sheets, published in GRIPS (see the link above)

Lectures (4 SWS)

• Monday: 10:15 – 12:00
  Room: H33

• Thursdays: 10:15 – 12:00
  Room: H33

Plenary exercises

• Dr. Richard Korytár, richard.korytar ¿at? ur.de

• Thursdays: 13:15 – 15:00
  Room: PHY 5.1.03

Exercise Groups (2 SWS)

Dr. Bashab Dey, Dr. Animesh Panda, Subhadip Chakraborty

1. Wednesdays, 12:15 - 14:00
   Room: H33

2. Thursdays, 8:15 - 10:00
   Room: PHY 5.1.01

3. Fridays, 8:15 - 10:00
   Room: H34

• We provide one exercise sheet per week. They will be distributed via GRIPS one week before they should be solved at the problem class.

Exam

• TBA

Content

• Approximation methods for time-independent problems

• Time-dependent problems

• Fundamentals of scattering theory

• Many-particle systems

• Relativistic quantum mechanics

Literature

Schwabl, Franz. Quantum mechanics (2013)

Schwabl, Franz. Advanced Quantum mechanics (2005)

Sakurai, J.J., and Napolitano, J. Modern quantum mechanics (2020)

Flügge, Siegfried. Practical quantum mechanics (2012)

Further Reading

Shankar, Ramamurti. Principles of quantum mechanics (2012)

Jelitto, R. J. Theoretical physics Vol. 5. Quantum mechanics (1988)

Bjorken, J. D., and Drell, S.D. Relativistic quantum mechanics (1964)