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| Course name | Quantum physics |
| Course ID | 13.2-WF-FizD-QP-S17 |
| Faculty | Faculty of Physics and Astronomy |
| Field of study | WFiA - oferta ERASMUS |
| Education profile | - |
| Level of studies | Erasmus programme |
| Beginning semester | winter term 2023/2024 |
| Semester | 2 |
| ECTS credits to win | 6 |
| Available in specialities | Physics |
| Course type | obligatory |
| Teaching language | english |
| Author of syllabus |
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| The class form | Hours per semester (full-time) | Hours per week (full-time) | Hours per semester (part-time) | Hours per week (part-time) | Form of assignment |
| Class | 30 | 2 | - | - | Credit with grade |
| Lecture | 30 | 2 | - | - | Exam |
To teach students advanced methods of quantum physics and their applications.
Knowledge of the basic concepts quantum physics, covered in the undergrad course "Quantum mechanics foundations".
- Basic concepts of quantum physics. Non-relativistic Schrodinger equation - Revisited.
- Multidimensional potential wells: Quantum wires and quantum dots.
- Density operator and its representations.
- Matrix representations and their applications.
- Electron spin. Pauli matrices and their applications.
- Quantum dynamics and pictures. Unitary transformations.
- Quantum harmonic oscillator. Annihilation and creation operators and their algebra.
- Quantum theory of two particles.
- Interaction of simple quantum systems with external fields. Zeeman and Stark effects. Diagonalization of the interaction Hamiltonian. Dressed states.
- Quantum model of two interacting systems. Entangled states.
- Time independent perturbation theory.
- Time dependent perturbation theory. Fermi golden rule.
- Entropy in quantum physics.
- Relativistic Schrodinger equation: Klein-Gordon equation.
- Dirac equation. Negative energy states. Spinors.
Two hours per week are scheduled for lectures and two hours for tutorials. Lectures will cover the formal course content. Tutorials, solving problems and exercises on topics related to the lectures.
| Outcome description | Outcome symbols | Methods of verification | The class form |
Lectures: Final written exam. To obtain a passing grade student should provide correct answer to at least 2/3 of questions.
Tutorial: Activity during the tutorial hours demonstrating the ability of solving tutorial problems and a positive grade of the final test. Before taking the final lecture examination the student needs to obtain passing grade of the tutorials.
The final grade: the arithmetic average of the tutorial and lecture examination grades.
1. E. Merzbacher, Quantum Mechanics, (Wiley, New York, 1998).
2. R. Eisberg and R. Resnick, Quantum Physics of Atoms, Molecules, Solids, Nuclei, and Particles, (Wiley, New York, 1985).
3. D. J. Griffiths and D. F. Schroeter, Introduction to Quantum Mechanics (Cambridge University Press, 2021).
4. C. Cohen-Tannoudji, B. Diu, F. Laloe, Quantum Mechanics: Volume I: Basic Concepts, Tools, and Applications, Volume II: Angular Momentum, Spin, and Approximation Methods, (Wiley-VCH, 2019).
1. A. S. Davydov, Quantum Mechanics, (Pergamon, Oxford, 2013).
2. L. I. Schiff, Quantum mechanics, (McGraw-Hill, New York, 2010).
3. N. Zettili, Quantum Mechanics - Concepts and Applications (Wiley, 2022).
Modified by dr hab. Maria Przybylska, prof. UZ (last modification: 30-04-2023 17:20)
