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Texts


Amazon logo Griffiths, David J. Introduction to Quantum Mechanics. 2nd ed. Upper Saddle River, NJ: Pearson Prentice Hall, 2004. ISBN: 9780131118928.

Amazon logo Cohen-Tannoudji, Claude. Quantum Mechanics. 2 vols. New York, NY: Wiley, 1977. ISBN: 9780471164326.

Amazon logo Sakurai, J. J. Modern Quantum Mechanics. Reading, MA: Addison-Wesley Pub., 1994. ISBN: 9780201539295.

Amazon logo Shankar, Ramamurti. Principles of Quantum Mechanics. 2nd ed. New York, NY: Plenum Press, 1994. ISBN: 9780306447907.

The following table lists the reading assignments for each of the nine topics covered in this course. For more detailed information on these reading assigments, please see the individual assignments in the assignments section.


LEC #TOPICSREADINGS
1Natural Units
2-4Degenerate Fermi SystemsGriffiths, chapter 5.3

Cohen-Tannoudji, chapter XI Complement F
4-8Charged Particles in a Magnetic FieldGriffiths, section 10.2.4

Cohen-Tannoudji, chapter VI Complement E
9-12Time-independent Perturbation TheoryGriffiths, chapter 6

Cohen-Tannoudji, chapter XI including Complements A-D

Cohen-Tannoudji, chapter XII

See also Shankar, chapter 17 and Sakurai, chapter 5.1-3
13-15Variational and Semi-classical MethodsGriffiths, chapters 7, 8

Cohen-Tannoudji, chapter XI Complements E, F, G

See also Shankar, chapter 16 and Sakurai, chapter 5.4
16-18The Adiabatic Approximation and Berry's PhaseGriffiths, chapter 10
19-23ScatteringGriffiths, chapter 11

Cohen-Tannoudji, chapter VIII

See also Shankar, chapter 19
23-24Time-dependent Perturbation TheoryGriffiths, chapter 9

Cohen-Tannoudji, chapter XIII

See also Shankar, chapter 18 and Sakurai, chapter 5.5-8
25Quantum Computing

 








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