Department of Physics

10ΕΚΟ03 Quantum Mechanics ΙI

Course webpage:  https://eclass.uoa.gr/courses/PHYS247

Course outline

Course content

• Dirac notation. Solution of the simple harmonic oscillator using creation and annihilation operators. The Schrödinger and Heisenberg pictures.
• Angular momentum and spin. Addition of angular momenta. Identical particles and Pauli exclusion principle.
• Interaction of charged particles with electromagnetic fields. Zeeman effect.
• Time-independent perturbation theory. The real hydrogen atom.
• Time evolution in time-dependent potentials. Elements of time-dependent perturbation theory. The Fermi golden rule.
• Introduction to three-dimensional scattering.
• Transitions between energy levels.