Individual course details | ||||||||||
Study programme | Theoretical and experimental physics | |||||||||
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Nature and level of studies | ||||||||||
Name of the course | Quantum mechanics 2 | |||||||||
Professor (lectures) | Milan Damnjanović | |||||||||
Professor/associate (examples/practical) | Marko Milivojević | |||||||||
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ECTS | 6 | Status (required/elective) | required | |||||||
Access requirements | Mathematical physic 2, Quantum mechanics 1 | |||||||||
Aims of the course | Completition of the quantum mechanical concepts and methods. Preparation for higher specialized courses based on quantum theory. | |||||||||
Learning outcomes | Elaborated quantum mechanical ideas and methods at the level allowing understanding of research in most of the fields of physics. | |||||||||
Contents of the course | ||||||||||
Lectures | 1.
Addition of angular momenta 1.1. General problem 1.2. Orbital and spin moment in hydrogen 1.3. Clebsch-Gordan decomposition 2. Identical particles 2.1. Permutations 2.2. (Anti)symmetrization of states 2.3. Fermi and Bose statistics, Pauli princple, Slater determinants 2.4. Kinematical correlation of identical particles 3. Second quantization for fermions and bosons 3.1 Fock space 3.2 Creation and annihilation operators 3.3 Single- and two-particle operators. 4. Approximae methods 2: 4.1. Time dependent perturbations (transition probability, onstant and periodic perturbation, Fermi golden rule) 4.2. Hartree-Fock method (description), 4.3. Density functional method (description), 5. Elemetary introduction to scatterings. |
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Examples/ practical classes | Exercises, discussions, seminars, homeworks. | |||||||||
Recommended books | ||||||||||
1 | C.
Cohen-Tannoudji, B. Diu, F. Laloe, Quantum Mechanics, (J. Wiley & Sons,
New York, 1977) |
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2 | М. Damnjanovic, Lecture notes | |||||||||
3 | L.D. Landau, E.M. Lifshitz,"Quantum Mechanics" (Pergamon: Oxford 1977) | |||||||||
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Lectures | Examples&practicals | Student project | Additional | |||||||
3 | 2 | |||||||||
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Assessment (maximal 100) | ||||||||||
assesed coursework | mark | examination | mark | |||||||
coursework | 10 | written examination | 50 | |||||||
practicals | oral examination | 40 | ||||||||
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