PHYS 6574 - Applications of Quantum Mechanics II

Spring. 4 credits.

Prerequisite: knowledge of concepts and techniques covered in PHYS 6561 and PHYS 6572 and of statistical mechanics at undergraduate level assumed.

D. Rubin.

Possible topics include identical particles, many electron atoms, second quantization, quantization of the electromagnetic field, scattering of complex systems, radiative transitions, and introduction to the Dirac equation.