TP2 Lectures  

Theoretical Physics 2

Lecturer: Nigel Cooper

The lectures will be mostly presented on the blackboard, with slides used only to show diagrams or more lengthy derivations/formulas. All such slides will appear here after the lecture.

14:00 Mon 27 Jan. Quantum Dynamics: Schrodinger and Heisenberg Pictures; Driven SHO [pdf]
14:00 Wed 29 Jan. Driven SHO; Spin-1/2 in external field; Adiabatic Approximation. [pdf]
14:00 Fri 31 Jan. Landau Zener transitions; Berry Phase. [pdf]
14:00 Mon 3 Feb. The Propagator & Green's function. [pdf]
14:00 Wed 5 Feb. The Feynman Path Integral. [pdf]
14:00 Fri 7 Feb. Stationary Phase and the Semiclassical Limit. [pdf]
14:00 Mon 10 Feb. Scattering theory. Lippmann-Schwinger Eqn. Scattering in 3D. [pdf]
14:00 Wed 12 Feb. Partial Wave Analysis. Optical Theorem. [pdf]
14:00 Fri 14 Feb. Low-energy scattering, Resonances and Bound States. [pdf]
17, 19, 21 Feb. No Lectures
14:00 Mon 24 Feb. Second quantization. [pdf]
14:00 Wed 26 Feb. Operators. Particle density, and density matrix. Density correlations. [pdf]
14:00 Fri 28 Feb. Two-body operators & Interactions. Bose-Hubbard model. Bogoliubov Transformation. Time-of-flight and interference. [pdf]
14:00 Mon 3 Mar. Density Operators: Time-evolution; Statistical Mechanics. [pdf]
14:00 Wed 5 Mar. Density Operators: Subsystems & Entanglement. [pdf]
14:00 Fri 7 Mar. Lie groups. [pdf]
14:00 Mon 10 Mar. Relativistic QM. [pdf]

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