Ph 601 (Lecture 0): Walaa. M.

Seif 2014/2015

Ph 601
Advanced Quantum Mechanics
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------Reference: "Modern Quantum Mechanics", second edition,
by J. J. Sakurai and Jim Napolitano.
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------We aim in this course to cover the following subjects.
1. The fundamental concepts of modern quantum mechanics and its methods. (Ch.1)
2. The time-evolution in different approaches such as Schrdinger, Heisenberg and Dirac
pictures. (Ch.2, Ch. 5)
3. The scattering theory and the associated transition rates and cross sections. (Ch.6)
4. The identical particles and the multiparticle states. (Ch.7)
5. Second quantization. (Ch.7)
6. Electromagnetic fields and photons. (Ch.7)
7. The relativistic quantum mechanics ( Klein-Gordon and Dirac equations). (Ch.8)