Introduction to Quantum Mechanics for Materials

Catalog description

A primer course on quantum mechanics for materials incoming graduate students who have had limited exposure to the subject. Topics include: The Schrodinger equation, wave functions, observables and operators; solutions to a particle in a box, harmonic oscillator and a free particle; the formalism of quantum mechanics, dirac notation; angular momentum, solutions to the hydrogen atom; spin and two state systems; perturbation theory, composite systems, entanglement, Pauli exclusion principle.