Quantum Mechanics 2

Catalog description

In this course, the quantum mechanical framework, introduced in Quantum Mechanics, is taken to a more advanced level. This course is indispensable to understand the origin of a wide range of atomic and elementary particle phenomena and to learn fundamental techniques used throughout physics. Students will explore time-independent and dependent perturbation theory, the variational principle, the WKB approximation, the adiabatic approximation, scattering processes. Applications of these formalisms to problems in atomic physics, nuclear physics, or astrophysics will also be explored.