Prof. Sandro Stringari
A.A. 1998/99
PROGRAMME
- thermal radiation and Planck formula
- the photoelctric effect
- The Bohr atom and the correspondence principl
- de Broglie hipothesis and Scrodinger equation
- bound states, transmission and reflection of wave packets
- perturbation method for stationary states and transition probabilities
- elements of statistical mechanics
- ensembles in quantum statistical mechanics
- Fermi-Dirac and Bose-Einstein statistics
- Entropy and specific heat at low temperature
- the Hilbert space formalism
- the uncertainty principle
- conservation laws
- the harmonic oscillator
- angular momentum
- The Heisenberg interaction picture for the time evolution
- scattering from a spherically symmetric potential
REFERENCE TEXTS
A. Messiah, Mechanique Quantique
L. Schiff, Quantum Mechanics