Ph125 - THIRD TERM Course Syllabus

THIRD TERM (Ph125c)

1. Fine and hyperfine structure of hydrogenic atoms; the Zeeman effect

2. Time-dependent perturbation theory(b) Wave packets and free particle motion

3. Scattering; partial waves

4. Identical particles and many-body physics; Fermi degeneracy

5. Photons and the EM field

6. Atomic radiative processes and cavity QED

7. General theory of quantum measurement: effects and operations

8. Conditional and unconditional evolution of open quantum systems