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Welcome to Physics 580 (Fall 2013)

Graduate course in quantum mechanics for students with basic knowledge of undergraduate quantum mechanics. Physics 580 will include origins of quantum mechanics, complex vector and Hilbert spaces, qubits, the density matrix, von Neumann entropy, relevant topics in advanced classical mechanics, quantum dynamics in Schrodinger, Heisenberg and interaction pictures, Feynman propagator, Feynman path integral, symmetry in quantum mechanics, rotations in quantum mechanics, representative applications to bound and continuum systems.

 Instructor

Professor John Stack

  • 437B Loomis Lab, 333-4357
  • Email: j-stack@illinois.edu
  • Any Day : 437B Loomis/drop by/email me
  • Sunday : 130 pm to 2:30pm 437 Loomis
  • Tuesday : 11am-noon and 1pm to 2pm 437 Loomis

Grader

Zhenhua Ning

Homework should be placed, by 5pm on the date due, in the 580 box. THE DUE DATE WILL GENERALLY BE TUESDAY OF EACH WEEK!
 

Recommended Texts

  • Gottfried and Yan,  Quantum Mechanics: Fundamentals. 2nd Ed.
  • Sakurai, Modern Quantum Quantum Mechanics.
  • Weinberg, Lectures on Quantum Quantum Mechanics.
  • A list of Books on reserve at Grainger Library
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