NPTEL : NOC:Advanced Quantum Mechanics with Applications (Physics)

Co-ordinators : Dr. Saurabh Basu


Lecture 1 - Introduction, Postulates of Quantum Mechanics

Lecture 2 - Stern Gerlach Experiment, Spin Quantization, Young's Double Slit Experiment

Lecture 3 - The Mathematical Formalism of Quantum Mechanics, Uncertainty Principle

Lecture 4 - The Density Matrix Formalism, Expectation values of Operators

Lecture 5 - Qunatum Harmonic Oscillator, Creation and annihilation Operators

Lecture 6 - Coherent States and their Properties

Lecture 7 - Applications of Coherent States, squeezed states

Lecture 8 - Symmetries and Conservational Principles in Quantum Mechanics

Lecture 9 - Rotation Operator and Invariance of Angular Momentum, Parity

Lecture 10 - Spherically Symmetric System and Applications to quantum dots

Lecture 11 - Spin Angular Momentum, Addition of Angular Momentum, Clebsch gordan coefficients

Lecture 12 - Magnetic Hamiltonian, Heisenberg Model

Lecture 13 - Nuclear Magnetic Resonance (NMR)

Lecture 14 - Applications of NMR, time evolution of Magnetic Moments

Lecture 15 - Introduction to Quantum Computing

Lecture 16 - Qubits,EPR Paradox

Lecture 17 - Quantum Entanglement (QE)

Lecture 18 - Teleportation, Quantum Teleportation for one spin

Lecture 19 - Entangled state for two spins

Lecture 20 - Quantum Gates, Walsh Hadamard Transportation, No cloning theorem

Lecture 21 - Perturbation Theory

Lecture 22 - Stark Effect: First order in ground state

Lecture 23 - Stark Effect: Second order in ground state

Lecture 24 - Variational method, Variation of constants, Upper bound on ground state energy

Lecture 25 - Application of Variational method,Hydrogen,Helium atom,Comparison with perturbation theory

Lecture 26 - WKB Approximation, Bohr Sommerfeld quantization condition

Lecture 27 - Summary of Approximation methods, Time dependent Perturbation Theory

Lecture 28 - Time dependent Perturbation Theory, Fermi's Golden rule, Einstein's A and B coefficients

Lecture 29 - Scattering Theory

Lecture 30 - Linear Response Theory: Derivation of Kubo formula

Lecture 31 - Quantum Dynamics: Two level system

Lecture 32 - Examples

Lecture 33 - Interaction of Radiation with matter, Landau levels