Special / Select Topics in Atomic Physics (USB)

Media Storage Type : 32 GB USB Stick

NPTEL Subject Matter Expert : Prof. P.C. Deshmukh

NPTEL Co-ordinating Institute : IIT Madras

NPTEL Lecture Count : 40

NPTEL Course Size : 16 GB

NPTEL PDF Text Transcription : Available and Included

NPTEL Subtitle Transcription : Available and Included (SRT)

Lecture Titles:

Lecture 1 - Introductory lecture about this course
Lecture 2 - Quantum Mechanics and Symmetry of the Hydrogen Atom
Lecture 3 - Hydrogen atom: Rotational and Dynamical Symmetry of the 1/r Potential
Lecture 4 - Hydrogen atom: Dynamical Symmetry of the 1/r Potential
Lecture 5 - Degeneracy of the Hydrogen Atom: SO(4)
Lecture 6 - Wavefunctions of the Hydrogen Atom
Lecture 7 - Angular Momentum in Quantum Mechanics
Lecture 8 - Angular Momentum in Quantum Mechanics: half-odd-integer and integer quantum numbers: SU(2) & SO(3)
Lecture 9 - Angular Momentum in Quantum Mechanics: Addition Theorem for Spherical Harmonics - Coupling of Angular Momenta
Lecture 10 - Angular Momentum in Quantum Mechanics Dimensionality of the Direct-Product (Composite) Vector Space CGC recursion relations
Lecture 11 - Angular Momentum in Quantum Mechanics CGC matrix, Wigner D Rotation Matrix, Irreducible Tensor Operators
Lecture 12 - Angular Momentum in Quantum Mechanics - more on ITO, and the Wigner-Eckart Theorem
Lecture 13 - Angular Momentum in Quantum Mechanics Wigner-Eckart Theorem - 2
Lecture 14 - Relativistic Quantum Mechanics of the Hydrogen Atom - 1
Lecture 15 - Relativistic Quantum Mechanics of the Hydrogen Atom - 2
Lecture 16 - Relativistic Quantum Mechanics of the Hydrogen Atom - PAULI Equation - Foldy - Wouthysen Transformations - 1
Lecture 17 - Relativistic Quantum Mechanics of the Hydrogen Atom - Foldy - Wouthysen Transformations - 2
Lecture 18 - Relativistic Quantum Mechanics of the Hydrogen Atom - Foldy - Wouthysen Transformations - 3
Lecture 19 - Relativistic Quantum Mechanics of the Hydrogen Atom - Spherical Symmetry of the Coulomb Potential
Lecture 20 - Hartree-Fock Self-Consistent Field formalism - 1
Lecture 21 - Hartree-Fock Self-Consistent Field formalism - 2
Lecture 22 - Hartree-Fock Self-Consistent Field formalism - 3
Lecture 23 - Hartree-Fock Self-Consistent Field formalism - 4
Lecture 24 - Hartree-Fock Self-Consistent Field formalism - 5
Lecture 25 - Perturbative treatment of relativistic effects… Schrodinger's and Dirac QM
Lecture 26 - Perturbative treatment of relativistic effects… Schrodinger's and Dirac QM
Lecture 27 - Probing the atom - Collisions and Spectroscopy - boundary conditions - 1
Lecture 28 - Atomic Probes - Collisions and Spectroscopy - boundary conditions - 2
Lecture 29 - Atomic Probes - Collisions and Spectroscopy - Scattering phase shifts and boundary conditions
Lecture 30 - Atomic Probes - Time reversal symmetry - applications in atomic collisions and photoionization processes
Lecture 31 - Atomic Photoionization cross sections, angular distributions of photoelectrons - 1
Lecture 32 - Atomic Photoionization cross sections, angular distributions of photoelectrons - 2
Lecture 33 - Atomic Photoionization cross sections, angular distributions of photoelectrons - 3
Lecture 34 - Atomic Photoionization cross sections, angular distributions of photoelectrons - 4
Lecture 35 - Atomic Photoionization cross sections, angular distributions of photoelectrons Cooper Zare Formula
Lecture 36 - Stark- Zeeman Spectroscopy - Stark effect
Lecture 37 - Stark- Zeeman Spectroscopy - Stark effect on n=2 excited state of the H atom Zeeman effect
Lecture 38 - Stark- Zeeman Spectroscopy - Normal, Anomalous Zeeman effect; Paschen- Back effect
Lecture 39 - Stark- Zeeman Spectroscopy - Anomalous Zeeman effect
Lecture 40 - Zeeman effect Fine structure, Hyperfine structure - Elemental, rudimentary introduction to Laser Cooling, BEC, Atomic Clock / Attosecond metrology