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Covered class administration and began slides QI2_overview
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Continued going through the slides: QI2_Overview
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Started degenerate perturbation theory (L8DegeneratePerturbationTheory).
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Finished slides L8DegeneratePerturbationTheory and started applications of perturbation theory in atomic physics (fine structure)
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Finished Fine structure (L9Fine_structure)
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The Zeeman effect. Taught by Wyatt Kirkby in 2021
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Hyperfine splitting. Taught by Wyatt Kirkby in 2021
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Variational principle. Taught by Wyatt Kirkby in 2021
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Started the WKB approximation (L13WKB_approximation.pdf)
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Continued our exploration of the WKB method. just started the set of slides L14WKBconnection
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Finished going through WKB connection formulae (L14WKBconnection)
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Studied the WKB approximation for a particle in a potential well (L15WKB_potential_well)
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Started time-dependent perturbation theory (L16T_dep_PT_part1)
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Derived 1st order time-dependent perturbation theory (L16T_dep_PT_part1)
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Started the set of slides L17T_dep_PT_part2 which applies time dependent perturbation theory to various examples.
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Finished going through the slides L17T_dep_PT_part2 which included perturbations with harmonic time dependence, including the illumination of an atom by a laser. Started the next set of slides…
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Used first order time-dependent perturbation to study the interaction between atoms and incoherent light (L17T_dep_PT_part3)
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Finished selection rules (and thereby finished L17T_dep_PT_part3). Started new topic: adiabatic approximation (L18Adiabatic)
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Finished the slides on the adiabatic approximation (L18Adiabatic)
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Covered L4Identical particles
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Covered the exchange interaction and began discussion of quantum statistical mechanics
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Finished identical particle and started time-independent perturbation theory.
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Finished L7TimeIndepPerturbationTheory
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