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Physics 4Q03 Lecture 02. This lecture describes several issues associated with multiple-particle states in quantum mechanics, including the classification of all particles as bosons or fermions and…
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Physics 4Q03 Lecture 09: This lecture introduces coherent states, and derives them as the eigenstates to which a bosonic system is often driven in the presence of persistent stimulated emission. The…
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Physics 4Q03 Lecture 16: This lecture provides a whirlwind review of Maxwell's equations and their solutions in terms of electromagnetic waves. This allows an introduction to gauge invariance…
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Started 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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Physics 4Q03 Lecture 17: This lecture continues the discussion of quantizing the electromagnetic fields and shows how field energy and momentum can be written in terms of photon creation and…
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Physics 4Q03 Lecture 18: This lecture continues the previous one on photons in electromagnetism, and provides a sermon about UV and IR divergences and why you can use any regularization you like to…
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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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Physics 4Q03 Lecture 19: This lecture evaluates the Casimir energy for the vacuum fluctuations of a field between two plates on which the field vanishes, showing that it is UV finite. Along the way…
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Finished the slides on the adiabatic approximation (L18Adiabatic)
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Physics 4Q03 Lecture 21: This lecture describes how the electromagnetic vector potential (ie photons) couple to nonrelativistic charged particles, constructing the interactions by `gauging' the…
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Worked through an example of Berry's phase: a spin in a rotating magnetic field (L20BerryPhase)
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Physics 4Q03 Lecture 23: This lecture starts with a summary of renormalization for Casimir energy in a waveguide, and closes with the start of a summary of Special Relativity.
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Scattering theory: covered the basic setup of a scattering experiment, including the differential scattering cross-section, asymptotic wavefunction, and the scattering amplitude (L21ScatteringTheory1)
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Physics 4Q03 Lecture 26: This lecture works through how Poincare generators (4-momentum and the angular momentum tensor) transform in quantum relativity. A sketch is given of the argument for the…
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