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This is lecture 0: what is QFT and how will this course be taught? This provides a short 18 minute description of what the quantum field theory is about, together with a short summary of topics. The…
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Physics 4Q03 Lecture 06: This lecture uses the results for time-dependent perturbation theory to calculate transition rates in terms of the matrix elements of the interaction Hamiltonian, culminating…
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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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Continued going through the slides: QI2_Overview
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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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Finished going through WKB connection formulae (L14WKBconnection)
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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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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 class communication theory and started QI6_Spins_and_Photons
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Went through the first slides in QI6_Spins_and_photons
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Continued going through slides QI6_Spins_and_photons. Introduced Dirac notation.
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Finished slides QI6_Spins_and_Photons, started slides on Operators
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Studied the Aharonov-Bohm effect (as an example of a Berry phase) and thereby finished the slides on Berry's phase.
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