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PHYSICS739_AngularMomentum7

Wigner-Eckart theorem. Note: I previously thought I had lost the recording for PHYSICS739_AngularMomentum6, but I think I found it (it is on macvideo)

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PHYS-4F03-class16

Started the WKB approximation (L13WKB_approximation.pdf)

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PHYS-4F03-class19

Studied the WKB approximation for a particle in a potential well (L15WKB_potential_well)

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PHYS-4F03-class25

Finished selection rules (and thereby finished L17T_dep_PT_part3). Started new topic: adiabatic approximation (L18Adiabatic)

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PHYS-4F03-class18

Finished going through WKB connection formulae (L14WKBconnection)

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PHYS-4F03-class_4

Finished addition of angular momentum. Started L4identical particles.

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PHYS4F03_class34

Finished partial waves and began scattering phase shifts (L24ScatteringTheory4_Phase_shifts)

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PHYS4F03_class29

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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PHYS4F03_class33

Finished the Born approximation and started partial waves (L23ScatteringTheory3_Partial_Waves)

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PHYS-4F03-Class_2

Went through 2nd half of "What is a Quantum Spin" slides

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27-Microcausality

Physics 4Q03 Lecture 27: This lecture describes the logic that determines which fields can be used to represent particles of different spins, and describes the requirement of microcausality and why…

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28_Klein-Gordon Field and Lagrangians

Physics 4Q03 Lecture 28: This lecture applies the framework of relativistic quantum fields to the simplest case of a spinless particle and constructs the Klein Gordon hamiltonian and some of its…

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26-Poincare Generators

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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18-MorePhotonsEM

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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17-PhotonsInQED

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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PHYS-4F03-Class_3

Operator approach to angular momentum. Started addition of angular momentum.

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PHYS-4F03-Class7.mp4

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PHYSICS739_AngularMomentum4

Started studying the addition of angular momentum using the lowering operator method. Introduced direct sums and direct products of Hilbert spaces for the coupled and uncoupled bases, respectively.

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PHYSICS739_AngularMomentum3

Completed Euler angles, started considering rotation operators for general values of j.

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PHYS739_AngularMomentum1

Finished slides on "What is a spin?"

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PHYS739_approximation_Methods4

Generalized our treatment of first order transitions to include a slow switch on of the perturbation.

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PHYSICS739_approximation_Methods2

Introduced the interaction picture

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PHYS739_Approximation_Methods1

Started perturbation theory. Gave example of quadratic Stark shift of ground state.

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PHYSICS739_ElectromagneticFields

Discussed how to include electromagnetic fields in the Schrodinger equation and path integrals, and also covered the Aharonov-Bohm effect

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