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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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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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PHYSIC739_WKB2_connection

Discussed how to obtain the WKB connection formulae using both the transitional approximation and the complex method. Also applied the WKB method to quantize wave functions in various potential wells.

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PHYSICS739_WKB1

First class on the WKB approximation

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PHYS-4F03-class14

Hyperfine splitting. Taught by Wyatt Kirkby in 2021

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PHYS-4F03-class13

The Zeeman effect. Taught by Wyatt Kirkby in 2021

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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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PHYS4F03_class34

Finished partial waves and began scattering phase shifts (L24ScatteringTheory4_Phase_shifts)

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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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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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PHYS4F03_class33

Finished the Born approximation and started partial waves (L23ScatteringTheory3_Partial_Waves)

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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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PHYS-4F03-class25

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

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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-class19

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

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15-Bogliubov

Physics 4Q03 Lecture 15: This lecture describes the leading corrections to the classical BEC, using a Bogoliubov transformation to identify the spectrum of quasiparticle fluctuations about the…

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14-Semiclassical BEC

Physics 4Q03 Lecture 14: This lecture continues the discussion of Bose Einstein condensation and shows how a semiclassical analysis can allow a calculation of the optimal density of condensed…

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