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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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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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Completed Euler angles, started considering rotation operators for general values of j.
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Finished slides on "What is a spin?"
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Generalized our treatment of first order transitions to include a slow switch on of the perturbation.
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Introduced the interaction picture
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Started perturbation theory. Gave example of quadratic Stark shift of ground state.
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Discussed how to include electromagnetic fields in the Schrodinger equation and path integrals, and also covered the Aharonov-Bohm effect
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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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First class on the WKB approximation
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Hyperfine splitting. Taught by Wyatt Kirkby in 2021
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The Zeeman effect. Taught by Wyatt Kirkby in 2021
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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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Finished partial waves and began scattering phase shifts (L24ScatteringTheory4_Phase_shifts)
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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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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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Finished the Born approximation and started partial waves (L23ScatteringTheory3_Partial_Waves)
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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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Finished selection rules (and thereby finished L17T_dep_PT_part3). Started new topic: adiabatic approximation (L18Adiabatic)
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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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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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Studied the WKB approximation for a particle in a potential well (L15WKB_potential_well)
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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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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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