Quantenmechanik II
Winter semester 2021/2022
Lecture:
Tuesday + Thursday, 8:30 - 10:00 am, Luruper Chaussee 149, building 61, lecture hall; from beginning of December on: digital.
Topics / Contents:
I. The variation method
Szabo & Ostlund: Modern Quantum Chemistry (Dover Publications)
II. The Born-Oppenheimer approximation and adiabatic separation
PS: Lecture Moderne Quantenphysik der Moleküle
III. Many-body theory and second quantization: Fundamentals
Gross, Runge & Heinonen: Many-particle theory (Institute of Physics Publishing); Szabo & Ostlund: Modern Quantum Chemistry (Dover Publications)
IV. Hartree-Fock theory and approximation
Szabo & Ostlund: Modern Quantum Chemistry (Dover Publications)
V. Electronic correlations: Configuration interaction and coupled cluster theory
Szabo & Ostlund: Modern Quantum Chemistry (Dover Publications); Helgaker: Molecular electronic-structure theory (Wiley)
VI. (Many-body) perturbation theory
Helgaker: Molecular electronic-structure theory (Wiley)
VII. Time-dependent pertubation theory
VIII. Correlation functions and linear response
Schwabl: Quantenmechanik für Fortgeschrittene (Springer)
IX. Scattering theory and resonances
Sakurai: Modern Quantum Mechanics (Benjamin/Cummings Publ. Co)
X. Nonperturbative phenomena in quantum physics: Atoms in strong external fields (slides)
XI. Path integrals in quantum mechanics (Feynman and Hibbs. "Quantum Mechanics and Path Integrals", Dover Publications)
XII. Measurements in quantum mechanics (Wiseman and Milburn. "Quantum Measurement and Control", Cambridge)