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PHYS661 — Spring 2025

PHYS661: Quantum Mechanics II

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Offering:
Fall, Spring, Class 3, cr. 3


Prerequisites:
PHYS 601, PHYS 630, and PHYS 660, or equivalent.
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Description:
Stationary state perturbation theory. Applications to the fine and hyperfine strucure of the hydrogen atom. Elastic scattering theory. Time dependent perturbation theory. Radiative induced atomic transitions. Formal theory of scattering. Identical particles. Relativistic quantum mechanics.


Instructor(s):
VAYRYNEN, JUKKA


Email:
vayrynen@purdue.edu


Textbook(s) for Spring 2025

Title Author Edition ISBN Publisher Req/Opt Notes
Modern Quantum Mechanics J. J. Sakurai,Jim Napolitano 3rd 9781108473224 Cambridge University Press Optional

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