Subject Code: Subject Name: Quantum Physics II L-T-P: 3-1-0 Credit: 4
Pre-requisite(s): None
 

Fundamentals of quantum mechanics: Wave-particle duality, lack of determinism and Born’s probabilistic interpretation; Wavefunction, Hilbert space, vectors and Linear operators, basis of the Hilbert space, observables in quantum mechanics: their eigenvalues and eigenvectors, time-independent Schrodinger's equation as eigenvalue problem: stationary states; Cauchy-Schwarz inequality and uncertainty principle – its consequences in quantum mechancis. Time-independent potentials: energy eigenstates, bound states and scattering states. Free-particle: issues with normalizabilty of the energy eigenstates and wavepacket, spectrum and its degeneracy: particle in a box, Harmonic oscillator - ladder operator. Rectangular and delta-function barriers: Scattering and tunneling. Orbital angular momenta: algebra and spherical harmonics. Hydrogen atom and its spectrum. Spin angular momentum. Spin-1/2 particle in a magnetic field: Stern-Gerlach experiment, Larmor precision, Zeemann effect.



Text/Reference Books:
  1. D. J. Griffiths, Introduction to Quantum Mechanics (Pearson)
  2. R. P. Feynmann, R. Leighton, M. Sands, The Feynman Lectures on Physics: Vol. 3 (Pearson)
  3. C. Cohen-Tannoudji, B. Diu, F. Laloe, Quantum mechanics: Vol. 1 (Wiley-VCH)
  4. J. J. Sakurai, Modern Quantum Mechanics (Addison Wesley)
  5. R. Eisberg, R. Resnick, Quantum Physics of Atoms, Molecules, Solids, Nuclei, and Particles (Wiley)