Quantum mechanics

Lecture and tutorial classes in the winter term

Outline 

  • Overview of experiments (double slit experiment, black body radiation, photoelectric effect, Stern-Gerlach)
  • Wave equations & dispersion relations
  • Schrödinger equation and paradigmatic example systems (wave packets, tunnelling effect, harmonic oscillator) 
  • Position and momentum representation, Heisenberg uncertainty relation
  • Hydrogen atom and angular momentum 
  • Spin systems 
  • Postulates of quantum mechanics (pure states)
  • Composite quantum systems
  • Outlook to quantum many-body systems (molecules and solids)