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)