Quantum Physics 1
0321.4115
Course Information (in Hebrew)
Lecturer
Dr. Ron Lifshitz
Shenkar Physics building, Room 421
Phone: 03-6405145
E-mail:
ronlif@tau.ac.il
Teaching Assistant
Mr. Ido Adam
Kaplun building, Room 510
Phone: 03-6407452
E-mail:
Lectures and recitations
Lectures
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Mondays 11:00-13:00, Melamed Hall
Wednesdays 16:00-17:00, Melamed Hall
Recitations
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Mondays 08:00-09:00, Orenstein building, Room 111
Bibliography
Main textbooks
G. Baym, “Lectures on quantum mechanics”.
J. Sakurai, “Advanced quantum mechanics”.
J.D. Bjorken and S.D. Drell, “Relativistic quantum mechanics”.
Recommended books for further reading
E. Merzbacher, “Quantum mechanics”.
L.I. Schiff, “Quantum mechanics”.
P.A.M. Dirac, “The principles of quantum mechanics”.
D.S. Koltun and J.M. Eisenberg, “Quantum mechanics of many degrees of freedom”.
H.J. Lipkin, “Quantum mechanics: New approaches to selected topics”.
J.D. Bjorken and S.D. Drell, “Relativistic quantum fields”.
O. Madelung, “Introduction to solid state theory”.
M. Tinkham, “Introduction to superconductivity”.
M.O. Scully and M.S. Zubairy, “Quantum optics”.
R.P. Feynman and A.R. Hibbs, “Quantum mechanics and path integrals”.
R.P. Feynman, “QED: The strange theory of light and matter”.
A. Zee, “Quantum field theory in a nutshell”.
General background in quantum mechanics (for filling in your gaps)
J.J. Sakurai, “Modern quantum mechanics”.
L.D. Landau and E.M. Lifshitz, “Quantum mechanics (Nonrelativistic theory)”.
C. Cohen-Tannoudji, B. Diu, and F. Laloe, “Quantum mechanics”.
K. Gottfried, “Quantum mechanics, Vol.1: Fundamentals”.
Also, the first chapters in many of the books listed above.
Related original articles and other links
R.P. Feynman, “Space-time approach to non-relativistic quantum mechanics”,
Reviews of Modern Physics
20
(1948) 367-387.
S.K. Lamoreaux, “Demonstration of the Casimir Force in the 0.6 to 6 micrometerm Range”,
Physical Review Letters
78
(1997) 5-8.
E. Elizalde and A. Romeo, “Essentials of the Casimir effect and its computation”,
American Journal of Physics
59
(1997) 711-719.
A. Lambrecht, “The Casimir effect: A force from nothing”,
PhysicsWeb
(September 2002).
Philip Gibbs,
“Why is the sky blue?”
: About Tyndall and Rayleigh, and why the sky is blue (and not purple). A particularly nice explanation.
F. Wilczek, “Quantum Mechanics of Fractional-Spin Particles”,
Physical Review Letters
49
(1982) 957-959.
F. Wilczek, “Anyons for anyone”,
Physics World
(January 1991) 40-44.
M. Gell-Mann and K. A. Brueckner “Correlation Energy of an Electron Gas at High Density”,
Physical Review
106
(1957) 364-368.
R. B. Laughlin and D. Pines, “The Theory of Everything”,
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the U.S.A.
97
(2000) 28-31.
Course requirements
Students are required to hand in their homework assignments every Monday morning at the recitation.
The course grade will be based on the final exam.
Handouts
Bogoliubov transformation (for fermions) and the BCS hamiltonian
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Exercises
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Old Exams
Fall 2004 (Ron Lifshitz and Ido Adam): Moed A (
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Fall 2003 (Lev Vaidman and Ido Adam): Moed A (
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Fall 2002 (Lev Vaidman and Ido Adam): Moed A (
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Fall 2001 (Lev Vaidman and Shmuel Nussinov): Moed A (
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Fall 2000 (Benjamin Svetitsky): Moed A (
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Last updated: February 26, 2006, by Ron Lifshitz.
