Course Title: Quantum Mechanics-II CODE: PHYS 4326
Credit Hours: 3(3,0)
COURSE OUTLINE
Central Potential: Motion in a central potential, the hydrogen atom, energy spectrum, quantum
numbers and degeneracies.
Spin and Statistics: The Zeeman effect, matrix operators, spin statistics and exclusion principle,
Pauli’s two components formalism, identical particles, fermions and bosons, symmetry and
antisymmetry of wavefunctions.
Approximation Methods in Quantum Mechanics: Time independent perturbation theory,
simple applications damped linear harmonic oscillator, hydrogen like atoms in magnetic field, time
dependant perturbation theory, transition probability, emission and absorption of radiation, WKB
approximation and its applications, variational method and its applications.
Formal Theory of Quantum System: Hilbert space, operators and state vectors, bras and kets, or
thonormality, Dirac delta-function, completeness, expectation value, degeneracy, compatible and
incompatible observables, discrete and continuous spectra generalized uncertainty relation,
harmonic oscillator, ladder operators, and Schrodinger’s equation of motion.
Recommended Books:
Quantum Mechanics for Scientists and Engineers (Classroom Resource Materials) by
David A.B.Miller, Cambridge University Press, 2008.
Quantum Mechanics: Concepts and Applications by Nouredine Zettli, Wiley; 2 edition,
2009.
Introductory Quantum Mechanics by R. L. Lieboff Holden-Day, San Francisco (1980)
Quantum Mechanics Vol I,II by C.Cohen-Tannoudji, B. Diu, F. Laloe, Wiley (1977)
