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8.04 Quantum Physics I

8.04 Quantum Physics I (Spring 2013, MIT OCW). Instructors: Prof. Allan Adams, Prof. Matthew Evans and Prof. Barton Zwiebach. This course covers the experimental basis of quantum physics. Topics include: photoelectric effect, Compton scattering, photons, Franck-Hertz experiment, the Bohr atom, electron diffraction, de Broglie waves, and the wave-particle duality of matter and light. Introduction to wave mechanics: Schrodinger's equation, wave functions, wave packets, probability amplitudes, stationary states, the Heisenberg uncertainty principle, and zero-point energies. Solutions to Schrodinger's equation in one dimension: transmission and reflection at a barrier, barrier penetration, potential wells, the simple harmonic oscillator. Schrodinger's equation in three dimensions: central potentials and introduction to hydrogenic systems. (from ocw.mit.edu)

Lecture 14 - Resonance and the S-Matrix

In this lecture, Prof. Adams discusses the resonance structure of a potential barrier/well. He begins with the case of simple plane waves and then moves on to the case of wavepackets.


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Lecture 01 - Introduction to Superposition
Lecture 02 - Experimental Facts of Life
Lecture 03 - The Wave Function
Lecture 04 - Expectations, Momentum, and Uncertainty
Lecture 05 - Operators and the SchrŠ¾dinger Equation
Lecture 06 - Time Evolution and the Schrodinger Equation
Lecture 07 - More on Energy Eigenstates
Lecture 08 - Quantum Harmonic Oscillator Part I
Lecture 09 - Operator Methods for the Harmonic Oscillator
Lecture 10 - Clicker Bonanza and Dirac Notation
Lecture 11 - Dispersion of the Gaussian and the Finite Well
Lecture 12 - The Dirac Well and Scattering off the Finite Step
Lecture 13 - More on Scattering
Lecture 14 - Resonance and the S-Matrix
Lecture 15 - Eigenstates of the Angular Momentum Part 1
Lecture 16 - Eigenstates of the Angular Momentum Part 2
Lecture 17 - More on Central Potentials
Lecture 18 - Hydrogen and its Discontents
Lecture 19 - Identical Particles
Lecture 20 - Periodic Lattices Part 1
Lecture 21 - Periodic Lattices Part 2
Lecture 22 - Metals, Insulators, and Semiconductors
Lecture 23 - More on Spin
Lecture 24 - Entanglement - QComputing, EPR, and Bell's Theorem