Phys625: Non-relativistic Quantum Mechanics (3 credits) 
Spring 2002
Tuesday and Thursday 8:00 - 9:15 a.m.
Physics Building 4208

Web page: 
www2.physics.umd.edu/~yakovenk/teaching/phys625.spring2002/

Instructor:  Dr. Victor Yakovenko, Associate Professor
Office:  Physics 2314
Phone:  301-405-6151
E-mail:  yakovenk@physics.umd.edu
Office hours:  Tuesday and Thurday 9:15-10:15 a.m.

Topics to be covered

Textbook

E. M. Lifshitz and L. P.Pitaevskii "Statistical Physics, Part 2" (Volume 9 of the "Course of Theoretical Physics" by L. D. Landau and E. M. Lifshitz), Chapters 1-5 and selections from Chapter 6.
About second quantization, read Chapter 9 of "Quantum Mechanics, Non-relativistic  Theory" by L. D. Landau and E. M. Lifshitz (Volume 3 of the "Course of Theoretical Physics").
 

Homework

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Topic
Sections
Due Date
Formats
On line
1  Second Quantization Ch. 9 of v.3 Tuesday, February 5 PDF, PS, LaTeX Updated 2/7/2002
2  Fermi Liquid Theory Ch. 1 Thursday, February 14 PDF, PS, LaTeX Updated 2/7/2002
3  Green's Functions of Noninteracting Particles 7-11 Thursday, February 21 PDF, PS, LaTeX Posted 2/13/2002
4 Electron-phonon interaction 12-14, 64-65 Thursday, February 28 PDF, PS, LaTeX Posted 2/25/2002
5 Polarization Operator Ch. 2 Tuesday, March 12 PDF, PS, LaTeX Posted 3/4/2002
6  Peierls Instability as Bose-Condensation of Phonons   Tuesday, April 2 PDF, PS, LaTeX Posted 3/14/2002
7  Bose Condensation and Superfluidity Ch. 3 Thursday, April 11 PDF, PS, LaTeX Posted 4/4/2002
8  Finite Temperature Ch. 4 Thursday, April 18 PDF, PS, LaTeX Posted 4/12/2002
9 Generalized Susceptibilities at Finite Temperature Ch. 4 Thursday, April 25 PDF, PS, LaTeX Posted 4/18/2002
10  Superconductivity Ch. 5 Tuesday, May 7, 2002 PDF, PS, LaTeX Posted 4/30/2002

Scores and Grades

Announcement
On Tuesday, May 21, 2002 at noon, I will give a talk at the Laboratory for Physical Sciences (LPS) titled "Quantum Computation with Ultimate Nano-SQUIDs".  In this talk, I will discusses the properties of superconductors with even and odd number of electrons.  The level of presentation should be accessible to the students of this course.  In fact, the first few equations of the paper are the same as the Bogolyubov-de Gennes equations of HW 10.  You are welcome to come to the seminar to learn more about BCS superconductors.  The announcement of the seminar is posted here, and the paper can be downloaded from cond-mat.  LPS is located on campus, but is not shown on the map, so you need to ask for directions.

Last updated May 17, 2002

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