Applied Quantum Mechanics

Oberlin College Physics 412

Spring 2007

This World Wide Web page written by Dan Styer, Oberlin College Department of Physics and Astronomy;
http://www.oberlin.edu/physics/dstyer/AppliedQM/;
last updated 27 April 2007.

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Teacher: Dan Styer.

Course syllabus

Problem assignments

Seminar Outline and Schedule

Handouts

The Spherical Harmonics

Radial Wavefunctions for Hydrogen

Many-particle systems in quantum mechanics

An Antisymmetric Basis for the Helium Problem

Ground State Energy of Helium

What is a photon?

Links

Spherical harmonics:

Showing phase

Showing magnitude

Showing real and imaginary parts

On quantum computation:

David Mermin, Notes on quantum computation

John Preskill, Lecture notes on quantum computation

Eleanor G. Rieffel and Wolfgang Polak, An introduction to quantum computing for non-physicists