This course covers time-dependent quantum mechanics and spectroscopy. Topics include perturbation theory, two-level systems, light-matter interactions, relaxation in quantum systems, correlation functions and linear response theory, and nonlinear spectroscopy.
Overview
Syllabus
- Lecture 1: Introduction to the Spectroscopic Effective Hamiltonian
- Lecture 2: Spectroscopic Pertubations, Predissociation, and Autoionization
- Lecture 3: Semiclassical Methods for Calculating Vibrational Overlap Integrals
- Lecture 4: Wavepackets and Landau-Zener
Taught by
Prof. Robert Field and Prof. Andrei Tokmakoff
