The Course deals with the prerequisite material for studying advanced level research in various fields of Physics, Applied Physics and Electrical Engineering. The course begins with an introduction to advanced topics, such as, the Density Matrix formalism and its applications to quantum optics. Hence angular momentum is introduced to discuss nuclear magnetic resonance. Hence basics of quantum information theory is brought into consideration with a view to explain quantum information algorithms. Quantum dynamics is hence studied with a view to understand quantum optics for driven systems. A glossary of the approximate methods is described with a few examples. Finally, basics of quantum transport is presented to understand the conductance properties of semiconductors. INTENDED AUDIENCE : UG and PG students of Electrical and Electronics Engineering/Engineering Physics/Physics PREREQUISITES : Quantum Mechanics course at the undergraduate level INDUSTRY SUPPORT : R & D sectors of semiconductor, optics industries and Lab equipment manufacturing industries.
Advanced Quantum Mechanics with Applications
Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati and NPTEL via Swayam
Overview
Syllabus
Week 1: Introduction to Quantum Physics, Postulates, Different representations
Week 2: Density Matrix formalism, Harmonic Oscillator, Applications to coherent and squeezed states, Spherically symmetric systems, Quantum dots
Week 3: Spin angular momentum, Nuclear magnetic resonance
Week 4: Quantum information theory, Entanglement, Shanon entropy
Week 5: Quantum computing algorithms, EPR and Bell’s paradox
Week 6: Quantum dynamics, periodically driven systems
Week 7: Approximation methods, perturbation theory, Variational and WKB approximation.
Week 8: Linear response theory, Kubo formula.
Taught by
Prof. Saurabh Basu
