Quantum Mechanics I
Graduate Course, University of Iowa, Department of Physics and Astronomy, 2026
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Fall 2026
Notes:
- Natural Units
- Dirac notation
- Two-level system
- Stern-Gerlach
- Translations
- Time Evolution
- Ehrenfast Theorem (Read S&N Sec. 2.2.4)
- Time Ordered Evolution
- Noether Theorem
- Harmonic Oscillator
- Propagators and Path Integral
Homeworks:
- HW 1 (Compatible, incompatible observables, and Schrõdinger’s equation in different bases), solutions
- HW 2 (Three-level systems), solutions
- HW 3 (Stern-Gerlach), solutions
- HW 4 (Unitary Operators and Complex Momentum), solutions
- HW 5 (Neutrino oscillations), solutions
- HW 6 (Midterm 1), solutions
- HW 7 (Harmonic Oscillator), solutions
- HW 8 (Current and Propagators)
- HW 9 (Action)