Supplemental Material for Phys 402

Supplementary Materials for Phys 402

Quantum Physics Online

Mathematica demonstrations on Quantum Physics

Lecture 1
- Phys 402 Philosophy / Ground Rules
- The Postulates of Quantum Mechanics. Another source of QM Postulates.
- Lecture 1 Highlights
Lecture 2
- Plots of some Legendre Polynomials on the interval x = [-1,1]
- Pictures of spherical harmonics (absolute magnitudes)
- Lecture 2 Highlights
Lecture 3
- Lecture 3 Highlights
- Spherical Harmonic |Y₂^m|²
Lecture 4
- Lecture 4 Highlights
- H-Atom radial wavefunctions
- H-Atom Orbitals
- Notes on series solutions to differential equations
Lecture 5
- Brief description of second quantization in field theory
- Lecture 5 highlights
Lecture 6
- The history of spin
- Lecture 6 highlights
- Hydrogen Atom energy levels and transitions
Lecture 7
- Lecture 7 highlights
- The Stern-Gerlach device
- Download the PhET demonstration on the Stern-Gerlach device
Lecture 8
- Lecture 8 highlights
- Does a Measured Spin State Smear Out into Other Spin States?
Lecture 9
- Lecture 9 highlights
- Paper showing perturbed eigen-energies of a chaotic 'quantum dot' (Fig. 2)
Lecture 10
- Research paper on the time-dependence of the fine structure constant a
- Lecture 10 highlights
- Lecture 10 Audio Recording (big file!). Here is a lower-resolution (smaller file) version.
Lecture 11
- Lecture 11 highlights
Lecture 12
- Fine Structure Splitting in the Hydrogen Atom
- The Na Doublet
- Lecture 12 highlights
Lecture 13
- Lecture 13 highlights
- Clebsch-Gordan coefficients
Lecture 14
- Nice discussion of the uses of 21-cm radiation in astronomy (about half way down the page)
- Pioneer 10 Hyperfine Transition unit measure plaque
- Another perturbation on the order of 10^-8 eV (Experiments show blockading interaction of Rydberg atoms over long distances)
- On the origin of proton spin
- Lecture 14 highlights
Lecture 15
- SNOW DAY
- The "No-Cloning" theorem in quantum mechanics
Lecture 16
- EXAM #1
Lecture 17
- Lecture 17 highlights
- Elementary particles as Bosons and Fermions
Lecture 18
- Symmetric and Antisymmetric Wavefunctions in 1D
- Lecture 18 highlights
Lecture 19
- Term notation for He and the Periodic Table
- The periodic table song
- Lecture 19 highlights
Lecture 20
- Molecular vibrations and rotations and Ro-Vibrational structure
- Lecture 20 highlights
Lecture 21
- Lecture 21 highlights
Lecture 22
- Lecture 22 highlights
- Rabi oscillations in real life
Lecture 23
- Blackbody radiation spectrum
- Lecture 23 highlights
- Relations between contiguous Associated Legendre polynomials
Lecture 24
- Lecture 24 highlights
Lecture 25
- Lecture 25 highlights
- Magnetic resonance ppt
- Download the PhET demonstration on MRI
- Magnetic resonance force microscope
- Nanoscale magnetic resonance imaging (Rugar @ IBM)
- Download and try the PhET LASER demonstration
Lecture 26
- Lecture 26 highlights
Lecture 27
- Review
Lecture 28
- Exam 2
Lecture 29
- Prof Wellstood's lecture on Quantum Computing
Lecture 30
- The G function and its definition
- Lecture 30 highlights
Lecture 31
- Stirling's Approximation
- The partition function Z (Zustandsumme)
- A discussion of fugacity
- Lecture 31 highlights
Lecture 32
- Lecture 32 highlights
Lecture 33
- Lecture 33 highlights
- Superfluidity in ⁴He
- Wikipedia article on superfluidity
- Superfluid ⁴He - the short YouTube video
- Superfluid ⁴He - the long YouTube video
Lecture 34
- Lecture 34 highlights
- ⁴He f(m/kT) function
- Bose-Einstein condensation
- Measured velocity distribution above and below the crisis temperature in a B-E condensate
- Many popular articles on Bose-Einstein condensation are available here
Lecture 35
- Lecture 35 highlights
- Vortices in superfluid ⁴He
Lecture 36
- Lecture 36 highlights
Lecture 37
- Leon Cooper's electron pairing paper
- Lecture 37 highlights
Lecture 38
- Harmonic oscillator excited state
- Lecture 38 highlights
Lecture 39
- Field Ion Microscopy and Fowler-Nordheim Tunneling
- Carbon Nanotube Radio
- Lecture 39 highlights
- Download the PhET demonstration on Quantum Tunneling
Lecture 40
- Lecture 40 highlights
Lecture 41
- Lecture 41 highlights
- The Aharonov-Bohm Effect viewgraphs. Physics Today article on the Aharnov-Bohm effect.
Lecture 42
- Lecture 42 Highlights