PHYS 623 Introduction to Quantum Mechanics II
Spring 2016, University of Maryland
Prof. Ted Jacobson

SUPPLEMENTS

Born approximation validity conditions

Bill Phillips' lecture notes for April 14 class

Why a filled shell has zero angular momentum


Addition of angular momentum

Irreducible tensor operators and the Wigner-Eckart theorem

Perturbation theory for stationary states


Phys 622 timeline Fall, 2015


Zeeman, Nature v. 55, 347 (1897)

Lamb and Retherford, Phys. Rev. 72 (1947) 241-243, "Fine Structure of the Hydrogen Atom by a Microwave Method"

Lamb and Retherford, Phys. Rev. 79 (1950) 549-572, "Fine Structure of the Hydrogen Atom. Part I"


Lucretius: "On the Nature of the Universe
" (55 BC)

Kohn, Rev. Mod. Phys. 71 (1999) 1253-1266, "Electronic structure of matter—wave functions and density functionals"