Example
Course Outline
This course for engineers and physicists
would appropriately be taught 4 hours per week - 3 hours of lecture
and 1 hour of tutorial. Some of the topics and examples could
be covered exclusively in tutorial or as part of a homework assignment.
We have developed extensive materials
to help implement this suggested course outline. For more information,
see the Summary of classroom materials
or the "Classroom materials" section, linked to at
the top of the page.
Introduction to QM:
The experimental base
- The photoelectric effect
- Electron diffraction
- Atomic spectra
Building the Quantum
Model
- The Thomson and Rutherford models
- The Bohr model
- deBroglie waves
Wave mechanics
- Electron dispersion relation
- The 1D Schrödinger equation
- Group and phase velocities
- Fourier transforms
- The uncertainty principle
Bound states
- Potential energy diagrams
- Infinite square well (1, 2, and 3D)
- Finite square well
- Harmonic oscillator
- Delta function
Scattering state
- Scattering at a step
- Delta function
- Barrier penetration and tunneling
Spin and statistics
- Introduction to spin (no math)
- Fermi and Bose statistics
Quantum models of
matter
- Double well - molecular bonding
- Multiple wells - band structures
Conductivity
- Conductors, semiconductors, insulators
- Quantum polarization (applying an external
electric field)
Devices
- pn-junctions / diodes
- transistors
- MOSFETs
- SQUIDs
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