Quantum Physics II

Quantum Physics II

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The collection includes twenty six video lectures. Together, this course and 8.06 Quantum Physics III cover quantum physics with applications drawn from modern physics. Topics covered in this course include the general formalism of quantum mechanics, harmonic oscillator, quantum mechanics in three-d…

Barton Zwiebach


    • Jun 25, 2015 LATEST EPISODE
    • infrequent NEW EPISODES
    • 1h 23m AVG DURATION
    • 26 EPISODES


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    Lecture 26: Addition of Angular Momentum (continued)

    Play Episode Listen Later Jun 25, 2015 72:28


    In this lecture, the professor talked about hydrogen atom and hidden symmetry.

    Lecture 21: Angular Momentum (continued)

    Play Episode Listen Later Jun 25, 2015 86:27


    In this lecture, the professor talked about algebraic theory of angular momentum, comments on spherical harmonics, etc.

    Lecture 18: Two State Systems (continued), Multiparticle States and Tensor Products

    Play Episode Listen Later Jun 25, 2015 88:12


    In this lecture, the professor continued to talk about nuclear magnetic resonance and also introduced the tensor product.

    Lecture 19: Multiparticle States and Tensor Products (continued)

    Play Episode Listen Later Jun 25, 2015 88:30


    In this lecture, the professor continued to talk about the tensor product and also talked about entangled states, Bell basis states, quantum teleportation, etc.

    Lecture 20: Multiparticle States and Tensor Products (continued) and Angular Momentum

    Play Episode Listen Later Jun 25, 2015 83:51


    In this lecture, the professor talked about EPR and Bell inequalities, orbital angular momentum and central potentials, etc.

    Lecture 23: Angular Momentum (continued)

    Play Episode Listen Later Jun 25, 2015 87:27


    In this lecture, the professor reviewed the free particle and the infinite spherical well and talked about the three-dimensional isotropic oscillator and hydrogen atom and Runge-Lenz vector, etc.

    Lecture 24: Addition of Angular Momentum

    Play Episode Listen Later Jun 25, 2015 89:03


    In this lecture, the professor talked about Feynman-Hellman lemma, addition of angular momentum, spin-orbit coupling, etc.

    Lecture 25: Addition of Angular Momentum (continued)

    Play Episode Listen Later Jun 25, 2015 83:05


    In this lecture, the professor reviewed spin-orbit coupling and talked about general aspects of addition of angular momentum, etc.

    Lecture 22: Angular Momentum (continued)

    Play Episode Listen Later Jun 25, 2015 85:36


    In this lecture, the professor talked about the radial equation, free particle, infinite spherical well, etc.

    Lecture 17: Two State Systems (continued)

    Play Episode Listen Later Jun 25, 2015 87:47


    In this lecture, the professor talked about the ammonia molecule as a two-state system, ammonia molecule in an electric field, nuclear magnetic resonance, etc.

    Lecture 11: Uncertainty Principle and Compatible Observables (continued)

    Play Episode Listen Later Jun 25, 2015 89:01


    In this lecture, the professor continued to talk about uncertainty principle and compatible observables, etc.

    Lecture 12: Quantum Dynamics

    Play Episode Listen Later Jun 25, 2015 81:50


    In this lecture, the professor talked about Harmonic oscillator, unitary time evolution, and derived the Schrodinger equation.

    Lecture 13: Quantum Dynamics (continued)

    Play Episode Listen Later Jun 25, 2015 81:21


    In this lecture, the professor continued to talk about the Schrodinger equation and discussed Heisenberg dynamics.

    Lecture 15: Quantum Dynamics (continued)

    Play Episode Listen Later Jun 25, 2015 85:30


    In this lecture, the professor talked about squeezed vacuum states and more general squeezed states.

    Lecture 16: Quantum Dynamics (continued) and Two State Systems

    Play Episode Listen Later Jun 25, 2015 80:22


    In this lecture, the professor talked about photon states, introduction of two state systems, spin precession in a magnetic field, general two-state system viewed as a spin system, etc.

    Lecture 10: Uncertainty Principle and Compatible Observables

    Play Episode Listen Later Jun 25, 2015 83:34


    In this lecture, the professor continued to talke about uncertainty of the Hermitian operator, the uncertainty principle, energy-time uncertainty, etc.

    Lecture 14: Quantum Dynamics (continued)

    Play Episode Listen Later Jun 25, 2015 87:49


    In this lecture, the professor talked about translation operator, definition and basic properties of coherent states, time evolution and uncertainties, coherent states in the energy basis, general coherent states and time evolution, etc.

    Lecture 7: Linear Algebra: Vector Spaces and Operators (continued)

    Play Episode Listen Later Jun 25, 2015 81:28


    In this lecture, the professor talked about eigenvalues and eigenvectors of hermitian operators acting on complex vector spaces, inner products on a vector space, etc.

    Lecture 9: Dirac's Bra and Ket Notation

    Play Episode Listen Later Jun 25, 2015 80:56


    In this lecture, the professor talked from inner products to bra-kets, projection operators, adjoint of a linear operator, Hermitian and unitary operators, uncertainty of the Hermitian operator, etc.

    Lecture 5: Linear Algebra: Vector Spaces and Operators

    Play Episode Listen Later Jun 25, 2015 82:12


    In this lecture, the professor talked about vector spaces and dimensionality.

    Lecture 6: Linear Algebra: Vector Spaces and Operators (continued)

    Play Episode Listen Later Jun 25, 2015 80:35


    In this lecture, the professor talked about linear operators and matrices, etc.

    Lecture 3: Wave Mechanics (continued) and Stern-Gerlach Experiment

    Play Episode Listen Later Jun 25, 2015 82:18


    In this lecture, the professor talked about position and momentum in quantum mechanics, Stern-Gerlach Experiment, etc.

    Lecture 4: Spin One-half, Bras, Kets, and Operators

    Play Episode Listen Later Jun 25, 2015 84:32


    In this lecture, the professor talked about spin one-half states and operators, properties of Pauli matrices and index notation, spin states in arbitrary direction, etc.

    Lecture 8: Linear Algebra: Vector Spaces and Operators (continued)

    Play Episode Listen Later Jun 25, 2015 82:32


    In this lecture, the professor talked about linear functionals and adjoint operators, Hermitian and unitary operators, etc.

    Lecture 1: Wave Mechanics

    Play Episode Listen Later Jun 25, 2015 72:27


    In this lecture, the professor talked about "The Schrodinger Equation", "Stationary Solutions", etc.

    Lecture 2: Wave Mechanics (continued)

    Play Episode Listen Later Jun 25, 2015 82:58


    In this lecture, the professor talked about properties of energy eigenstates in one dimension, the nature of the spectrum, variational principle, etc.

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