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Quantum Physics I

Type of study Bachelor
Language of instruction Czech
Code 480-2049/01
Abbreviation KFI
Course title Quantum Physics I
Credits 6
Coordinating department Department of Physics
Course coordinator Ing. Iva Tkáčová, Ph.D.

Subject syllabus

- Introduction - historical context and the need for a new theory
- Operators - linear Hermitian operators, variables, measurability; coordinate representation
- Postulates of quantum mechanics, time dependent and stationary Schrödinger, equation of continuity
- operators corresponding to the selected physical variables and their properties, eigenfunctions and eigenvalues, mean value
- Free particle, wavepackets, the uncertainty relation
- Model applications of stationary Schrödinger equation - piece-wise constant potential, infinitely deep rectangular potential well
- Other applications: step potential, finite rectangular potential well, square barrier potentials - tunneling effect, periodic potential
- Approximations of selected real-life situations by rectangular potentials
- The harmonic oscillator in the coordinate representation and the Fock's representation
- Spherically symmetric field, angular momentum, algebraic theory of anglular momentum
- Hydrogen atom, spin

E-learning

Literature

HALLIDAY, David; RESNICK, Robert a WALKER, Jearl. Fundamentals of physics. Part 5. 7th ed. Hoboken: Wiley, c2005. ISBN 0-471-42965-1.

Advised literature

Sakurai, J. J., and Jim Napolitano. Modern Quantum Mechanics. 3rd ed. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2020

WALECKA, John Dirk. Introduction to quantum mechanics. Singapore: World Scientific, [2021]. ISBN 978-981-123-472-9