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Úvod do kvantové mechaniky

Type of study Bachelor
Language of instruction Czech
Code 653-2241/01
Abbreviation UKM
Course title Úvod do kvantové mechaniky
Credits 5
Coordinating department Department of Materials Engineering and Recycling
Course coordinator Ing. Dalibor Javůrek, Ph.D.

Subject syllabus

1. The origin of quantum mechanics, Young's experiment on the double slit. Probability amplitudes, Schrödinger wave equation, comparison of classical and quantum mechanics, Identical particles.
2. Mathematical apparatus, operators, eigenvalues, eigenfunctions, bra-ket notation.
3. Measurement in quantum mechanics, operators of physical quantities, commutative relations, quantization, wave function reduction, Heisenberg uncertainty relations.
4. Time and time independent Schrödinger equation, continuity equation.
5. Free particle, particle in infinitely deep potential well.
6. Potential pit of finite depth, potential wave, tunnel effect.
7. Uncertainty relation, derivation, implications and connection with classical physics.
8. Harmonic oscillator, energy spectrum of Schrödinger equation.
9. Electron spin, Pauli matrix, magnetic moment.
10. Hydrogen-like atom.
11. Particles in an electromagnetic field.
12. Different interpretations of quantum mechanics
13. Interesting applications of quantum mechanics: quantum computers and cryptography, teleportation.

E-learning

Information about e-learning available by appointment with the teacher.

Literature

Claude Cohen-Tannoudji, Bernard Diu, Franck Laloë, Quantum Mechanics (2nd Edition), Wiley 2019

L. Skála, Úvod do kvantové mechaniky. 2. vyd. Praha: Academia, 2012.

Advised literature

David J. Griffiths, Introduction to Quantum Mechanics (2nd Edition), Pearson Prentice Hall, 2004

A. Messiah, Quantum mechanics, Dover publications 2014

R. Shankar, Principles of Quantum Mechanics, Plenum Press, New York 1994