Course Information
Dr. Andrew Freya dot frey at uwinnipeg dot ca
Lectures at TTh2:30-3:45PM on
zoom
Office Hours by appointment
This is the course homepage for PHYS-4602, Advanced Quantum Mechanics.
I welcome feedback and comments on the course. If you're more comfortable commenting anonymously, please feel free to upload a plain text file to the homework upload link (PDF and word documents are ok but may contain information that identifies you).
Texts
- Required: Introduction to Quantum Mechanics by Griffiths
and Shroeter, 3rd ed
(2nd ed is acceptable, but please tell me)
In addition, I may assign some extra reading (from other texts, journal articles, etc), provided through this web page.
Important Dates
- First Lecture: 11 Jan 2022 (6 Jan lecture cancelled by university)
- Midterm Test: 1-3 March 2022
- Winter Reading Week: 20-26 Feb 2022 (no class)
- Voluntary Withdrawal Date: 16 March 2022
- Last Lecture: 7 April 2022
- Course Project Due: 7 April 2022, extended to 11 April 2022
- Review Session: 11AM 13 April 2022
- Final Exam: noon 14 April 2022 to noon 16 April 2022
Office Hours: 4PM 14 April and 10AM 16 April
Reading Schedule
Reading assignments will be posted on the course web page. You are responsible for keeping up with the reading; material covered in the reading will not necessarily be discussed in the class lectures but may be included in tests. If you click the topic title, you'll get a scanned copy of my lecture notes.
NOTE: Unless noted, sections from Griffiths refer to the 3rd ed edition of the required textbook. If you are using the 2nd edition, please check with me about the reading assignment if the topic does not match the lecture. I will attempt to mark readings that differ with *. Italicized readings are optional.
| Dates | Topic | Reading |
|---|---|---|
| 11-20 Jan | Foundations of QM: Basic Postulates | Review GS chap. 3, §4.4.1, appendix A |
| 20-27 Jan | Foundations of QM: Entanglement & Mixed States | review GS §4.4.3, read §12.3* |
| 27 Jan - 1 Feb | Foundations of QM: Quantum Information Theory | Witten §2.1,3.2-3 OR Wilde §2.1.1-2,10.1.0-1,11.1.0-1; Witten §3.4-5 |
| 3-8 Feb | Foundations of QM: Quantum Computing | Blümel §7.2-7 (Course Reserves) OR Wilde §3.2,3,5; suggested GS §12.4* |
| 8-10 Feb | Foundations of QM: Collapse of Wavefunction | GS§12.2, Watch Quantum Mechanics In Your Face (or read the transcript) |
| 10-17 Feb | Foundations of QM: Dirac Notation | Review GS chapter 2 |
| 1-3 | Review & Midterm Test | Test Solution |
| 1-10 Mar | Perturbation Theory: Time-Independent | GS §7.1-5* |
| 10-17 Mar | Perturbation Theory: Time-Dependent | GS §11.1-3* |
| 17-22 Mar | Variational Principle | GS §8.1-2* (2ed §7.1-2) |
| 22-29 Mar | Semiclassical or WKB Approximation | GS §9.1-3* (2ed §8.1-3) |
| 29 Mar - 5 Apr | Scattering in 3D | GS §10.1,4* (2ed §11.1,4) |
| 14-16 Apr | Take-home Final Exam | Exam Solution |
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Assignments
Policies
Please see the course outline for the official statement of homework policies. The following are guidelines:
- Assignments will only be posted on this web page; you must let me know if you need alternate delivery.
- Assignments will be posted Monday and are typically due the next Monday (I will announce schedule changes). Assignments are due by 10:59PM on the listed due date. Make sure to label your assignment with your name.
- Upload homeworks to this link.
- Assignments may be scans to PDF, PDF prepared by LaTeX, or PDF prepared with a word processor using an equation editor.
- Include your name on your assignment. Name your files with first initial, last name, and assignment number. If you need multiple files, label them in order with lower case letters. Example: AFrey_hw1.pdf or AFrey_hw1a.pdf, AFrey_hw1b.pdf, etc.
- Collaboration is allowed, but you must write up your own solutions independently (in your own words).
- Late assignments will only be accepted with prior permission from the instructor.
- Assignments that are not neatly organized and written will receive zero credit (one warning allowed). Please see the course outline.
- If you find a mistake in grading, please talk to Dr Frey.
Homework Sets
Solutions removed for security reasons.
- Assignment 1 due 20 Jan
- Assignment 2 due 27 Jan
- Assignment 3 due 3 Feb
- Assignment 4 due 10 Feb
- Assignment 5 due 17 Feb
- Assignment 6 due Tues 1 March
- Assignment 7 due 17 March
- Assignment 8 due 24 March
- Assignment 9 due 31 March
- Assignment 10 due 7 April
Course Project
Please see the project instructions.
Project deadlines:
- Topic approval 1 April 2022
- Project Due 10:59PM 7 April 2022, automatic extension to 10:59PM 11 April 2022
Last updated: 13:27 on 9 Aug 2022