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== Lecture 9: Relativistic quantum mechanics ==
== Lecture 9: Relativistic quantum mechanics ==


== Lecture 10: ==
== Lecture 10: Dissipative quantum mechanics ==
* Example: Damped harmonic oscillator.
* Example: Qubit coupled to dissipative environment.


== Lecture 11: ==
== Lecture 11: ==

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Lecture 1: Second quantization formalism for harmonic oscillator

  • Example: Coherent states
  • Example: Phonons in solids

Lecture 2: Second quantization formalism for bosons

  • Example: Magnons in magnetic materials.
  • Example: Bogoliubov theory of superfluids.

Lecture 3: Second quantization formalism for fermions

  • Example: Hubbard clusters.
  • Example: Hartree-Fock theory of electrons in metals.
  • Example: BCS theory of superconductivity.

Lecture 4: Time-dependent perturbation theory

  • Example: Dyson vs. Magnus expansion for driven harmonic oscillator.

Additional references

S. Blanes, F. Casas, J. A. Oteo and J. Ros, A pedagogical approach to the Magnus expansion, Eur. J. Phys. 31, 907 (2010). [PDF]

Lecture 5: Floquet theory of periodically driven quantum systems

Lecture 6: Berry phase and wavefunctions for time-dependent quantum systems

Lecture 7: Quantization of electromagnetic field

Lecture 8: Scattering theory

Lecture 9: Relativistic quantum mechanics

Lecture 10: Dissipative quantum mechanics

  • Example: Damped harmonic oscillator.
  • Example: Qubit coupled to dissipative environment.

Lecture 11: