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== Lecture 7: Quantization of electromagnetic field == | == Lecture 7: Quantization of electromagnetic field == | ||
* Example: Casimir effect. | |||
* Example: Squeezed and Fock states of nonclassical light. | |||
* Example: Light-matter interaction. | |||
== Lecture 8: Scattering theory == | == Lecture 8: Scattering theory == | ||
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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
- Example: Casimir effect.
- Example: Squeezed and Fock states of nonclassical light.
- Example: Light-matter interaction.
Lecture 8: Scattering theory
Lecture 9: Relativistic quantum mechanics
Lecture 10: Dissipative quantum mechanics
- Example: Damped harmonic oscillator.
- Example: Qubit coupled to dissipative environment.
