Template:Course Topics

• Second quantization for bosons and fermions.
• Applications of second quantization: Hartree-Fock method, magnetism, superconductivity and superfluidity.
• Time-dependent perturbation theory: Dyson and Magnus expansions.
• Floquet theory of periodically driven time-dependent quantum systems.
• Berry phase and wavefunctions for time-dependent quantum systems.
• Quantization of the electromagnetic field.
• Nonclassical light.
• Scattering theory.
• Relativistic quantum mechanics.