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Welcome
(collapsed, click to expand)- Completed Welcome and overview (13:03)
Week 1 - Lecture 1: Wavefunctions and Schrödinger Equation
(collapsed, click to expand)- Completed Part I: Comments on studying QM (10:11)
- Completed Part II: Pioneering Experiments (10:42)
- Completed Part III: Pioneering Experiments (cont'd) (8:14)
- Completed **Part IV: "Deriving" the Schrödinger Eq. (15:46)
- Completed ***Part V: Spreading of quantum wavepackets (12:45)
Week 1 - Lecture 2: A physical interpretation of Quantum theory
(collapsed, click to expand)- Completed Part I: Meaning of the wavefunction (7:48)
- Completed ***Part II: Continuity Equation (10:38)
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**Part III: Observables; Operators; Expectation Values (9:45)
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- Completed **Part IV: Time Independent Schrödinger Eq. (13:47)
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**Part V: Superposition; Dirac Notation; Representations (12:39)
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Week 2 - Lecture 3: Feynman Path Integral
(collapsed, click to expand)- Completed Part I: Introduction (7:10)
- Completed **Part II: Propagator (15:01)
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***Part III: Derivation (11:42) (difficult material, optional)
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***Part IV: Derivation (cont'd) (15:58) (difficult material, optional)
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Week 2 - Lecture 4: Using the Feynman Path Integral
(collapsed, click to expand)- Completed **Part I: Classical Limit (22:13)
- Completed *Part II: Quantum corrections to diffusion (17:08)
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**Part III: Quantum corrections to diffusion; Localization (cont'd) (13:44)
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Week 3 - Lecture 5: Quantum wells
(collapsed, click to expand)- Completed *Part I: Electron in a Box (13:38)
- Completed **Part II: Finite Potential Well (19:38)
- Completed **Part III: Bound state in a 1D shallow potential (15:25)
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***Part IV: Bound states in a delta potential (any dimension) (20:55)
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Week 3 - Lecture 6: Crash "course" on superconductivity
(collapsed, click to expand)- Completed Part I: The phenomenon of superconductivity (14:10)
- Completed *Part II: Quantum Statistics (20:54)
- Completed ***Part III: Two-particle Schrödinger equation (12:29)
- Completed **Part IV: The Cooper problem (19:40)
Week 4 - Lecture 7: Quantum harmonic oscillator
(collapsed, click to expand)- Completed *Part I: Quantizing the classical oscillator (13:31)
- Completed **Part II: Creation/annihilation operators (9:38)
- Completed **Part III: Generating the energy spectrum (17:24)
- Completed **Part IV: Harmonic oscillator wave-functions (11:06)
Week 4 - Lecture 8, Phonons in crystals
(collapsed, click to expand)- Completed Part I: Collective modes; Goldstone theorem (17:54)
- Completed
**Part II: Classical phonons in an oscillator chain (22:56)
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- Completed ***Part III: Quantum oscillator chain (16:34)
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***Part IV: Deriving phonon spectrum; Bogoliubov transform (difficult material; optional) (24:39)
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Week 5 - Lecture 9, Atomic Structure and Spectra (Charles Clark)
(collapsed, click to expand)- Completed Part I: Introduction to optical spectra (16:37)
- Completed Part II: Interference and diffraction (24:20)
- Completed Part III: Cracking the hydrogen code (17:58)
- Completed Part IV:: Still cracking the hydrogen code (15:54)
- Completed Part V: A hidden symmetry (25:10)
Week 5 - Lecture 10, Quantum Theory: Old and New; Solving the Schrödinger equation (Charles Clark)
(collapsed, click to expand)- Completed Part I: The Bohr model of the Atom (11:55)
- Completed Part II: Applications of the Bohr theory (25:12)
- Completed Part III: Simple Constructive Techniques (11:14)
- Completed Part IV: Gaussians and the Variational Theorem (11:44)
Week 6 - Lecture 11, Special Functions and Symmetry (Charles Clark)
(collapsed, click to expand)- Completed **Part I: Use of Special Functions (22:21)
- Completed **Part II: Intro to symmetry in QM (12:44)
- Completed *Part III: Parity and discrete Symmetries (9:27)
Week 6 - Lecture 12, Angular Momentum and the Runge-Lenz Vector (Charles Clark)
(collapsed, click to expand)- Completed **Part I: Angular Momentum (13:58)
- Completed **Part II: Basic Commutation Relations (7:26)
- Completed
**Part II: Angular Momentum as an effective potential (12:27)
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**Part IV: Angular Momentum and the Runge-Lenz vector (20:56)
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Week 7 - Lecture 13, Spin (Ian Appelbaum)
(collapsed, click to expand)- Completed **Part I: Zeeman Effect (17:44)
- Completed **Part II: Stern-Gerlach Experiment (6:52)
- Completed Part III: Spin Dynamics and LS Coupling (8:56)
Week 7 - Lecture 14, Examples of Spin Systems (Ian Appelbaum)
(collapsed, click to expand)- Completed **Part IV: Spin Exchange and Magnetism (12:33)
- Completed **Part V: Non-equilibrium Spin Injection (13:57)
Week 8 - Lecture 15, Angular Momentum and the Hydrogen Atom (cont'd) (Charles Clark)
(collapsed, click to expand)- Completed **Part I: Angular Momentum - explicit solutions (9:48)
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**Part II: Angular Momentum - more explicit solutions (18:20)
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**Part III: Solution of the Schrödinger equation for systems with definite angular momentum (25:33)
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Week 8 - Lecture 16, Time-dependent quantum mechanics (Victor Galitski)
(collapsed, click to expand)- Completed *Part I: Time-dependent Schrödinger Eq.; general remarks (23:04)
- Completed **Part II: Sudden perturbations; quantum quenches (20:32)
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***Part III: Geometric Berry phase (difficult, advanced material - optional) (26:07)
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