PHYS 340 - Quantum Mechanics

Credits: 3
Planned Offering: Fall

Prerequisite: PHYS 210 and PHYS 225 (or ENGN 225), and MATH 332 as prerequisite or corequisite (instructor consent required if as corequisite). The postulates on which quantum theory is based are introduced and illustrated through a series of examples, including photon polarization states (Mach- Zehnder interferometer); one-dimensional bound state (square well and harmonic oscillator) and scattering examples, (tunneling, resonant transmission) in the Schroedinger approach; and spin one-half systems (Bell inequality.) Sukow.