Exam schedule:
Monday, February 20 and Tuesday, February 21 (click here!), room CE100
Exam rules and topics: PostScript, PDF.

Course schedule:
Tuesday 13-14 (exercises), room CE 105
Thursday 12-14 (lectures), room CE 103

Lecturer: Prof. Dmitri Ivanov
tel: 3-3419, office: PH-H2-497, e-mail: dmitri.ivanov (at) epfl.ch
Assistant: Benoit Crouzy
e-mail: benoit.crouzy (at) epfl.ch

Course program:
1. Quasiclassical approximation
2. Scattering theory
3. Atoms and molecules

Recommended textbooks:
L.D.Landau, E.M.Lifshitz, Quantum Mechanics: Non-Relativistic Theory, Vol. 3, Third Edition
G.Baym, Lectures on Quantum Mechanics

Helpful textbook on complex analysis:
P.Henrici, Applied and computational complex analysis.
This three-volume book explains computing integrals by the residue method, the saddle-point approximation (with the Airy function as an example) and other helpful info on complex analysis.

Problem sets:

• Problem Set 0: Reviewing basic quantum mechanics. PostScript, PDF.
  Distributed: 27.10.05.
• Problem Set 1: Quasiclassical energy levels. PostScript, PDF.
  Distributed: 03.11.05.
• Problem Set 2: Quasiclassical wave functions. PostScript, PDF.
  Distributed: 17.11.05.
• Problem Set 3: Quasiclassical tunneling. PostScript, PDF.
  Distributed: 24.11.05.
• Problem Set 4: Quasistationary states. Perturbation theory for scattering. PostScript, PDF.
  Distributed: 01.12.05.
• Problem Set 5: Scattering amplitude and cross section. Born approximation. PostScript, PDF.
  Distributed: 22.12.05.
• Problem Set 6: Scattering of slow particles. Scattering of fast particles. PostScript, PDF.
  Distributed: 19.01.06.
• Problem Set 7: Atoms with two and more electrons. PostScript, PDF.
  Distributed: 26.01.06.

• 27.10.05: Schroedinger equation. Quasiclassical wave function.
  
• 03.11.05: Boundary conditions for quasiclassical wave functions.
  
• 10.11.04: Boundary conditions for quasiclassical wave functions (continued). Bohr-Sommerfeld quantization rule.
  
• 17.11.04: Bohr-Sommerfeld quantization rule in a centrally symmetric field. Quasiclassical tunneling.
  
• 24.11.04: Quasiclassical tunneling (continued). Reflection "above the barrier".
  
• 01.12.05: Perturbation theory for scattering (one-dimensional). Quasistationary states.
  
• 08.12.05: Quasistationary states (continued). General notions of elastic scattering. Scattering amplitudes and cross sections.
  
• 15.12.05: Free spherical waves. Scattering amplitudes in terms of phase shifts.
  
• 22.12.05: Unitarity condition for scattering. Optical theorem. Born approximation.
  
• 12.01.06: Scattering of low particles. Resonant scattering.
  
• 19.01.06: Resonant scattering (continued). Scattering of fast particles (eikonal approximation).
  
• 26.01.06: Scattering of identical particles. Many-electron atoms. Hartree-Fock approximation.