Exam schedule:
Thursday, February 22, (schedule) room CE104
Exam rules and topics: PostScript, PDF.

Course schedule:
Thursday 12-14 (lectures), room CE 103
Tuesday 13-15 (exercises), room CE 104

Lecturer: Prof. Dmitri Ivanov
tel: 3-3419, office: PH-H2-497, e-mail: dmitri.ivanov (at) epfl.ch
Assistant: George Jackeli
e-mail: george.jackeli (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: 26.10.06.
• Problem Set 1: Quasiclassical energy levels. PostScript, PDF.
  Distributed: 02.11.06.
• Problem Set 2: Quasiclassical wave functions. PostScript, PDF.
  Distributed: 09.11.06.
• Problem Set 3: Quasiclassical tunneling. PostScript, PDF.
  Distributed: 16.11.06.
• Problem Set 4: Quasistationary states. Perturbation theory for scattering. PostScript, PDF.
  Distributed: 23.11.06.
• Problem Set 5: Time-dependent perturbations and adiabatic approximation. PostScript, PDF.
  Distributed: 30.11.06.
• Problem Set 6: Legendre polynomials. PostScript, PDF.
  Distributed: 14.12.06.
• Problem Set 7: Scattering amplitude and cross section. Born approximation. PostScript, PDF.
  Distributed: 21.12.06.
• Problem Set 8: Scattering of slow particles. Scattering of fast particles. PostScript, PDF.
  Distributed: 11.01.07.
• Problem Set 9: Atoms with two and more electrons. PostScript, PDF.
  Distributed: 02.02.07.

• 26.10.06: Schroedinger equation. Quasiclassical wave function. Boundary conditions for quasiclassical wave functions.
  
• 02.11.06: Boundary conditions for quasiclassical wave functions (continued). Bohr-Sommerfeld quantization rule.
  
• 09.11.06: Bohr-Sommerfeld quantization rule in a centrally symmetric potential.
  
• 16.11.06: Quasiclassical tunneling.
  
• 23.11.06: Reflection "above the barrier". Perturbation theory in one dimension.
  
• 30.11.06: Quasistationary states. Time-dependent perturbation theory.
  
• 07.12.06: Adiabatic perturbation theory. Landau-Zener transitions.
  
• 14.12.06: General notions of elastic scattering. Scattering amplitudes and cross sections. Free spherical waves.
  
• 21.12.06: Scattering amplitudes in terms of phase shifts. Unitarity condition for scattering. Optical theorem.
  
• 11.01.07: Born approximation. Scattering of slow particles
  
• 18.01.07: Resonant scattering.
  
• 25.01.07: Scattering of fast particles. Scattering of identical particles.
  
• 02.02.07: Many-electron atoms. Hartree-Fock and Thomas-Fermi approximations.
  
• 09.02.07: Molecules. Adiabatic (Born-Oppenheimer) approximation.