Students are encouraged to print and read the course lecture notes in advance of lectures. Prof. Tokmakoff maintains the Time-Dependent Quantum Mechanics and Spectroscopy Web site with the most recent and complete PDF version of the notes.
Lecture notes files.| LEC # | TOPICS |
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| 1 | Introduction; Time-independent Hamiltonian (PDF) |
| 2 | Time-development of state amplitudes: Resonant driving of a two-level system (PDF) |
| 3 | Quantum dynamics: The time-evolution operator (PDF) |
| 4 | The Schrodinger, Heisenberg, and interaction pictures (PDF) |
| 5 | Perturbation theory (PDF) |
| 6 | Fermi's golden rule (PDF) |
| 7 | Irreversible relaxation (PDF) |
| 8 | Interaction of light and matter (PDF 1) (PDF 2) |
| 9 | Electric dipole Hamiltonian and absorption of light (PDF) |
| 10 | Time-correlation functions (PDF) |
| 11 | Absorption lineshape from time-correlation functions (PDF) |
| 12 | Electronic spectroscopy: The displaced harmonic oscillator model (PDF) |