The first meeting of the class is on Wednesday, 6 March 2013,
Class Meetings will be at the same time each Wednesday, 6 March, 13 March, 20 March, 27 March and 3 April
Time: 1:30 - 5 pm, including two 10 minute breaks
Some useful textbooks for background material (I will add to this list)
Atomic Structure Theory - Walter Johnson - Springer ISBN 978-3-540-68010-9
Elementary Atomic Structure - G.K.Woodgate - Oxford, ISBN 0-19-851156-6
Quantum Mechanics of one- and two-electrons - H.A. Bethe and E.E. Salpeter - Plenum ISBN 0-306-20022-8
Atomic Structure and Lifetimes - Lorenzo Curtis - Cambridge - ISBN 0 521 53635 9
Atomic Spectra - H.G. Kuhn - Academic Press
Spectrum of Atomic Hydrogen - G.W. Series - Oxford
Modern Physics - R.B. Leighton - McGraw Hill
This last text is useful as a beginning Quantum Mechanics text (you may have your own favorite)
Further information will be posted shortly. In the meantime, enjoy reading the following
Diatribe on two methods of lecturing...
The Course Synopsis.
Slides used in the classes will be listed here:
Week 1: 6 March: Introduction and Dirac theory part 1 and part 2
Week 2: 13 March: Hyperfine structure, part 1 and part 2
Week 3: 20 March: 2-electron and 3-electron singly and doubly-excited states: part 1, part 2 and part 3.
Weeks 4 & 5: 27 March/3 April: Coherent state decay processes: Quantum beats and polarization observations,
Laser traps and Quantum computing
Extra topics:
Hartree Fock and extensions (mostly from Johnson text): part 1, and part 2, and part 3.
Collisions - focus on fast ions in solids: part 1, and part 2, and part 3, and part 4.
Other helpful material used in class and/or references (I will add to this list)
Details of the hydrogen atom - solving the Schrodinger equation (Leighton, p.176..)
The Klein-Gordon equation.
Hylleraas reminiscences, and a recent variational paper (S Bhattacharyya et al)
Controlling the Quantum World - The Science of Atoms, Molecules and Photons - the 2007 report of the NRC, published by the National Academy of Sciences.
You can download this text as a pdf file, one chapter at a time:
Spherical Tensor Operators (1) - Froese-Fischer
Spherical Tensor Operators (2) - Breinig
Gerginov measurement of a Cesium octupole moment
