3650:625
Quantum Mechanics I
Fall 2007
Tentative List of Topics to be covered (may be adjusted during the term):
Please suggest topics of interest to you to be covered
during the last two weeks of this semester
Please remember to select a topic for your presentation and discuss it
with me by the end of October.
Suggested topics (your choice is NOT confined to this list):
o α-decay as an example for tunneling (see Schwabl 3.3.3 for an introduction)
o Resonances in one-dimensional scattering (see Schwabl 3.7 for an introduction)
o Quantum dots as artificial atoms
o Energy-time uncertainty (Schwabl 4.2) and its implications in spectroscopy
o Continuous symmetries and conservation laws (see handout as a starting point)
o Potential energy surfaces in molecules; chemical reactions from QM prospective
o Relativistic
effects in heavy atoms; spin-orbit coupling (see Schwabl Ch.12 for an
introduction)