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Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Introductory Quantum Mechanics II

Massachusetts Institute of Technology via MIT OpenCourseWare

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This course covers time-dependent quantum mechanics and spectroscopy. Topics include perturbation theory, two-level systems, light-matter interactions, relaxation in quantum systems, correlation functions and linear response theory, and nonlinear spectroscopy.

Syllabus

  • Lecture 1: Introduction to the Spectroscopic Effective Hamiltonian
  • Lecture 2: Spectroscopic Pertubations, Predissociation, and Autoionization
  • Lecture 3: Semiclassical Methods for Calculating Vibrational Overlap Integrals
  • Lecture 4: Wavepackets and Landau-Zener

Taught by

Prof. Robert Field and Prof. Andrei Tokmakoff

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