Syllabus - Spring 2015
Quanutm II

• Entanglement, Entropy, Bell's Theorem
  • Density Matrix
  • Entangled states
  • Hidden Variables
  • Bell's Inequality
  • Clauser-Horne Inequality
  • Aspect Experiment
  • Teleportation
  • Measure of entanglement
• Scattering
  • Lippmann-Schwinger equation
  • Born approximation
  • Partial wave expansion
  • Optical theorem
  • Particles with spin
  • Inelastic collisions
  • S-matrix
• Rotations
  • Irreducible representations of SU(2)
  • Tensor Operators - Wigner-Eckart theorem
  • Helicity
• Quantization of E-M field
  • Polarization, parity and time reversal
  • Uncertainty principle for E-M fields
  • Casimir effect
  • Lamb shift
  • Radiative transitions
  • Photo-electric effect
• Dirac Equation
  • Neutrinos
  • Graphene
  • Fine structure
• Adiabatic approximation and geometric phase
  • Berry phase
  • Aharonov Bohm
  • Magnetic monopoles
• Quantum computing
  • c-bits and q-bits
  • Quantum hardware
  • Deutsch algorithm
  • Quantum fourier transform