7. M1-Quantum Mechanics 1

Quantum Mechanics 1 – Fundamentals

This page is obsolescent.
See the new web site: https://cours.cyu.fr/course/view.php?id=865

Lecturers

C Oguey     ( oguey @ u-cergy.fr )     CM 15h
M Alkhateeb & C Oguey     TD 15h

Main Chapters

1. Waves, particles, quanta, Bohr, Schrödinger
2. Principles of quantum mechanics, measurements and observables
3. Harmonic oscillator
4. Commutation relations, uncertainty
5. Time evolution, symmetries

Books

• References for the course
  • C Cohen-Tannoudji, B Diu, F Laloë, Quantum Mechanics, vols I & II, Wiley–Hermann 1998
  • JL Basdevant, J Dalibard, The quantum mechanics solver : how to apply quantum theory to modern physics, Springer 2006
  • JL Basdevant, J Dalibard, Quantum mechanics, Springer 2005
• Excellent books
  • Y Ayant,E Belorizky, Cours de mécanique quantique 3e ed. Dunod 2000, 2007
  • S Weinberg, Lectures on quantum mechanics, Cambridge UP 2013
• Classics
  • E Merzbacher, Quantum mechanics, Wiley 1998 – 2010
  • R Feynman, R Leighton, M Sands, The Feynman lectures on physics. Vol 3: quantum mechanics, Basic Books 2010
  • L Landau & E Lifshitz, Quantum mechanics : non-relativistic theory, Butterworth-Heinemann 1977
  • A Messiah, Quantum mechanics, vol 1 & 2, Elsevier 1986 – 1991

Language

This course is common to all options of M1 Physics.
The lectures are in English. French page here: 5. Quantique 1.

Grades

1 exam (’partiel’)

Reading and homework

See the new web site, above 7..

C. Oguey, Sep. 2018