Ground state of a 2D quantum system with two classical minima. (Image adapted from course content.)
Instructor(s)
Prof. Washington Taylor
MIT Course Number
8.321
As Taught In
Fall 2002
Level
Graduate
Course Description
Course Features
Course Description
8.321 is the first semester of a two-semester subject on quantum theory, stressing principles. Topics covered include: Hilbert spaces, observables, uncertainty relations, eigenvalue problems and methods for solution thereof, time-evolution in the Schrodinger, Heisenberg, and interaction pictures, connections between classical and quantum mechanics, path integrals, quantum mechanics in EM fields, angular momentum, time-independent perturbation theory, density operators, and quantum measurement.