Quantum Physics: an overview of a weird world (Basics)

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Medium of instructions English
Mode of learning Self study
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The syllabus

Introduction to the course

  • Introduction to the course

Basics I - The birth and foundations of quantum mechanics

  • The Nature of Light
  • Fields, Waves and Interference
  • Young's Double Slit Experiment
  • The Blackbody Radiation before Max Planck
  • The Blackbody Radiation after Max Planck
  • Check your understanding (lectures 2-6)
  • Quizzes for lectures 2-6
  • The Photoelectric effect
  • Bohr's atomic model
  • The Franck-Hertz experiment
  • The Compton effect
  • Pair creation and annihilation
  • Check your understanding (lectures 7-11)
  • Quizzes for lectures 7-11
  • Waves strike back: Bragg diffraction and the de Broglie hypothesis
  • The wave-particle duality
  • The Heisenberg's uncertainty principle
  • Check your understanding (lectures 12-14)
  • Quizzes for lectures 12-14
  • The wavefunction and the measurement problem
  • The state vector, observables and the measurement postulate
  • The Schrödinger's equation
  • Atomic orbitals
  • Check your understanding (lectures 15-18)
  • Quizzes for lectures 15-18

Basics II - Mysteries and paradoxes of the quantum world

  • Angular momentum in classical physics
  • Spin: do particles rotate?
  • Commutation relations and quantum algebra
  • Check your understanding (lectures 19-21)
  • Quizzes for lectures 19-21
  • Is information fundamental?
  • The spinning world of spinors
  • A weird quantum rotation
  • The photon's polarization and spin
  • Check your understanding (lectures 22-25)
  • Quizzes for lectures 22-25
  • Quantum superposition: being in two states at the same time
  • The Time-Energy uncertainty
  • The tunnel effect: jumping over forbidden barriers
  • Vacuum zero-point energy, virtual particles and the Casimir effect
  • The Bohr-Einstein Debate
  • Check your understanding (lectures 26-30)
  • Quizzes for lectures 26-30
  • Quantum indistinguishability
  • Quantum entanglement
  • The EPR paradox (original version)
  • The EPR paradox (modern form)
  • Faster than light transmission?
  • Schrödinger`s cat: ``dead or alive´´, or ´´dead and alive´´?
  • Quantum decoherence and the measurement problem
  • Check your understanding (lectures 31-37)
  • Quizzes for lectures 31-37
  • Extra lecture: Quantum physics from the perspective of philosophical idealism

Conclusion

  • Further readings and outlook

Mathematical appendix

  • Appendix - Part I : Elementary mathematical introduction
  • Appendix - Part II : waves and complex numbers
  • Appendix - Part III : more on waves and some calculus
  • Linear momentum and kinetic energy

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