The topics are:
1. Tensor product of state spaces
2. Operators: unitary operators, parity operator, density operator,
evolution operator
3. Schrodinger and Heisenberg pictures of QM
4. Gauge invariance
5. Symmetries
6. Conservation laws and degeneracies
7. Time reversal
8. Path integrals & Berry's phase
9. Multi-particle systems
10. Second quantisation
Class schedule: to be decided. First class is Thursday Jan 5, 2012 at 2pm in Room C3067.
Textbooks: Quantum Mechanics, vols. 1 & 2 by C. Cohen-Tannoudji, B. Diu and F. Laloe, Quantum Mechanics by Messiah, Quantum Theory of Many Particle Systems by Fetter and Walecka
This file created November 27, 2006; last updated on January 4, 2012