Selected topics in Quantum
and Statistical Mechanics
course number 203-2-5131
(3 hours, 3.0 points)
Lecturer:
Doron Cohen
Core Topics:
- EPR paradox and Bell inequalities
- The probability matrix
- Wigner function
- Quantum measurements I
- Quantum measurements II
- Entanglement and entropy
- Quantum Computation I
- Quantum Computation II
- The foundations of statistical mechanics
Optional Topics:
- Analysis of prototype model systems.
- Quantum chaos and Random matrix theory.
- Linear response theory, the Kubo formula.
- Adiabatic processes, Berry phase, Quantum transport.
- Born-Oppenheimer picture.
- Master equations.
- Dissipation and decoherence.
- The Feynman-Vernon formalism.
Sources:
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Lectures Notes in Quantum Mechanics
[version 4 (arXiv)]
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Lectures Notes in Statistical Mechanics and Mesoscopics
[version 2 (arXiv)]
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Recorded Lectures: Click here
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L.E.Ballentine, Quantum Mechanics (library code: QC 174.12.B35)
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M.A. Nielsen and I.L.Chuang, Quantum Computation (library code: QA 76.889.N54)
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