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Calendar

This calendar provides the lecture topics, links to lecture notes, and reading assignments for the course.

LEC # TOPICS READINGS*
1 Time-Independent Hamiltonian + Two-Level System + Density Matrix (PDF) 2 LS: H (Ch. 2); C (pp. 405, 420); Density Matrix: B, D, E, I
2 Quantum Dynamics; Time-Evolution Operator (PDF) G (Ch. 14), I (Ch. 2), H, C (pp. 308)
3 Schrödinger/Heisenberg/Interaction Pictures (PDF) I (Ch. 2), H, C (pp. 312)
4 Time-development of State Amplitudes/Resonant Driving of Two-Level System (PDF) I, C (pp. 1340)
5 Perturbation Theory (PDF) I, C (pp. 1285)
6 Fermi's Golden Rule (PDF)
Supplement: Slowly Applied Perturbation (PDF)
E (Ch. 4), I, C (pp. 1299)
I
7 Irreversible Relaxation (PDF) G (pp. 510), C (pp. 1344)
8 Interaction of Light and Matter (PDF)
Supplement: Review of Electromagnetic Fields (PDF)
A, C, E, G, I
K
9 Absorption and Stimulated Emission (PDF)
Supplement: Derivation of Einstein B Coefficient (PDF)
A, E
A
10 Quantized Radiation Field (PDF) A, E
11 Time-Correlation Functions (PDF)
Supplement: Space Correlation Functions (PDF)
E, F (Ch. 21), L-P
12 Correlation Function Description of Absorption Spectrum (PDF) E, P, F (Ch. 21)
13 Nuclear Motion Coupled to Electronic Transition (PDF) H
14 Forster and Marcus Theory (PDF) Q, R
15 Stochastic Model (PDF) L, H, F, E
16 Brownian Oscillator Model (PDF) H (Ch. 8)
17 Vibrational Relaxation S
18 Linear Response Theory (PDF) L, O
19 Quantum Response Function/Fluctuation-Dissipation (PDF) L, H, O
20 Nonlinear Spectroscopy: Polarization (PDF) H
21 Nonlinear Spectroscopy: Nonlinear Response Functions (PDF) H (Ch. 5)
22 Nonlinear Spectroscopy: Diagrammatic Perturbation Theory (PDF) H
23 Nonlinear Experiments and Characterizing Fluctuations (PDF) H
*Key to readings and references is provided in the readings section.