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Lecture Notes

LEC # TOPICS
1 Time-Independent Hamiltonian + Two-Level System + Density Matrix (PDF)
2 Quantum Dynamics; Time-Evolution Operator (PDF)
3 Schrödinger/Heisenberg/Interaction Pictures (PDF)
4 Time-development of State Amplitudes/Resonant Driving of Two-Level System (PDF)
5 Perturbation Theory (PDF)
6 Fermi's Golden Rule (PDF)
Supplement: Slowly Applied Perturbation (PDF)
7 Irreversible Relaxation (PDF)
8 Interaction of Light and Matter (PDF)
Supplement: Review of Electromagnetic Fields (PDF)
9 Absorption and Stimulated Emission (PDF)
Supplement: Derivation of Einstein B Coefficient (PDF)
10 Quantized Radiation Field (PDF)
11 Time-Correlation Functions (PDF)
Supplement: Space Correlation Functions (PDF)
12 Correlation Function Description of Absorption Spectrum (PDF)
13 Nuclear Motion Coupled to Electronic Transition (PDF)
14 Forster and Marcus Theory (PDF)
15 Stochastic Model (PDF)
16 Brownian Oscillator Model (PDF)
17 Vibrational Relaxation
18 Linear Response Theory (PDF)
19 Quantum Response Function/Fluctuation-Dissipation (PDF)
20 Nonlinear Spectroscopy: Polarization (PDF)
21 Nonlinear Spectroscopy: Nonlinear Response Functions (PDF)
22 Nonlinear Spectroscopy: Diagrammatic Perturbation Theory (PDF)
23 Nonlinear Experiments and Characterizing Fluctuations (PDF)