Number of hours
- Lectures 10.0
- Tutorials 10.0
ECTS
ECTS 1.5
Goal(s)
This course completes the first year lectures in elementary quantum and statistical physics, with respect to the curriculum of the PMP section.
Contact Clemens WINKELMANNContent(s)
Quantum Physics
- Chap 1 : Introduction : wave functions, Schrödinger equation
- Chap 2 : Dirac formalism
- 2.1. State space, operators
- 2.2. Postulates
- 2.3 Commutation and time evolution
- Chap 3 : Angular momenta
- 3.1 Orbital angular momentum
- 3.2 J+/- operators
- 3.3 Spin 1/2
Statistical Physics
- Chap 1 : Isolated system at equilibrium: the micro-canonical ensemble
- Chap 2 : Equilibrium at fixed temperature : the canonical ensemble
- Chap 3 : Quantum statistics
- 3.1. Grand-canonical ensemble and chemical potential
- 3.2. Statistics of indistinguishable particles
Prerequisites
Test
Written exam 2h