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8.05 Quantum Physics II

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Prereq: 8.04 or 8.041
Units: 5-0-7
Credit cannot also be received for 8.051
Lecture: MW12.30-2 (6-120) Recitation: TR10 (26-142) or TR11 (26-142) or TR1 (26-314) or TR2 (26-314) +final

Vector spaces, linear operators, and matrix representations.  Inner products and adjoint operators. Commutator identities. Dirac's Bra-kets. Uncertainty principle and energy-time version. Spectral theorem and complete set of commuting observables. Schrodinger and Heisenberg pictures.  Axioms of quantum mechanics. Coherent states and nuclear magnetic resonance. Multiparticle states and tensor products. Quantum teleportation, EPR and Bell inequalities. Angular momentum and central potentials. Addition of angular momentum. Density matrices, pure and mixed states, decoherence.
W. Detmold
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