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Department of Physics and Astronomy |
Instructor: Professor A. Sait Umar
Phone: 615-322-2459
Office: Stevenson Center, 6th floor, room 6626
e-mail: sait.a.umar@vanderbilt.edu
Class meetings: MWF 9:10-10:00 am, SC 6614
Office hours: Anytime I am in office (mornings preferable)
The aim of Physics 8164 is to describe systems comprised of MANY interacting quantum particles moving at nonrelativistic velocities. This course is truly interdisciplinary: the techniques you will learn have applications in atomic and molecular physics, quantum chemistry, condensed-matter physics, nuclear physics, and some areas of astrophysics (e.g. neutron stars).
Main textbook: A. L. Fetter and J. D. Walecka, "Quantum Theory of Many-Particle Systems",
doverpublications.com,
~$35 paperback, ISBN 0-486-42827-3.
Course Website: http://compsci.cas.vanderbilt.edu/~umar/p8164/
first semester of graduate quantum mechanics (Physics 8030).