Introduction to Quantum Superposition
1:16:06Experimental Facts of Life — Photoelectric Effect, Double Slit & Bell
1:20:12The Wave Function, Born's Rule & Fourier Wave Packets
1:17:54Expectation Values, Momentum Operator & Heisenberg Uncertainty
1:20:07Linear Operators, Eigenfunctions & The Schrödinger Equation
1:23:14Unitary Time Evolution, Stationary States & Infinite Square Well
1:22:18More on Energy Eigenstates
1:15:53Quantum Harmonic Oscillator
1:21:00Operator Methods for the Harmonic Oscillator
1:17:54Clicker Bonanza and Dirac Notation
1:21:32Dispersion of the Gaussian and the Finite Well
1:21:05The Dirac Well and Scattering off the Finite Step
1:23:48More on Scattering
1:22:35Resonance and the S-Matrix
1:23:56Eigenstates of the Angular Momentum Part 1
1:24:42Eigenstates of the Angular Momentum Part 2
1:20:38More on Central Potentials
1:20:42"Hydrogen" and its Discontents
1:20:07Identical Particles
1:23:01Periodic Lattices Part 1
1:24:20Periodic Lattices Part 2
1:22:21Metals, Insulators, and Semiconductors
1:26:35Periodic Lattices Part 1
This lecture initiates the study of quantum mechanics in periodic potentials, analyzing energy structures and wave functions. It meticulously derives the energy band structure for a one-dimensional periodic delta potential.
MIT 8.04 Quantum Physics I, Spring 2013
View the complete course: http://ocw.mit.edu/8-04S13
Instructor: Allan Adams