25748: Quantum Electronics
Course Name: Quantum Electronics
Course Number: 25748
Prerequisite(s): 25735 (Engineering Mathematics) and 25223 (Physics of Electronics 1) or 25762 (Electromagnetic Fields and Waves)
Co-requisite(s): -
Units: 3
Level: Undergraduate
Last Revision: Winter 2020
Description:
Syllabus:
Course Number: 25748
Prerequisite(s): 25735 (Engineering Mathematics) and 25223 (Physics of Electronics 1) or 25762 (Electromagnetic Fields and Waves)
Co-requisite(s): -
Units: 3
Level: Undergraduate
Last Revision: Winter 2020
Description:
The objective of this course is to understand the fundamentals of quantum mechanics and its application in solid-state physics and the electromagnetic response of atoms.
Syllabus:
- Principles of quantum mechanics: wave function, operators, eigenfunctions and eigenvalues, Schrodinger equation, probability current
- Solution of time-independent Schrodinger equation for simple structures: infinite and finite 1D potential wells, infinite 3D potential well, scattering from a potential step, scattering from a potential barrier (tunneling)
- Particle in a harmonic potential: energy spectrum, creation and annihilation operators, photons
- Hydrogen atom: Schrodinger equation in spherical coordinates, angular momentum, energy spectrum
- Interaction of atoms with the electromagnetic field: dipole moment, time-dependent perturbation theory, emission and absorption of energy
- Particles in a periodic potential: Floquet-Bloch theorem, energy bands, effective mass
- C.L. Tang, Fundamentals of quantum mechanics for solid state electronics and optics, Cambridge University Press, 2005
Last Update: 2024-05-06