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10221 Advanced Quantum Mechanics
Danish title: Videregående kvantemekanik
Language: English Credit points: 5
Type: Open University
Language: English

Previous course: C1557
No credit points with: C1557/C4046
Prerequisite: 10201
Recommended semester: 7th - 9th semester
Scope and form: Lectures
Examination: Written exam (13-scale)
Contact person: Karsten Wedel Jacobsen, Building 307, Tel. +45 4525 3186, email kwj@fysik.dtu.dk, http://www.fysik.dtu.dk/~kwj
Mogens Rugholm Samuelsen, Building 309, Tel. +45 4525 3248, email mrs@fysik.dtu.dk, http://info.fysik.dtu.dk/~mrs

Department: Department of Physics
Aim: To continue the program started in 10201 Quantum Mechanics: To develop methods which are necessary for a quantum mechanical treatment of more complex atomic physics and solid state physics systems.
Contents: Contents: Classical and quantum mechanical description of systems in magnetic fields. Pauli theory for electron spin. Many-body systems: Symmetric and antisymmetric states. Slater determinant, second quantizition. Pertrubation culcalation including WKB approximation theory, symmetry considerations. Density matrices. Density functional theory.