Topic outline

  • Week 2: Dirac equation applied

    Some predictions from the Dirac's equation: Zitterbewegung, hydrogen atom spectrum, Feynmanium.

    Condensed matter topics: hydrogen energy spectrum, quantum simulator for zitterbewegung
    • Week 2 prelecture assignment
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      Shankar: Dirac equation continued File PDF

      Shankar, Principles of quantum mechanics, pages 569-579.

    • Week 2 lecture jupyter notebook File IPYNB

      Updated 18.1.2023:  added Wednesday's solutions

      Updated 19.1.2023:  added Wednesday's videos

      Updated 19.1.2023: small changes to orbit script

      Updated 19.1.2023: added Thursday's solutions

      Updated 20.2.2023: added Thursday's videos

    • Week 2, Monday quiz
    • Week 2, Wednesday quiz
    • Week 2, Thursday quiz
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      Nightreading for week 2: Excerpt from Volovik The Universe in a Helium Droplet. Updated 14.1.2023 File PDF

      Volovik, The Universe in a Helium Droplet. Pages 1 to 16.

      Once Grigory heard about our course, he kindly provided us with his book. Here is the first excerpt, more will follow in later weeks.

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