Topic outline

  • Week 4: Scattering basics

    Scattering of waves from objects -- classical waves, quantum fields. We will start with the basics: partial wave expansion method, Born approximation, and ladder diagrams.


    • Week 4 prelecture assignment
    • Lecture notes on 3d Schrödinger equation and scattering problem File PDF
      Jami's old notes from advanced quantum mechanics course involving 3d Schrödinger equation, hydrogen atom, and scattering problem.
    • Week 4 lecture jupyter notebook File IPYNB

      Updated 30.1.2023: added weekly special

      Updated 31.1.2023: added Monday's videos and solutions, python script for Ramsauer-Townsend effect.

      Updated 2.2.2023: added Wednesday's videos (there were no solutions to add).

      Updated 3.2.2023: added Thursday's videos and solutions.

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      Excerpt from Griffiths Introduction to Quantum Mechanics File PDF

      Pages 394 to 414.

      Bruus&Flensberg does not discuss basic scattering theory at all, but Griffiths has a very clear presentation of the partial wave expansion and other things that we will cover this week.

    • Week 4, Monday quiz
    • Week 4, Wednesday quiz
    • Week 4, Thursday quiz
    • Nightreading week 4: Feshbach resonances in ultracold gases File PDF

      Pages 1225-1234 from Cheng Chin, Rudolf Grimm, Paul Julienne, and Eite Tiesinga. Feshbach resonances in ultracold gases. Rev. Mod. Phys. 82, 1225 (2010).


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