MIT 8.04 Quantum Physics I, Spring 2016

MIT 8.04 Quantum Physics I, Spring 2016
View the complete course: http://ocw.mit.edu/8-04S16
Instructor: Barton Zwiebach

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Videos in this playlist include:

• Quantum mechanics as a framework. Defining linearity
• Linearity and nonlinear theories. Schrödinger's equation
• Necessity of complex numbers
• Photons and the loss of determinism
• The nature of superposition. Mach-Zehnder interferometer
• More on superposition. General state of a photon and spin states
• Entanglement
• Mach-Zehnder interferometers and beam splitters
• Interferometer and interference
• Elitzur-Vaidman bombs
• The photoelectric effect
• Units of h and Compton wavelength of particles
• Compton Scattering
• de Broglie’s proposal
• de Broglie wavelength in different frames
• Galilean transformation of ordinary waves
• The frequency of a matter wave
• Group velocity and stationary phase approximation
• Motion of a wave-packet
• The wave for a free particle
• Momentum operator, energy operator, and a differential equation
• Free Schrödinger equation
• The general Schrödinger equation. x, p commutator
• Commutators, matrices, and 3-dimensional Schrödinger equation
• Interpretation of the wavefunction

…and 90 more videos.