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Advanced Quantum Mechanics with Leonard Susskind
Course Description
This course will explore the various types of quantum systems that occur in nature, from harmonic oscillators to atoms and molecules, photons, and quantum fields. Students will learn what it means for an electron to be a fermion and how that leads to the Pauli exclusion principle. They will also learn what it means for a photon to be a boson and how that allows us to build radios and lasers. The strange phenomenon of quantum tunneling will lead to an understanding of how nuclei emit alpha particles and how the same effect predicts that cosmological space can “boil.” Finally, the course will delve into the world of quantum field theory and the relation between waves and particles.

Video Lectures & Study Materials
Visit the official course website for more study materials: http://theoreticalminimum.com/courses/advanced-quantum-mechanics/2013/fall
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1 | Review of quantum mechanics and introduction to symmetry (1:40:06) | Play Video |
2 | Symmetry groups and degeneracy (1:48:27) | Play Video |
3 | Atomic orbits and harmonic oscillators (1:57:36) | Play Video |
4 | Spin, Pauli Matrices, and Pauli Exclusion Principle (1:38:47) | Play Video |
5 | Fermions: a tale of two minus signs (1:49:56) | Play Video |
6 | Quantum Field Theory: Particle Creation and Annihilation Operators (1:27:17) | Play Video |
7 | Quantum Field Theory: Fermions and Bosons (1:43:32) | Play Video |
8 | Second Quantization (1:41:39) | Play Video |
9 | Quantum Field Hamiltonian (1:43:35) | Play Video |
10 | Fermions and the Dirac equation (1:23:37) | Play Video |
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