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PARADIGMS IN PHYSICS: PARADIGM 5

PH 425: Spin and Quantum Measurement

Winter 2008 (January 14 - February 4)

Course Information
Last Update: 12/20/2008

Go to blackboard for your grade records for this course.

Useful/fun links:
Wikipedia website for Super-Kamiokande neutrino detector in Japan
Website for PhET simulations - click the left link for Quantum Phenomena and check out Stern-Gerlach for this course and Quantum Bound States for your next paradigm

We have a new Wiki page for the course: WIKI Page. You will need a password to login to it, this will be provided to you in class. David McIntyre is writing a book based on the quantum mechanics Paradigms courses, and we need your feedback on the text. We will also use this page for other communications within and about the course. Please check and use it regularly.

Course Goals:

Understand and analyze sequential Stern-Gerlach measurements on spin systems
Analyze generic quantum problem using matrix mechanics
Use time evolution to understand spin precession
Analyze generic time dependent quantum problem using matrix mechanics

Homework:

Homework will be due each Friday.
Homework should be turned in before class on the day it is due. The solutions will be posted promptly, after which homework is considered late.
The ground rules for the homework are:
- 1. We strongly encourage students to work with each other, more advanced students, and the instructors, when they get stuck on assignments. However, each student is expected to turn in independent assignments that show evidence of individual thought.
- 2. Homework solutions from previous years are strictly off-limits. You are on your honor not to use them. Allow faculty to use their time interacting with you, rather than continually thinking up new assignments. Besides, if you don't do the work yourself, it will show up very clearly on exams.
- 3. Sources must be appropriately documented. If you find a homework problem worked out somewhere (other than homework solutions from previous years), you may certainly use that resource, just make sure you reference it properly. If someone else helps you solve a problem, reference that too. In a research paper, the appropriate reference would be: Jane Doe, (private communication).

Lab Report:

Details about the lab reports will be posted later. (Both what should be included, and how they will be graded.)
Lab manual will be handed out before each session.

Office Hours:

Dedra Demaree	Weniger 373	Mon 3-4, Wed 3-5, Fri 11-12, I'm generally also here thursday afternoons.
Elizabeth Gire	Weniger 491	TO BE ANNOUNCED

Course Evaluation:

35% Homework
10% Lab report
5% Preface work
50% Final

Textbooks:

D. H. McIntyre, Spin and Quantum Measurement, (2001), lecture note.
D. J. Griffiths, Introduction to Quantum Mechanics 2nd edition, (Prentice Hall, 2004).

References:

J. S. Townsend, A Modern Approach to Quantum Mechanics, (McGraw-Hill, New York, 1992), copies of relevant sections in SPS room.
R. L. Liboff, Introductory Quantum Mechanics, 3rd edition, (Addison-Wesley, Reading, 1998), reference in SPS room.
R. P. Feynman, R. B. Leighton and M. Sands, The Feynman Lectures on Physics, vol. 3, (Addison-Wesley, Reading, 1965), reference in SPS room and Valley Library.
C. Cohen-Tannoudji, B. Diu, and F. Laloë, Quantum Mechanics, vol. 1, (John Wiley & Sons, New York, 1977), reference in SPS room.

Students with Special Needs:

Students with documented disabilities who may need accommodations, who have any emergency medical information which the instructor should know of, or who need special arrangements in the event of evacuation, should make an appointment with the instructor as early as possible, no later than the first week of the term.

Syllabus for Winter 2007

Paradigms homepage	SPINS website	Power Point Slides - Chpt 1 Liz's power point slides
Key Problems	Spin reference equations	SPINS notes (DMc)

Date	Day	Topic	Reading (G=Griffiths, T=Townsend, L=Liboff)	Due Dates
Mon 1/14	1	Stern-Gerlach Experiment
Tue 1/15	2	Sequential SG experiments Computer Lab 1	DMc 1.1, G (pp.181-183) T 1.1, L 11.8 DMc 1.2 T 1.2
Wed 1/16	3	Quantum State Vector, Probabilities, Bra and Ket notation	DMc 1.3, G 1.3.1, 3.4, 3.6, A.1, A.2 T 1.3, (L 4.3)
Thu 1/17	4	Using the tools, Vector notation Computer Lab 2	DMc 1.4, 1.5, G A.3, A.4 L 11.2
Fri 1/18	5	Operators, Eigenvalue equations, Matrices, Diagonalization	DMc 2.1, G 3.2, 3.3, 3.6, 4.4.1, A.5 T 1.5, 1.6, L 11.1, 11.6, (3.1)	Homework 1 HW1 Solution
Mon 1/21	6	MLK day: no class	No Class
Tue 1/22	7	Measurement, Projection, Expectation values, commutators, uncertainty relations , Spin 1 example Computer Lab 3	DMc 2.2 - 2.4, G 3.5.1 T 1.4, (L 3.2, 3.3) DMc 2.5, 2.6 T 3.7
Wed 1/23	8	Time Development, Schrödinger equation	DMc 3.1 L 3.4, 3.5	Lab report 1 and 2
Thu 1/24	9	Spin Precession Computer Lab 4	DMc 3.2, G 4.4.2 L 11.9
Fri 1/25	10	Rabi oscillations	DMc 3.2, G 9.1 L 11.9	Homework 2 HW2 Solution
Mon 1/28	11	Rabi oscillations	DMc 3.2, G 9.1 L 11.9
Tue 1/29	12	Neutrino oscillations	DMc 3.3
Wed 1/30	13	Magnetic resonance	DMc 3.4	Lab report 3 and 4
Thu 1/31	14	Special Topics	TBA
Fri 2/1	15	Wrap up, review	Summary	Homework 3 HW3 Solution
Mon 2/4		Final exam		2005 final exam

If you have comments or suggestions, email me at demareed@physics.oregonstate.edu

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PARADIGMS IN PHYSICS: PARADIGM 5

PH 425: Spin and Quantum Measurement

Winter 2008 (January 14 - February 4)

Course Information Last Update: 12/20/2008

Syllabus for Winter 2007

Course Information
Last Update: 12/20/2008