Reading seminar on advanced quantum mechanics, for physicist MSc, and PhD students.
The main purpose is to give a second take on quantum mechanics, deepening and widening the material of the usual university course.
Recommended prerequisite: quantum mechanics (introductory).

Course Information

• This is a completely unofficial course. Sign up in e-mail if you are interested.
• Lecturer: Szilárd Szalay, e-mail: szalay.szilard (at) wigner (dot) hu
• Location: mostly in Wigner RCP, Building I., first floor, conference room, or possibly online
• Time: to be fixed from time to time.
• The language of the course will be Hungarian, if every attendant speaks that.
• The material planned to be covered is the series of lecture notes of Robert Littlejohn (UC Berkeley) on quantum mechanics. You can find it in 52 sections here
  https://bohr.physics.berkeley.edu/classes/221/2021/221.html
• We plan to discuss one section in each session (weekly, up to summer holidays, etc), the sessions are led by the participants rotated.
• There are also exercises, strongly recommended.

Information, announcements

• The lectures of Milán Mosonyi, Péter Vrana and Attila Andai (Mathematical Institute, BUTE) are highly recommended for those who like quantum mechanics in a more rigorous treatment and for those who would like to get more quantum information theory than given in the present lectures.
• For those who are interested in quantum foundations, the reading seminar led by Gábor Hofer-Szabó is strongly recommended. (See further announcements there.)
• 1st. session, 14:00, on the 10th of July (Wigner RCP, buliding I., conference room), presented by Péter Nyári: The Mathematical Formalism of Quantum Mechanics.
• 2nd. session, 14:00, on the 25th of July (Wigner RCP, buliding I., conference room), presented by Szabolcs Földes: The Postulates of Quantum Mechanics.
• 3rd. session, 15:00, on the 30th of September (Wigner RCP, buliding I., my room), presented by Szilárd Szalay: The Density Operator.
• session on the 7th of October is cancelled (I will be away)
• session on the 14th of October is cancelled (We're too busy...)
• 4th. session, 15:00, on the 21th of October (Wigner RCP, buliding I., tba), presented by tba: Spatial Degrees of Freedom.
• 5th. session, 15:00, on the 28th of October (Wigner RCP, buliding I., tba), presented by tba: Time Evolution in Quantum Mechanics.
• We skip the sections Topics in One-Dimensional Wave Mechanics (read this for fun) and The WKB Method (read if interested, not needed for entanglement theory)

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