Syllabus
Symmetry and conservation laws. Rotational and translational symmetry. Wigner functions, tenzor operators. Time reversal. Point groups.
Many-particle systems. Indistinguishability principle of identical particles and its consequences, fermions and bosons. Second quantization. Fock space, mean field theory.
Scattering theory. S and T matrixes, scattering cross section. Scattering in the central field, eigephase analysis.
Time-dependent perturbation theory. Fermi golden rule.
Density matrix and open systems.
Annotation
Continuation of the course for students of theoretical physics. Identical particles and many-particle systems. Angular momentum in quantum theory. Mean field and theory of atoms and molecules. Symmetry and conservation laws.
Time-dependent perturbation theory. Density matrix and open systems.