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The homework is graded by Lei Jiang, lj4511@rice.edu. All questions, complaints etc. regarding homework should be directed at him.

 

  

 

 

 
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Table of contents:

  1. Primer in special relativity
  2. Klein-Gordon equation
  3. Dirac equation
  4. Quantized EM field
  5. Interaction of photons with atoms
  6. Formulation of QED
  7. Fundamental QED processes

 

  
 

    homework

  

Jan. 15        1-2, 1-3, 1-4                           due Jan. 22

Jan. 22        1-5, 2-1, 2-2                           due Jan. 29

Jan. 29        2-3, 3-1, 3-2                           due Feb. 5

Feb. 5         3-3, 3-4, 3-5                           due Feb. 12

Feb. 12       3-7, 4-1                                  due Feb. 19

Feb. 19       3-8, 4-2, 5-1                          due Feb. 26

Feb. 26       5-2, 6-3                                  due Mar. 11

Mar. 11       7-1, 7-2, 7-3                          due Mar. 18

Mar. 18       7-4, 7-5                                 due Mar. 25

 

  
 
 
 

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There are no exams in this course. Your grade is based on your homework (50%) and on your seminar presentation (50%).

 

Seminar topics:

  1. Klein paradox (using Klein-Gordon equation)  ---  Layla Booshehri (Apr. 17)
  2. Dirac equation for massless fermions, neutrinos  ---  Erik Haroz (Apr. 8)
  3. Dirac equation and the hydrogen atom (2 talks)  ---  Lindsey Anderson (Apr. 22), Pedro Duarte (Apr. 22)
  4. Chirality, helicity conservation at high energies  ---  Tom Sanders (Apr. 17)
  5. Second quantization in condensed matter physics  ---  Ramachandhran Balasubramanian (Apr. 15)
  6. Hartree-Fock method for many-electron systems  ---  Zuzanna Lewicka  (Apr. 1)
  7. Applications of QED in condensed matter physics  --  Oleksandr Kuznetsov  (Apr. 10)
  8. Higher-order corrections in QED  ---  Colin Young  (Apr. 15)
  9. Renormalization (2 talks)  ---  Betty Rostro, Yu Pu (Apr. 10)
  10. Running coupling constant  ---  Lina Xu (Apr. 8)
  11. Quantum computing  ---  Tim Noe  (Apr. 1)

 

 

  
      

 

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