Advanced Engineering Quantum Mechanics

Harvard FAS

The focus of this course is on the basic principles involved in the control of quantum systems and assumes knowledge of undergraduate quantum mechanics. Schrödinger, Heisenberg and interaction representations. Eigenvalue and time dependent problems, wave packets, coherent states. Harmonic oscillators. Quantization of the EM field. Tunneling; periodic potentials; Bloch’s theorem. Perturbation theory. WKB approximation. Transfer matrix methods. Variational methods. Rotation generators and…