Information regarding the course can be found on this page.
Folders with textbooks and exercises of the course can be found on this page.
Information regarding the course can be found on this page.
Folders with textbooks and excercises of the course can be found on this page.
Program:
Lecture 1 - Statistical mechanics. Boltzmann postulate; microcanonical and canonical ensembles; example of canonical ensemble for a perfect gas; thermodynamical potentials; derivation of grand canonical ensemble; introduction to quantum statistical mechanics; quantistic definition of entropy; example of harmonic oscillator in the quantum case (and classical limit).
Lecture 2 - Quantum Mechanics I. Suggestions on how to prepare the exams for the first semester; harmonic oscillator and its properties; creation and destruction operators; infinite potential well; time evolution and match with Hamilton equations; example on computation of time evolution of a state.
Lecture 3 - Quantum Mechanics II. Perturbation theory independent from time; computation of first-order correction of the energy in perturbation and in the wave function (cases where the unperturbed state is non-degenerate or n-th degenerate); recall of Pauli principle and definition of bosons and fermions; example of harmonic oscillator in 2D with Pauli principle and perturbation theory; introduction to Classical Field theory with the example of a spring of athoms.
Lecture notes (in italian):
Information regarding the course can be found on this page.
Lecture 1 - Introduction to group theory (Lorentz group, SO(3), SU(2)).
Lecture 2 - Quantization of classical fields.
Lecture 3 - Spinor and electromagnetic fields and quantization.
Lecture 4 - Feynman diagrams for decays and scatterings and examples.
References:
A Modern Introduction to Quantum Field Theory, Michele Maggiore
2. Introduction to Elementary Particle Physics, David Griffiths