MIT OpenCourseWare
Quantum Physics III
- Instructor
- Prof. Barton Zwiebach
- Term
- Spring 2018
- Level
- Undergraduate
- What's inside
- 100 videos · 9 problem sets · 1 lecture note · 1 reading · 108 other files · 14 web pages
- Materials open
- Videos here · files on MIT OCW
Other versions of this course
- 8.06 · Spring 2018 · Study here (this version)
- 8.06 · Spring 2016 · Study here
- 8.06 · Spring 2005 · Study here
About this course
Source: MIT OpenCourseWare 8.06 Quantum Physics III, Spring 2018, Prof. Barton Zwiebach — original course page on ocw.mit.edu ↗. License: CC BY-NC-SA 4.0. Study order: MIT's own units, each a lecture sequence in MIT's listing order; no single course-wide order across units is claimed. Taken from MIT's published course files, downloaded from ocw.mit.edu on September 23, 2026. How RedLectern is built.
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What's here, and what isn't
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Units
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Lecture Notes
7 files
- Chapter 1: Non-degenerate and Degenerate Perturbation theory Download
- Chapter 2: Hydrogen Fine Structure Download
- Chapter 3: Semiclassical Approximation Download
- Chapter 4: Time Dependent Perturbation Theory Download
- Chapter 6: Adiabatic Approximation Download
- Chapter 7: Scattering Download
- Chapter 8: Summary of Connection Formulas Download
Assignments
9 problem sets
Term Paper
The LaTeX Templates
Other materials from this course
100 video transcripts
- L13.4 Charged particles in EM fields: potentials and gauge invariance transcript Download
- L13.5 Charged particles in EM fields: Schrodinger equation transcript Download
- Transcript for L8.4 Deriving the connection formulae (continued) logical arrows Download
- Transcript for L12.3 Einstein's Argument: the Need for Spontaneous Emission Download
- Transcript for L23.4 Symmetric and Antisymmetric States of N Particles Download
- Transcript for L2.4 Degenerate Perturbation Theory: Leading energy corrections Download
- Transcript for L11.2 Transition rates for stimulated emission and absorption processes Download
- Transcript for L5.1 Evaluating the Darwin correction Download
- Transcript for L12.2 Light and Atoms with Two Levels, Qualitative Analysis Download
- Transcript for L9.1 The interaction picture and time evolution Download
- Transcript for L10.1 Box regularization: density of states for the continuum Download
- Transcript for L8.3 Deriving the connection formulae Download
- Transcript for L3.1 Remarks on a "good basis" Download
- Transcript for L1.1 General problem. Non-degenerate perturbation theory Download
- Transcript for L20.2 The One-Dimensional Analogy for Phase Shifts Download
- Transcript for L14.3 Particle in a constant magnetic field: Landau levels Download
- Transcript for L15.1 Classical analog: oscillator with slowly varying frequency Download
- Transcript for L3.4 Degeneracy resolved to second order (continued) Download
- Transcript for L20.1 Review of Scattering Concepts Developed So Far Download
- Transcript for L9.2 The interaction picture equation in an orthonormal basis Download
- Transcript for L3.2 Degeneracy resolved to first order; state and energy corrections Download
- Transcript for L5.3 The relativistic correction Download
- Transcript for L20.5 Identification of Phase Shifts. Example: Hard Sphere Download
- Transcript for L12.5 Atom-light interactions: dipole operator Download
- Transcript for L20.3 Scattering Amplitude in Terms of Phase Shifts Download
- Transcript for L19.2 Energy eigenstates: incident and outgoing waves. Scattering amplitude Download
- Transcript for L6.4 Strong-field Zeeman Download
- Transcript for L4.4 Dirac equation for the electron and hydrogen Hamiltonian Download
- Transcript for L4.1 Scales and zeroth-order spectrum Download
- Transcript for L1.4 First order correction to the state. Second order correction to energy Download
- Transcript for L15.2 Classical adiabatic invariant Download
- Transcript for L6.1 Zeeman effect and fine structure Download
- Transcript for L3.3 Degeneracy resolved to second order Download
- Transcript for L5.4 Spin-orbit correction Download
- Transcript for L23.3 Permutation Operators on N Particles and Transpositions Download
- Transcript for L13.3 Einstein's B and A coefficients determined. Lifetimes and selection rules Download
- Transcript for L2.3 Degenerate Perturbation theory: Example and setup Download
- Transcript for L22.1 Setting Up the Born Series Download
- Transcript for L6.5 Semiclassical approximation and local de Broglie wavelength Download
- Transcript for L24.3 The Symmetrization Postulate Download
- Transcript for L10.4 Autoionization transitions Download
- Transcript for L24.4 The Symmetrization Postulate (continued) Download
- Transcript for L10.2 Transitions with a constant perturbation Download
- Transcript for L22.2 First Born Approximation. Calculation of the Scattering Amplitude Download
- Transcript for L9.3 Example: Instantaneous transitions in a two-level system Download
- Transcript for L22.3 Diagrammatic Representation of the Born series. Scattering Amplitude for Spherically Symmetric Potentials Download
- Transcript for L23.2 Permutation Operators Acting on Operators Download
- Transcript for L23.1 Permutation Operators and Projectors for Two Particles Download
- Transcript for L1.2 Setting up the perturbative equations Download
- Transcript for L5.2 Interpretation of the Darwin correction from nonlocality Download
- Transcript for L4.3 The Pauli equation for the electron in an electromagnetic field Download
- Transcript for L7.4 Connection formula stated and example Download
- Transcript for L11.3 Ionization of hydrogen: conditions of validity, initial and final states Download
- Transcript for L16.1 Quantum adiabatic theorem stated Download
- Transcript for L19.4 Differential as a Sum of Partial Waves Download
- Transcript for L13.2 Transition rates induced by thermal radiation (continued) Download
- Transcript for L10.3 Integrating over the continuum to find Fermi's Golden Rule Download
- Transcript for L14.1 Gauge invariance of the Schrodinger Equation Download
- Transcript for L6.2 Weak-field Zeeman effect; general structure Download
- Transcript for L17.1 Configuration space for Hamiltonians Download
- Transcript for L13.1 Transition rates induced by thermal radiation Download
- Transcript for L11.1 Harmonic transitions between discrete states Download
- Transcript for L7.2 Approximate WKB solutions Download
- Transcript for L16.4 Landau-Zener transitions Download
- Transcript for L4.2 The uncoupled and coupled basis states for the spectrum Download
- Transcript for L20.4 Cross Section in Terms of Partial Cross Sections. Optical Theorem Download
- Transcript for L16.3 Error in the adiabatic approximation Download
- Transcript for L19.1 Elastic scattering defined and assumptions Download
- Transcript for L14.2 Quantization of the magnetic field on a torus Download
- Transcript for L17.2 Berry's phase and Berry's connection Download
- Transcript for L18.1 Born-Oppenheimer approximation: Hamiltonian and electronic states Download
- Transcript for L12.4 Einstein's argument: B and A coefficients Download
- Transcript for L8.2 Asymptotic expansions of Airy functions Download
- Transcript for L21.1 General Computation of the Phase Shifts Download
- Transcript for L1.3 Calculating the energy corrections Download
- Transcript for L18.2 Effective nuclear Hamiltonian. Electronic Berry connection Download
- Transcript for L17.4 Molecules and energy scales Download
- Transcript for L14.4 Landau levels (continued). Finite sample Download
- Transcript for L2.2 Anharmonic Oscillator via a quartic perturbation Download
- Transcript for L7.1 The WKB approximation scheme Download
- Transcript for L21.2 Phase Shifts and Impact Parameter Download
- Transcript for L24.2 Symmetrizer and Antisymmetrizer for N Particles (continued) Download
- Transcript for L12.1 Ionization Rate for Hydrogen: Final Result Download
- Transcript for L17.3 Properties of Berry's phase Download
- Transcript for L7.3 Validity of the WKB approximation Download
- Transcript for L16.2 Analysis with an orthonormal basis of instantaneous energy eigenstates Download
- Transcript for L21.3 Integral Equation for Scattering and Green's Function Download
- Transcript for L15.3 Phase space and intuition for quantum adiabatic invariants Download
- Transcript for L5.5 Assembling the fine-structure corrections Download
- Transcript for L15.4 Instantaneous energy eigenstates and Schrodinger equation Download
- Transcript for L11.4 Ionization of Hydrogen: Matrix Element for Transition Download
- Transcript for L19.3 Differential and total cross section Download
- Transcript for L24.1 Symmetrizer and Antisymmetrizer for N Particles Download
- Transcript for L22.4 Identical Particles and Exchange Degeneracy Download
- Transcript for L16.5 Landau-Zener transitions (continued) Download
- Transcript for L18.3 Example: The hydrogen molecule ion Download
- Transcript for L2.1 Remarks and validity of the perturbation series Download
- Transcript for L9.4 Setting up perturbation theory Download
- Transcript for L6.3 Weak-field Zeeman effect; the projection lemma Download
- Transcript for L8.1 Airy functions as integrals in the complex plane Download
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