All Seasons

Season 1

• S01E01 Welcome and overview

  • March 4, 2015

Season 2

• S02E01 Comments on studying Quantum Mechanics

• S02E02 Pioneering Experiments

• S02E03 Pioneering Experiments (Cont.)

• S02E04 Deriving the Schrdinger Equation

• S02E05 Spreading of quantum wavepackets

Season 3

• S03E01 Meaning of the wavefunction

• S03E02 Continuity Equation

• S03E03 Observables Operators Expectation Values

• S03E04 Time Independent Schrdinger Equation

• S03E05 Superposition Dirac Notation Representations

Season 4

• S04E01 Introduction

• S04E02 Propagator

• S04E03 Derivation

• S04E04 Derivation (Cont.)

Season 5

• S05E01 Classical Limit

• S05E02 Quantum corrections to diffusion

• S05E03 Quantum corrections to diffusion - Localization

Season 6

• S06E01 Electron in a Box

• S06E02 Finite Potential Well

• S06E03 Bound state in a 1D shallow potential

• S06E04 Bound states in a delta potential any dimension

Season 7

• S07E01 The phenomenon of superconductivity

• S07E02 Quantum Statistics

• S07E03 Two-particle Schrdinger equation

• S07E04 The Cooper problem

Season 8

• S08E01 Quantizing the classical oscillator

• S08E02 Creation-annihilation operators

• S08E03 Generating the energy spectrum

• S08E04 Harmonic oscillator wave-functions

Season 9

• S09E01 Collective model Goldstone theorem

• S09E02 Classical phonons in an oscillator chain

• S09E03 Quantum oscillator chain

• S09E04 Deriving phonon spectrum Bogoliubov transform difficult material optional

Season 10

• S10E01 Introduction to optical spectra

• S10E02 Cracking the hydrogen code

• S10E03 Classical hydrogen atom-angular momentum

• S10E04 Classical hydrogen atom-Runge-Lenz vector

Season 11

• S11E01 The Bohr model of the atom

• S11E02 Applications of the Bohr Model

• S11E03 Simple constructive techniques

• S11E04 Gaussians and the variational theorem

Season 12

• S12E01 Variational Estimates and Applications

• S12E02 Hydrogen atom- variational and virial theorems

• S12E03 Use of SpecialFunctions

• S12E04 The Bouncing Ball

Season 13

• S13E01 Basic Properties of Angular Momentum Operators

• S13E02 Basic Commutation Relations

• S13E03 Angular Momentum as an Effective Potential

• S13E04 Angular Momentum and Runge-Lenz Vector

Season 14

• S14E01 Rotation and Dipole Moments of Molecules

• S14E02 Atomic and Molecular Polarizabilities- Perturbation Theory

• S14E03 Atomic and Molecular Polarizabilities- Perturbation Theory (Cont.)

• S14E04 Polarizability of the Hydrogen Atom

• S14E05 The Spectra of Hydrogen Isotope

Season 15

• S15E01 Introduction to gauge potentials - magnetic fields

• S15E02 Impossibility of magnetism in classical mechanics

• S15E03 The Dirac Equation - Basics

• S15E04 The Dirac Equation - Spin

• S15E05 Spin and Antimatter in Material Systems

Season 16

• S16E01 Bose-Einstein condensation in theory

• S16E02 Bose-Einstein condensation in experiment

• S16E03 Degenerate Fermi-Dirac gases

• S16E04 Current research in quantum gase

Season 17

• S17E01 Time-dependent Schrdinger Eq. general remarks

• S17E02 Sudden perturbations quantum quenches

• S17E03 Geometric Berry phase difficult advanced material - optional

Season 18

• S18E01 Zeema Effect

• S18E02 Stern-Gerlach_Experiment

• S18E03 Spin Dynamics and LS Coupling

• S18E04 Spin Exchange and Magnetism

• S18E05 Non-equilibrium Spin Injection