PHY 341

Welcome to PHY 341 – Quantum Mechanics I homepage

We will use this space to post extra course materials, like homework, solutions, announcements, etc.

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  • Announcements

  • Asynchronous video: Jan 29 Wed: JupyterHub and Jupyter notebook (17:46) || Jan 29 Wed: Youtube video: i in the Schrodinger eqn (from Charlie, 25:05)
  • Class recording: Feb 26 Wed: Hermitian conjugates || Feb 10 Mon: Infinite potential well || Feb 3 Mon: Operator algebra || Jan 31 Fri: Expectation values, operators
  • Tutor schedule: MW 1-2, STEM Lab (SENG 217), Make appointment here; For other times (MW 2-3), email Sophia separately (sbernardo1 (at) umassd (dot) edu)
  • Announcement Jan 20 2025: Research Experience for Undergraduates
  • More REUs: SPS jobs
  • PHY 341 Syllabus
  • Useful math formulas
  • Homework 1a (due Feb 3 M)
  • Homework 1b (due Feb 10 M)
  • Homework 2a (due Feb 18 T)
  • Homework 2b (due Feb 24 M)
  • Concepts: Inf. potential well || QM Concept 1 || Wave function 1

  • Codes and other links
    The programs are in the Jupyter notebook format. You can download it and open it with Jupyter. If you do not have access to a Jupyter installation or server, you can go to try.jupyter.org on the cloud, and upload the notebook there.
    Note: Due to some weird, nonsensical rule of the site disallowing the “.ipynb” file extension, I have the programs in .zip (or plain .txt) formats. If you download a zip file, unzip it to recover the .ipynb file. If you download the .txt file (right click then save), just rename “somefile-ipynb.txt” to “somefile.ipynb”.

    • Local Jupyter/Python server. For the first time, make sure to login using UMD credentials via ssh ( eg putty on Windows) with putty rps.cscvr.umassd.edu. Simply exit after login. This will create a proper directory structure. Subsequently, you can login by clicking on the link.
    • cocalc.com (if you have nothing better)
    • Motion of a quantum oscillator: You may run or edit this program in your web browser from (a) homepage here (scroll to bottom); or (b) Glowscript version; or (c) Program_8.2_sdlf.ipynb. Download and save the named program, making sure to extract all including the associated library files, ode.py, vpmnb.py in one place. Upload the files to your Jupyter notebook.
    • Simulation of averages by ramdom sampling in free fall in zip format.
    • Superposition of states in zip format. HW 2a refers to this program.
    • Exploration of discreteness of states in zip format.
    • Expansion/integrals with Sympy in zip format.
    • SHO with sympy in zip format.
    • SHO classically forbidden zones in zip format.
    • SHO allowed energies in zip format.
    • Momentum wf of a square in zip format.
    • Momentum wf of a Gaussian in zip format.
    • Square well: unbound states in zip format.
    • Square well: allowed energies and wave functions in zip format.
    • Square well: visualizing bound states in zip format.
    • Momentum wf (Gaussian) with sympy in zip format.
    • Finding eigenstates of matrices algebraically with sympy in zip format.
    • Basis transformation and qubits with sympy in zip format.