The Virginia Tech Quantum Mechanics Homepage

The Combined Homepage for the Physics X455/6 Courses

[ Syllabi | Lecture Notes | Suggested Reading | Quantum Sites | Quantum Computing ]

Syllabi, Times, Locations, and Instructors

Spring 2008

Fall 2008

Lecture Notes & Problem Sets

The lecture notes and problem sets of all the courses are available to students enrolled in any one of them. If you click on any one of the links below, you will be prompted for an user ID and a password. Your user ID is your family name (in lower case letters) and your password is your student ID number (without spaces or hyphens). If it doesn't work, it probably means that there is another student with the same family name as your's. Try adding the initials of your first and middle names to your family name as the user ID. If that doesn't work, please go see Tatsu Takeuchi.

Undergraduate students taking Foundations of Quantum & Solid State (3455) or Introductory Quantum Mechanics (4455/6) are encouraged to study the more advanced material on their own, while graduate students taking Quantum Mechanics (5455/6) and Advanced Quantum Theory (6455/6) are encouraged to review the more introductory material to strengthen their understanding of the basics.

Students who are not taking any of these courses but still want copies of the lecture notes should talk to the instructor of each course.

• Physics 3455/6 : Foundations of Quantum & Solid State Physics
• Physics 4455/6 : Introduction to Quantum Mechanics
• Physics 5455/6 : Quantum Mechanics
• Physics 6455/6 : Advanced Quantum Theory

Suggested Reading

In addition to the regular textbook for your course, I recommend the following books to further deepen your appreciation (but perhaps not necessarily your understanding) of the subject. - Tatsu Takeuchi.

• "The Einstein Paradox, and other Science Mysteries Solved by Sherlock Holmes", Colin Bruce
  (Perseus Books, paperback, $15.95) ISBN: 0738200239 - Highly Recommended!


• "Where does the Weirdness Go?", David Lindley
  (Harper Collins, paperback, $18.00) ISBN: 0465067867


• "The Ghost in the Atom", edited by P. C. W. Davis and J. R. Brown
  (Cambridge University Press, paperback, $17.99) ISBN: 0521457289

Some Interesting Quantum Sites

• Atom in a Box (a Mac Program by Dean Dauger - Highly Recommended!)
• Time Development of QM Systems (from the Inst. of Phys., Technical U. of Budapest, Hungary)
• The Learning Matters of Chemistry (by Y.-L. Wong at Knowledge by Design)
• Introduction to Chemical Bonding (by R. Kosloff & G. Ashkenazi at The Hebrew Univ., Israel)

Quantum Computing Sites

• Centre for Quantum Computation (Oxford and Cambridge Unversities, UK)
• NMR Quantum Computation Project (Stanford, Berkeley, MIT, IBM)
• Institute for Quantum Computing (University of Waterloo, Canada)
• Conference and Workshop on Coding Theory and Quantum Computing (May 20-24, 2003 at the University of Virginia)

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