QUANTUM MECHANICS I
Physics 521 - Fall 2007

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Chapter IV: Two-level systems

TEXTBOOK: Quantum Mechanics, Vol. 1, by Claude Cohen-Tannoudji, et al., Wiley-VCH.

TABLE OF CONTENTS

  1. Spin 1/2
  2. The postulates
  3. Two-level systems
  4. Pauli matrices
  5. 2x2 Hermitian matrices
  6. Two spin-1/2 particles
  7. Spin-1/2 density matrix
  8. Magnetic resonance
  9. Ammonia molecule
  10. Coupling between a stable state and an unstable state

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