QUANTUM MECHANICS II
Physics 522 - Spring 2011

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Unit 4: Fine and hyperfine structure of the hydrogen atom

TEXTBOOK: Quantum Mechanics, Vol. 2, by Claude Cohen-Tannoudji, et al., Wiley-VCH.

TABLE OF CONTENTS

  1. Introduction
  2. Additional terms in the Hamiltonian
  3. The fine structure of the n=2 level
  4. The hyperfine structure of the n=1 level
  5. The Zeeman effect of the hyperfine structure of the ground state
  6. The magnetic hyperfine Hamiltonian
  7. Mean values of the fine-structure Hamiltonian
  8. Muonium and positronium
  9. Effect of electron spin
  10. The Stark effect

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