Other Courses
Introduction: High-level-simulation-language XMDS2
June 27, 2017. 9:00-19:00 Library computer pool.
June 28, 2017. 9:00-19:00 Library computer pool.
[Course-material]
[Course-material slides]
Other Lectures
PHY 303 Quantum Mechanics-I
2023-24-I Semester.
Lecture times: Slot M
place: Gravity-A1
office hours: Wed 2-4 pm
online material:
Lecture Notes, please re-download freshly the newly edited version prior every week.
(provided for students of the class only, no warranty for correctness, please contact me if you spot a mistake):
[Complete lecture notes, up to week 12, updated 5h Nov]
TDSE_animations
Assignments: one [+codes], two [no extra codes], three [+codes], four [+codes], five, six [+codes],
Assignment solutions: one [+codes], two, three [+codes], four [+codes], five [+codes], six [+codes]
Tutorials: tutorial1, tutorial1_solution, tutorial2, tutorial2_solution, tutorial3, tutorial3_solution, tutorial4, tutorial4_solution, tutorial5, tutorial5 solution, tutorial6, tutorial6 solution, tutorial7, tutorial7 solution, tutorial8
PHY 535/635 Many-body Quantum Mechanics of Degenerate Gases
2022-23-II Semester (suitable for year 4,5 and PhD).
Lecture times and places: F slot (Mon 11-12, Tue 10-11, Wed 11-12), room L11 LHC
Backup/replacement hour: Fri 11-12
Tutorial class: Wed 11-12, studio
office hours: Wed 3-5 pm, but best drop me an email before
online material:
Lecture Notes, please re-download freshly the newly edited version prior every week.
(provided for students of the class only, no warranty for correctness, please contact me if you spot a mistake):
[lecture notes week1-13, updated 6th April 2023]
[complete old lecture in one file, these will be revised above]
Additional material:
Please read: Numerics assignment info
Assignments: one [+codes], two [+codes], three [no extra codes], four [+codes], five [+codes], six [no extra codes]
Assignment solutions: one [+codes], two, three [+codes], four [+codes], five [+codes]
Tutorials: one, two, three, four, five, six
Tutorial solutions: one, two, three, four, five, six
PHY 435/637 Decoherence and Open Quantum Systems
2022-23-I Semester, (suitable for year 4,5 and PhD). [syllabus]
See first:
Wikipedia on decoherence
Wikipedia on open quantum systems
Slot X, Mon 8am AB1A (backup time slot only), Tue 10am-11am Lecture AB1A-1, Wed 9am-10am AIR tutorial AIR studio, Fri 9am-10am, lecture in AB1A-1.
Office hours: Wed 3-5 pm.
online material:
Lecture Notes, please re-download freshly the newly edited version prior every week.
(provided for students of the class only, no warranty for correctness, please contact me if you spot a mistake):
[lecture notes week1-11 (all), updated 15th Nov 2022 2pm.]
Note updates may break section numbering, please keep OLD versions for references from assignments/tutorials.
Additional material: Numerics info
Assignments: one [+codes], two [+codes], three [+codes], four [+codes], five [+codes], six[+codes],
Assignment solutions: one [+codes], two [+codes], three, four [+codes], five [+codes], six [+codes]
Tutorials: one, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight
Tutorial solutions: one, two, three, four, six, seven, eight
PHY 304 Quantum Mechanics-II
2021-22-II Semester.
Lecture times: Mon 10-10:55 am, Wed, Fri 9 am - 9:55 am (Slot E)
place: AB1A1 and Studio AIR
office hours: Wed 14:30-16:30
online material:
Lecture Notes, please re-download freshly the newly edited version prior every week.
(provided for students of the class only, no warranty for correctness, please contact me if you spot a mistake):
Week0 (Motivation), Week1 (Symmetries)
Week2 (non-degenerate Perturbation theory)
Week3 (degenerate Perturbation theory
Week4 (Variational method)
Week5 (WKB approximation)
Week6 (Scattering, partial wave expansion)
Week7 (Born approximation)
Week8 (time-dependent Perturbation theory)
Week9 (Quantum adiabatic theorem, extreme time dependences)
Week10 (Fermi's golden rule)
Week11 (Gauge invariance)
Week12 (relativistic quantum mechanics)
[Complete lecture notes]
PHY 303 Quantum Mechanics-I
2021-22-I Semester.
Lecture times: Mon, Tue, Wed 4 pm - 4:55 pm (Slot M)
place: Mon L4, Wed Studio AIR
office hours: Fri 2:30 - 5:00 pm
online material:
Lecture Notes, please re-download freshly the newly edited version prior every week.
(provided for students of the class only, no warranty for correctness, please contact me if you spot a mistake):
Week0 (Motivation)
Week1 (Maths function spaces)
Week2 (Foundations)
Week3 (Simple 1D problems)
Week4 (Harmonic oscillator)
Week5 (Wavepackets)
Week6 (Dirac Notation)
Week7 (Generalised uncertainty)
Week8 (QM in three dimensions)
Week9 (Angular momentum)
Week10 (Hydrogen)
Week11 (Spin)
Week12 (Indistinguishability, Entanglement)
[Complete lecture notes]
PHY 637 Decoherence and Open Quantum Systems
2020-21-II Semester, (suitable for year 4,5 and PhD). [syllabus]
See first:
Wikipedia on decoherence
Wikipedia on open quantum systems
Lecture times: Mon 3 pm - 5 pm, Wed 11 am - 12 noon (Slot X)
place: Mon L7, Wed Studio AIR
office hours: Fri 2:30 - 5:00 pm
online material:
Lecture Notes, please re-download freshly the newly edited version prior every week.
(provided for students of the class only, no warranty for correctness, please contact me if you spot a mistake):
[complete lecture notes]
PHY 305 Classical mechanics
2020-21-I Semester, IISERB
Lecture times: Slot F, Mon, Wed 11:00-11:55, Tue 10:00-10:55
Scheduling: Monday (no activity), Tuesday (online tutorial or TA class, attendance compulsory), Wednesday (Q&A session for lecture, tutorial, assignment)
place: internet
online material:
Lecture Notes (provided for students of the class only, no warranty for correctness, please contact me if you spot a mistake):
Week0 (Motivation)
Week1 (Newtonian mechanics)
Week2 (Variational techniques)
Week3 (Lagrangian mechanics)
Week4 (Symmetries and conservation laws)
Week5 (Two-body central force problem)
Week6 (Non-inertial frames)
Week7 (Rigid body rotation)
Week8 (Rotation dynamics)
Week9 (Coupled Oscillators)
Week10 (Hamiltonian mechanics)
Week11 (Classical foundations of quantum mechanics)
Week12 (Nonlinear mechanics and chaos)
[Combined all above weeks, with hyperlinks]
Additional material:
Numerics assignment info
Tutorials: one, two, three, four, five, six, seven.
Tutorial solutions: one, two, three, four, five, six, seven.
Assignments: one [+codes], two [+codes], three [+codes], four [+codes], five, [+codes], six [+codes]
Assignment solutions: one, two, three, four, five
PHY 106 Quantum Physics
2019-20-II Semester, IISERB
Lecture times: Wed,Thu 10:00 am, D Slot
Replacement lecture time (rarely): Tue 8:00 am, B Slot
place: L1
Tutorial class: Fri 10:00 am, D Slot
place: L1 and AIR
office hours: Wed 2-5 pm
online material:
Lecture Notes (provided for students of the class only, no warranty for correctness, please contact me if you spot a mistake):
Week1 (Motivation)
Week2 (Dawn of Quantum Physics)
Week3 (Wave mechanics)
Week4 (Particle properties of waves)
Week5 (Wave packets and dispersion)
Week6 (Wave properties of particles)
Week7 (Atoms)
Week8 (Quantum mechanics intro)
Week9 (Quantum problems in 1D)
Week10 (Hydrogen Atom)
Week11 (Multi-electron atoms, Molecules, Chemistry)
Week12 (Research Frontier: Schroedinger's cat)
[END]
Additional material:
Fourier demo (matlab script), Fourier demo Gaussian (matlab script) (see Assignment 5 for matlab dowload instructions for running these)
Fourier-decomposition of sawtooth, Fourier-decomposition of Gaussian, Moving beatpattern (movie), Moving wavepacket (movie)
, TDSE (movie), Correspondence principle (movie)
Tutorial organisation: by table, by roll no, table allocation, schedule, TA List
Tutorials: one, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine, ten, eleven, twelve, thirteen, fourteen.
Tutorial solutions: one, two, three, four, five, seven, eight, nine, ten, eleven, twelve, thirteen.
Assignments: one, two, three, four, five, [there is no six], seven, eight, nine, ten, eleven, twelve.
Assignment solutions: one, two, three, four five, seven, eight, nine, ten, eleven, twelve .
Quiz solutions: Quiz1->watch movies, two, three, four, five, six
Mid-term exam exam
space-time coordinates: SUN 23rd Feb, L1 and L5, 3 pm - 5 pm
Solution, and histogram of performance
Exam collection and limited re-assessment requests: L1, Wed 26.2. 6:00 pm-9:00 pm as per this schedule.
Histogram of course total performance.
PHY 635 Many-body Quantum Mechanics of Degenerate Gases
2019-20-I Semester, IISERB
Lecture times and places: Tue 10am L7; Wed 2pm L9; Thu 2pm L9; (Slot X)
Tutorial class: Fri 2pm L11 (irregular, will be announced separately)
office hours: Tue 2-5
online material:
Lecture Notes (provided for students of the class only, no warranty for correctness, please contact me if you spot a mistake):
Week1 (motivation/revision)
Week2 (quantum many body formalism)
Week3 (quantum fields)
Week4 (coherent states)
Week5 (Bose-Einstein condensation)
Week6 (Gross-Pitaevskii equation)
Week7 (Bogoliubov quasi-particles)
Week8 (BEC Quantum-Field theory)
Week9 (ideal degenerate Fermi gases)
Week10 (trapped Fermi gases)
Week11 (Fermion superfluidity)
Week12 (BEC-BCS crossover)
Week13 (Lattice models)
[complete lecture in one file]
Additional material:
Please read: Numerics assignment info
Assignments:
one [+codes] (solution), two [+code] (solution), three [+codes] (solution), four [+codes] (solution), five [+codes] (solution), six [+codes] (solution)
[[all numerics solutions]]
BEC_animations (See PHY 402 week13, 5.2.2. in library below for more info on cooling techniques)
Quizzes: quiz1_solution, quiz2_solution, quiz3_solution, quiz4_solution, quiz5_solution
(these quiz screenshots are for easy reference. Please also re-access your own quiz with the login provided).
Tutorials: tutorial1 tutorial1_solution, tutorial2 tutorial2_solution, tutorial3 tutorial3_solution, tutorial4 tutorial4_solution,
(these quiz screenshots are for easy reference. Please also re-access your own quiz with the login provided).
Mid-term exam:
space-time coordinates: SUN 29th Sept, AB-2-401
permitted aids: None. Most equations / long equations will be provided/ essential simple ones please memorize.
Solution, and histogram of performance
Exam collection: my office, 3rd-4th oct 15:00-18:00 only.
Final exam:
space-time coordinates: SUN 1st Dec, AB-2-401, 2:15 pm - 5:15 pm
permitted aids: None. Most equations will be provided/ essential formalism please memorize.
Solution, and histogram of performance
Exam collection: my office, TUE/WED/THU 4th,5th Dec preferably afternoons (14:30-18:00).
PHY 106 Quantum Physics
2018-19-II Semester, IISERB
Preliminary Lecture times: Wed, Thu 10 a.m. - 10:55 a.m. (Slot D)
place: L1
Tutorial class: Fri 10 a.m. - 10:55 a.m.
place: L1 + AIR
office hours: Wed 2 p.m - 5 p.m.
online material:
Lecture Notes (provided for students of the class only, no warranty for correctness, please contact me if you spot a mistake):
Week1 (Motivation)
Week2 (Dawn of Quantum Physics)
Week3 (Wave mechanics)
Week4 (Particle properties of waves)
Week5 (Wave packets and dispersion)
Week6 (Wave properties of particles)
Week7 (Atoms)
Week8 (Quantum mechanics intro)
Week9 (Quantum problems in 1D)
Week10 (Hydrogen Atom)
Week11 (Multi-electron atoms, Molecules, Chemistry)
Week12 (Research Frontier: Schroedinger's cat)
[END]
[Complete lecture notes (large!)]
Additional material: Fourier demo (matlab script), Moving beatpattern (movie), Moving wavepacket (movie), TDSE (movie), Correspondence principle (movie)
Tutorial organisation: plan, sorted plan, table allocation, schedule, TA List
Tutorials: one, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine, ten, eleven.
Assignments: one, two, three, four, five, [there is no six], seven, eight, nine, ten,eleven.
PHY 435 /637 Decoherence and Open Quantum Systems
2018-19-I Semester, IISERB (also suitable for year 5 and PhD). [syllabus]
See first:
Wikipedia on decoherence
Wikipedia on open quantum systems
Lecture times: Mon,Wed,Fri 8 am - 8:55 am (Slot A)
place: AB-2 402
TA class: Tue 10 am - 11 am
office hours: Tue 3 p.m. - 6 p.m.
1st Scheduled Quiz: Fri 24th Aug 8 am, venue: Multi-media classroom, Main-building, 2nd floor.
2nd Scheduled Quiz: Fri 14th Sep 8 am, venue: Studio classroom, Near AB-1, 1st floor.
3rd(last) Scheduled Quiz: Fri 2nd Nov 8 am, venue: Studio classroom, Near AB-1, 1st floor.
online material:
Lecture Notes (provided for students of the class only, no warranty for correctness, please contact me if you spot a mistake):
Week1 (Motivation/Revision)
Week2 (system environment models)
Week3 (density matrices)
Week4 (decoherence)
Week5 (more techniques)
Week6 (Master equations)
Week7 (Quantum Brownian motion)
Week8 (Spin decoherence, spontaneous decay)
Week9 (non-Markovian systems, Redfield method)
Week10 (non-Markovianity and Information flow, Advanced methods)
Week11 Extensions of Quantum Mechanics
[All the above in one file]
PHY 402 Atomic and Molecular Physics
2017-18-II Semester, IISERB
Lecture times: Mon, Tue, Wed 2 p.m. - 2:55 p.m.
place: L3
Tutorial class: (some) Fridays 4 p.m. -5 p.m.
place: L3
office hours: Tue 3 p.m. - 6 p.m.
online material:
Lecture Notes (provided for students of the class only, no warranty for correctness, please contact me if you spot a mistake):
Week1 (Motivation/Revision)
Week2 (single electron atoms)
Week3 (static fields)
Week4 (two electron atoms)
Week5 (many electron atoms)
Week6 (atomic transitions)
Week7 (spectral lines)
Week8 (light scattering)
Week9 (molecules, Born-Oppenheimer)
Week10 (molecular electronic structure)
Week11 (molecular rotations vibrations / spectra)
Week12 (molecular electronic transitions)
Week13 (Frontiers of modern AMO physics)
[Complete lecture in one file]
PHY 535 Many-body Quantum Mechanics of Degenerate Gases
2017-18-I Semester, IISERB. Course also available via NKN.
Lecture times: Tue 2pm / Wed 4pm / Fri 9am
place: L2
office hours: Thursday 12pm-5pm
TA: Ajit Kumar, AB-1 Room 406
TA office hours: Friday 3pm-5pm
See Assignment 4 below. Deadline 16.11. in the lecture.
Quiz 6 has been sent. Is is not going to be marked but may guide you for exam. You have until Fri 17.11. 11 pm to login and solve it.
online material:
Lecture Notes (provided for students of the class only, no warranty for correctness, please contact me if you spot a mistake):
Week1 (motivation/revision)
Week2 (quantum many body formalism)
Week3 (quantum fields)
Week4 (coherent states) (edited)
Week5 (Bose-Einstein condensation)
Week6 (Gross-Pitaevskii equation) (edited)
Week7 (Bogoliubov quasi-particles)
Week8 (BEC Quantum-Field theory)
Week9 (ideal degenerate Fermi gases)
Week10 (trapped Fermi gases)
Week11 (Fermion superfluidity)
Week12 (BEC-BCS crossover)
Week13 (Lattice models)
PHY 402 Atomic and Molecular Physics
2016-17-II Semester, IISERB
Lecture times: Mon, Tue, Wed 2 p.m. - 2:55 p.m.
place: L3
Tutorial class: Wed 10 a.m. - 11 a.m.
place: L6
office hours: Tue 3 p.m. - 6 p.m.
online material:
Lecture Notes (provided for students of the class only, no warranty for correctness, please contact me if you spot a mistake):
Week1 (Motivation/Revision)
Week2 (single electron atoms)
Week3 (static fields)
Week4 (two electron atoms)
Week5 (many electron atoms)
Week6 (atomic transitions)
Week7 (spectral lines)
Week8 (light scattering)
Week9 (molecules, Born-Oppenheimer)
Week10 (molecular electronic structure)
Week11 (molecular rotations vibrations / spectra)
Week12 (molecular electronic transitions)
Week13 (Frontiers of modern AMO physics)