APSC 672 - Applied Quantum Mechanics

Spring 3 Prerequisite(s): APSC 607. Corequisite(s): APSC 608.

This course is intended for first year graduate students. Topics to be covered include: the postulates of quantum mechanics, exact and approximate solutions of Schroedingers equation, methods of electronic structure calculations for discrete molecules and semiconductors, quantum tunneling and its relevance to scanning tunneling microscopy (STM) and atomic force microscopy (AFM), and quantum descriptions of radio frequency, infrared, and optical spectroscopic methods of materials characterization.