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0. This is a bit abstract, so here is a more concrete version of the example. H0 is the natural Hamiltonian of 1 the hydrogen atom and δH(t) comes from electric and/or magnetic fields that we temporarily turn on. If we start in the 1s state, then what is the probability that after some time we will be in the 2p state? ...
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8.05 we saw the Schr¨odinger Aside: comparison to Schr¨odinger and Heisenberg pictures. picture and the Heisenberg picture. In the former, states evolve according to H and operators re- main the same; in the latter, states stay the same and operators evolve according to H. The interaction picture can be thought of as i...
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¨odinger equation in the rotating frame where we have defined i d(cid:126) dt | ˜ ψ(t)(cid:105) = δ(cid:102)H(t) ˜ |ψ(t)(cid:105) δH(t) = e (cid:126) δH(t)e− (cid:102) iH t 0 iH t0 (cid:126) . (3) This has a simple interpretation as a matrix. Suppose that the eigenvalues and eigenvectors of H0 (reminder: we work with th...
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H mn(t)cn(t) = eiωmntδHmncn(t). 1.2 Perturbation expansion n n So far everything has been exact, although sometimes this is already enough to solve interesting problems. But often we will need approximate solutions. So assume that δH(t) = O(λ) and expand the wavefunction in powers of λ, i.e. cm(t) = cm (t) + cm (t) + c...
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(cid:125) (cid:125) (cid:124) (cid:125) (4) The solution is much simp the RHS, so the zeroth order approximation is simply that nothing happens: time-dep ler than t case. There enden the in is no zeroth | ˜ψ(0)(t)(cid:105) = | ˜ψ(0)(0)(cid:105) = |ψ(0)(cid:105) i(cid:126)∂t| ˜ψ(1)(t)(cid:105) = δ(cid:102)H(t)|ψ(0)(t)(c...
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) (cid:12) second-order solution is | ˜ψ(2)(t)(cid:105) = (cid:90) t(cid:48) (cid:90) t dt(cid:48) 0 0 dt(cid:48)(cid:48) (cid:102)H(t(cid:48)) δ δ i(cid:126) (cid:102)H(t(cid:48)(cid:48)) i(cid:126) |ψ(0)(cid:105) . (8) 3 1.3 NMR In some cases the rotating frame already helps us solve nontrivial problems exactly with...
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)ω2 the zˆ axis. 2 0 + Ω . If Ω (cid:28) ω0 then this is very close to precession around Now let’s look at this problem using first-order perturbation theory. ω t 0 H(t) = ei δ(cid:102) (cid:90) t | ˜ψ(1)(t)(cid:105) = = Ω (cos(ω0t)Sx − sin(ω0t)Sy) ω t 0 2 σz σz dt(cid:48) 2 ΩSxe−i δH(t(cid:48)) (cid:102) i(cid:126) |ψ(...
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= Ω (cos(ω0t)Sx + sin(ω0t)Sy) . 4 We have already computed Sx above. In the rotating frame we have ˜ Thus ˜Sx = (cos(ω0t)Sx − sin(ω0t)Sy) ˜Sy = (cos(ω0t)Sy + sin(ω0t)Sx) δ(cid:102)H(t) = ΩSx. The rotating-frame solution is now very simple: | ˜ψ(t)(cid:105) i = e− Ωt σx 2 |ψ(0)(cid:105). This can be easily translated b...
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) mn i(cid:126) dt(cid:48) (cid:16) 0 (cid:90) t Vmn 2i(cid:126) 0 (cid:34) V mn 2i(cid:126) ei(ωmn+ω)t(cid:48) + ei(ωmn−ω)t(cid:48) ei(ωmn+ω)t − ωmn + ω 1 + ei(ωmn−ω)t − ωmn − ω (cid:17) (cid:35) 1 The ωmn ± ω terms in the denominator mean that we will get the largest contribution when ω ≈ |ωmn|. (A word about signs. ...
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t 2 α2 (9) For fixed α, f (t, α) is periodic in t. It is more interesting to consider the case of fixed t, for which f has a sinc-like appearance (see Fig. 1). Figure 1: The function f (α, t) from (9), representing the amount of amplitude transfered at a fixed time t as we vary the detuning α ≡ ωmn − ω. t It has zeroes as...
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. So as t → ∞ On the other hand, is always nonnegative, always has total mass roughly independent of t, but approaches zero for all nonzero α. This means that it approaches a delta function. A more detailed calculation (omitted, but it uses complex analysis) shows that we see that f (t,α) t f (t, α) lim t→∞ t = δ(α). π...
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The driving frequency might come from a thermal distribution or a laser, both of which output a distribution of frequen- cies. The linewidth of a laser is much lower but still nonzero. The energy difference (cid:126)ωmn seems like a universal constant, can also be replaced by a distribution by phenomena such as Doppler ...
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”). In those cases transition rates are much lower. One dramatic example is that 2p → 1s transition in hydrogen takes 1.6ns because it occurs at first order while the 2s → 1s transition takes 0.12 seconds. For this reason states such as the 2s states are called “metastable.” We now consider the most important special ca...
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treatment we’ve described here. Nor do the photons. “Absorption” means jumping from a low-energy state to a higher-energy state, and “stimulated emission” means jumping from high energy to low energy. In the former case, we reason from energy conservation that a photon must have been absorbed, and in the latter, a phot...
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. These vacuum fluctuations lead to a small separation in energy between the 2s and 2p levels of hydrogen. (cid:104)E 2 2 Dipole moment In the Stark effect we looked at the interaction of the hydrogen atom with an electric field. This was a special case of the interaction between a E field and the dipole moment of a collec...
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:126)x · E for any constant C. However, this would only have added an overall constant to the Hamiltonian, which would have no physical effect. N i=1 i (cid:126) What if the electric field is spatially varying? If this spatial variation is small and we are near the origin, we use the first few terms of the Taylor expansio...
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. The only operator here is the dipole moment d = (d1, d2, d3), so the matrix elements of V are given by ˆ (cid:126) (cid:126) ˆ ˆ Vmn = − ˆ (cid:126) E0P · dmn = −E0 3 (cid:88) i=1 Pi(cid:104)m|di |n(cid:105). Since the transition rate depends on |V mn , we will average this quantity over the choice of polar- |2 9 iz...
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≡ 0 3 |(cid:126)dmn|2 P How did we calculate (cid:104)PiPj(cid:105) ˆ? This can be done by explicit calculation, but it is easier to use sym- metry. First, observe that the uniform distribution over unit vectors is invariant under reflection. Thus, if i = j, then (cid:104)PiPj(cid:105) = (cid:104)(−Pi)Pj(cid:105) = 0. O...
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6)2 | d 2 | This last expression is known as Fermi’s Golden Rule. (It was discovered by Dirac, but Fermi called it “Goldren Rule #2”.) 2.2 Spontaneous emission The modern description of spontaneous emission requires QED, but the first derivation of it predates even modern quantum mechanics! In a simple and elegant argum...
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changes from state b to state a. ANb Stimulated emission A photon of frequency ωba is emitted and an atom changes from state b to state a. BbaNbU (ωba) These processes depend on the Einstein coefficients A, Bab and Bba for spontaneous emission, absorption and stimulated emission respectively. They also depend on the popu...
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relation between spontaneous and stimulated emission can be seen in the fact that both involve an a† operator acting on the photon field. If there are no photons, then the field is in state |0(cid:105) and we get the term a†|0(cid:105) = |1(cid:105), corresponding to spontaneous emission. If there are already n photon in...
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126) Suppose our initial state is our old friend, the ground state of the hydrogen atom, and the final state is a plane wave. If the final state is unnormalized, then matrix elements such as (cid:104)ψfinal|V |ψinitial(cid:105) become less meaningful. One way to fix this is to put the system in a box of size L × L × L with...
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0 (cid:123)(cid:122) A − (cid:126)k · (cid:126)x i ≡ (cid:112) eE 0 πa3 0L3 A. (cid:19) (cid:125) We have defined A to equal the difficult-to-ev aluate in tegral. The factor of x3 can be removed by 12 writing A = i ∂ B, where ∂k3 (cid:90) B = d3x exp (cid:18) r a0 − − (cid:126)ik (cid:126) · x (cid:19) defining µ = (cid:1...
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= 2πi k3   1 + 1 ika 0 (cid:16) − 1 ika0 (cid:17) 2 (cid:17)  2   (cid:17) 2 (cid:16) − 1 1 + 1 k2a2 0 1 1 − i ka 0 8 π = 8πi k3 (cid:16) 1 a ik 0 1 + 1 2 2 k a0 = (cid:17) 2 (cid:16) 0 1 a k4 1 + 2a2 k 0 = (cid:17) 2 8π (cid:0) a 0 − k2 + a 0 2 (cid:1) 2 To compute A, we use the fact that ∂ k2 = 2 3. Thus k ∂k3 A...
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where θ is the angle between k and the z-axis. (cid:126) We can now compute the squared matrix element to be (canceling a factor of π from numerator and denominator) |(cid:104)(cid:126)k|V |1, 0, 0(cid:105)|2 = e2E2 1024π cos2(θ) 0 a3L3 0 a2 10 0k . To compute the average rate over some time t, we will multiply this by...
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7) − ω . Let’s pause for a minute to look at what we’ve derived. One strange feature is the 1/L3 term, because the rate of ionization should not depend on how much empty space surrounds the atom. Another strange thing appears to happen when we take t large, so that f (t, α)/t will approach π δ(α). This would cause the ...
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:12) = = = (cid:12) (cid:12) (cid:12) (cid:12) (cid:12) (cid:12) (cid:12) (cid:12) (cid:12) (cid:12) (cid:12) (cid:12) (cid:12) (cid:12) (cid:12) 0 (cid:90) 1/t 0 (cid:90) 1/t t t (cid:90) 1/t (cid:32) t (cid:33) dα g(α) − g(0) (cid:12) (cid:12) (cid:12) (cid:12) (cid:12) dα (g(α) (cid:12) (cid:12) (cid:12) − g(0)) (ci...
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(cid:126) 1 t 1 + (cid:19) 1 tω (cid:114) 2mω (cid:126) ≤ ≤ k (cid:115) (cid:18) 1 + 2mω (cid:126) (cid:19) 1 tω (cid:114) 2mω (cid:126) ≈ (cid:19) (cid:18) 1 + 2tω (17) 14 (cid:126) (cid:126) How many k satisfy (17)? Valid k live on a cubic lattice with spacing 2π/L, and thus have density (cid:126) (L/2π)3. Thus we c...
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k π = t 2 · # valid k = (cid:126) L3mk (cid:126) 4π . We have obtained our factor of L3 that removes the unphysical dependence on the boundary conditions. Putting everything together we get R 1,0,0→all k (cid:126) = 256me2E2 0 . 3(cid:126)3a5 0k9 3 Adiabatic evolution 3.1 The adiabatic approximation We now turn to a di...
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some n. Then if H is changed slowly for 0 ≤ t ≤ T , then at time T we will have |Ψ(T )(cid:105) ≈ |ψn(T )(cid:105). ˙ This theorem is stated in somewhat vague terms, e.g. what does “changed slowly” mean? H should be small, but relative to what? One clue is the reference to the nth eigenstate |ψn(t)(cid:105). This is on...
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obtain n i(cid:126) d dt |Ψ(t)(cid:105) = i(cid:126) (cid:88) c˙n(t)|ψn(t)(cid:105) + cn(t) ψn(t)(cid:105) = | ˙ n (cid:88) n cn(t)En(t)|ψn(t) (cid:105). Multiply both sides by (cid:104)ψk(t)| and we obtain i(cid:126) c˙k = Ekck − i(cid:126) (cid:88) ˙ (cid:104)ψk|ψn(cid:105)cn. n (20) ˙ Now we need a way to evaluate (...
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˙H|ψn(cid:105) ˙ (cid:104)ψ | ˙H|ψ (cid:105) n k − Ek En = ψ | ˙ k ψn(cid:105) ≡ ˙H k En − Ek n In the last step, we used Hkn to refer to the matrix elements of H in the {|ψn(cid:105)} basis. ˙ ˙ Plugging this into (20) we find i(cid:126)c˙k = (cid:104)ψk| ˙ψk(cid:105) (Ek − i(cid:126) )ck − i(cid:126) (cid:125) (cid:12...
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fferential equation is not there. i.e. suppose that i(cid:126) ck(t) = c (0)eiθk(t)eiγk(t) (cid:90) t k 1 θk(t) ≡ − (cid:126) Ek(t(cid:48))dt(cid:48) 0 γk(t) ≡ (cid:90) t 0 νk(t(cid:48))dt(cid:48) ˙ | k(cid:105) νk(t) ≡ i(cid:104)ψk ψ (22a) (22b) The θk(t) term is called the “dynamical” phase and corresponds to exactly ...
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matrix element of V . This decreases as T and ∆ increase, which is good. But if we add up this rate of transitions over time T , then the total transition amplitude can be as large as ∼ V /∆. Thus, going more slowly appears not to reduce the total probability of transition! T ∆ What went wrong? Well, we assumed that am...
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energy levels are roughly constant, so we can replace it with e−iωnkt, where ωnk = (En − Ek)/(cid:126). Now when we integrate the contribution of this term from t = 0 to t = T we get (cid:90) T ˙H e−iωnkt kn 0 En − Ek dt ∼ V e−iωnkT (cid:126)ω2 T nk − 1 ∼ V T (cid:126)ω2 nk ∼ (cid:126)V ∆2T Finally we obtain that the p...
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the bottom eigenstate. When t = 0, the eigenstates are |−(cid:105) |+ (cid:105) Suppose that ∆ = 0 and we start in the |−(cid:105) at t = −∞. Then at t = ∞ we will still be in the |−(cid:105) state, with only the phase having changed. But if ∆ > 0 and we move slowly enough then the adiabatic approximation says we will ...
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)) dt(cid:48) 1 (cid:126) 0 γn(t) ≡ (cid:90) t 0 n(t(cid:48))dt(cid:48) ν ˙ νn(t) ≡ i(cid:104)ψn|ψn (cid:105) (24a) (24b) The phase γn(t) is called the geometric phase, or the Berry phase, after Michael Berry’s 1984 explanation of it. Do the phases in the adiabatic approximation matter? This is a somewhat subtle questi...
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that is a function of n and (cid:126)r. In fact, even if the particle were in a superposition of positions as in the two-slit experiment, then we could still only see interference effects between branches of the wavefunction with the same value of (cid:126)r. Thus, again we can define an arbitrary (n, (cid:126)r)-depende...
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126) (0) R i(cid:104) ψn (cid:126) (cid:126) |∇ (cid:126)R|ψn(cid:105) · dR 0 The answer is in terms of a line integral, which depends only on the path and not on time (unlike the dynamical phase). (cid:126) (cid:126) ) ? Suppose we replace |ψn(R) (cid:126) (cid:105) with |ψn(R) ˜ (cid:105) = How does this change if we...
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the endpoints of the path. Thus, we can eliminate the phase for any fixed path with R(t) = R(0), but not simultaneously for all paths. In particular, if a particle takes two different paths to the same point, the difference in their phases cannot be redefined away. More simply, suppose the path is a loop, so that R(0) = R(...
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-d, because it contains 2-d as a special case. Then if S denotes the surface enclosed by curve C, we have (cid:73) C A(cid:126) (cid:126) n(R) (cid:126) · dR = (cid:90) (cid:90) S ( (cid:126) (cid:126) ∇ (cid:126)R × An) · d(cid:126)a ≡ (cid:90) (cid:90) S (cid:126) D n · d(cid:126)a. 19 (cid:54) Here we define the Ber...
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(cid:105)). (25) j,k d Example: electron spin in a magnetic field. The Hamiltonian is (cid:126) H = µ(cid:126)σ · B µ = (cid:126) e mc . Suppose that B = B(cid:126)r where B is fixed and we slowly trace out a closed path in the unit sphere with (cid:126)r. Suppose that we start in the state (cid:126) |(cid:126)r; +(cid:1...
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(cid:126)r (cid:125)   0  ieiφ sin(θ/2) ˆ φ.  This first term will not contribute to the Berry connection, and so we obtain A(cid:126) +((cid:126)r) = i(cid:104)(cid:126)r|∇|(cid:126)r(cid:105) = − (cid:126) 1 sin2(θ/2) sin(θ) r ˆ φ. Finally the Berry curvature is (cid:126) (cid:126) D+ = ∇ × A+ = (cid:126) 1 d r si...
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the same computation we find that no w A(cid:126) + = 1 cos2(θ/2) sin(θ) r ˆ φ and (cid:126) D+ = − 1 2r2 . rˆ dθ We see that the d sin2(θ/2) was replaced by a d ( dθ − cos2(θ/2)) which gives the same answer. This is an example of the general principle that the Berry connection is sensitive to our choice of phase conven...
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name neutrino means “little neutral one” and neutrinos are spin-1/2, electri- cally neutral, almost massless and very weakly interacting particles. Neutrinos were first proposed by Pauli in 1930 to explain the apparent violation of energy, momentum and angular momentum conservation in beta decay. (Since beta decay invol...
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the range produced in the sun are electron neutrinos. 0.5-20MeV. Almost all of neutrinos Detection Neutrinos can be detected via inverse beta decay, corresponding to the reaction A + νe (cid:55)→ A(cid:48) + e−, where A, A(cid:48) are different atomic nuclei. For solar neutrinos this will only happen for electron neutri...
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neutrino, in its rest frame, has a Hamiltonian with eigenstates |ν1(cid:105), |ν2(cid:105), |ν3(cid:105) that in general will be different from the flavor eigenstates |νe(cid:105), |νµ(cid:105), |ντ (cid:105) that participate in weak- interaction processes such as beta decay. We will treat this in a simplified way by negl...
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θ come from (27) (θ ≈ π/6 is the “mixing angle” that measures how far the flavor states are from being eigenstates), C is a constant and Ne = Ne((cid:126)r) is the local electron density. If the neutrino is traveling at speed ≈ c in direction xˆ, then (cid:126)r ≈ ctxˆ. Thus we can think of Ne as time-dependent. We then...
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H = − N (cid:88) (cid:126)2 j=1 ∇(cid:126) 2 2M R j j (cid:126) + Hel(R). (30) (cid:126) (cid:126) Here R = (R1, . . . , RN ) denotes the positions of the N nuclei and Hel(R) includes all the other terms, i.e. kinetic energy of the electrons as well as the potential energy terms which include electron-electron, nuclei-...
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:126) Ψ(R, r) = ( Rj (cid:126) ∇Rj (cid:126) γ(R))ΦR(r) + γ(R) (cid:126) ∇Rj (cid:126) ΦR(r). Using the adiabatic approximation we neglect the overlap of ∇ (cid:126) Ψ(R, r) with all states to Rj Equivalently we can multiply on the left by (cid:104)ΦR|. This results in (cid:126) (cid:90) d3nrΦR(r)∗∇(cid:126) (cid:126) ...
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before the Aj terms can have an effect, for the same reason that we do not see a Berry phase unless we trace out a loop in a parameter space of dimension ≥ 2. (cid:126) The Born-Oppenheimer applies not just to nuclei and electrons but whenever we can divide a system into fast and slow-moving degrees of freedom; e.g. we ...
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led to a model of atoms in which electrons orbit nuclei like planets, and resolving the problems of this model in turn was one of the early successes of quantum mechanics. Scattering cross section: In scattering problems it is important to think about which physical quantities can be observed. The incoming particles ha...
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at . The resulting differential cross-section dσ dΩ dΩ dt is defined to be dσ dΩ (θ, φ) scat d2N ≡ dΩ dt d2 Nin dAdt (38) Here the spherical coordinates (θ, φ) denote the direction of the outgoing particles. It is conventional to define the axes so that the incoming particles have momentum in the zˆ direction, so θ is the...
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41) (42) A general solution can be written as a superposition of separable solutions. Separable solutions to (42) can in turn be written as in terms of some functions u(r), f (θ, φ). In terms of these (42) becomes rψ(r, θ, φ) = u(r)f (θ, φ), u(cid:48)(cid:48)f + ˆ 1 uL2f +k2uf = 0. r2 (cid:123)(cid:122) (cid:124) 0 as ...
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be a combination of an un-scattered part, which looks like the original wave packet continuing forward in the zˆ direction, and a scattered part, which is a spherical outgoing wavepacket with a f (θ, φ) angular dependence. However, we can treat the incoming wave instead as the static plane wave eikz eikr. (Both of thes...
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8) In the last step we have used v = (cid:126)k/m. The units here are off because technically the wavefunction √ should be not eikz but something more like eikz/ V , where V has units of volume. But neglecting this factor in both the numerator and denominator of (38) will cause this to cancel out. Keeping that in mind, ...
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. (52) is valid everywhere except at θ = 0. There we have to also consider interference between the scattered and the unscattered wave. (Unlike the incoming wave, the outgoing unscattered does coexist with the scattered wave.) The resulting flux is (cid:126) S = Im out (cid:126) m (cid:18) e−ikz f ∗ + e−ikr r (cid:19) (...
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−ik 2 2 ρ ρ 2z + f e 2z ik (cid:19) (cid:18) ˆ z z 0 (cid:90) ∞ dρ2 2 0 (cid:90) ∞ 0 v = 4π Re z 2πv z Re = 2 ikρ f e 2z iky dye 2z f (0) = − 4πv k Im f (0) 0 (54a) (54b) (54c) 27 Since the outgoing flux should equal the incoming flux, we can define A to be the beam area and find Av = Av + v dΩ|f (θ, φ)|2 − Im f (0). (cid...
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5) = U |ψ(cid:105) where U ≡ 2m (cid:126)2 V. (57) This looks like a basic linear algebra question. Can we solve it by inverting (∇2 + k2) to obtain (cid:126) ? (cid:126) ψ = (∇2 + k2)−1U |ψ(cid:105)? (58) To answer this, we first review some basic linear algebra. Suppose we want to solve the equation (cid:126) A(cid:12...
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operator G to be (∇2 + k2)|−1 . The calculation of G is rather subtle and the details can be found in Griffiths. However, on general principles we can make a fair amount of progress. Since (cid:126)(∇2 + k2) is diagonal in the momentum basis, then G should be as well. Thus G should be written as an integral over |p(cid:1...
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p = (cid:126)k. To handle the diverging denominator, one method is (cid:48) denotes the integral to write (cid:90) G = lim (cid:15)→0 d3p(cid:126)(−(cid:126)2p2 + k2 + i(cid:15))−1|p(cid:126) p(cid:126) (cid:105)(cid:104) |. (64) Finally we can write this in the position basis according to (62) and obtain the position-...
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(cid:105) = |ψ0(cid:105) + GU |ψ0(cid:105). (68) The second Born approximation consists of using (68) to approximate |ψ(cid:105) in the RHS of (67), which yields |ψ(cid:105) = |ψ0(cid:105) + GU (|ψ0(cid:105) + GU |ψ0(cid:105)) = |ψ0(cid:105) + GU |ψ0(cid:105) + GU GU |ψ0(cid:105). Of course we could also rewrite (67) a...
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8)| U ((cid:126)r(cid:48)) (70a) (70b) If we assume that the potential is short range and we evaluate this quantity for r far outside the range of U , then we will have r (cid:29) r(cid:48) for all the points where the integral has a nonzero contribution. In this case |(cid:126)r − (cid:126)r(cid:48)| ≈ r − rˆ · (cid:1...
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2b) (72c) The quantity in parentheses is then f (θ, φ). If we define V ((cid:126)q) to be the Fourier transform of V ((cid:126)r) then we obtain m ˜ (cid:126) V (k (cid:126) 2π 2 where f1 refers to the first Born approximation. One very simple example is when V ((cid:126)r) = V0δ((cid:126)r). Then we simply have f1 = − m...
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θ) = 2meQ (cid:126)2q2 = meQ 2(cid:126)2k2 sin2(θ/2) . A good exercise is to rederive the Born approximation by using Fermi’s Golden Rule and counting the number of outgoing states in the vicinity of a given k. See section 7.11 of Sakurai for details. Another version is in Merzbacher, section 20.1. (cid:126) 30 Rigoro...
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) = ∞ (cid:88) l=0 Rl(r)Pl(cos θ). If we define ul(r) = rRl(r), then the eigenvalue equation becomes (for each l) − u(cid:48)(cid:48) l + Vefful = k2ul where Veff ≡ 2mV (cid:126)2 + l(l + 1) r2 . (76) (77) If (75) holds, then for sufficiently large r, we can approximate Veff ≈ l(l + 1)/r2. In this region the solutions to (77...
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starts with the orthogonality condition 2 δmn. (The δmn is the important term here; 2 2n+1 2n+1 Gram-Schmidt procedure to 1, x, x2, . . . , we obtain the Legendre polynomials P0 = 1, P1 = 1, Thus any degree-n polynomial can be written as a linear combination of P0, . . . , Pn and vice-versa. 1 P− m(x)Pn(x)dx = 1 is a s...
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of the first and second kind: h = j l + inl and (1) l h = j l − inl (2) l (1) l For large r, h (kr) precisely, Rl(r) (i.e. Putting this together we get → − l+1 eikr i) kr ( , and so our scattered wave should be proportional to h . More the angular-momentum-l component) should be proportional to h (kr). ψ(r, θ) when V 0 ...
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θ)) (cid:12) (cid:12) . Recall that the Legendre polynomials satify the orthogonality relation Thus we can calculate (cid:90) 1 − 1 dzPl(z)Pl(cid:48)(z) = δl,l(cid:48) 2 2l + 1 . (cid:90) σ = dΩ dσ dΩ (cid:88) = 4π (2l + 1)|a |2 l . l (85) (86) (87) (88) (89) While the differential cross section involves interference be...
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�) l≥ 0     l(kr)  j (cid:123)(cid:122) (cid:125) (cid:124) wa plane ve (1)  + ikalh (kr)  l (cid:123)(cid:122) (cid:125) scattered (cid:124) = 1 2 (cid:88) l≥0 (1) il(2l + 1)Pl(cos θ)  )(1 + 2ika + (kr h  l (cid:124) (cid:125) (cid:123)(cid:122) outgoing l) (2) (kr h ) l (cid:123)(cid:122) (cid:125) (cid:124)...
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= 1 k (cid:88) (2l + 1)Pl(cos θ)eiδl sin(δl) σ = 4π k2 l (cid:88) l (2l + 1) sin2(δl). (94) (95) (96) (97) As an application we can verify that this satisfies the optical theorem. Observe that Pl(1) = 1 for all l. Thus Im f (0) = (2l + 1)P (1) sin2 l (δl) = σ. (98) 4π k 4π 1 k k (cid:88) l Another easy application is pa...
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can compute the phase shift by matching for r = b Here is a simple example. Consider a hard sphere of radius b. Then Rl(r) = 0 for r ≤ b and we R(cid:48)(r) l Rl(r) ± (cid:15). have jl(kb) − tan(δl)nl(kb) = 0 =⇒ δl = tan−1 (cid:18) (cid:19) . j l(kb ) nl(kb) (101) One particularly simple case is when l = 0. Then δ0 = t...
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(assuming kb (cid:28) 1). Even if kb > 1 this drops exponentially once l (cid:29) kb, which confirms our intuition that the angular momentum should be on the order of (cid:126)kb. Another way to think about this reason to favor low values of l is because the l(l + 1)/r2 term in Veff forms an angular momentum “barrier” th...
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, look up “Arago spot” on wikipedia. 4π Phase shifts. As we have seen, scattering can be understood in terms of phase shifts. Now we describe a simple physical way of seeing this. If V = 0 then a plane wave has u0(r) = sin(kr), due to the u0(0) = 0 boundary condition. When there is scattering, the phase shift δ0 will b...
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7) Rearranging we have tan(δ0) = −ka, and in the ka (cid:28) 1 limit this yields σ 0 = 4π k2 2 2 sin (δ0) ≈ 4πa , which is again the hard sphere result. Similar results hold for larger value of l. Thus the scattering length can be thought of as an effective size of a scattering target. 36 MIT OpenCourseWare http://ocw....
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18.725 Algebraic Geometry I Lecture 9 Lecture 9: Chow’s Lemma, Blowups Last time we showed that projective varieties are complete. The following result from Wei-Liang Chow gives a partial converse. Recall that a birational morphism between two varieties is an isomorphism on some pair of open subsets. Lemma 1 (Chow’s Le...
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π−1 2 (Vi) = f −1(Ui), since Ui cover X. Consider W = f −1(U ) = φ(U ) as an open subset in f −1(Ui): on W we have f = pig, so the same holds on f −1(Ui) and the covering property follows. ˜ i ˜ It remains to show that X ∩ Vi → Ui are closed embeddings. Noting that Vi = Y1 × . . . ˜ ˜ ˜ × Yi−1 × Ui × i −→ Ui (cid:44)→ ...
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Remark 1. Blx(X) contains X \ x as an open set, so this generalizes to any variety X. Proposition 1. Suppose X embeds via two embeddings i1, i exists some x such that i1(x) = i2(x) = 0, then X1 = X2 for two blowups at x. ˜ ˜ 2 to A and Am respectively, such that there n In particular, this tells us that blowup is an in...
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induction on m (or really, just the exactly same argument applied several times). Now consider the general case of arbitrary i1, i2. First extend the embedding i2 : X → Am to a map An → Am by lifting each generator (one can switch to the algebraic side, suppose X = Spec A, then we get two surjective maps ψ1 : k[x1, . ....
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18.175: Lecture 4 Integration Scott Sheffield MIT 18.175 Lecture 4 1 Outline Integration Expectation 18.175 Lecture 4 2 Outline Integration Expectation 18.175 Lecture 4 3 Recall definitions � Probability space is triple (Ω, F, P) where Ω is sample space, F is set of events (the σ-algebra) and P : F → [0,...
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c v < 1 0 ) { p r i n t f ( ”%d\n” , ++l c v ; l c v ) ; } } Eunsuk Kang and Jean Yang The Adventures of Malloc and New C/C++ empowerment What is C? The C memory machine Logistics Goodbye When can we call what? Each function needs to be declared (but not necessarily defined) before we call it. /∗ D e c l a...
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defined somewhere.” • Function definitions typically go in .c files. • Angle brackets indicate library header files; quotes indicate local header files. #i n c l u d e < s t d i o . h> /∗ L i b r a r y #i n c l u d e ” m y l i b . h” /∗ L o c a l f i l e . ∗/ f i l e . ∗/ • The compiler’s -I flag indicates where to ...
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15. Basic Properties of Rings We first prove some standard results about rings. Lemma 15.1. Let R be a ring and let a and b be elements of R. Then (1) a0 = 0a = 0. (2) a(−b) = (−a)b = −(ab). Proof. Let x = a0. We have x = a0 = a(0 + 0) = a0 + a0 = x + x. Adding −x to both sides, we get x = 0, which is (1). ...
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+ a + b + b. 1 MIT OCW: 18.703 Modern AlgebraProf. James McKernan Cancelling an a on the left and a b on the right, we get b + a = a + b, which is what we want. Note the following identity. D Lemma 15.3. Let R be a ring and let a and b be any two elements of R. Then (a + b)2 = a 2 + ab + ba + b2 . Proof. Eas...
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if R − {0} is a group under multiplication. If in addition R is commu­ tative, we say that R is a field. Note that a ring is a division ring iff every non-zero element has a multiplicative inverse. Similarly for commutative rings and fields. Example 15.7. The following tower of subsets Q ⊂ R ⊂ C is in fact a tower of...
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is a zero-divisor if there is an element b ∈ R, b = 0, such that, either, ab = 0 or ba = 0. If a has a multiplicative inverse in R then a is not a zero divisor. Proof. Suppose that ba = 0 and that c is the multiplicative inverse of a. We compute bac, in two different ways. On the other hand bac = (ba)c = 0c = ...
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2 are disjoint, both non-empty and that their union is the whole of X). Define f : X −→ R, by and g : X −→ R, by f (x) = 0 x ∈ X1 1 x ∈ X2, g(x) = 1 x ∈ X1 0 x ∈ X2. Then f g = 0, but neither f not g is zero. Thus f is a zero-divisor. Now let R be any ring, and suppose that n > 1. I claim that Mn(R) is not a dom...
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MEASURE AND INTEGRATION: LECTURE 15 Lp spaces. Let 0 < p < ∞ and let f : X function. We define the Lp norm to be → C be a measurable �f �p = and the space Lp to be �� X �1/p |f |p dµ , Lp(µ) = {f : X → C f is measurable and �f �p | < ∞}. Observe that �f �p = 0 if and only if f = 0 a.e. Thus, if we make the...
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