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This course will introduce students to a variety of quantum mechanical concepts and tools, primarily through their illustration via the Stern-Gerlach experiment. The quantum mechanical postulates of state space, operators, eigenvalues, probability, state reduction, and time evolution will be presented and demonstrated for the spin 1/2 experiments.
The tools of bra and ket Dirac notation and matrix mechanics will also be introduced through this simple 2 state system. Larmor precession, Rabi oscillations, and other two-level systems will also be presented.
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