5.74 | Spring 2009 | Graduate

Introductory Quantum Mechanics II

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Interaction of Light and Matter

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Lecture notes on the interaction of light with matter, electrodynamics, the classical Hamiltonian for a radiation field interacting with a charged particle, the quantum mechanical electric dipole Hamiltonian, transition dipole matrix elements, and how relaxation leads to line-broadening.

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Interaction of Light and Matter

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