AIPLAB — Adaptive & Integrated Photonics Lab

Education - PHOT 301 Quantum Photonics (Summercourse)

Summercourse: PHOT 301 Quantum Photonics

Summercourse given during the summer of 2024-2025 over 6 weeks, please see also the syllabus. The course materials will be added during the semester.

Study materials and guidance

Lecture materials

Lecture Topics Slides Book
1 Introduction to the course (pdf) Griffith's Ch. 1
1 Schrödinger's equation (pdf) (html) Griffith's Ch. 1
2 Time-independent Schrödinger equation, Infinite well (pdf) (html) Griffith's Ch. 2
3 Harmonic oscillator: Analytic method and Ladder Operators (pdf) (html) Griffith's Ch. 2
4 Free particles, delta-function potentials, finite well, bound states and scattering (pdf) (html) Griffith's Ch. 2
5 Dirac formalism (pdf) (html) Griffith's Ch. 3
6 Approximation Methods (pdf) (html) Griffith's Ch. 2 and 7
7 3D Schrodinger equation, Hydrogen atom intro (pdf) Griffith's Ch. 4
8 Ladder operators for Angular Momentum (pdf) (html) Griffith's Ch. 4
9 Spin, Magnetic Fields, Minimum Coupling and the Pauli Equation (pdf) (html) Griffith's Ch. 4
10 Time-dependent Perturbation Theory (pdf) (html) Griffith's Ch. 4 and 7

Additional Exercises

Year Topic Questions Solutions
2024-2025 Exercises on matrices (pdf)
2024-2025 Exercises on solving polynomial and trancendental equations (pdf)
2024-2025 Exercises on solving systems of equations (pdf)
2024-2025 Exercises on eigenvalue problems (pdf)
2024-2025 Exercises on integration (pdf)
2024-2025 Exercises on the Dirac bra-ket notation (pdf)

Suggested Griffiths exercises with answer keys

The answer keys are limited to the end-results, and are meant to enable verifying whether you performed the exercises in a correct manner. For problems where it is required to prove a theorem, some extra hints may be given.
Year Topics Chapter Answer keys
2024-2025 Wave functions, Probability, Expection values, and Time dependency 1 and 2 (pdf)
2024-2025 Time-independent potentials, Harmonic oscillator, Delta-function, Bound states and Scattering 2 (pdf)
2024-2025 Dirac notation and Hilbert space 3 (pdf)
2024-2025 Hydrogen atom, Angular momentum, Spin, and the Pauli equation 4 (pdf)
2024-2025 Identical particles, Molecular bonds, and Crystalline materials 5 [To be uploaded]

Exam questions & solutions

These are questions and solutions of example exams and/or previous midterm and final exams (and retake opportunities)
Year Exam name Questions Solutions
2024-2025 Quiz 1 (pdf) (pdf)
2024-2025 Quiz 2 (pdf) (pdf)
2024-2025 Quiz 3 (pdf) (pdf)
2024-2025 Quiz 4 [To be uploaded] [To be uploaded]
2024-2025, Summer Final exam [To be uploaded] [To be uploaded]
2024-2025, Autumn Final exam A (pdf) (pdf)
2024-2025, Autumn Final exam B (pdf) [To be uploaded]
2024-2025, Autumn Final exam C (pdf) [To be uploaded]

Further background materials

These are some further materials which could be of interest for those who want to look into more advanced topics or applications/computations/simulations.