SUBJECT
Title
Second Quantized Formalism
Type of instruction
lecture
Level
Master
Faculty
Part of degree program
Credits
2
Recommended in
Semester 2/4
Typically offered in
Spring semester
Course description
Modern many-electron theory: vacuum state, creation and annihilation of electrons, algebraic formulation of Pauli Principle. Particle number operators. Evaluation of matrix elements. Density matrices. Applications: perturbation theory of electron correlation, intermolecular interactions. The theory of the chemical bond.
Readings
Compulsory:
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lecture notes
Suggested:
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L. D. Landau, L. M. Lifshitz, Quantum Mechanics: Non-relativistic Theory, Butterworth-Heinemann, 1981,
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L.I. Schiff, Quantum Mechanics, Mcgraw-Hill College, 1968
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or any other standard textbook in English P. R. Surján: Second Quantized Approach to Quantum Chemistry, Springer, Heidelberg, 1989