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Quantum mechanics is probably my favorite subject. The approach in this course will be more formal and algebraic than what is typically done in introductory undergraduate quantum mechanics courses in chemistry. However, the examples we look at will be far more chemical in nature that what one would find in a physics course. Over the years teaching this course, I have developed several illustrative and interactive computational modules that form the bulk of the problems sets (in addition to more traditional pen-and-paper problems). As I clean them up, I will make them available in the sidebar on the right.
The animation above is the probability density of an anharmonically coupled two-dimensional oscillator under the influence of an electric field whose frequency increases as a function of time (positively chirped). This result combines most of the concepts from the course in one capstone problem set. Note that the wavepacket appears to rotateāa clear sign of vibrational angular momentum!
Chem 571: Quantum Chemistry
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