| Date | Lectures | Assignments | Notes | ||||
| 03/30 | Review of hydrogenic atoms | HW 1 | WS 1 | ||||
| 04/01 | Interaction of an atom with EM wave. | ||||||
| 04/03 | Absorption and emission. | HW 2 | WS 2 | ||||
| 04/06 | Spontaneous emission. The electric dipole approximation. | WS 3 | |||||
| 04/08 | Selection rules. | WS 4 | Orbital angular momentum of photon | Spin of a single photon | |||
| 04/10 | Line shapes and widths. | HW 3 | WS 5 | ||||
| 04/13 | The photoelectric effect. | WS 6 | |||||
| 04/15 | Scattering of radiation by atomic systems. | HW 4 | WS 7 | ||||
| 04/17 | The Einstein coefficients. Fine structure of hydrogenic atoms. | WS 8 | |||||
| 04/20 | Fine structure splitting. Lamb shift. | HW 5 | WS 9 | Lamb & Retherford experiment | Modern spectroscopy-1 | Modern spectroscopy-2 | |
| 04/22 | Hyperfine splitting. Isotope shifts. | WS 10 | Hydrogen & Deuterium: hyperfine | Modern research on hyperfine interactions | |||
| 04/24 | One-electron atom in external electric field. | HW 6 | WS 11 | 1st observation of 21-cm line | 2nd observation of 21-cm line | ||
| 04/27 | One-electron atom in static magnetic field: Zeeman effect. | Midterm is set for Friday, May 8. Ch. 4-7. | |||||
| 04/29 | Two-electron atoms. | HW 7 | WS 12 | ||||
| 05/01 | Helium atom. | HW 7 is postponed and is due Wednesday, May 6. | WS 13 | 1st observation of doubly-excited states of He | |||
| 05/04 | Many-electron atoms. The central field approximation. | WS 14 | |||||
| 05/06 | The periodic table. | WS 15 | 05/08 | Midterm (10 am, Weniger 304) | |||
| 05/11 | Thomas-Fermi model. | HW 8 | |||||
| 05/13 | Hartree-Fock method. | HW#8 is postponed until Monday, May 18 | |||||
| 05/15 | L-S and j-j coupling. | HW 9 | WS 16 | ||||
| 05/18 | Interaction of many-electron atom with EM field. | WS 17 | |||||
| 05/20 | Molecular structure. | HW 10 | WS 18 | ||||
| 05/22 | Molecular structure:symmetries. | WS 19 | Ground state of hydrogen molecule | ||||
| 05/25 | No class: Memorial Day. | ||||||
| 05/27 | Molecular rotations and vibrations. | WS 20 | Reminder: papers are due next Wednesday | ||||
| 05/29 | Molecular spectroscopy: electronic transitions. Intro to lasers. | Spectroscopy in surface science | Detection of molecules in stellar atmosphere | Raman spectroscopy of carbon nanotubes | Surface-enhanced Raman spectroscopy | ||
| 06/01 | Two- vs four-level system. | WS 21 | |||||
| 06/03 | Cavity modes. Typical lasers. | HW 11 | |||||
| 06/05 | Pulsed lasers. | ||||||