The different perspectives of the instructors make the problem sets in the two courses rather different. Congratulations to Professor Howard Wiseman who has been awarded the Walter Boas Medal by the Australian Institute of Physics for elucidating fundamental limits arising from quantum theory, in particular in its applications to metrology and laser science, and via its implications for the foundations of reality. While both courses overlap over a sizable amount of standard material, Adams discussed applications to condensed matter physics, while Zwiebach focused on scattering and resonances. Adams begins with the subtleties of superpostion, while Zwiebach discusses the surprises of interaction-free measurements. Adams covers a larger set of ideas Zwiebach tends to go deeper into a smaller set of ideas, offering a systematic and detailed treatment. This presentation of 8.04 by Barton Zwiebach (2016) differs somewhat and complements nicely the presentation of Allan Adams (2013). The lectures and lecture notes for this course form the basis of Zwiebach’s textbook Mastering Quantum Mechanics published by MIT Press in April 2022. It covers the experimental basis of quantum physics, introduces wave mechanics, Schrödinger’s equation in a single dimension, and Schrödinger’s equation in three dimensions. It introduces the basic features of quantum mechanics. This is the first course in the undergraduate Quantum Physics sequence.
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