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3.00 Credits
Prerequisites: PHYS 254; PHYS 450 or consent of instructor. (Undergraduates enroll in PHYS 445; graduates enroll in PHYS 545.) Modern physical measurement techniques including scanning probe microscopy and pulsed nuclear magnetic resonance. Noise and fluctuations in physical measurements. Low noise measurement techniques including lock-in amplifier, gated integrator and boxcar averager, bridge circuits, convolution, auto-and cross-correlation and FFT. Letter grade only (A-F). (Lecture 2 hrs., laboratory 3 hrs.)
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Prerequisites: PHYS 254; PHYS 450 or consent of instructor. (Undergraduates enroll in PHYS 446; graduates enroll in PHYS 546.) Modern physical measurement techniques in condensed matter physics in high magnetic fields and low temperatures. Examples are temperature and magnetic field effects in magnetic materials, Meissner effect and superconducting transition temperature in superconductors, and mobility and Hall effect in semiconductors. Letter grade only (A-F). (Lecture 2 hrs., laboratory 3 hrs.)
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3.00 Credits
Prerequisites: PHYS 310, 340A, 350. Schroedinger equation, atomic physics, harmonic oscillator, scattering, perturbation theory, Heisenberg and Dirac representations, spin, symmetries (angular momentum, time reversal, and parity), applications. (Lec-discussion 3 hrs.)
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Prerequisite: PHYS 450. Measurement processes, atomic physics, identical particles, quantum statistics, numerical methods, many-body systems, density matrix, applications. Letter grade only (A-F). (Lecture-discussion 3 hrs.)
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3.00 Credits
Prerequisite: PHYS 310 and PHYS 450. (Undergraduates enroll in PHYS 462, graduate students enroll in PHYS 562). Symbolic (e.g. Maple/Mathematica) and numerical (e.g. Fortran 95/C++) programming, and their applications: e.g. classical mechanical Hamilton equations, quantum mechanical bound and scattering-state problems, Schrodinger equation, Lippmann-Schwinger equation, Dirac equation. Letter grade only (A-F). (Lecture 3 hrs)
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Prerequisite: PHYS 450. (Undergraduates enroll in PHYS 470; graduates enroll in PHYS 569.) Study of properties of solids from quantum theoretical viewpoint. Includes lattice vibratons, elastic constants, and thermal, electric, and magnetic properties. Letter grade only (A-F). (Lecture 3 hrs.)
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3.00 Credits
Prerequisite: PHYS 340A. (Undergraduates enroll in PHYS 475; graduates enroll in PHYS 575.) Propagation of electromagnetic waves, optical resonators, laser spectroscopy and operation, optical phase conjugation, nonlinear optics and selected application. Letter grade only (A-F). (Lecture 3 hrs.)
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3.00 Credits
Prerequisite: PHYS 340A. (Undergraduates enroll in PHYS 476; graduates enroll in PHYS 576.) Propagation of electromagnetic waves, optical resonators, laser spectroscopy and operation, optical phase conjugation, nonlinear optics and selected application. Experiments illustrating principles and techniques of electro-optics and laser physics. Applications include optical methods in communications, atomic spectroscopy, and nonlinear optics. Letter grade only (A-F). (Lecture 2 hrs., laboratory 3 hrs.)
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3.00 Credits
Prerequisite: PHYS 380 or consent of instructor. (Undergraduates enroll in PHYS 480; graduates enroll in PHYS 580.) Modern data acquisition and analysis methods using computer-based equipment and high level software. Physics experiments performed with standard personal computers, research-quality data acquisition hardware, and programmable instruments. Computer use as tool in execution and interpretation of experiments. Letter grade only (A-F). (Lecture 2 hrs., laboratory 3 hrs.)
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3.00 Credits
Prerequisite: Consent of instructor. (Undergraduates enroll in PHYS 490; graduates enroll in PHYS 590.) Physics topics selected from such areas as atomic and nuclear physics, astrophysics, physics of materials, low temperature physics, acoustics, and theoretical physics. May be repeated to a maximum of 6 units. (Lecture 3 hrs.)
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