Cours

1: The hydrogen atom   (3h)

  1. -  6/9, 9h00-12h00

  2. -salle P.524   

  3. -Introduction - The nuclear atom

  4. -The hydrogen spectrum

  5. -The Bohr model

  6. -Quantum mechanics, the two-particle hamiltonian

  7. -The radial part of the wave function

  8. -The angular function

  9. •  For a more complete solution to the hydrogen atom Schrödinger equation, download the following document: hydrogenQM.pdf


   
lecture notes 1Cours_files/LN_1.pdf
  
 

2: Interactions / Spectroscopy I   (2h)  

   -   7/9, 10h00-12h00

  1. -salle P.524  

  2. -Transitions ; Fermi golden rule

  3. -Interaction Hamiltonian

  4. -σ- and  π-transitions

  5. -Parity

  6. -Selection rules , electric dipole transitions


   
lecture notes 2Cours_files/LN_2.pdf
 

3: Fine structure in hydrogen, relativistic effects   (3h)  

   -   13/9, 9h00-12h00

  1. -salle P.524  

  2. -Electron spin ; relativistic effects

  3. -Perturbative treatment

  4. -Spin-orbit interaction

  5. -Fine structure

  6. -Energy levels in hydrogen and spectroscopy


   
lecture notes 3Cours_files/LN_3.pdf

   

 

4: Atoms with two electrons   (3h)  

   -   20/9, 9h00-12h00

  1. -salle P.524  

  2. -The Schrödinger equation for a 3-body system

  3. -Atomic units

  4. -Symmetry

  5. -Spin wave functions

  6. -The ground state of He

  7. -Excited states of He

  8. -Transitions in He


   
lecture notes 4Cours_files/LectureNotes_4.pdf

   

 

5: Towards heavier atoms   (2h)  

   -   22/9, 10h00-12h00

  1. -salle P.524  

  2. -The central field approximation

  3. -Perturbative treatment

  4. -Electron configurations, Orbitals

  5. -The periodic system


   
lecture notes 5Cours_files/LN_5.pdf

   

 

6: LS-coupling and jj-coupling   (3h)  

   -   28/9, 10h00-12h00   et   5/10, 10h00-12h00

  1. -salle P.524  

  2. -Spin-orbit interaction in multi-electron atoms

  3. -Ordering of the Hamiltonians

  4. -LS-coupling

  5. -Fine structure in LS-coupling

  6. -jj-coupling

  7. -Comparison between coupling schemes

  8. • For a more details about how to find LS-coupling terms, and some other things, download the following document: lscoupling.pdf

   
lecture notes 6Cours_files/LectureNotes_6.pdf
 

7: Nuclear effects   (1h)  

   -   5/10, 10h00-12h00

  1. -salle P.524  

  2. -Isotope shift

  3. -Hyperfine atructure


   
lecture notes 7Cours_files/LectureNotes_7.pdf

 

8: Interactions with radiation / Spectroscopy II   (3h)  

   -   11/10, 9h00-12h00

  1. -salle P.524  

  2. -Selection rules in LS-coupling

  3. -Analysis of spectra : example

  4. -x-rays

  5. -Atomic spectroscopy

  6. -Spectral broadening


  
lecture notes 8Cours_files/LN_8.pdf

   

 

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