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FKA132 - Quantum Engineering
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| Syllabus adopted 2013-02-20 by Head of Programme (or corresponding) |
| Owner: MPNAT |
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7,5 Credits |
| Grading: TH - Five, Four, Three, Not passed |
| Education cycle: Second-cycle |
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Major subject: Engineering Physics |
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Department: 59 - MICROTECHNOLOGY AND NANOSCIENCE
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Teaching language: English
Open for exchange students
Block schedule:
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Examination |
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Grading: TH |
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22 Oct 2013 pm V, |
14 Jan 2014 pm M, |
Contact examiner |
In programs
MPNAT NANOTECHNOLOGY, MSC PROGR, Year 1 (compulsory)
Examiner:
Bitr professor
Elsebeth Schröder
Replaces
FKA131
Fundamentals of nanoscience
Course evaluation:
http://document.chalmers.se/doc/3c36adbc-74e9-4a5b-9ee0-5ed60457bbba
Eligibility:
For single subject courses within Chalmers programmes the same eligibility requirements apply, as to the programme(s) that the course is part of.
Course specific prerequisites
Bachelor in physics, electrical engineering, chemistry, or equivalent
level of education
Aim
The objective for this course is to give a Quantum Physics course to meet the increased need of knowledge that electrical engineers, material scientists, and other applied physicists have entering the field of nanoscale physics and technology.
Learning outcomes (after completion of the course the student should be able to)
The goal of the course is to give students theoretical and technical skills to use quantum theory as tool in their continued studies and research. After completing the course in Quantum Engineering the student will have: acquired familiarity with basic tools of quantum mechanics, practical skills in solving standard quantum mechanical problems, understood and applied concepts of quantum tunneling, understood and used second
quantization for the harmonic oscillator, numerical skills in treating scattering off and transmission through barriers
Content
The objective for this course is to give a Quantum Physics course that
meets the increased need of knowledge that scientists have entering the field of nanoscale physics and technology. The level of the course is set to give students theoretical and technical skills to use quantum theory as tool in their continued studies and research. This means that the emphasis is on a practical approach to quantum mechanics rather that than a standard formal treatment.
Topics covered include:
- Quantum wave guides, resonators, and gratings
- Simple tight-binding approximation for molecules and materials
- Basic theory quantum transport
- Harmonic oscillator and coherent states
- Time-independent and time-dependent perturbation theory
- Interaction with time-dependent fields.
- Electrons in magnetic field, Aharonov-Bohm and Quantum Hall effects
- The density matrix, quantum statistics, Fermions and Bosons
Organisation
The various topics will be covered through regular lectures, exercises, as well as through individual projects with literature studies, computer work, and written project presentations.
Literature
The course follows the book "Applied Quantum Mechanics" by A. F. J. Levi,
Cambridge University Press ISBN: 978-0-521-86096-3, complemented by a few special lectures. The book "Introduction to Nanoscience" by S. M. Lindsay, Oxford University Press ISBN: 978-019-954421-9 gives a nice overview of the crossdisciplinary field of nanoscience and can be read on the side.
Computer assigments will be done in the programming environment Matlab.
Examination
Written exam and a pass for a written project report