8.06 :: Quantum Physics III

• Supplementary Notes on Natural Units By Prof. Jaffe

• Supplementary notes on charged particles in a magnetic field by Prof. Jaffe

• Original paper by Aharonov and Bohm which proposed what we now call the Aharonov- Bohm effect (optional reading).

• The paper by Tonomura et al which gave the most conclusive experimental evidence of the Aharonov-Bohm effect to date (optional reading).

• Supplementary material on variational method (Cohen-Tannoudji Chapter XI, Complements E)

• Supplementary notes on connection formulae for the semiclassical approximation

• Berry's paper on geometric phase in which the celebrated concept was first proposed. (Highly recommended for optional extra reading.)

• Dirac's paper on magnetic monopoles and Cabrera 's paper on his single event of a passing magnetic monopole (which was never reproduced) . These papers lie outside the requirement of the course.

• The article by Wick Haxton on the Solar Neutrino Problem is
  optional extra reading.

• The paper by Bitter et al on experimental verification of
  Berry's phase is optional extra reading.

• Ohanian Chapter 11 on scattering theory is required reading.

• Prof. Jaffe's notes on scattering is required reading.

• The paper by P. Shor on prime factorization using a quantum computer. (optional reading)

• The paper by L. Grover on quantum mechanical algorithm for database search. (optional reading)