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Possible Topics for the Final Project Taken with slight modification from https://ocw.mit.edu/courses/physics/8-06-quantum-physics-iii-spring-2016/index.htm 1. Coherent/squeezed/Gaussian states. 2. The allotropic forms (ortho/para) of hydrogen. 3. Nuclear Magnetic Resonance. DEVIN 4. Magnetic monopoles, gauge invariance, and the Dirac quantization condition for the magnetic charge of a magnetic monopole. 5. Scattering off a magnetic flux tube. 6. Bell’s theorem and its variants (applications such as the Tsirelson bound and the question of loopholes) 7. Neutrino oscillations in vacuum. KYLE 8. Oscillation phenomena involving kaons and/or B mesons. 9. The solar neutrino problem. MARTIN 10. Levinson’s theorem — how the scattering phase shift is related to the number of bound states in a potential. 11. The shell model of nuclear structure. 12. Application of random matrix theory to nuclear physics. LINNEA 13. The properties of the deuteron. TAKAHIRO 14. The α-decay of 238U. 15. The rotational and vibrational spectrum of diatomic molecules. 16. Dynamical SU(n) symmetry of the harmonic oscillator in n dimensions. 17. Supersymmetric quantum mechanics. 18. The Zeeman effect in weak, intermediate and strong magnetic fields. 19. The Lamb shift in hydrogen — evidence that relativistic quantum mechanics must be replaced by quantum field theory. 20. The non-relativistic quark model of the proton, neutron and related particles. 21. Isospin — a quantum symmetry of elementary particles. 22. The 21 cm line of hydrogen and its role in astrophysics. HOLLY 23. The Casimir effect. JONATHAN 24. Feynman’s path integral approach to quantum mechanics, and its application to a problem of your choice, which we have previously analyzed using other methods. 25. The van der Waals force between hydrogen atoms in excited states. 26. Quantum computing. This is too broad a topic, but you might discuss a proposal for building quantum computers, some particular algorithm, or some other topic such as quantum error correction. HUY 27. Quantum cryptography. ERIN 28. Bose-Einstein condensation. 29. Integer and/or Fractional Quantum Hall Effect. 30. Photonic Crystals. 31. Quantum Dots. NELSON 32. Crystallographic defects, e.g. NV centers in diamond. 33. The deHaas van Alphen effect as a tool for measuring the shapes of Fermi surfaces in metals. 34. Periodic potentials and band structure in 3-d. 35. Graphene and pseudo-spin. JAMES 36. Some topic within quantum statistical mechanics. Possibilities include the quantum Ising model, quantum Monte Carlo, quantum phase transitions, von Neumann entropy or the spectrum of black body radiation. TRISTAN 37. Decoherence in some physical system. Possible Topics for the Final Project Taken with slight modification from https://ocw.mit.edu/courses/physics/8-06-quantum-physics-iii-spring-2016/index.htm 38. Optical pumping, masers, lasers. 39. Masers in astrophysics. RILEY 40. Interesting applications of the semiclassical approximation. 41. The Ramsauer-Townsend effect. 42. The Josephson effect. 43. The Wigner-Eckart theorem. 44. Fractional statistics in two dimensions. 45. Wigner functions and applications. 47. The microscopic origin and effects of quantum dissipation, for example on tunneling. 48. Index theorems, zero modes, and fractionalization. 49. The Dirac equation and its application to hydrogen. JARON 50. Spintronics. MIKE