My crib sheet. (Please bring your Clebsch-Gordon tables as well)
First, some constants:
Time ind. Schrod. eqn is Time dep. Schrodinger equation is
, so time depend. of e-states is
The expansion theorem says that if
, then
, and
is the probability of finding state
in the particular eigenstate
.
The harmonic oscillator raising and lowering operators are
. (Recall,
)
Pauli spin matrices:
, (All have the same eigenvalues,
)
The eigenvectors of
are
. The eigenvectors of
are ![]()
Notation for eigenfunctions of angular momentum: ![]()
The Hamiltonian for a particle in a magnetic field B is
,
where the magnetic moment due to intrinsic spin is given by ![]()
First order non-degenerate TIPT says the shift in energy of a state
due to the addition of a perturbation
is given by
.
The variational theorem says
, for any state
you choose.
Time-Dep't PT: If H'(t) is added, starting at t=0, to a system initially in state N, the prob of making a transition to state m after time t is given by the absolute square of
.
The spontaneous rate of single photon decay is ![]()
The lifetime of a state m due to spontaneous decays is ![]()