| Date | Lectures | Assignments | Notes | ||
| 01/06 | Motion in central potentials. Two-body problem. (notes) | ||||
| 01/08 | Orbital angular momentum. (notes) | HW 1 (solutions) | |||
| 01/10 | Ladder operators. (notes) | WS 1 | |||
| 01/13 | Rotation of diatomic molecules.(notes) | HW 2 (solutions) | WS 2 | PRL2004 for HW2 | |
| 01/15 | Hydrogen atom.(notes) | HW 3 (solutions) | WS 3 | ||
| 01/17 | Hydrogen atom. Hydrogen-like atoms and ions.(notes) | HW 4 (solutions) | WS 4 | ||
| 01/20 | Martin Luther King day | ||||
| 01/22 | Hydrogen-like atoms and ions.(notes) | ||||
| 01/24 | Other examples of particles in spherically-symmetric potentials. (notes) | ||||
| 01/27 | Angular momentum and rotations. (notes) | WS 5 | |||
| 01/29 | Rotations in the state space. (notes) | HW 5(solutions) | WS 6 | ||
| 01/31 | Spin. Rotations in the spin space. (notes) | WS 7 | |||
| 02/03 | Rotations in the spin space (ctd). Tensor products. (notes) | WS 8 | 4 Pi Rotations(PRL 1975) | ||
| 02/05 | Representations of the rotation operator. (notes) | WS 9 | |||
| 02/07 | Spherical harmonics as rotation matrices. (notes) | HW 6(solutions) | WS 10 | ||
| 02/10 | Addition of angular momenta.(notes) | ||||
| 02/12 | Midterm | ||||
| 02/14 | Examples of addition of angular momenta. (notes) | ||||
| 02/17 | Addition of angular momenta: general formalism.(notes) | Example of addition of angular momenta: singlet fission(Annu Rev Phys Chem 2019) | |||
| 02/19 | Addition of angular momenta: general formalism (ctd). Spectroscopic notations. (notes) | WS 11 | |||
| 02/21 | Addition of more than 2 angular momenta. Rotation matrices for coupling two angular momenta. (notes) | HW 7(solutions) | WS 12 | How to make electron to be a spin-3/2 particle !(PRL 2020) | |