CSIR NET 2020 Syllabus
- Wave-particle duality.
- Schrödinger equation (time-dependent and time-independent).
- Eigenvalue problems (particle in a box, harmonic oscillator, etc.).
- Tunnelling through a barrier.
- Wave-function in coordinate and momentum representations.
- Commutators and Heisenberg uncertainty principle.
- Dirac notation for state vectors.
- Motion in a central potential: orbital angular momentum, angular momentum algebra, spin, the addition of angular momenta;
- Hydrogen atom. Stern-Gerlach experiment.
- Time independent perturbation theory and applications.
- Variational method.
- Time-dependent perturbation theory and Fermi's golden rule, selection rules. Identical particles,
- Pauli exclusion principle, spin-statistics connection
Gate 2020 Syllabus
- Postulates of quantum mechanics
- Uncertainty principle
- Schrodinger equation; one-, two- and threedimensional potential problems
- Particle in a box, transmission through one-dimensional potential barriers,
- Harmonic oscillator, the hydrogen atom
- Linear vectors and operators in Hilbert space
- Angular momentum and spin
- Addition of angular momenta
- Time-independent perturbation theory
- Elementary scattering theory