Course Description

Chemistry 542, the second course in the 540-542 sequence, is a graduate level course covering a number of topics in advanced physical chemistry: Density matrices, time dependent quantum mechanics, classical electrodynamics, the Bloch equations , multipole expansion, second quantization, linear/nonlinear spectroscopies, laserlight, correlation functions.

The selection of topics varies depending on what was already covered in Chem 540.