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Physics (PHYS)
PHYS 6213 Group Theory for Physics Prerequisites: PHYS 5453. Description: Group theory and imperfections in crystals. Dislocation theory and color centers. Credit hours: 3 Contact hours: Lecture: 3 Levels: Graduate Schedule types: Lecture
PHYS 6343 Semiconductors II Prerequisites: PHYS 6243.
Description: The second part of the semiconductors sequence. Transport phenomena, junctions, devices, heterostructures, and optical properties. Credit hours: 3 Contact hours: Lecture: 3 Levels: Graduate Schedule types: Lecture
Department/School: Physics PHYS 6243 Semiconductors I Prerequisites: PHYS 5113, PHYS 5613, PHYS 5663.
Department/School: Physics PHYS 6413 Nonlinear Optics Prerequisites: PHYS 5163, PHYS 5313, and PHYS 5613.
Description: The first part of a survey of the physics of semi-conductors. Bonding and structure, crystal growth, epitaxial growth, band theory, phonons, photons, defects, intrinsic and extrinsic statistics, trapping and
Description: The response of matter at high radiation powers; nonlinear susceptibilities. Wave propagation in nonlinear medium; three wave and four wave interactions; saturated absorption, optical switching and limiting; two photon and stimulated Raman processes; Self focusing; solitons. Credit hours: 3 Contact hours: Lecture: 3 Levels: Graduate Schedule types: Lecture Department/School: Physics PHYS 6423 Quantum Optics Prerequisites: PHYS 5163, PHYS 5613 or consent of instructor. Description: Quantization of Electromagnetic Fields, coherence, quantum entanglement, parametric down conversion, two photon interferometry, Bell's inequalities, quantum teleportation and cryptography, cavity QED. Credit hours: 3 Contact hours: Lecture: 3 Levels: Graduate Schedule types: Lecture Department/School: Physics PHYS 6513 Advanced Topics in Solid State Physics Prerequisites: PHYS 5663 or equivalent. Description: Interaction of radiation and matter, neutron scattering, phase transitions, magnetic resonance and cooperative phenomena. Credit hours: 3 Contact hours: Lecture: 3 Levels: Graduate Schedule types: Lecture Department/School: Physics PHYS 6613 Advanced Nuclear and Particle Physics Prerequisites: PHYS 5263, PHYS 6313; or consent of instructor. Description: Renormalization of quantum field theories, spontaneous symmetry breaking, Standard model, flavor physics, grand unification, super-symmetry. Credit hours: 3 Contact hours: Lecture: 3 Levels: Graduate Schedule types: Lecture Department/School: Physics PHYS 6713 Advanced Electromagnetic Radiation Prerequisites: Consent of instructor. Description: Radiation theory, wave guides, scattering and dispersion relations; relativity. Credit hours: 3 Contact hours: Lecture: 3 Levels: Graduate Schedule types: Lecture Department/School: Physics
recombination. Credit hours: 3 Contact hours: Lecture: 3 Levels: Graduate Schedule types: Lecture Department/School: Physics
PHYS 6260 Special Topics in High Energy Physics Prerequisites: PHYS 5263 or consent of instructor.
Description: Advanced topics of current interest in high-energy physics: collider physics, supersymmetry, unification, flavor physics, string phenomenology, extra dimensions. Offered for variable credit, 1-3 credit hours, maximum of 9 credit hours. Credit hours: 1-3 Contact hours: Other: 1 Levels: Graduate Schedule types: Independent Study Department/School: Physics PHYS 6313 Quantum Mechanics II Prerequisites: PHYS 5613. Description: Scattering theory, many-particle quantum mechanics and application to atomic and molecular systems; degenerate and time- dependent perturbation theory. Credit hours: 3 Contact hours: Lecture: 3 Levels: Graduate Schedule types: Lecture Department/School: Physics PHYS 6323 Quantum Field Theory Prerequisites: PHYS 6313 or consent of instructor. Description: Relativistic Quantum Mechanics: Klein-Gordon field, path integral formulation of Quantum Mechanics, Feynman diagrams, Quantum Electrodynamics, relativistic scattering radiative corrections, renormalization and critical exponents, non-Abelian gauge theories, spontaneous symmetry breaking. Credit hours: 3 Contact hours: Lecture: 3 Levels: Graduate Schedule types: Lecture Department/School: Physics
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