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The course covers fundamental topics in chemical physics at low temperatures essential to all those who will pursue research career in molecular and chemical physics. A special emphasis will be made on modern areas of research in molecular physics, such a ultra-cold molecules, processes in degenerate quantum gases (two-body and three-body collisions), in laboratory and interstellar plasma.

- Molecular Hamiltonian, Born-Oppenheimer approximation, molecular electronic states, Hartree-Fock method, diatomic interactions at large distances.

- Introduction into scattering theory, simple reactions: elastic and inelastic scattering, scattering at low energies, threshold behavior, Landau-Zener model.

- Bound states, resonances and scattering in ultra-cold gases, two-body and three-body states near the dissociation, experiments with ultra-cold molecules, formation of ultra-cold molecules

- Electron-molecular ion collisions in interstellar space and cold laboratory plasma, elements of quantum defect theory, review of applications.

There will be a final written exam. It is comprehensive and will include about 6 problems.
Exam time (preliminary time): Wednesday February 1, 2017 from 10:00 to 12:45.

Recommended textbooks:
H. Friedrich, Theoretical Atomic Physics, 3th edition (Springer).
P.R. Bunker and P. Jensen Molecular Symmetry and Spectroscopy NRC Press (Canada); 2nd
revised edition edition
C. J. Foot, Atomic Physics, 3th edition (Oxford University Press).
I also recommend that you have, at least, one textbook on Quantum Mechanics, for example,
one of these
(1) L.D. Landau and E.M. Lifshitz Quantum Mechanics: Non-Relativistic Theory, Volume 3.
(2) J.J. Sakurai, Modern Quantum Mechanics;
(3) A.S. Davydov, Quantum Mechanics.
Research articles, which will be provided in class

Quantum Mechanics at an undergraduate level.