Scribd
Upload
79 views2 pages

Final Exam, Quantum Mechanics 501, Rutgers: December 17, 2014

The document outlines a final exam for a Quantum Mechanics course, with 5 multi-part problems addressing topics like Clebsch-Gordan coefficients, angular momentum, spin, particle binding energies and spin-dependent potentials. Students are asked to solve equations, find probabilities, extract values from wavefunctions, and explain notation related to adding angular momenta and representing spin states.

Uploaded by

Anderson Vergaray Acevedo
Copyright
© © All Rights Reserved
We take content rights seriously. If you suspect this is your content, claim it here.
Available Formats
Download as PDF, TXT or read online on Scribd
79 views2 pages

Final Exam, Quantum Mechanics 501, Rutgers: December 17, 2014

The document outlines a final exam for a Quantum Mechanics course, with 5 multi-part problems addressing topics like Clebsch-Gordan coefficients, angular momentum, spin, particle binding energies and spin-dependent potentials. Students are asked to solve equations, find probabilities, extract values from wavefunctions, and explain notation related to adding angular momenta and representing spin states.

Uploaded by

Anderson Vergaray Acevedo
Copyright
© © All Rights Reserved
We take content rights seriously. If you suspect this is your content, claim it here.
Available Formats
Download as PDF, TXT or read online on Scribd
You are on page 1/ 2

Final Exam, Quantum Mechanics 501, Rutgers

December 17, 2014

1) This problem concerns Clebsch-Gordan coefficients hjm|j1 m1 , j2 m2 i.


a) What are allowed values of total j for the addition of angular momenta j1 = 3
and j2 = 1?
b) Explain why h44|33, 11i = 1 .[Notation hjm|j1 m1 , j2 m2 i]
c) Find h43|32, 11i (Hint: Use the spin lowering operator).
2) A system is in a state described by the wavefunction ψ(r) = f (r)(x + iy + z), where
f (r) is a radial wave function. If Lz is measured, what are the possible values of the
measurement, and their probabilities?
q q q
Note that Y00 = 4π 1
, Y1,±1 = ∓ 8π3
sin θe±iφ and Y10 = 4π3
cos θ.

3) Consider a system of two non-identical fermions, each with spin 1/2. One is in a state
with S1y = ~2 , while the other is in a state with S2x = − ~2 . What is the probability of
finding the system in a state with total spin quantum numbers s = 0?
4) A particle of reduced mass µ = 470 M eV /c2 is moving in a spherical potential well of
range a and depth V0 = −76.73 M eV . [V (r) = V0 for |r| < a and V (r) = 0 for |r| > a].
The particle is bound in the 1s ground state with binding energy E = −2.225 M eV .
(This is supposed to be a very simple model of the deuteron). Note: ~c = 197.327 M eV f m.
a) Solve the Schroedinger equation for both r < a and for r > a.
b) Using the boundary conditions at r = a, extract the size of the ”potential range”
a.
c) Calculate the probability that a measurement of r will find r > a, i.e. the particle
is outside the range of the potential (which is of course forbidden classically).
5) Two elementary particles of spin s1 and s2 are bound by an attractive spin-dependent
potential, as specified by the Hamiltonian
p2
H= + U (r) + V (r)S1 · S2 (1)
2µ
where r and p are relative coordinate and momentum; µ is the reduced mass; U (r)
and V (r) are two different spherically symmetric potentials; and S1 and S2 are the
spin operators for two particles. (We ignore the center-of-mass motion).

1
a) The Hamiltonian can also be written as

p2 1
H=[ + U ](c) ⊗ I (s) + V (c) ⊗ [ (S 2 − S12 − S22 )](s) (2)
2µ 2
Briefly explain the notation used above, explain why certain terms appear before
or after the ’⊗’ and show how the last terms involving spins was obtained, in
which S = S1 + S2
b) Show that a vector of the form |ψnsm i = |χns i ⊗ |sms1 s2 i is an eigenvector of H
if |χns i obeys the effective Schroedinger equation

~2 ∇2
[− + U + V Cs ] |χns i = E |χns i (3)
2µ

with Cs = (~2 /2)[s(s + 1) − s1 (s1 + 1) − s2 (s2 + 1)]. Here the state |sms1 s2 i is
bulit from states |s1 m1 , s2 m2 i according to the usual rules for addition of angular
momenta.

You might also like