Courses
PHY 800: Research Methods
- Semester
- Fall of every year, Spring of every year, Summer of every year
- Credits
- Total Credits: 3 Lecture/Recitation/Discussion Hours: 3
- Reenrollment Information
- A student may earn a maximum of 6 credits in all enrollments for this course.
- Description
- Design and setup of experiments in various faculty research areas. Data collection
and analysis. Study and practice of theoretical methods.
- Effective Dates
- SUMMER 1998 - Open
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PHY 801: Survey of Atomic and Condensed Matter Physics
- Semester
- Spring of every year
- Credits
- Total Credits: 3 Lecture/Recitation/Discussion Hours: 3
- Restrictions
- Open to graduate students in the Department of Physics and Astronomy or approval of
department.
- Not open to students with credit in
- PHY 491
- Description
- Survey of physics phenomena related to atomic, liquid and solid systems. Describe
underlying microscopic principles responsible for properties of matter.
- Effective Dates
- FALL 2014 - Open
PHY 802: Survey of Nuclear Physics
- Semester
- Spring of every year
- Credits
- Total Credits: 3 Lecture/Recitation/Discussion Hours: 3
- Restrictions
- Open to graduate students in the Department of Physics and Astronomy or approval of
department.
- Not open to students with credit in
- PHY 492
- Description
- Survey of phenomena and conceptual foundations of nuclear physics.
- Effective Dates
- FALL 2014 - Open
PHY 803: Survey of Elementary Particle Physics
- Semester
- Spring of every year
- Credits
- Total Credits: 3 Lecture/Recitation/Discussion Hours: 3
- Recommended Background
- students should have completed undergraduate degree in physics
- Restrictions
- Open to graduate students in the Department of Physics and Astronomy or approval of
department.
- Not open to students with credit in
- PHY 493
- Description
- Overview of high-energy physics, including the standard model, quark composition of
hadrons, collider physics and the role of elementary particle physics in cosmology.
- Effective Dates
- FALL 2014 - Open
PHY 810: Methods of Theoretical Physics
- Semester
- Fall of every year
- Credits
- Total Credits: 3 Lecture/Recitation/Discussion Hours: 3
- Description
- Theoretical methods used in classical mechanics, quantum mechanics, electrodynamics,
and statistical mechanics.
- Effective Dates
- FALL 1998 - Open
PHY 812: Advanced Methods of Theoretical Physics
- Semester
- Fall of even years
- Credits
- Total Credits: 3 Lecture/Recitation/Discussion Hours: 3
- Recommended Background
- PHY 810
- Description
- Advanced mathematical tools for theoretical physics. Group theory, advanced Green's
functions and asymptotic methods.
- Effective Dates
- FALL 2014 - Open
PHY 820: Classical Mechanics
- Semester
- Fall of every year
- Credits
- Total Credits: 3 Lecture/Recitation/Discussion Hours: 3
- Description
- Two-body central force problem, Hamilton's principle, Lagrangian and Hamiltonian equations
of motion, variational methods, small oscillations, classical fields.
- Effective Dates
- FALL 1992 - Open
PHY 822: Advanced Classical Mechanics
- Semester
- Fall of odd years
- Credits
- Total Credits: 2 Lecture/Recitation/Discussion Hours: 2
- Recommended Background
- PHY 820
- Restrictions
- Open to graduate students in the Physics Major.
- Description
- Formal methods of mechanics along with a variety of modern topics including formal
treatments of fluids, chaos and non-linear dynamics. Offered first half of semester.
- Effective Dates
- FALL 2014 - Open
PHY 831: Statistical Mechanics
- Semester
- Spring of every year
- Credits
- Total Credits: 3 Lecture/Recitation/Discussion Hours: 3
- Description
- Equilibrium statistical mechanics and thermodynamics. Boltzmann transport equations
and hydrodynamics. Brownian and Langevin motion.
- Effective Dates
- FALL 1992 - Open
PHY 841: Classical Electrodynamics I
- Semester
- Spring of every year
- Credits
- Total Credits: 3 Lecture/Recitation/Discussion Hours: 3
- Recommended Background
- PHY 810
- Description
- Electrostatics, magnetostatics, time-varying fields and Maxwell's equations. Gauge
transformations. Poynting's theorem and conservation laws.
- Effective Dates
- SUMMER 1998 - Open
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PHY 842: Classical Electrodynamics II
- Semester
- Fall of every year
- Credits
- Total Credits: 3 Lecture/Recitation/Discussion Hours: 3
- Recommended Background
- PHY 841 and (PHY 810 or concurrently)
- Description
- Plane electromagnetic waves, polarization states, reflection, refraction. Wave guides
and resonant cavities. Radiating systems, dipole fields, radiated power. Special theory
of relativity.
- Effective Dates
- FALL 1998 - Open
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PHY 850: Electrodynamics of Plasmas
- Semester
- Spring of odd years
- Credits
- Total Credits: 3 Lecture/Recitation/Discussion Hours: 3
- Recommended Background
- ECE 835 or PHY 488
- Description
- Plasma kinetic and macroscopic plasma transport theory. Electromagnetic wave propagation
and charged particle diffusion processes in plasma. Electromagnetic energy absorption
via elastic and inelastic collisions. Dc, rf, and microwave discharges.
- Semester Alias
- EE 850
- Interdepartmental With
- Electrical and Computer Engineering, Astronomy and Astrophysics
- Administered By
- Electrical and Computer Engineering
- Effective Dates
- SUMMER 1999 - Open
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PHY 851: Quantum Mechanics I
- Semester
- Fall of every year
- Credits
- Total Credits: 3 Lecture/Recitation/Discussion Hours: 3
- Restrictions
- Open only to graduate students in the College of Engineering or College of Natural
Science.
- Description
- Axioms of quantum and wave mechanics, applications to spherically symmetric potentials.
Hydrogen atom, harmonic oscillator, matrix mechanics, angular momentum theory, rotations.
- Effective Dates
- FALL 1998 - Open
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PHY 852: Quantum Mechanics II
- Semester
- Spring of every year
- Credits
- Total Credits: 3 Lecture/Recitation/Discussion Hours: 3
- Recommended Background
- PHY 851
- Description
- Approximation methods, perturbation theory, atomic physics applications, scattering
theory, identical particles, Pauli principle, Bose and Einstein statistics, Hartree-Fock
approximation, collisions of identical particles, radiation.
- Effective Dates
- FALL 1995 - Open
PHY 855: Quantum Field Theory
- Semester
- Spring of every year
- Credits
- Total Credits: 2 Lecture/Recitation/Discussion Hours: 2
- Recommended Background
- PHY 852
- Restrictions
- Open to graduate students in the Department of Physics and Astronomy or approval of
department.
- Description
- Introduction to field theory as it pertains to numerous problems in particle, nuclear
and condensed matter physics. Second quantization, applications to different fields
based on perturbation theory. Offered first half of semester.
- Effective Dates
- FALL 2014 - Open
PHY 861: Beam Physics
- Semester
- Spring of odd years
- Credits
- Total Credits: 3 Lecture/Recitation/Discussion Hours: 3
- Recommended Background
- PHY 820 and PHY 841
- Description
- Particle accelerator theory and design.
- Effective Dates
- SPRING 1995 - Open
PHY 862: Physics and Applications of Accelerators and Beams
- Semester
- Spring of odd years
- Credits
- Total Credits: 2 Lecture/Recitation/Discussion Hours: 2
- Recommended Background
- PHY 842
- Description
- Physics and design of particle accelerators used in various subfields of physics.
- Effective Dates
- FALL 2014 - Open
PHY 863: Special Topics in Accelerator Physics
- Semester
- On Demand
- Credits
- Total Credits: 2 Lecture/Recitation/Discussion Hours: 2
- Reenrollment Information
- A student may earn a maximum of 6 credits in all enrollments for this course.
- Restrictions
- Open to graduate students in the Department of Physics and Astronomy or approval of
department.
- Description
- Advanced topics in accelerator science.
- Effective Dates
- FALL 2014 - Open
PHY 891: Elementary Particle Physics
- Semester
- Spring of every year
- Credits
- Total Credits: 3 Lecture/Recitation/Discussion Hours: 3
- Recommended Background
- PHY 853
- Description
- Nonabelian gauge theory, spontaneously broken gauge theory, electroweak interaction,
QCD, W and Z boson coupling to quarks and leptons, charm, top and bottom quarks, particle
generations.
- Effective Dates
- FALL 1995 - Open
PHY 899: Master's Thesis Research
- Semester
- Fall of every year, Spring of every year, Summer of every year
- Credits
- Variable from 1 to 6
- Reenrollment Information
- A student may earn a maximum of 36 credits in all enrollments for this course.
- Restrictions
- Open only to graduate students in the Physics major.
- Description
- Master's thesis research.
- Effective Dates
- SUMMER 2002 - Open
PHY 905: Special Problems
- Semester
- Fall of every year, Spring of every year
- Credits
- Variable from 1 to 4
- Reenrollment Information
- A student may earn a maximum of 9 credits in all enrollments for this course.
- Restrictions
- Open only to graduate students in the Department of Physics and Astronomy.
- Description
- In-depth study of a topic in physics or in astrophysics and astronomy.
- Effective Dates
- FALL 1994 - Open
PHY 909: Experimental Techniques for Condensed Matter Physics
- Semester
- Fall of even years
- Credits
- Total Credits: 2 Lecture/Recitation/Discussion Hours: 2
- Recommended Background
- PHY 491
- Restrictions
- Open to graduate students in the Department of Physics and Astronomy or approval of
department.
- Description
- Methods for sample preparation and measurement in context of condensed matter physics.
- Effective Dates
- FALL 2014 - Open
PHY 910: Quantum Fluids
- Semester
- Fall of odd years
- Credits
- Total Credits: 2 Lecture/Recitation/Discussion Hours: 2
- Prerequisite
- PHY 831
- Restrictions
- Open to graduate students in the Department of Physics and Astronomy or approval of
department.
- Description
- Theory and phenomenology of Bose Einstein condensates, superconductivity and superfluidity.
- Effective Dates
- FALL 2014 - Open
PHY 912: Modern Nonlinear Dynamics
- Semester
- Spring of even years
- Credits
- Total Credits: 2 Lecture/Recitation/Discussion Hours: 2
- Prerequisite
- PHY 820 or approval of department
- Description
- Nonlinear dynamics of Hamiltonian and dissipative systems; method of averaging; adiabatic
invariants; KAM theorem; invariant manifolds; bifurcation theory; dynamical chaos.
Offered first half of semester.
- Effective Dates
- SPRING 2006 - Open
PHY 913: Foundations of Nanoscience and Nanotechnology
- Semester
- Fall of odd years
- Credits
- Total Credits: 2 Lecture/Recitation/Discussion Hours: 2
- Prerequisite
- PHY 851 or approval of department
- Recommended Background
- PHY 971
- Description
- The self-assembly process and unusual phenomena occurring in nanostructures of carbon.
Magnetic aggregates in different size ranges. Finite size and low-dimension effects.
Fractional conductance quantization. Response in nanostructures to mechanical stress,
high temperature, and electric fields. Offered first half of semester.
- Effective Dates
- FALL 2006 - Open
PHY 915: Computational Condensed Matter Physics
- Semester
- Spring of odd years
- Credits
- Total Credits: 2 Lecture/Recitation/Discussion Hours: 2
- Recommended Background
- PHY 831
- Restrictions
- Open to graduate students in the Department of Physics and Astronomy or approval of
department.
- Description
- Computational techniques for addressing problem in theoretical condensed matter physics
- Effective Dates
- FALL 2014 - Open
PHY 918: Quantum and Non-linear Optics
- Semester
- Fall of even years
- Credits
- Total Credits: 2 Lecture/Recitation/Discussion Hours: 2
- Recommended Background
- PHY 852
- Restrictions
- Open to graduate students in the Department of Physics and Astronomy or approval of
department.
- Description
- Interaction of light with atoms and semiconductors. Theory and experimental techniques
for non-linear optics.
- Effective Dates
- FALL 2014 - Open
PHY 919: Modern Electronic Structure Theory
- Semester
- Spring of even years
- Credits
- Total Credits: 2 Lecture/Recitation/Discussion Hours: 2
- Recommended Background
- PHY 852
- Restrictions
- Open to graduate students in the Department of Physics and Astronomy or approval of
department.
- Description
- Electronic structure theory using modern computational methods
- Effective Dates
- FALL 2014 - Open
PHY 921: Quantum Transport and Mesoscopic Physics
- Semester
- Fall of odd years
- Credits
- Total Credits: 2 Lecture/Recitation/Discussion Hours: 2
- Prerequisite
- PHY 831
- Restrictions
- Open to graduate students in the Department of Physics and Astronomy or approval of
department.
- Description
- Quantum properties of mesoscopic systems. Quantum dots and large molecules and complex
materials. Linear response theory for finite systems.
- Effective Dates
- FALL 2014 - Open
PHY 922: Ultrafast Phenomena
- Semester
- Fall of odd years
- Credits
- Total Credits: 2 Lecture/Recitation/Discussion Hours: 2
- Recommended Background
- PHY 842 or concurrently
- Restrictions
- Open to graduate students in the Department of Physics and Astronomy or approval of
department.
- Description
- Theoretical and experimental tools for addressing ultrafast phenomena, such as femtoscopic
lasers
- Effective Dates
- FALL 2014 - Open
PHY 925: Topics in Molecular and Biophysics
- Semester
- On Demand
- Credits
- Total Credits: 2 Lecture/Recitation/Discussion Hours: 2
- Recommended Background
- PHY 851
- Restrictions
- Open to graduate students in the College of Natural Science or approval of department.
- Description
- Advanced topics in molecular and biophysics.
- Effective Dates
- FALL 2014 - Open
PHY 950: Data Analysis Methods for High-Energy and Nuclear Physics
- Semester
- Fall of every year
- Credits
- Total Credits: 2 Lecture/Recitation/Discussion Hours: 2
- Restrictions
- Open to graduate students in the Department of Physics and Astronomy or approval of
department.
- Description
- Tools and methods used for analyzing data in large experiments.
- Effective Dates
- FALL 2014 - Open
PHY 951: Concepts and Calculations for the Standard Model
- Semester
- Fall of every year
- Credits
- Total Credits: 3 Lecture/Recitation/Discussion Hours: 3
- Recommended Background
- PHY 852
- Restrictions
- Open to graduate students in the Department of Physics and Astronomy or approval of
department.
- Description
- Concepts, phenomena and calculations the standard model for particle physics
- Effective Dates
- FALL 2014 - Open
PHY 955: Relativistic Quantum Field Theory
- Semester
- Spring of every year
- Credits
- Total Credits: 2 Lecture/Recitation/Discussion Hours: 2
- Recommended Background
- PHY 855
- Restrictions
- Open to graduate students in the Department of Physics and Astronomy or approval of
department.
- Description
- Theory of relativistic quantum fields and renormalization with emphasis on applications
for particle physics. Offered second half of semester.
- Effective Dates
- FALL 2014 - Open
PHY 956: Collider Phenomenology
- Semester
- Spring of odd years
- Credits
- Total Credits: 2 Lecture/Recitation/Discussion Hours: 2
- Recommended Background
- PHY 955
- Restrictions
- Open to graduate students in the Physics Major or approval of department.
- Description
- Theory and phenomenology of high-energy collider physics. Quantum chromo dynamics
evolution, structure functions and higher-order calculations.
- Effective Dates
- FALL 2014 - Open
PHY 959: Special Topics in High-Energy Physics
- Semester
- On Demand
- Credits
- Total Credits: 2 Lecture/Recitation/Discussion Hours: 2
- Reenrollment Information
- A student may earn a maximum of 6 credits in all enrollments for this course.
- Recommended Background
- PHY 951
- Restrictions
- Open to graduate students in the Department of Physics and Astronomy or approval of
department.
- Description
- Topics in high-energy physics.
- Effective Dates
- FALL 2014 - Open
PHY 961: Non-Linear Beam Dynamics
- Semester
- Fall of every year, Spring of every year
- Credits
- Total Credits: 3 Lecture/Recitation/Discussion Hours: 3
- Reenrollment Information
- A student may earn a maximum of 6 credits in all enrollments for this course.
- Recommended Background
- PHY 861
- Description
- Dynamics of particle beams.
- Effective Dates
- FALL 2002 - Open
PHY 962: Particle Accelerators
- Semester
- Fall of every year, Spring of every year, Summer of every year
- Credits
- Total Credits: 3 Lecture/Recitation/Discussion Hours: 3
- Reenrollment Information
- A student may earn a maximum of 6 credits in all enrollments for this course.
- Recommended Background
- PHY 861
- Description
- Theory of particle accelerator design.
- Effective Dates
- FALL 2002 - Open
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PHY 963: U.S. Particle Accelerator School
- Semester
- Fall of every year, Spring of every year
- Credits
- Total Credits: 3 Lecture/Recitation/Discussion Hours: 3
- Reenrollment Information
- A student may earn a maximum of 12 credits in all enrollments for this course.
- Recommended Background
- PHY 861
- Description
- Participation in suitable courses offered by the U.S. Particle Accelerator School.
- Semester Alias
- PHY 962C
- Effective Dates
- FALL 2002 - Open
PHY 964: Seminar in Beam Physics Research
- Semester
- Fall of every year, Spring of every year
- Credits
- Total Credits: 3 Lecture/Recitation/Discussion Hours: 3
- Reenrollment Information
- A student may earn a maximum of 12 credits in all enrollments for this course.
- Recommended Background
- PHY 861
- Description
- Presentation of current research topics in beam physics or accelerator design.
- Semester Alias
- PHY 962D
- Effective Dates
- FALL 2002 - Open
PHY 973: Special Topics in Condensed Matter Physics
- Semester
- Fall of every year, Spring of every year
- Credits
- Total Credits: 3 Lecture/Recitation/Discussion Hours: 3
- Reenrollment Information
- A student may earn a maximum of 12 credits in all enrollments for this course.
- Recommended Background
- PHY 971 and PHY 972
- Description
- Topics vary and may include quantum optics, scattering methods and Green's functions.
- Effective Dates
- FALL 2002 - Open
PHY 980: Advanced Reading in Physics
- Semester
- Fall of every year, Spring of every year, Summer of every year
- Credits
- Variable from 1 to 3
- Reenrollment Information
- A student may earn a maximum of 4 credits in all enrollments for this course.
- Restrictions
- Approval of department.
- Effective Dates
- FALL 1992 - Open
PHY 981: Nuclear Structure
- Semester
- Fall of every year, Spring of every year
- Credits
- Total Credits: 2 Lecture/Recitation/Discussion Hours: 2
- Recommended Background
- PHY 492 and PHY 831 and PHY 841 and PHY 852
- Description
- Nuclear forces, nuclear matter, nuclear-structure models, few-nucleon systems, electromagnetic
and weak transitions.
- Effective Dates
- FALL 2015 - Open
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PHY 982: Nuclear Dynamics
- Semester
- Spring of every year
- Credits
- Total Credits: 2 Lecture/Recitation/Discussion Hours: 2
- Recommended Background
- PHY 492 and PHY 831 and PHY 841 and PHY 852
- Restrictions
- Open to graduate students in the Department of Physics and Astronomy.
- Description
- Scattering theory, resonance reactions, compound nuclear decay and fission, direct
and breakup reactions, time-dependent Hartree-Fock, Vlasov equation, nuclear transport
equations, particle production, nuclear liquid-gas phase transition, quark-gluon plasma.
Offered second half of semester.
- Effective Dates
- SPRING 2016 - Open
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PHY 983: Nuclear Astrophysics
- Semester
- Fall of every year, Spring of every year
- Credits
- Total Credits: 3 Lecture/Recitation/Discussion Hours: 3
- Recommended Background
- PHY 410 and PHY 472 and PHY 482
- Description
- Low energy reaction theory, survey of astrophysics, physics of nuclei and reaction
relevant to astrophysics, nuclear reaction rates in stellar environments, stellar
evolution, solar neutrinos, big bang nucleosynthesis, dark matter, supernova explosions,
r-process, hot CNO and rp-process, cosmochronology
- Effective Dates
- FALL 2003 - Open
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PHY 988: Few-body Methods and Nuclear Reactions
- Semester
- Spring of odd years
- Credits
- Total Credits: 2 Lecture/Recitation/Discussion Hours: 2
- Restrictions
- Open to graduate students in the Department of Physics and Astronomy or approval of
department.
- Description
- Basic nuclear reactions based on few-body methods.
- Effective Dates
- FALL 2014 - Open
PHY 989: Special Topics in Nuclear Physics
- Semester
- On Demand
- Credits
- Total Credits: 2 Lecture/Recitation/Discussion Hours: 2
- Reenrollment Information
- A student may earn a maximum of 6 credits in all enrollments for this course.
- Restrictions
- Open to graduate students in the Department of Physics and Astronomy or approval of
department.
- Description
- Topics in nuclear physics not covered in regularly scheduled courses
- Effective Dates
- FALL 2014 - Open
PHY 990: Nuclear Forces and Their Impact in Nuclear Structure
- Semester
- Spring of even years
- Credits
- Total Credits: 2 Lecture/Recitation/Discussion Hours: 2
- Description
- Overview of strong interaction between nucleons. This includes two- and three-body
nuclear forces and nucleon-nucleon scattering, along with the implications for light
nuclei and nuclear matter.
- Effective Dates
- FALL 2014 - Open
PHY 991: Many-Body Methods for Nuclear Physics
- Semester
- Spring of odd years
- Credits
- Total Credits: 2 Lecture/Recitation/Discussion Hours: 2
- Restrictions
- Open to graduate students in the Department of Physics and Astronomy or approval of
department.
- Description
- Calculation of nuclei properties from first principles, nucleon-nucleon force.
- Effective Dates
- FALL 2014 - Open
PHY 993: Density Functional Theory and Self-Consistent Methods for Nuclear Physics
- Semester
- Fall of even years
- Credits
- Total Credits: 2 Lecture/Recitation/Discussion Hours: 2
- Restrictions
- Open to graduate students in the Department of Physics and Astronomy or approval of
department.
- Description
- Application of density-functional techniques in the context of nuclear physics.
- Effective Dates
- FALL 2014 - Open
PHY 994: Theory for Exploring Nuclear Structure Experiments
- Semester
- Fall of even years
- Credits
- Total Credits: 2 Lecture/Recitation/Discussion Hours: 2
- Restrictions
- Open to graduate students in the Department of Physics and Astronomy or approval of
department.
- Description
- Phenomenological methods for modeling structure and dynamics of nuclei.
- Effective Dates
- FALL 2014 - Open
PHY 994: Theory for Exploring Nuclear Structure Experiments
- Semester
- Fall of even years
- Credits
- Total Credits: 2 Lecture/Recitation/Discussion Hours: 2
- Restrictions
- Open to graduate students in the Department of Physics and Astronomy or approval of
department.
- Description
- Phenomenological methods for modeling structure and dynamics of nuclei.
- Effective Dates
- FALL 2014 - Open
PHY 996: Nuclear Theory for Astrophysics
- Semester
- Fall of even years
- Credits
- Total Credits: 2 Lecture/Recitation/Discussion Hours: 2
- Restrictions
- Open to graduate students in the Department of Physics and Astronomy or approval of
department.
- Description
- Theory for nucleosynthesis in stellar evolution and stellar explosions, with an emphasis
on the role of nuclei far from stability.
- Effective Dates
- FALL 2014 - Open
PHY 997: Theoretical Approaches to Describe Exotic Nuclei
- Semester
- Spring of odd years
- Credits
- Total Credits: 2 Lecture/Recitation/Discussion Hours: 2
- Restrictions
- Open to graduate students in the Department of Physics and Astronomy or approval of
department.
- Description
- Techniques specific for modeling nuclei far from stability, especially halo nuclei.
- Effective Dates
- FALL 2014 - Open
PHY 998: High-Performance Computing and Computational Tools for Nuclear Physics
- Semester
- Spring of even years
- Credits
- Total Credits: 2 Lecture/Recitation/Discussion Hours: 2
- Restrictions
- Open to graduate students in the Department of Physics and Astronomy or approval of
department.
- Description
- Knowledge and skills for problems in nuclear structure involving high-performance
computing.
- Effective Dates
- FALL 2014 - Open
PHY 999: Doctoral Dissertation Research
- Semester
- Fall of every year, Spring of every year, Summer of every year
- Credits
- Variable from 1 to 24
- Reenrollment Information
- A student may earn a maximum of 36 credits in all enrollments for this course.
- Restrictions
- Open to graduate students in the Physics major.
- Description
- Doctoral dissertation research.
- Effective Dates
- SUMMER 2014 - Open