My crib sheet. (Please bring your Clebsch-Gordon tables as well) First, some constants:

Time ind. Schrod. eqn is

Time dep. Schrodinger equation is , so time depend. of e-states is

The expansion theorem says that if , then , and is the probability of finding state in the particular eigenstate .

The harmonic oscillator raising and lowering operators are . (Recall, )

Pauli spin matrices: , (All have the same eigenvalues, )

The eigenvectors of are . The eigenvectors of are

The spin operator (for spin 1/2) is Handy trig identities: Total angular momentum J=L+S.

Notation for eigenfunctions of angular momentum:

The Hamiltonian for a particle in a magnetic field B is ,

where the magnetic moment due to intrinsic spin is given by

First order non-degenerate TIPT says the shift in energy of a state due to the addition of a perturbation is given by .

The variational theorem says , for any state you choose.

Time-Dep't PT: If H'(t) is added, starting at t=0, to a system initially in state N, the prob of making a transition to state m after time t is given by the absolute square of

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The spontaneous rate of single photon decay is

The lifetime of a state m due to spontaneous decays is