Deriving 1st Order Perturbation Theory (Energy and Wavefunction Corrections)

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[@rimon9697]

Dang, i first watched this video a year ago and i thight you were writing in some ancient language. Now i am being able to fully understand 1st order, 2nd order, non-degenerate and generate pertubation. I am for the first time in my life proud of myself. Lmao😂

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CrosisBH engineering is not similar to physics II, but I get what you mean. Exploring the obscure...

[@jamesbra4410]

This is actually a method for solving nonlinear differential equations. Nonlinear differential equations dominate a majority of applied math. Doesn't have to be engineering or physics, it can be chemistry and biology as well that have nonlinear equations solved using perturbation methods.

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Great video as always. Needed a review if this stuff for a project I'm working on and thus was perfect years after being made. Good luck with the disertation, Andrew!

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lol here i am 4 years later

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reporting after 5 years o7

[@KeystoneScience]

This is Sweet! I had a perturbation class last semester, and my final project was using it for the hydrogen and helium orbitals

[@AndrewDotsonvideos]

Oh that sounds awesome!

[@ryansp57]

In undergrad quantum mechanics right now, just finished the hydrogen atom energy states and eigenfunctions now moving on to perturbation! This video really helped my understanding thank you for making it

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Do a video on Taylor Series and how it's used in physics.

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I read this as Taylor Swift and now I want to see a video on that instead

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sin x = x - 1/6(x^3) + 1/120(x^5) + ... 🧐

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@@danielsykes4251 Well you might as well finish the rest of it if you're going to go that far lol

[@danielsykes4251]

I’ll leave that as an exercise for the reader.

[@pricardo333]

Fine video. Some suggestions for future lectures are: -Solving the hydrogen atom problem with Schrodinger's equation -Quantum mechanics in crystalline materials (e.g. bloch theorem) -Tunneling (deriving electron current through barrier)

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Aww this brings up some memories. I had an excelent quantum mechanics prof. You remind me of him haha It's nice to see this type of content in youtube

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Physics explained by an escaped convict 😋

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Nice observation.

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@@doctorlazarus8854 if I didn't observe it, it wouldn't exist. 😁

[@nanoc.2103]

Hey just a little teaching advice/compliments from a person who studies education: 1)obviously you catch yourself standing in front of derivations, which is good! 2) Avoid using phases like, "That would be stupid" or "I made a stupid mistake". When teaching students, using that language can often turn off those who are learning the subject and can become conditioned to think that making mistakes or assuming the wrong thing (perhaps by accident, idk) means that they themselves are not smart enough for the subject. Instead, try using phases like, "I made a mistake! Good, now I know how that goes", or "That would not be a productive idea due to..." Vernacular matters with those who are learning something new as it can affect how well students feel about themselves with the subject; hence affecting their overall performance. 3) You're are very clear when describing complex processes! Perturbation theory is extremely complex and is not often explained well. You really know your stuff! Keep making these videos! -From a former Math major.

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"Today I'm assuming you need help with your quantum homework" YUP

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You know.....as a geophysicist I consider myself a physicist....but holy hell you killed me in the first minute.

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I started following for the funny videos, but this is saving me right now!

[@resident5124]

brooo i just took a course on dynamics and chaos and perturbation was a part of it. stoked to watch this

[@philippjohannsen6217]

Was just about to read this chapter in Griffiths and take notes to that. Thanks for the free lecture and a better explanation 😍😍

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my QM homework has been saved! it is now 5 days late instead of 7! Thank you!!!

[@CooperBazinga]

My friend is just an engineer and he was able to get the first half. Amazing.

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Thank you for calling us smart in your intros 🥺

[@julianchan210]

i was just looking up on this in Principles of Quantum Mechanics by Shankar. They do it in a slightly different way, but i think your method is easier for me to understand. Thanks man!

[@EagleLogic]

12:55 LOL that totally caught me off guard. "That be stupid!" hahahahah!

[@angelv.8405]

I took Quantum a year ago, alas a little late to have fully benefited from your video. But thank you Andrew for posting this. You're doing good work.

[@xyphenius9942]

I remember there being an awesome series of lectures from maybe Washington Uni on perturbation theory? The lecturer was SO good

[@mastermatt1958]

Really good video nice and condesed perfect for revising if you are not to familiar with the matter anymore :) Thanks a lot and greetings from TUM in Munich :)

[@AndrewDotsonvideos]

Thanks a lot!

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Love this, would like to see more! I'm taking my second QM class next year and this lets me see some of the stuff i can look forward to :)

[@TheNiTeMaR3]

Really well presented video! I’ll be studying functional analysis next year so I can finally see how these inner products work in Hilbert spaces..

[@AndrewDotsonvideos]

Thanks! You have to be careful when talking about vectors in a hilbert space from a QM context because initially it was only defined for discrete vectors. When you generalize to continuous ones (like position or momentum eigenstates), there's some additional criteria that has to be satisfied which is kind of interesting. Hence why your dot product becomes an integral over a continuous index.

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[@mikeyandersonjennings1127]

I am taking a module on Atomic physics this semester and am finding it really hard to get my head around perturbation theory especially the linear algebra as I have tried to avoid it so far! This has helped me get a slightly better grasp of what's going on though! Thanks

[@akay37]

Wish this lecture came about two weeks ago before my test 😒🤦 Anyway it's never too late to learn! Thank you!

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Hello! May be you could make a video about deriving diagram technique for some interaction (I mean using wicks theorem and s matrix) ? Honestly, I am more interested in QED, but I think it is hard and tidies enough to put it on the channel. Or may be you could cover some general topics from QFT , there are many interesting theorems and ideas ! Generally love your channel , you are great! Keep doing that !

[@Slecker95]

Non-degenerate? Impossible I watch anime.

[@BhanuNarra1]

Andrew, could you do a video on functional derivatives? Thanks!

[@krishnanr8718]

It helped me a lot in understanding the theory

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This was an adventure Thanks Andrew!

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Nah I’m just a 15 year old aspiring Astrophysicist, I kind of had know Idea what’s going on! I can understand stuff conceptually but I’m just in like a lower level physics class! Really excited to understand this video

[@mitsterful]

This derivation, or one equivalent, was on my quantum exam last semester, just deriving the first order correction to the energy

[@adarshbhuyan2677]

Can you upload a PDF of your notes that you teach during every video in the video details??

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Yup, you are doing it correctly - From a computer science major

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More please! Also would like a video to about if perturbative theory converges

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Great job bro,im a fan

[@karolinakmiec2770]

hey, nice video, thanks for sharing! I am thinking about conditions of expanding in known basis... Let's say I have any known basis (as here) I can imagine any creazy operator I want, is that I should be always able to express its states in terms of known basis? assuming that there is some transformation that links my old operator that eigenvectors I know with my "new-creazy-any I want" operator. But if such transformation doesn't exist my old basis is useless, right? So that's why we assume here perturbation is small, to be always able to assume that full Hamiltonian is like "little" transformed from unperturbed (transformed I mean, any infinitesimal perturbation can be a rotation that can be unitary operator) Does it make any sens? Maybe I totally confused all things, cheers

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Do videoes on one dimensionel harmonic oscilator problem of schrodinger equation

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just reviewing for an exam thanks Andrew

[@liamlau4558]

Amazing video as always, actually very helpful as we don't do perturbation theory until third year at Cambridge unfortunately :'(

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[@majhnicudovitisvet]

I hope i intuitively understood this concept, so basically you are saying, that by approximating our wave equation with a series of a known and solvable wave equation/s which will eventually with adding terms converge to our unknown wave equation and give us the best approximation of the end result? Then would our results come out as: this wave equation is like that one, but with this corrections which converge to our unknown but now a bit known wave equation, which is accurate on some decimal places? Thank you!

[@sayanjitb]

where is the video tutorial on convergence of perturbation series?

[@lukefarley8984]

epic video thanks very much vv clear notation !

[@aumpatel8893]

Why am I watching this when I still haven't even started physics yet

[@leonginear123]

Is there a proof you can independently impose the condition = 1? Cuz I’m not convinced that you can impose that and | E> = |E_0> + \lambda |E_1 > + … .

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Is this related to time independent density functional perturbation theory?

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This. Is. LIT dad.

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I heard somewhere someone first proved it never converges, it'll go close but never converge

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Entering Stony Brook for physics can't wait to learn all this.

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When will you be adding English subtitles?

[@athul_c1375]

Basis transformation |E_n> = |E_n> |E_n> = I |E_n> = ∑ₘ|Eₙ> |Eₙ> = ∑ₘ|Eₘ>

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Why don't you include the I=j=1 term in the labmda expansion?

[@TheNiTeMaR3]

dhvsheabdh you don’t include the i=j=1 term because that gives you a lambda squared term which we are discarding because we are doing a first order correction!

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@@TheNiTeMaR3 I thought of that during, but then I thought I disagreed that that would do it.

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11:54 Ah yes, the infamous left-hand rule. Thought you could sneak it in there but we all know what you were trying to go for.

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Next video on Taylor series and its uses please.

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I find it halrious that half of notations we use are different, but we all know F=ma is same as D=AB. Was cool video though

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I remember doing the 2nd order with the help of Landau textbook!

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16:33 is that a southpark reference?

[@AndrewDotsonvideos]

Yes😂

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@@AndrewDotsonvideoslol subtle. By the way I approved quantum mechanics II and got my astrophysics degree since I left that comment. Thanks for making these videos 4 free. Respect🤙

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I am finishing up an MSc Physics course.. I took the QM exam, I think I failed it. I still don't get any/much of this.. :(

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Thanks you do much! Amazing how hard textbooks fuck up this chapter...

[@lukejames3039]

This notation makes me cry

[@ahmedmukhtar9121]

Why don’t u write the wave function as Psi??

[@AndrewDotsonvideos]

psi(x) is the inner product between the x-basis vector and the abstract ket vector |psi>. So psi(x) = . I'm just keeping it as a vector

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@@AndrewDotsonvideos Int zetli text book they use Psi and phi

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Andrew make a video on perturbation theory 2

[@vanerwin504]

At first glance, I thought he was expressing the eigenvalues of the Hamiltonian as a ket.

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Love it

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0:09 aka the simplest kind of all the PT

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eb f to the national lab ?

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Do some example pls

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absolutely more orders!!

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I just watched a 23 minute video and haveee no idea wtf just happened. Im just tryna get fluid dynamics down for the MCAT fam

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Nice! And first

[@leafbaguette]

board usage could use some work, maybe consider getting a second? nice video otherwise, thanks for the refresher!

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Nice watch

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Can you make more of these white board type of videos, but with calc 1 topics

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I thought this was an english speaking channel ?

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Connor Demorest

[@Zalley]

Didn’t understand a word!

[@Zalley]

Not because of your teaching methods I hasten to add.

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Also Dotty ,if potential is very complicated , all these methods are freaking tedious!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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