Thesis\Treatise and Comprehensive Exam Track: Total Credit Hours Required to Finish the Degree ( 54 Credit Hours ) as Follows
Specialization Requirements
Students must pass all of the following courses plus ( 24 ) credit hours for the Thesis and Pass the Comprehensive Exam
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| 151618050 | ADVANCED CLASSICAL ELECTRODYNAMICS II | Maxwell’s equations, gauge transformation, Poynting theorem, plane electromagnetic waves, polarization, superposition of waves, causality between D and E, waveguides and resonant cavities, radiating systems and multipoles fields, scattering and diffraction, spherical wave expansion, perturbation theory of scattering, scattering of electromagnetic waves by a sphere. | 3 | - | 3 |
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| 151618100 | ADVANCED QUANTUM MECHANICS II | Approximation methods, scattering theory and relativistic quantum mechanics topics include; time-independent perturbation theory, Stark effect, fine structure and the Zeeman effect, variational methods, time-dependent potentials, Hamiltonians with extreme time dependence, time-dependent perturbation theory, applications to interactions with the classical radiation field, , scattering as a time-dependent perturbation, the scattering amplitude, the Born approximation, phase shifts and partial waves, Eikonal approximation, resonance scattering, paths to relativistic quantum mechanics, the Dirac equation, symmetries of the Dirac equation and solutions with a central potential. | 3 | - | 3 |
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| 151618150 | ADVANCED CLASSICAL MECHANICS II | Hamilton formalism: Legendre transform, Hamilton equations, Liouville theorem; Canonical transformations; Hamilton-Jacobi equations, action-angle variables; Special theory of relativity; Mechanics of continuous systems and fields. | 3 | - | 3 |
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| 151618200 | ADVANCED STATISTICAL PHYSICS II | Review of the principles of statistical mechanics: microcanonical ensemble, canonical ensemble, grand canonical ensemble. Maximum entropy principle. Phase transitions: Ising model, lattice gas, broken symmetry and range of correlations, Ising model in one dimension, mean field theory, Landau theory of phase transitions, critical exponents, scaling, renormalization, group theory, Ising model in two dimensions. Statistical mechanics of non-equilibrium systems: systems close to equilibrium, Onsager's regression hypothesis and time correlation functions, fluctuation-dissipation theorem, response function, Brownian motion, Langevin Equation, Fokker-Planck equation, master equation and detailed balance, systems far from equilibrium, the concepts of work and heat revisited, the fluctuation theorems. | 3 | - | 3 |
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| 151618250 | ADVANCED SOLID STATE PHYSICS II | Semiclassical introduction of elementary excitations including phonons, solitons, magnons, plasmons, electron quasiparticles, the quantum hall effect and the Hartree-fock approximation. The one-electron approximation, electrons in a periodic potential, elementary excitations, electron-phonon interaction: transport phenomena, electron-electron interaction by exchange of virtual phonons: superconductivity, interaction with photons: optics, phonon-phonon interaction: thermal properties, local description of solid-state properties, and localized states | 3 | - | 3 |
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| 151618300 | ADVANCED MATHEMATICAL PHYSICS II | Partial differential equations; further topics in analyses; Gamma functions; Bessel function; Legendre functions; angular momentum; group theory; more special functions; Fourier series; Integral transforms; Integral equations; calculus of variation; Probability and statistics. | 3 | - | 3 |
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Students must pass ( 12 ) credit hours from any of the following courses
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| 151618350 | ADVANCED QUANTUM MECHANICS III | 3 | - | 3 |
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| 151618400 | GENERAL RELATIVITY | Revision of Special Relativity and Lorentz transformation; Differential Geometry with Applications to General Relativity; Tensor Algebra; Integrals, Densities, Derivatives and Covariant Derivatives; Schwartzchild solutions; The Notion of Parallel Transport; The Curvature Tensor; The Geodsics of an Affine Connection; The basic principles of Einstein's general theory of relativity; The Law of Gravitation; Conservation Laws and Variational Principles in General Relativity; Weak Fields; Gravitational Waves and Lensing; experimental tests of general relativity; Black Holes and Compact Objects, and Cosmology. | 3 | - | 3 |
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| 151618450 | NUCLEAR AND PARTICLE PHYSICS | Atomic structure, The nucleus, semi-empirical mass formula and binding energy; Nuclear models; Radioactive decay, Theories of alpha-decay, beta-decay and gamma emission, Nuclear reaction, Fission and Fusion, Artificial radioactivity, Accelerators, Radiation detectors; Interaction of heavy charged particles. | 3 | - | 3 |
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| 151618500 | ELEMENTARY PARTICLE PHYSICS | Elementary particles Basics; production; classification, Leptons, Hadrons; Quantum Numbers and Excited States, Conservation Laws; Quarks, Quark Model; Quark States and Color; Quark structures of mesons and baryons; Overview of the standard model and beyond; symmetry groups; Space-Time Symmetries; CPT invariance; Quantum Chromodynamics (QCD)s, Jets, Gluons distribution, strong coupling constant, asymptotic freedom. Charged leptons and neutrinos; Weak Interactions; Violation of quantum numbers in weak interactions (hadronic decays, semileptonic and leptonic processes); internal symmetry and its application in strong and weak interactions; and electromagnetic interactions, W± and Z0 bosons; Experimental Methods, Accelerators, particle detection. | 3 | - | 3 |
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| 151618550 | RESEARCH TECHNIQUES IN PHYSICS | Covers advanced methods and techniques in solid state physics; plasma physics; particle physics; nuclear physics; computational physics; optoelectronics; laser physics and technology; nanotechnology and nano-devices and any other topic that arises. | 3 | - | 3 |
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| 151618600 | SURFACE PHYSICS | Geometrical structure, surface morphology, electronic structure, surface composition, kinetics and dynamics including adsorption, scattering, vibrations, diffusion, desorption. Structure and reactivity of surface molecules, non-thermal excitations of surfaces, catalysts and surface reactions. Surfaces of metals, oxides and semiconductors, solid-solid and solid-liquid interfaces. Modern ultrahigh vacuum methods, thin-film nanostructures and low dimensional systems. | 3 | - | 3 |
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| 151618650 | ADVANCED QUANTUM FIELD THEORY I | Scalar field Theory: Concept of systems with infinite degrees of freedom, Classical fields, Equations of motion, Hamiltonian. Symmetries and invariance principles–Noether’s Theorem. Canonical quantization of scalar field—creation, annihilation operators, Commutation relations; Relativistic free fields – quantization of scalar and Dirac fields, creation and annihilation operators, commutation relations, Fock space representation; Interpretation of the quantized field, number operator, connection with harmonic oscillator. Quantized fields, Quantization of photon field, Lorentz gauge and Coulomb gauge, Gupta-Bleuler formalism, quantization of massive vector field; symmetry principles, The Brout'Englert' Higgs mechanism; local and conserved fields; general properties of interactions and peculiarities of electrodynamics and gravity. | 3 | - | 3 |
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| 151618700 | ADVANCED QUANTUM FIELD THEORY II | Quantum Electrodynamics, calculation of cross section in Coulomb scattering, M?ller (e- – e-) scattering, Bhabha (e- – e+) scattering; Photon – electron interactions, Photoelectric effect – Klein-Nishina formula, electron –positron annihilation; Higher order processes, vacuum polarization, self-energy of the electron, Lamb shift, vertex corrections; Electron proton scattering – elastic case, electromagnetic form factors and their interpretation, deep inelastic scattering, Bjorken scaling and Parton model, scaling violation, QCD evolution. | 3 | - | 3 |
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| 151618750 | NUCLEAR AND RADIATION PHYSICS | This course is divided into two components; Nuclear Physics and Radiation Physics. Students first receive an introduction to the concepts of nuclear physics including; nuclear systematics, nuclear models, radioactivity, nuclear models, nuclear reactions and applications of nuclear physics. The course then deals with theoretical and applied radiation physics including; interactions of charged particles, interactions of photons, generation of X-rays, attenuation and energy transfer, dosimetric quantities, radiation measurement, and applications in medical physics astrophysics and atmospheric physics. | 3 | - | 3 |
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| 151618800 | COMPUTATIONAL PHYSICS | Molecular and quantum molecular dynamics, the Monte Carlo and quantum Monte Carlo methods, random walks, large-scale minimization: gradient and conjugate gradient methods; fast Fourier transform; transfer matrix methods. Some selected applications. | 3 | - | 3 |
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| 151618850 | Advanced Classical Electrodynamics III | 3 | - | 3 |
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| 151618900 | PHD RESEARCH SEMINAR | 3 | - | 3 |
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| 151619500 | ADVANCED RESEARCH LABORATORY | Experiments in X-ray diffraction; UV-Visible; FTIR; Photoluminescence and Scanning electron dispersive wavelength spectroscopy; detection of radiation and determination of nuclear properties; experiments in low temperature solid state Physics. Emphasizes research methods and interpretation of data; independent work encouraged. | 3 | - | 3 |
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| 151619800 | NANOPHYSICS | Physics and technology of nano-materials and devices; Semiconductor nanostructures; Nanotubes and nanowires; Molecular electronics | 3 | - | 3 |
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| 151619900 | SPECIAL TOPICS IN PHYSICS | 3 | - | 3 |
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