The course covers the quantum mechanical details of spectroscopy and molecular property calculations. The main topics are:

 

• Time-independent perturbation theory
• Static molecular properties as energy derivatives
• Time-dependent perturbation theory and dynamic properties
• Fermi's Golden Rule
• Maxwell's Equations
• Radiation-matter interactions
• Minimal coupling Hamiltonian
• Electric-dipole approximation and optical transitions
• Magnetic dipole and higher multipole transitions
• Introduction to time-dependent self-consistent field theory