Teaching

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Electronic Structure of Condensed Matter (SS 2010)

The study of the electronic structure of solids is an established and developing field of condensed matter physics. Many properties of materials can now be determined directly from the fundamental quantum mechanical description of matter. This approach is leading to new insights into important problems in chemistry, physics, and materials science. Electronic structure calculations are established tools used by both experimentalists and theorists to understand characteristic properties of real materials. This lecture will describe the fundamental ideas underlying the field and highlight the areas of active research.

Lecture Topics

1. Introduction
2. Theoretical background
3. Quantum many body theory
   1. Hartree Fock
   2. Post Hartree-Fock methods
4. Density Functional Theory
   1. Hohenberg-Kohn Theorem
   2. Kohn-Sham Ansatz
5. Functionals for exchange and correlations
6. Pseudopotentials
7. Periodic solids and reciprocal space formalism
8. Solving the electronic structure problem
   1. Plane waves and grids
   2. Localized basis sets
9. Density functional perturbation theory