Course Identification

Introduction to electronic structure methods

Density functional theory - overview

Many-body Green's function methods - overview, second quantization, the self-energy approach

Dielectric screening and the GW approach

Electron-phonon coupling and the density functional perturbation theory approach

Electron-hole coupling and the many-body Bethe Salpeter equation approach

Basic knowledge of electronic structure first-principle methods typically applied in materials science.

Many-Particle Physics, G. D. Mahan

Fundamentals of Condensed Matter Physics, M. L. Cohen , S. G. Louie

Electronic Structure: Basic Theory and Practical Methods, R. M. Martin