Course Identification

- A basic course in quantum mechanics: Bachelor's degree level / Leeor Kronik's "Quantum Mechanics" course at the WIS.

Syllabus: Computational approaches to many-body interactions in materials

1. Many-body interactions in materials from a computational point of view: 

 - Mean-field approaches, the Hartree-Fock approximation

    - Wavefunction-based approaches

    - Model Hamiltonian approaches

    - Electronic-structure approaches

2. Density Functional Theory and Many-Body Perturbation Theory - overview

3. Computing excitations in materials: 

  - Single particle excitations- the dielectric function

  - Lattice vibrations and phonons 

  - Magnetic excitations

  - Optical excitations and excitons: comparison of various theoretical approaches

4. Computational approaches to transport in materials  

Upon successful completion of this course students should be able to: 

- Be familiar with computational approaches to calculate materials electronic and optical properties.

- Be familiar with theoretical developments and proofs to computational approaches of many-body phenomena.

- Understand electronic and excitonic bandstructures and their implications.

- Be able to apply simple codes of bandstructure approaches.

Marvin L. Cohen and Steven G. Louie, Fundamentals of Condensed Matter Physics

Robert G. Parr and Weitao Yang, Density-Functional Theory of Atoms and Molecules