Teaching plan

The first 4 weeks we will introduce various topics in quantum mechanical many-body physics, with an emphasis on topics relevant for material science, solid state physics and quantum chemistry.

The many-body approaches to be studied in the three projects are Hartree-Fock theory, variational Monte Carlo methods, density functional theories and Molecular dynamics. Hartree-Fock theory is covered by the text of Raimes, while VMC methods are discussed in chapters 11, 16 and 17 of the Lecture notes. Density functional theories are discussed in the articles by Jones. Alternatively, the text of Thijssen covers well Hartree-Fock theory, density functional theory and molecular dynamics, see chapter 4-6 and 8-9. It covers also Monte Carlo methods, see chapters 12-14. The first part of the project deals with the development of a variational Monte Carlo program for quantum dots. We will study various closed shell dots using variational Monte Carlo. We start thus with studies of atoms using variational Monte Carlo. Material: Lecture notes chapter 14 and chapter 4.7 on parallelization. ?