Plans for the second week, January 27-31

Dear all, welcome back to FYS4411/9411.  Here are the plans for the lecture tomorrow.

Note first that I have changed the zoom link to my UiO address. The permanent link for the rest of the semester is 

https://uio.zoom.us/my/mortenhj

Please use this link if you cannot attend in person. 

Note also that there are no lectures 815-10. The lectures start at 1015-12 and our lab sessions follow thereafter.

You will find the lecture notes for this week at https://github.com/CompPhysics/ComputationalPhysics2/blob/gh-pages/doc/pub/week2/ipynb/week2.ipynb

The topics this week are 

Repetition from last week and discussions of code templates in python and C++

Essential ingredients: Variational Monte Carlo methods, Metropolis Algorithm, statistics and Markov Chain theory

How to structure the VMC code

Sections 3.1-3.9 of Sorella and Becca's text follow to a large extent the topics for the lecture. Chapter 2 gives a good review of central statistics elements and can serve as background literature.
You can download the book for free from the university library by accessing it via oria.no or simply use the link https://github.com/CompPhysics/ComputationalPhysics2/blob/gh-pages/doc/Literature/MCbookSorellaBecca.pdf

Best wishes to you all,

Morten