| Date | Teacher | Place | Topic | Lecture notes / comments |
| 14.01.2009 | Morten Hjorth-Jensen (MHJ). Eirik Gramstad (EG) will be at the lab every thursday.? | Lille Fysiske Auditorium? | Introduction to the course, computing topics and introduction of national supercomputing resources? | The course is based on two large projects which have to be approved. The final oral exam is based on these projects. 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.? |
| 15.01.2009 | MHJ and EG? | FV311? | Introduction to quantum mechanical studies of atoms and solid state physics? | The first project deals with the development of a variational Monte Carlo program for atoms. We will study the He, Be and Ne atoms using variational Monte Carlo. We start thus with studies of atoms using variational Monte Carlo. Project one is also presented. Material: Lecture notes chapter 11 and chapter 7.7 on parallelization.? |
| 21.01.2009 | No lecture but lab, EG? | ? | ? | MHJ is teaching at a school in South-Africa, no lectures but Eirik Gramstad will discuss the titan facility.? |
| 22.01.2009 | No lectures and lab? | ? | ? | ? |
| 28.01.2009 | MHJ? | LFA? | Variational Monte Carlo? | We discuss the construction of Slater determinants and importance sampling. Chapter 16 of lecture notes.? |
| 29.01.2009 | MHJ and EG? | FV329? | Variational Monte Carlo? | Computation of Slater determinants and importance sampling.? |
| 04.02.2009 | MHJ? | LFA? | Variational Monte Carlo? | Importance sampling and discussion of Green's function, link with diffusion equation. Chapter 16 of Lecture notes.? |
| 05.02.2009 | MHJ? | FV329? | Variational Monte Carlo? | Slater determinants and blocking.? |
| 11.02.2009 | MHJ? | LFA? | Variational Monte Carlo? | Discussion of the blocking method for getting statistical good data. Chapter 16 of lecture notes.? |
| 12.02.2009 | MHJ and EG? | FV329? | Variational Monte Carlo? | Blocking method and minimization of multivalue functions via the conjugate gradient method, chapter 16 of Lecture notes.? |
| 18.02.2009 | MHJ? | LFA? | Variational Monte Carlo? | Minimization of multivalue functions via the conjugate gradient method, chapter 16 of Lecture notes. The minimization method we will discuss is from chapter 10.7 of numerical recipes. We will also discuss more formally the calculation of the Jastrow factor and the Slater determinant.? |
| 19.02.2009 | MHJ and EG? | FV329? | Variational Monte Carlo? | Minimization of multivalue functions via the conjugate gradient method, chapter 16 of Lecture notes. Jastrow factor and Slater determinant.? |
| 25.02.2009 | MHJ? | LFA? | Wave functions? | We discuss the Slater determinant and the Jastrow factor and possible single-particle wave functions.? |
| 26.02.2009 | MHJ and EG? | FV329? | Wave function and conjugate gradient method? | We discuss how to optimize the wave function and show some simple examples on how to run the conjugate gradient method.? |
| 04.03.2009 | MHJ? | LFA? | Slater determinants and diffusion Monte Carlo? | We end our discussion on how to implement the wave function via the correlated part and the Slater determinant.? |
| 05.03.2009 | MHJ and EG? | FV329? | Final discussion of project 1? | We summarize project 1.? |
| 11.03.2009 | MHJ? | LFA? | Hartree-Fock theory and density functional theory (DFT)? | We start with HF and DFT, chapters 16 and 18 of lecture notes or chapters 4-6 of Thijssen's text. Hartree-Fock theory and choice of basis functions, chapter 16 of lecture notes.? |
| 12.03.2009 | MHJ and EG? | FV329? | Hartree-Fock equations? | We derive the Hartree-Fock equations by varying the single-particle wave functions. Literature: chapter 16 of lecture notes and chapter 4 of Thijssen. The slides are also self-contained. The chapters and the slides contain all relevant info for the Hartree-Fock part.? |
| 18.03.2009 | MHJ? | LFA? | Hartree-Fock equations? | We discuss how to derive the HF equations by making an expansion of the single-particle wave functions in terms of a basis of single-particle wave functions. ? |
| 19.03.2009 | MHJ and EG? | FV329? | Hartree-Fock? | We discuss various eigenvalue solvers needed to solve the Hartree-Fock equations. We continue also our discussion of project 1.? |
| 25.03.2009 | MHJ? | LFA? | DFT? | Chapter 18 of lecture notes or chapters 5 and 6 of Thijssen. Project two is presented.? |
| 26.03.2009 | MHj and EG? | FV329? | DFT? | Chapter 18 of lecture notes or chapters 5 and 6 of Thijssen.? |
| 01.04.2009 | MHJ? | LFA? | DFT? | Chapter 18 of lecture notes or chapters 5 and 6 of Thijssen.? |
| 02.04.2009 | MHJ and EG? | FV329? | Finalizing project 1? | We finalize project 1, no lecture, only lab.? |
| 15.04.2009 | MHJ? | LFA? | DFT? | Chapters 5 and 6 of Thijssen.? |
| 16.04.2009 | MHJ and EG? | FV329? | DFT? | Chapters 5 and 6 of Thijssen. Work on project 2.? |
| 23.04.2009 | EG? | FV329? | Project 2? | Only Lab this week.? |
| 30.04.2009 | EG? | FV329? | Project 2? | Only lab this week.? |
| 07.05.2009 | MHJ and EG? | FV329? | DFT? | Chapters 5 and 6 of Thijssen. Work on project 2.? |
| 13.05.2009 | MHJ? | LFA? | DFT? | Chapter 5 of Thijssen. ? |
| 14.05.2009 | MHJ and EG? | FV329? | Project 2? | Only project work, no lecture.? |
| 20.05.2009 | MHJ? | FV329? | Only lab? | project 2? |
| 27.05.2009 | MHJ? | LFA? | No lecture? | ? |
| 28.05.2009 | MHJ and EG? | FV329? | Project 2? | Final discussion of project 2, deadline for project 2 is 31 May. The oral exam takes place Monday 15 June.? |
| 15.06.2009 | MHJ? | Department of Physics, UiO? | Final oral exam? | ? |
Teaching plan
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