PHYSICS 250.2: Computational Band Theory
Fall 1998
Course Content
- Introduction to the many body problem
- Hartree-Fock theory
following Fulde's book
- Wavefunction notation
- Second quantized notation
- Density functional theory
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- The basic theorems
- Kohn-Sham theory: a one-electron SCF problem
- The exchange-correlation functional: approximations
- The energy band problem
- Tight binding theory
- Plane waves and pseudopotentials
- Korringa-Kohn-Rostoker (KKR) method
- Augmented plane wave (APW) method
- Linearization: how, why, and how good
- Symmetry: Importance, Implementation
