Instructor: Prof. Warren E. Pickett

Office: Physics/Geology 427

Phone: 530-752-0926

E-mail: pickett@physics.ucdavis.edu

Office Hours: To be determined

Lecture:10:30-11:50 Tu-Th, 106 PG

Required Text: None. Materials will be taken from various books and publications.

URL for this course: http://onsager.ucdavis.edu/pickett/compsci/class.html

Assignments : There will be homework assignments, due weekly or semiweekly. The homework assignments will be due at the beginning of class. Late homework that is turned in within 24 hours of the deadline will be given half credit. No homework will be accepted after that.

There will also be one major project due at the end of the course. The project must be approved by the instructor. After planning the project, the objective, plan, flowchart, etc. will be refereed by two anonymous referees from within the class.

Grading : 40% homework, 20% refereeing, 40% final project.

• Introduction to the solid state many body problem
• Hartree-Fock approximation
• Density functional theory [1]
[2]
• The band structure problem: basis sets and diagonalization
• Symmetry: its use and its implications

Recommended Texts:

• Energy Band Theory by Joseph Callaway (Academic, New York, 1964)
• Computational Physics by Rubin H. Landau and Manuel J. P. Meji (Wiley and Sons, New York, 1997)
• Computational Physics edited by K. H. Hoffman and M. Schreiber (Springer, Berlin, 1996)