====== Schedule ====== Lecturers: Scott Bogner, Peter Ring, Nicolas Schunck, Dario Vretenar ---- [[week1|Week 1]], [[week2|Week 2]], [[week3|Week 3]] ---- ==== Daily Schedule ==== * 09:00-10:30 Lectures * 10:30-11:00 Coffee * 11:00-12:30 Lectures * 12:30-14:00 Lunch * 14:00-18:00 Computational Project/Exercises ==== Week 1: Basic techniques of quantum many-body physics ==== ==== Monday, July 14 ==== * Welcome/Introductory Remarks * {{qm.pdf|Dario Vretenar 1}}: Reminder of advanced quantum mechanics: Coordinate and momentum representations of the Hilbert space, discrete bases, operators, Schrodinger equation, spin, isospin, Dirac equation * {{computing.pdf|Computational Projects}}: Requirements for the computational projects, crash courses on Makefile and the git version control system. * {{:talentdftguides.pdf|}}: More information on Git, Unit tests, Object Orientation, and MPI/OpenMP ==== Tuesday, July 15 ==== * {{secondquantizationshorter.pdf|Scott Bogner 1}}: In this lecture I review some basic concepts and tools of many-body theory (symmetrization postulate for N-body states, Fock space and second quantization, Wick's theorem, particle-hole picture). The treatment I give is standard, and may be found in any of the textbooks in the References. * Reminder on {{AngMom.pdf|angular momentum algebra}} ==== Wednesday, July 16 ==== * {{hartreefock3.pdf|Scott Bogner 2}}: Hartree-Fock (HF) theory: product states, density matrices, variational principle, Thouless theorem, Koopman's theorem ==== Thursday, July 17 ==== * {{ring-pairing.pdf|Peter Ring 1}}: Pairing Correlations: Spontaneous symmetry breaking, seniority model, BCS approximation, pairing tensor, Hartree-Fock-Bogoliubov (HFB) theory ==== Friday, July 18 ==== * {{ring-rpa.pdf|Peter Ring 2}}: Random Phase Approximation (RPA): Time-dependent Hartree-Fock (TDHF) theory, linear response, stability matrix