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Lecturers: Scott Bogner, Peter Ring, Nicolas Schunck, Dario Vretenar


Week 1, Week 2, 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
  • 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
  • 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

  • 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.

Wednesday, July 16

  • Scott Bogner 2: Hartree-Fock (HF) theory: product states, density matrices, variational principle, Thouless theorem, Koopman's theorem

Thursday, July 17

  • Peter Ring 1: Pairing Correlations: Spontaneous symmetry breaking, seniority model, BCS approximation, pairing tensor, Hartree-Fock-Bogoliubov (HFB) theory

Friday, July 18

  • Peter Ring 2: Random Phase Approximation (RPA): Time-dependent Hartree-Fock (TDHF) theory, linear response, stability matrix
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