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Schedule

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


Week 1, Week 2, Week 3


Daily Schedule

  • 9:00-10:30 Lectures
  • 10:30-11:00 Coffee
  • 11:00-12:30 Lectures
  • 12:30-2:00 Lunch
  • 2:00-3:30 Exercises
  • 3:30-4:00 Coffee
  • 4:00-6:00 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.

Tuesday, July 15

  • Scott Bogner 1: Second quantization: Fermions and bosons, Fock space, Wick theorem, equivalence between representations

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, 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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