Seminar:
Numerische Methoden für die Physik der Kondensierten Materie
(Numerical Methods for Condensed Matter Physics)
Link to Seminar description
List of topics
- Quantum scattering
- Variational methods for the Schrödinger equation
- Hartree-Fock method
- Density functional theory
- Solving the Schrödinger equation in periodic solids
- Classical statistical mechanics
- Molecular dynamics simulation
- Quantum molecular dynamics
- Classical Monte Carlo simulations
- Transfer matrix methods
- Quantum Monte Carlo
- Series expansion techniques
- Density matrix renormalization group
- Dynamical mean field theory
Literature
J.M.Thijssen: Computational Physics, Cambridge Univerity Press, 1999
Press et al.: Numerical Recipes in C (The art of Scientific Computing), 2nd ed., Cambridge University Press, 2001, Link to NR homepage