Teaching plan

Date Teacher Place Topic Lecture notes / comments
20.08.2012 Morten Hjorth-Jensen (MHJ)  Lille Fysiske Auditorium (LFA)  Introduction to the course  Presentation of the course, with syllabus, examination form etc. Discussion of physical systems and wave functions for bosons and fermions. Lecture notes, Shavitt and Bartlett chapter 1, Raimes chapter 1 and Gross, Runge and Heinonen (GRH) chapter 1. 
22.08.2012 MHJ  LFA  Second quantization  We discuss systems of fermions and bosons, lecture notes, Shavitt and Bartlett chapter 3, Raimes chapter 2 
23.08.2012 Gustav Bårdsen (GB)  Solution of weekly exercises, room FØ364    No exercise session first week 
27.08.2012 MHJ  LFA  Second quantization  Wave functions for fermions and bosons, continuation from last week. Representation of operators in second quantization. Lecture notes, Shavitt and Bartlett chapter 3 and Raimes chapter 2 
29.08.2012 Gustav Bårdsen  LFA  Second quantization  Continuation of previous lecture. 
30.08.2012 Gustav Bårdsen (GB)  FØ364  Exercises 1 and 2   
03.09.2012 MHJ  LFA  Second quantization  We discuss the representation of quantum mechanical operators in the second quantization representation. We start also discussing Wick's theorem. 
05.09.2012 MHJ  LFA  Matrix elements and Wick's theorem  We introduce Wick's theorem and how to simplify calculations of expectation values. We discuss also a diagrammatic representation of operators. We start also discussion the particle-hole representation. Lecture notes, Shavitt and Bartlett chapter 3.1-3.6 and 4.1-4.4 and Raimes appendix VII. 
06.09.2012 MHJ  FØ364  Exercises 3, 4 and 5   
10.09.2012 MHJ  LFA  Wick's theorem and diagrammatic representation of matrix elements  Lecture notes, Shavitt and Bartlett chapter 4 and Raimes chapter 7. We discuss also the particle-hole representation of operators. 
12.09.2012 MHJ  LFA  Diagrammatic representation of matrix elements  We discuss also how to represent the kinetic energy and density operators in a diagrammatic form. Lecture notes, Shavitt and Bartlett chapter 4 and Raimes chapter 7. 
13.09.2012 GB  FØ364  Exercises   
17.09.2012 MHJ  LFA  Diagrams and quantum mechanical expectation values  Lecture notes and Shavitt and Bartlett chapters 4.1-4-4 for the diagrammatic representation. 
19.09.2012 MHJ  LFA  Diagrams and Hartree-Fock theory  Lecture notes for the Hartree-Fock approach, Shavitt and Bartlett chapters 4.1-4-4 for the diagrammatic representation.  
20.09.2012 GB  FØ364  Exercises 8-11  For exercise 11, the computation of the three-body term is optional.  
24.09.2012 MHJ  LFA  Hartree-Fock theory and Thouless' theorem  Lecture notes 
26.09.2012 MHJ  LFA  Stability of Hartree-Fock equations  Lecture notes. 
27.09.2012 GB  FØ364  Exercises 12, 13 a, b and c   
01.10.2012 MHJ  LFA  Summary of Hartree-Fock theory and the electron gas.  Lecture notes. We will discuss the stability of the Hartree-Fock equations and Koopman's theorem. We present also the classical example of Hartree-Fock theory, the so-called electron gas. 
03.10.2012 MHJ  LFA  Electron gas and configuration interaction theory  Lecture notes. We continue our discussion of the electron gas and start with configuration interaction theory. 
04.10.2012 GB  FØ364   Exercises 14, 16 and 18   
08.10.2012 MHJ  LFA  Configuration interaction theory and presentation of midterm exam  Lecture notes. We continue our discussion of configuration interaction theories. 
10.10.2012 MHJ  LFA  No lectures due to midterm exam   
11.10.2012 No exercises    Midterm exam  The midterm exam is presented on Monday 8 during the lecture 8-10am and has to be handed in on Monday the 15th at noon. 
15.10.2012 MHJ  LFA  CI theory, final part  Lecture notes 
17.10.2012 MHJ  LFA  Resume CI and begin perturbation theory  Lecture notes 
18.10.2012 MHJ  FØ364  Exercises  Finalize exercise 18 and exercise 19. The exercises will be solved on the blackboard since the electron gas results will be used later in our discussion of density functional theory. 
22.10.2012 MHJ  LFA  Many-body perturbation theory  Lecture notes and Shavitt and Bartlett chapters 2 and 5. Derivation of Brillouin-Wigner and Rayleigh-Schroedinger perturbation theory. Definition of model spaces. 
24.10.2012 MHJ  LFA  Many-body perturbation theory  Derivation of Brillouin-Wigner and Rayleigh-Schroedinger perturbation theory. 
25.10.2012 MHJ  FØ364  End of exercise 19.   
29.10.2012 MHJ  LFA  Many-body perturbation theory  Diagram rules and their derivations, with various examples. 
31.10.2012 MHJ  LFA  Many-body perturbation theory  Diagrams and their corresponding rules with examples.  
01.11.2012 GB  FØ364  Exercises 24, 25 and 28   
05.11.2012 MHJ  LFA  Many-body perturbation theory  Lecture notes, Shavitt and Bartlett chapter 5-6 and Raimes 7-9 Discussion of time-dependent theory, adiabatic hypothesis and Goldstone's linked diagram theorem. 
07.11.2012 MHJ  LFA  Many-body perturbation theory  Lecture notes, Shavitt and Bartlett chapter 5-6 and Raimes 7-9. Discussion of time-dependent perturbation theory, Goldstone's theorem, Wick's theorem for time-dependent products and Gell-Mann and Low's theorem. 
08.11.2012 GB  FØ364  Exercises 26 and 30   
12.11.2012 MHJ  LFA  Summary of Many-body perturbation theory and begin Coupled cluster theory   
14.11.2012 MHJ  LFA  Coupled cluster theory  Lecture notes and chpater 9 of Shavitt and Bartlett 
15.11.2012 GB  FØ364  Exercises 31 a, b, c, and d   
19.11.2012 MHJ  LFA  Coupled-cluster theory   Lecture notes and Shavitt and Bartlett chapters 9 and 10. 
21.11.2012 MHJ  LFA  Coupled-cluster theory    
22.11.2012 GB  FØ364  Exercises  Exercise 33, parts e, f, g, h and i. 
26.11.2012 MHJ  LFA  Density functional theory  Lecture notes 
28.11.2011 MHJ  LFA  Summary and brief link with density functional theory  Lecture notes and last lecture. Summary of the course and discussion of exam. 
11.12.2012 Final written exam      Best wishes to you all! 
Published Aug. 19, 2012 1:14 PM - Last modified Nov. 28, 2012 11:43 AM