Lectures Cagliari 2009

Lectures:

• Introduction to Many Body Problem and Density Functional Theory (Letizia Chiodo)
  (Pdf local file, 2.8 MB)

• Excited state properties: electronic and optical spectroscopies (Letizia Chiodo)
  (Pdf local file, 1.4 MB)

• Many Body Perturbation Theory in Solid State Physics: GW approximation (Letizia Chiodo)
  (Pdf local file, 1.6 MB)

• Many Body Perturbation Theory in Solid State Physics: BSE (Letizia Chiodo)
  (Pdf local file, 1.1 MB)

• Time Dependent Density Functional Theory (Letizia Chiodo)
  (Pdf local file, 413.8 KB)

• Bibliography

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  M.C. Payne et al., Iterative minimization techniques for ab initio total-energy calculations: molecular dynamics and conjugate gradients, Rev. Mod. Phys. 64, 1045 - 1097 (1992).

  R.M. Martin, Electronic Structure: Basic Theory and Practical Methods, Cambridge University Press, 2004.

  E. Runge and E.K.U. Gross, Density-Functional Theory for Time-Dependent Systems, Phys. Rev. Lett. 52 (1984) 997.

  M.A.L. Marques, C.A. Ullrich, F. Nogueira, A. Rubio, K. Burke, E.K.U. Gross, Time-Dependent Density Functional Theory. (Springer-Verlag, 2006).

  L. Hedin, New Method for Calculating the One-Particle Green's Function with Application to the Electron-Gas Problem, Phys. Rev. 139, A796 (1965).

  R.W. Godby, M. Schluter, L.J. Sham, Self-energy operators and exchange-correlation potentials in semiconductors, Phys. Rev. B 37, 10159 (1988).

  G. Onida, L. Reining, A. Rubio, Electronic excitations: density-functional versus many-body Green’s-function approaches, Rev. Mod. Phys. 74, 601 (2002).