Learned about solid state physics and want to see it working for real life systems? The Computational Materials Science course will cover the some basic numerical approaches to solids. In the computer exercises you will get hands-on experience with Wien2k and Wannier90 codes as well as introduction to many-body techniques based on exact diagonalization.
1) Electronic structure with density functional theory
2) Wannier functions and construction of lattice models
3) Introduction to many-body methods, Fock space, exact diagonalization
4) Transport and optical properties
Quantum mechanics (Schrodinger equation, Pauli principle) and linear aglebra (Hermitean and unitary operators, eigenvalues and eigenvectors)
Basics of solid state theory (Bloch theorem, reciprocal space, Fermi energy and Fermi surface)