After successful completion of the course, students are able to comprehend the materials presented in the lecture and to draw conclusions from them, as well as to actively communicate the contents presented during the lecture.

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) Kondo effect and impurity physics

5) Disorder and coherent potential approximation

Preliminary days for the computer exercise are:

1) Oct. 25 2) Nov 8 3) Nov 29 4) Dec 13  5) Jan 10

Lecture with integrated computational exercises

 First lecture: Tue. Oct 3rd, 2023 starting at 13:15

Besides the lectures on Tue there will be 5 computer exercises on Wedn.

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Vorbesprechung aller Wahlvorlesungen des IFP:

Montag, 02.10.2023, 15.00 - 16.00 Uhr, FH HS 6

Certificate

The exam will be based on going beyond one of the exercises and presenting a 10 min talk on it.

Lecture notes and exercises will be made available via TISS.

Recommended further reading:

https://www.cond-mat.de/events/correl11/manuscripts/kunes.pdf    (Lecture notes to Wannier functions)

https://arxiv.org/pdf/cond-mat/0211443.pdf  (Lecture notes to density functional theory and band structure methods)

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)