Postgraduate Lectures - Course PY5001: Electronic Structure

Lecturers: S. Sanvito and M. Ferreira

• Introduction: What Hamiltonian? Born-Oppenheimer Approximation
• Tight-binding method for molecules
• 1D system: Peierl's Distortion
• 2D and 3D
• Fermi surface, density of states, local density of states
• Multi-orbital LCAO
• C-graphite
• C-graphite hybrid orbitals
• Quantization: C-nanotubes
• Free electron model (physical properties)
• Nearly free electron model (tight-binding limit)
• Surface density of states
• Simulation STM images
• Hybrid tight-binding-free electron model.