Postgraduate Lectures - Course PY5009: Density functional theory
Lecturers: C. Ederer
Density functional theory syllabus (C. Ederer, for more course information click here):
- Introduction to the many-body problem of interacting electrons and nuclei
- Theorems of Hohenberg and Kohn
- Kohn-Sham equations
- Local densisty approximation (LDA)
- Pseudopotential approximation
- Basis sets: plane waves, augmented functions, local orbitals
- Beyond LDA (GGA, exact exchange, SIC, LDA+U, ...)
- Applications