Postgraduate Lectures - Course PY5011: Many body theory

Lecturers: C. Patterson

Many-Body Theory (C. Patterson)

• Propagators and Green’s Functions
• Contour Integrals in the Complex Plane
• Schrödinger, Heisenberg, Interaction Pictures, Occupation Number Formalism
• Wick’s Theorem, Many-Body Green’s Functions
• The Polarisation Propagator
• The GW Approximation
• Hybrid Density functionals
• The Bethe-Salpeter Equation