Plans for week 41

Dear all, welcome back to FYS4480. 

Please note that the lecture on Thursday will be via zoom only. I am unfortunately in a series of zoom meetings most of Thursday  and decided thus to work from home.  The Friday lecture will however be in person as usual. I hope this does not cause any problems to you. 

The lecture notes are at https://github.com/ManyBodyPhysics/FYS4480/blob/master/doc/pub/week41/ipynb/week41.ipynb and the zoom link is https://msu.zoom.us/j/97773954122?pwd=6f3GES17tnZudZjzDQ8O5gUJnXyG0K.1

The topics this week  focus on the infinite electron gas in three dimensions and how to calculate the Hartree-Fock energy (analytical expression) and the ground state energy (analytical expression again). The latter plays an important role in density functional theory. This is a topic we cover right after we have discussed the electron gas.

a. Thursday: Zoom lecture

* The homogeneous electron gas in three dimensions

* Hartree-Fock solution and ground state energy 

b. Friday:

* Calculating the ground state energy of the electron gas

* Links with density functional theory

* Discussion of first midterm

• Lecture Material: These slides and handwritten notes

• First midterm set at https://github.com/ManyBodyPhysics/FYS4480/blob/master/doc/Exercises/2024/FirstMidterm2024.pdf. Available Friday October 11

Best wishes to you all,

Morten and Ruben