Plans for week 40, September 29-October 3

Dear all, welcome back to FYS4480/9480.

This week, and the two coming ones, we will spend time on mean-field theories, starting with Hartree-Fock theory and then moving to density functional theory. The plan this week is to

Topics to be covered

Thursday:

a. Deriving the Hartree-Fock equations

b. Efficient ways of implementing the Hartree-Fock algorithm

Friday:

a. Stability of Hartree-Fock equations and Thouless' theorem

Lecture Material: These slides attached here and Szabo and Ostlund, sections 3.1-3.4

Seventh exercise set at https://github.com/ManyBodyPhysics/FYS4480/blob/master/doc/Exercises/2025/ExercisesWeek40.pdf

Best wishes to you all,

Morten