Plans for week 42, October 13-17
Dear all, welcome back to FYS4480/9480.
The plans this week are to first finalize our discussions of the homogeneous electron gas in three dimensions by calculating the Hartree-Fock ground state energy. After this long detour we will get an expression for the energy which is a function of the density of the system. This serves as one of the starting points for density functional theory (which we discuss later today and partly tomorrow) and is known as the local density approximation.
Some of the derivation are not included in the slides for this week and will be presented during the lectures.
Else, we will use parts of Friday's lecture to discuss and work on the first midterm.
The plans are with, with link to the lecture notes https://github.com/ManyBodyPhysics/FYS4480/tree/master/doc/pub/week42/ipynb
Thursday:
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The first lecture aims at finalizing the calculation of the ground state energy of the homogeneous electron gas in three dimensions
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Start discussion of density functional theory
Friday:
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Density functional theory
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Discussions of first midterm
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Lecture Material: These slides and handwritten notes
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First midterm set at https://github.com/ManyBodyPhysics/FYS4480/blob/master/doc/Exercises/2025/FirstMidterm2025.pdf
Best wishes to you all,
Morten