Syllabus
1/ General Hamiltonian of the solid state. 2/ Reduction of the many body problem on a single particle problem. 3/ Hartree and Hartree-Fock approximations. Spin-polarized Hartree-Fock method.
Electronic structure of atoms in Hartree-Fock approximation. 4/ Beyond the single particle approximation – atomic multiplets. 5/ Density functional theory, local spin density approximation. 6/ Comparison of Hartree-Fock and local spin density approximations. 7/ Electronic structure of crystals. Reciprocal space, Brillouin zones, Fermi surface. 8/ Methods of electronic structure calculation – a survey. 9/ Tight binding method.
Full potential linearized augmented plane wave (FPLAPW) method. 10/ Specific example of electronic structure calculation using FPLAPW method as implemented in the most recent version of the WIEN code. 11/ Electronic structure of a thin film. Analysis and discussion of results.
Magnetic thin films. 12/ New methods in electronic structure calculation of magnetic systems – LDA+U, self-interaction correction, orbital polarization, dynamical mean field theory.
Annotation
Electronic structure of solid state. Methods of calculation.
Electronic structure of thin films. New methods in calculation of electronic structure of magnetic systems.