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Physics 250-06 “Advanced Electronic Structure”
Lecture 1. Theoretical Background
Contents:
1. Historical Overview.
2. Basic Equations for Interacting Electrons.
Overview.
Electronic structure as a field of condensed matter physics:
1920es:
Band Theory of Independent Electrons of Felix Bloch.
Insulators, Semiconductors, Metals.
Emergence of Quantitative Calculations. Works of Hartree (selfconsistent electrostatic potentials) and Fock (antisymmetrized
determinant) on atoms.
1930es:
Method of Wigner and Seitz (1933) and electronic states of Na
metal. Augmented plane waves of Slater (1937).
Pseudopotentials by Fermi.
Overview.
1950es:
First calculations of electronic states by Herman, Callaway,
Slater for atoms and crystals.
1960es:
Density Functional Theory by Hohenberg, Kohn, Sham
1970es:
Linear Methods of Band Theory for solving Schroedinger’s
equation by Ole Andersen.
Overview.
1980es:
First self-consistent programs for electronic structure
calculations developed. Energy bands and properties of many
materials have been computed.
1990es:
Discovery of High-Temperature Superconductivity:
Phonons and electron phonon interactions, importance of
correlations in electronic structure.
Simulations of more complex materials, Car Parinello
molecular dynamics
Overview.
Current Research in Electronic Structure
Quantitative theories for correlated materials.
Quantitative theories for complex systems (nano, bio).
Overview.
Fundamental variables to study ground state properties:
Density
Total Energy
Volume
Pressure
Fundamental questions:
Nature of bonding
Equations of state
Phase transitions under pressure
Theory of Elasticity
Theory of Magnetism, Ferroelectricity
Phonons, Magnons
Surfaces, Interfaces, Defects.
Overview.
Fundamental variables to study excitations:
One-Electron Energy Bands
Wave Functions and transition matrix elements
Fundamental questions:
Angle Resolve Photoemission
Optical Spectroscopy
Excitons
Core Level Spectroscopy
Transport Properties
Superconductivity
Basic Equations for Interacting Electrons
Many Body Hamiltonian and Schroedinger’s equation
Ground State and Excited States
Hellmann-Feynman Theorem
Coulomb Interactions:
Hartree approximation and self-consistent theory
Exchange and Hartree-Fock approximation.
Koopmans’ theorem
Beyond Hartree-Fock: correlation effects
Periodic Solids and Electron Bands
Crystal structures, primitive translations and basis vectors.
Brillouin zone, high symmetry directions
Bloch theorem, band of eigenvalues
Symmetry considerations, irreducible BZ.
Integration over BZ:
Special point method.
Tetrahedron method.
Uniform Electron Gas and Simple Metals.
Model of uniform electron gas, rs and density as two parameters
Hartree-Fock approximation for eigenvalues.
Dielectric screening, Friedel oscillations
Hartree-Fock potential for uniform electron gas.
Slater x-Alpha method as a prerequisite to DFT