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Assignments (due by Friday for those taking the summer school for credit)

• DFT Assignment

Monday May 26th

• Introduction to the Summer School, A.M. Tremblay
• A Refresher in Many Body Theory, A.M. Tremblay
• Introduction to DFT and density functionals, M. Ernzerhof
• Density Functional Theory: Implementation in ABINIT, X. Gonze
• Local Density Approximation + U, M. Cote

Tuesday May 27th

• References books on DFT : ref1, ref2, ref3
• Quantum Cluster Methods, D. Senechal

Wednesday May 28th

• Lecture Notes on Quantum Cluster Methods, D. Senechal
• Monte Carlo Simulations and Error Analysis, M. Troyer

Thursday May 29th

• The Density Matrix Renormalization, S. White (slides)
• The Density Matrix Renormalization, S. White (lecture notes)
• Introduction to ALPS, M. Troyer

Friday May 30th

• The Worm Algorithm, M. Boninsegni

Monday June 2nd

• LDA + DMFT, G. Kotliar (This is a Review of Modern Physics. We post it there for your convenience but please note that we will remove this paper from the website in a day or two)
• LDA + DMFT, G. Kotliar (slides - updated!)
• NRG, U. Schoellwock
• Atomistic Modeling of Nanoelectronics, H. Guo

Tuesday June 3rd

• Time-dependent DMRG, U. Schoellwock
• Quantum Information Point of View on DMRG and Other Methods, U. Schoellwock

Wednesday June 4th

• Hirsh-Fye, M. Jarrell (salerno version)
• Dynamical Cluster Approximation with Quantum Monte Carlo Cluster Solvers, M. Jarrell

Thursday June 5th

• Continuous-time Quantum Monte Carlo, P. Werner
• Holstein Polaron: Results from Numerical and Analytical Approaches, M. Berciu

Friday June 6th

• Exam solution

Other References

• Fatih has made many requests that we post the following link. It is a book that encompasses many of the subjects thaught in this summer school and it can be freely downloaded using your library proxy or VPN. Thanks Fatih!
• Some people have created a facebook group to post pictures.
• The school group picture taken on Thursday.