Lecture Notes

Roberto Car

• Overview of Simulations of Quantum Systems
• H Bond Network in Water
• Rare Events: Classical and Quantum

David M. Ceperley

• Zero Temperature QMC
• Path Integral Monte Carlo methods for superfluids

James E. Gubernatis

• Itinerant Ferromagnetism: Mechanisms and Models
• QMC for Electron Lattice Models

David P. Landau

• Computer Simulations in Classical Systems
• Dynamic Scaling of Surface Growth in Simple Lattice Models
• The Search for Spin-waves in Iron Above Tc: Spin Dynamics Simulations

Steven G. Louie

• First Principles Ground- and Excited-State Calculations: DFT, GW and Beyond
• Quasiparticle Excitations and Optical Response of Bulk and Reduced-Dimensional Systems
• Deriving Insights from Computation: Molecular Electronics to Self-trapped Excitons

Andrew Chi-Chih Yao

• Quantum Algorithms I
• Quantum Algorithms II