Reading Course: Quantum Many-Body Theory

Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute Reading Course, Spring 2024

This is the official website for the reading course: Quantum Many-Body Theory, held in Spring 2024

General information

Instructor: Fabian M. Faulstich

Time: Tue 4:00PM - 6:00PM Amos Eaton 411

Office Hours: Tue 1:00PM-2:00PM, Thu 4:00PM-5PM. 406 Amos Eaton Hall

Schedule

Date	Topic	Presenter
01/10	Overview of the Quantum Many-Body Problem	Fabian Faulstich
01/16	Quantum mechanics of the hydrogen atom	Timothy Lund
01/23	The hydrogen molecule and the Hartree-Fock method	Ben Freiman
01/30	Second quantization I: Fock space, creation and annihiliation operators, Excitation operators	Michael Papadopoulos
02/06	No meeting
02/13	No meeting
02/20	Recap: the Hartree-Fock method (first quantization)	Fabian Faulstich
02/27	No meeting
03/12*	Second quantization II: Slater-Condon rules, Wick's theorem, Hartree-Fock revisited	Edward Lu
03/19	No meeting
03/26*	The linear combination of atomic orbitals ansatz	Chanaka Mapa Mudiyanselage
04/02	Gaussian-type atomic orbitals and high-dimensional integration	Talha Aziz
04/09	Truncating the coupled cluster ansatz and its working equations	Ibrahim Abdulazeez
04/16	Finding one and all roots to the coupled cluster equations	Francis Appiah

Meetings marked with an asterisk (*) are subject to potential cancellation. In case this happens, the scheduled presenter for that date will present at the next occurring meeting, causing all subsequent presenters to be rescheduled to the following occuring dates.