Simulations of quantum many body systems

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• Schedule and lecture notes for spring 2011 are now available.
• Lecture notes and web page of the fall semester 2010 and of the spring semester 2010.

A PhD-level 3-semester course shared by tele-teaching among the following institutions

• ETH Zurich
• LMU Munich
• ENS Paris
• MPI Dresden
• UMass Amherst
• University of Wyoming
• Lousiana State University
• …

(This list is still tentative and incomplete)

The course will be formally offered independently at all participating institutions and not as an ETH course. Students wanting course credit should talk to their advisors how to sign up locally for the course. Ideally the course should be formally announced and offered at each participating institution. Also, exams and course credit will be decided at each participating local institution.

The goal of this course is to offer students at the Master and PhD level an introduction to simulation methods for quantum many body systems in condensed matter physics, taught by experts of the various methods. In particuar the course will cover the following topics:

• Monte Carlo simulations, taught by Werner Krauth (ENS Paris)
• Exact diagonalization, taught by Dr. Andreas Läuchli (MPI Dresden)
• Series expansions, taught by Dr. Simon Trebst (Microsoft Research, UCSB)
• Density Matrix Renormalization Group, taught by Prof. Uli Schollwöck (LMU) and Prof. Adrian Feiguin (Wyoming)
• Quantum Monte Carlo simulations, taught by Prof. Matthias Troyer (ETH), Prof. Nikolay Prokof'ev (UMass Amherst) and Prof. Boris Svistunov (UMass Amherst)
• Dynamical mean field theory, taught by Mark Jarrell, Thomas Schulthess and Prof. Philipp Werner (ETH)

• Prof. Matthias Troyer (ETH)
• Werner Krauth (ENS Paris)
• Prof. Uli Schollwoeck (LMU)

• Prof. Adrian Feiguin (Wyoming)
• Werner Krauth (ENS Paris)
• Dr. Andreas Laeuchli (MPI Dresden)
• Prof. Nikolay Prokof'ev (UMass Amherst)
• Prof. Uli Schollwoeck (LMU)
• Prof. Boris Svistunov (UMass Amherst)
• Dr. Simon Trebst (Microsoft Research, UCSB)
• Prof. Matthias Troyer (ETH)
• Prof. Philipp Werner (ETH)
• Prof. Mark Jarrell (LSU)
• Prof. Thomas Schulthess (ETH/CSCS)

(This list is still tentative and incomplete)

The time is Thursday, 16:00-18:00 CET, which is 10:00-12:00 ET, 9:00-11:00 CT and 8:00-10:00 MT except in weeks where daylight savings time differs between Europe and the US.

Connection information and contact information for our technical staff can be found here: ethinfo.pdf. We will also provide a web stream and record the lectures.

A mailing list has been set up to facilitate communication: https://webmail.phys.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/quantumsimulations

• Introduction to the lecture series (Matthias Troyer) 25 February 2010
• Monte Carlo simulations - an introduction (Werner Krauth) 4 March, 11 March, 25 March, 1 April 2010
• Quantum lattice models (Matthias Troyer) 8 April 2010
• Exact diagonalization (Andreas Laeuchli) 15 April, 22 April, 27 May
• The density matrix renormalization group method (DMRG) 29 April, 6 May, 20 May

• Path integral quantum Monte Carlo methods (QMC)
• Dynamics from DMRG
• Series expansions

• Electronic structure calculations
• Dynamical mean field theory
• QMC methods for fermions
• Variational and Green's function Monte carlo methods