Terminated in academic year 2020/2021

Electronic structure modelling of solids

Type of study	Follow-up Master
Language of instruction	Czech
Code	9360-0137/01
Abbreviation	MES
Course title	Electronic structure modelling of solids
Credits	3
Coordinating department	CNT - Nanotechnology Centre
Course coordinator	Ing. Dominik Legut, Ph.D.

Subject syllabus

THEORY:
1) Introduction to electronic structure of solids
2) Density functional theory - foundation of first-principles (ab initio) calculations
3) State-of-the-art methodology, approximations and limits of ab initio
4) Phase stability, thermal properties
5) Magnetism and electronic structure
6) Optical transitions
PRACTICAL session:
1) Calculations of mechanical properties
2) Lattice vibrations (phonons) and thermodynamical properties
3) Determination of magnetic ordering, effect of spin-orbit interaction
4) Calculations of optical and magneto-optical properties

Literature

Charles Kittels, Introduction to Solid State Physics, Wiley (1985).
N. Ashcroft, N. Mermin, Solid State Physics, Cengage Learning (1976).
R. M. Martin, Electronic Structure – Basic Theory and Practical Methods, Cambridge University Press (2004).

Advised literature

P. M. Chaikin, T. C. Lubensky, Principles of Condensed Matter Physics, Cambridge Press (2000).
J. Singleton, Band Theory and Electronic Properties of Solids, Oxford Master Series in Physics (2001).
S. Blundell, Magnetism in Condensed Matter, Oxford Master Series in Physics (2001).
J. Stohr, H. C. Siegmann, Magnetism: from Fundamentals to Nanoscale Dynamics, Springer (2006).
M. Fox, Quantum Optics, Oxford Master Series in Physics (2006).

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