Overview of course material: FYS4411/9411 Computational Physics 2, Computational Quantum Mechanics

Morten Hjorth-Jensen [1, 2]
[1] Department of Physics and Astronomy and Facility for Rare Ion Beams, Michigan State University, USA
[2] Department of Physics and Center for Computing in Science Education, University of Oslo, Norway

Lecture notes as Jupyter-book

January 20-24: Welcome and introduction to the course and Variational Monte Carlo

January 27-31: Building a Variational Monte Carlo code, the Metropolis Algoritm and Markov Chains

February 3-7: Metropolis Algorithm and Importance Sampling

February 10-14: Importance Sampling and Metropolis-Hastings algorithm

February 17-21: Optimization problems, basic ideas

February 24-28: Gradient methods and optimization problems

March 3-7: Bootstrap and Blocking as Resampling methods

March 10-14: Resampling methods and start optimization of codes

March 17-21: Optimization and parallelization

March 24-28: Deadline for project 1 and summary and discussions of project 1 and possible variants for project 2

March 31-April 4 : TBA

April 7-11: TBA

April 14-18: Break

April 21-25: TBA

April 28-May 2: TBA

May 5-9: TBA

May 12-16: Summary of course and last lecture and lab session

Projects Spring 2024

Project 1, Variational Monte Carlo studies of Quantum Mechanical Systems, deadline March 22

Project 2, Deep Learning and Quantum Mechanical Systems, deadline June 1

Project 2, Variational Monte Carlo for Fermions, deadline June 1, 2024

Project 2, Time-dependent Hartree-Fock, deadline June 1, 2024

Project 2, Quantum Computing, deadline June 1, 2024

Project 2, Coupled clsuter theory, deadline June 1, 2024