Lecture "Solid State Theory II" (515.474)

Band Structure Methods
SS 2014

This is a collection of links, related to the band structure methods lecture and more in general to density functional theory (DFT).

DFT basics:

• Chapter 8 of the script "Solid State Theory" (Schachinger, Sormann, TU Graz): here.
• Nobel Lecture from Walter Kohn: here.
• Capelle bird's eye view on density functional theory: here.
• A primer in Density Functional Theory here
• Tutorials on the ABINIT web page: here.

Advanced topics (DFT):

• Linear Response (Density Functional Perturbation Theory): S. Baroni et al., Phonons and related crystal properties from density-functional perturbation theory: here.
• S.Y. Savrasov and D. Savrasov, Electron-phonon interactions and related physical properties of metals from linear-response theory: here.

Codes:

• Quantum Espresso: an open-source plane-wave pseudopotential code which we will use for our exercises.
  You can download it here.
• Wannier90: Plugin to generate maximally localized Wannier functions; works with quantum espresso and many other codes (VASP, WIEN2k, Abinit...): http://www.wannier.org/