The Lda Dmft Approach To Strongly Correlated Materials Autumn School Organized By The Dfg Research Unit 1346 Dynamical Meanfield Approach With Predictive Power For Strongly Correlated Materials At Forschungszentrum Jlich On 4 7 October 2011 Eva Pavarini by Eva Pavarini, Erik Koch, Dieter Vollhardt, Alexander Lichtenstein 9783893367344, 3893367349 instant download after payment.

During the last few years conventional band-structure calculations in the local density approximation (LDA) have been merged with a modern many-body approach, the dynamical mean-field theory (DMFT), into a novel computational method referred to as LDA+DMFT. This framework has proved to be a breakthrough for the realistic modeling of the electronic, magnetic, and structural properties of materials such as transition metals and their oxides. Nevertheless the LDA+DMFT approach still needs to be considerably advanced to be able to treat increasingly complex systems. This requires, for example, an improvement of the interface between the band structure and many-body constituents of the approach, the refinement and integration of efficient impurity solvers, the realistic computation of free energies and forces, and the development of schemes to treat non-local correlations. For this purpose 25 researchers from 16 different institutions in the German-speaking part of Europe joined forces and established the Research Unit FOR 1346 on Dynamical Mean-Field Approach with Predictive Power for Strongly Correlated Materials, which is funded by the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft since July 2010. It is the goal of this Research Unit to develop the LDA+DMFT framework into a comprehensive ab initio approach which will be able to describe, and eventually even predict, the properties of complex correlated materials.
By organizing the 2011 Autumn School Hands-on LDA+DMFT the researchers of the DFG
Research Unit FOR 1346 offer a practical introduction into the LDA+DMFT approach for graduate students and young researchers in this novel branch of condensed matter physics.