2026 Fall - Advanced topics in Condensed Matter Physics
Graduate course, Ewha Womans University, Department of Physics, 2026
UNDER CONSTRUCTION
Many-body foundation
Bloch theorem, Born-Oppenheimer approximation
Second quantization and Hamiltonian in 2nd-quantization form
Single-particle band theory
Free and nearly free electron model, Periodic potential, Brillouin zone
Band gaps & Effective mass
Tight-binding model
LCAO, Wannier functions, hopping amplitudes
1D chain, graphene
Fermi lattice
Berry phase and topology primer (SSH model, Chern number)
Many-body problems & DFT foundations
Hartree-Fock approximation
Kohm-Sham equations, self-consistency
Practical DFT & Tensor Network
Wannierization (Wannier90): DFT \(\rightarrow\) tight-binding Hamiltonian
Matrix Product State & DMRG
