Details of ID5201 (Spring 2021)

Level: 5 Type: Theory Credits: 1.0

Course CodeCourse NameInstructor(s)
ID5201 Modern Density Functional Theory Goutam Dev Mukherjee,
Swastika Chatterjee,
Tanusree Saha Dasgupta

Preamble
Participants: PhD students, IPhD students, 4 th /5 th year BSMS students

Course Hours: 12

Taught by: Dr. Tanusri Saha Dasgupta, SNBNCBS, Kolkata

Concerned instructor-in-charge: Prof. Goutam Dev Mukherjee, DPS & Head NCHPS

Syllabus
Many-body Hamiltonian, Single-electron approximation, Hartree method (variational method,
self-consistent field solution), Hartee-Fock theory and its application to free electron gas,
Exchange and Correlation energy, Motivation for density based methods, Thomas-Fermi model,
Modern density functional theory (DFT): Hohenberg-Kohn theorem, Kohn-Sham equations,
DFT based different first-principles methods, Gaussian and Plane wave basis, Hand on
applications of DFT using Quantum ESPRESSO and VASP simulation package.

References

Course Credit Options

Sl. No.ProgrammeSemester NoCourse Choice
1 IP 2 Not Allowed
2 IP 4 Not Allowed
3 IP 6 Not Allowed
4 MR 2 Not Allowed
5 MR 4 Not Allowed
6 MS 10 Not Allowed
7 MS 4 Not Allowed
8 MS 6 Not Allowed
9 MS 8 Not Allowed
10 RS 1 Not Allowed
11 RS 2 Not Allowed