Lecture 3: From Many-Body to Single-Particle: Quantum Modeling of Molecules

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Description: This lecture briefly reviews the previous lesson, discusses the many-body problem, Hartree and Hartree-Fock, density functional theory, and covers computational approaches, modeling software, and PWscf (plane-wave self-consisten field) input.

Instructor: Jeffrey Grossman