A Practical Introduction to Density Functional Theory
Materials Science
2020-11-20 v1 Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics
Abstract
These lecture notes contain a brief practical introduction to doing density functional theory calculations for crystals using the open source Quantum Espresso software. The level is aimed at graduate students who are studying condensed matter or solid state physics, either theoretical or experimental.
Cite
@article{arxiv.2011.09888,
title = {A Practical Introduction to Density Functional Theory},
author = {Louk Rademaker},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2011.09888},
year = {2020}
}
Comments
22 pages lecture notes based on ToolBoX course at the University of Geneva, March 2020