Material science notes - book

Here, you will find some of the notes I have taken from the book ‘Computational Material Science: An Introduction’ by June Gunn Lee:

• What is the so called first-principle or ab-initio calculation?
  It contains a very short summary of many-body quantum mechanical problem.
  PDF version --- Google Colab version
• What is the density functional theory (DFT)?
  It contains an introduction to DFT such as the HK theorem, KS orbital approach, and XC functional
  PDF version --- Google Colab version
• How to approach the theory of solid from a DFT perspective?
  It contains introductory remarks on pseudopotential, reciprocal space, Brillouin zone, k-points, plane-wave expansion, Bloch thorem, etc.
  PDF version --- Google Colab version

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Material science notes - Coursera course

Here, you will find lecture notes from the coursera course Density Functional Theory. These notes are available as jupyter notebooks (Google colab) or as PDF format.

• Week 1: From the Many-Body problem to Density Functional Theory
  PDF version --- Google Colab version
• Week 2: From density to the Kohn-Sham world
  PDF version --- Google Colab version
• Week 3: Approximating XC functionals and strategies for solving KS equations
  PDF version --- Google Colab version

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Lecture notes

These two notes are about electromagnetic wave propagation through an optical medium. The first note is a review of Maxwell’s equation in microscopic and macroscopic formulation. Then in the second note, we go deeper into the nonlinear wave equation in the frequency domain

• A review of Maxwell's equation
• Nonlinear wave equation