Lectures on the Density Functional Theory
by Andrei Postnikov
Publisher: Universite de Lorraine 2009
Number of pages: 105
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Contents: Thomas-Fermi method; Hartree-Fock formalism; Total energy as functional of electron density; Practical implementation of DFT and HF calculation schemes; Response properties in ab initio schemes; Order-N methods; Lattice dynamics.
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