Preliminary timetable (link to printable version in PDF or ODS format)
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| Electronic Structure | S. de Gironcoli | 08/11/2010 |
Mon 15:30 - 17:00 Thu 14:30 - 16:00 |
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| Many Body | M. Fabrizio | 08/11/2010 |
Mon 10:00 - 12:00 Wed 10:00 - 12:00 |
lecture notes (pdf) (ps) |
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| Simulations | S. Sorella | 06/12/2010 |
Mon 14:00 - 15:30 Thu 9:30 - 11:00 |
program lecture notes web resources |
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| Solid State Problems | E. Tosatti | individually assigned problems dates to be fixed by appointment |
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| Statistical Mechanics
(with SBP sector) |
C. Micheletti | 9/11/2010 |
Tue 14.30 - 16:00 Wed 14:30 - 16:00 |
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- Lectures on "Disordered Quantum Systems"
- Lectures on "Many Body Physics out of Equilibrium"
- Why a non-equilibrium field theory is needed: failure of the fluctuation dissipation theorem, entropy production, and the Gell-Mann Low conjecture.
- Open non-equilibrium systems: Keldysh Green's functions, nonequilibrium distributions, Quantum kinetic equations and the Boltzmann limit.
- Applications to transport in nanostructures: current-voltage characteristics in interacting quantum dots, adiabatic quantum pumping.
- Closed non-equilibrium systems: quantum quenches, entropy production, statistics of the work, Jarzinsky equalities and Tasaki-Crooks fluctuation theorems.
- Applications to quantum critical systems: the Kibble-Zurek mechanism for defect production, scaling, quenches through quantum critical points and exact solution for the Ising model
- Optional courses in common with Statistical and Biological Physics
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| Advanced Sampling Techniques
(with SBP sector) |
A. Laio | 2011 |
Tue 09.00 - 11:00 Fri 09:00 - 11:00 |
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Simulation of Biomolecules (with SBP sector) |
G. Bussi | 2011 |
Tue 11.00 - 13:00 Thu 11:00 - 13:00 |
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Advanced Sampling Techniques, course program:
A: General introduction to the "rare events" problem.
Introduction to the concepts of free energy, rate constant, mean-first-passage time,
separation of time scales, committor distribution, etc.
B: Computing the free energy in complex systems:
1) Thermodynamic integration and umbrella sampling techniques.
Ferrenberg and Swendsen method for computing the density of states and
weighted-histogram analysis.
3) Free energies from non-equilibrium processes: the Jarzynski equality
for the irreversible work.
4) History-dependent reconstruction of the free energy: metadynamics and
Wand-Landau sampling.
C: Techniques for computing the rate constants:
1) Classical transition state theory. Kramers theory and Bennett-Chandler method
for computing the recrossing corrections.
2) Methods for finding the saddle point in complex potential energy
surfaces: nudged elastic band, eigenvalue following and the dimer method.
3) Path integral formulation of the rare event problem: transition path
sampling. Methods for computing the committor distribution
(finite-temperature string, etc.).
Simulation of Biomolecules, course program:
1. Classical force fields.
2. Equations of motion and integration schemes
3. Molecular dynamics in various ensembles.
4. Microreversibility, Crooks and Jarzinski fluctuation theorems.
5. Selected topics on molecular dynamics.
- Other Activities of interest
- Seminars on "Disorder and strong electron correlations" (ICTP main bldg, seminar room). Check the Agenda on ICTP website.
- Joint ICTP/SISSA Statistical Physics seminars: Wed 16:30 (ICTP main bldg, seminar room).
- Seminars @ Elettra: check the homepage of Theory@Elettra group.