Boulder School 2010: Lecture Notes
Boulder School 2010: Lecture Notes
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Week 1 | ||||
| July 6 | Troyer | Introduction to (classical) Monte Carlo simulations 1 | ||
| Schulthess | Introduction to high-performance computing and parallel programming 1 | |||
| July 7 | Schulthess | Introduction to high-performance computing and parallel programming 2 | ||
| Trebst | Extended Ensemble Simulations | |||
| Troyer | Introduction to ALPS / Classical Monte Carlo (hands-on tutorial) | |||
| Bauer | Introduction to ALPS / Classical Monte Carlo (hands-on tutorial) | |||
| July 8 | Troyer | Introduction to quantum Monte Carlo simulations 2 | ||
| Melko | Stochastic Series Expansion 1 | |||
| Refael | (Dis)ordered bosons 1 | |||
| July 9 | Melko | Stochastic series Expansion 2 | ||
| Refael | (Dis)ordered bosons 2 | PPT | ||
Week 2 | ||||
| July 12 | Troyer | The sign problem in quantum Monte Carlo Simulations 3 | ||
| Läuchli | Exact diagonalization 1 | |||
| White | The density matrix renormalization group 1 | C++ File | |||
| July 13 | Trebst | Linked-cluster series expansions | ||
| White | The density matrix renormalization group 2 | |||
| July 14 | Vishwanath | Frustrated Magnetism 1 | PPTX | |
| Hastings | Entanglement & computational complexity 1 | |||
| July 14 | White | Public Lecture | Flyer | Key File | Photo 1 | Photo 2 | ||
| July 15 | Vishwanath | Frustrated Magnetism 2 | PPTX | |
| Hastings | Entanglement & computational complexity 2 | |||
| Läuchli | Exact Diagonalization 2 | |||
| July 16 | White | The density matrix renormalization group 3 | ||
| Students | Student Seminar: Topological Insulator 1 | |||
Week 3 | ||||
| July 19 | Fisher | 2D Bose and Non-Fermi Liquid "Metals": Circumnavigating the Sign Problem | ||
| Feiguin | Time-dependent DMRG | |||
| Huse | Cold atoms 1 | |||
| July 20 | Fisher | Gapless Spin Liquids in Two Dimensions | ||
| Feiguin | Equilibrium & non-equilibrium dynamics with DRMG: Applications | |||
| Huse | Cold atoms 2 | |||
| July 21 | Clark | Variational Monte Carlo | ||
| Verstraete | Tensor network states and entanglement renormalization 1 | |||
| Feiguin | The density matrix renormalization group (DMRG) (Hands-on tutorial) | makefile | heischain | dmtkbasic (tar.gz file) | |||
| Stoudenmire | The density matrix renormalization group (DMRG) (Hands-on tutorial) | linux software | mac software (both zipped files) | |||
| July 22 | Nayak | Quantum information and complexity 1 | ||
| Verstraete | Tensor network states and entanglement renormalization 2 | See 1 | ||
| Clark | Projection Monte Carlo and the Fixed Node Method | |||
| July 23 | Verstraete | Tensor network states and entanglement renormalization 3 | See 1 | |
| Nayak | Quantum information and complexity 2 | |||
Week 4 | ||||
| July 26 | Terhal | Quantum information and complexity 1 | ||
| Millis | Correlated Electron Compounds: from real materials to model systems and back again 1 | |||
| Werner | Quantum impurity solvers 1 | |||
| July 27 | Terhal | Quantum information and complexity 2 | ||
| Millis | Correlated Electron Compounds: from real materials to model systems and back again 2 | |||
| July 27 | Lee | Public Lecture | Flyer | PPT | |
| July 28 | Werner | Quantum impurity solvers 2 | ||
| Millis | Correlated Electron Compounds: from real materials to model systems and back again 3 | |||
| Schollwoeck | DMRG for quantum impurity problems | |||
| July 29 | Lee | Fermions & spin liquids 1 | PPT | |
| Schollwoeck | Tensor product states [cont'd from Frank Verstraete] | |||
| Students | Topological Quantum Field Theory - Yuting Hu | |||
| July 30 | Lee | Fermions & spin liquids 2 | PPT | |
