Summer School 2023

2023 Virtual School on Many-Body Calculations using EPW and BerkeleyGW

5-9 June 2023, Virtual

More information can be found here.

Monday

• Welcome & Intro

• Lecture 1: Many-body theory of electron-phonon interactions | video

• Lecture 2: Carrier transport | video

• Hands-On tutorial 1: Interpolation of electron-phonon matrix elements | –> Tutorial Files

• Hands-On tutorial 2: Carrier transport | –> Tutorial Files

Tuesday

• Lecture 1: Superconductivity | video

• Lecture 2: Optical absorption | video

• Hands-On tutorial 1: Superconductivity | –> Tutorial Files

• Hands-On tutorial 2: Optical absorption | Supplemental slides | –> Tutorial Files

Wednesday

• Lecture 1: Theory of polarons | video

• Lecture 2: Special displacement method | video

• Hands-On tutorial 1: Polarons | –> Tutorial Files

• Hands-On tutorial 2: Electron-phonon couplings & anharmonicity with special displacements | Supplemental slides | –> Tutorial Files

Thursday

• Lecture 1: Many-body Green's function approach to excited states | video

• Lecture 2: Overview of the BerkeleyGW software package | video

• Hands-On tutorial 1: GW | –> Tutorial Files

• Hands-On tutorial 2: BSE | –> Tutorial Files

Friday

• Lecture 1: GW and BSE Calculations with BerkeleyGW | video

• Lecture 2: GW perturbation theory for electron-phonon coupling | video

• Hands-On tutorial 1: Convergence of GW/BSE calculations | –> Tutorial Files

• Hands-On tutorial 2: GW/BSE calculations for 2D materials | –> Tutorial Files

• Concluding remarks

Poster Awards

Winners of poster prize, in alphabetic order:

• Galit Cohen (Weizmann Institute of Science) Phonon-driven femtosecond dynamics of excitons in crystalline pentacene from first principles

• Changpeng Lin (EPFL Lausanne) Pheasy: a calculator for high-order anharmonicity and phonon quasiparticles

• Ziyan Zhu (Stanford University) A first-principles based multi-scale model for moiré phonons