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Readings

Quantum Mechanics
Broad DFT review
Kohanoff, and Gidopoulos

Lecture 3b readings
Gentle online primers on Quantum Mechanics (PDF)

Lecture 3b readings
Ab-initio methods, theory (PDF)

Lecture 6 readings
Overview of density-functional theory, pp. 1-37 (PDF - 1.6MB)

Overview of density-functional theory, pp. 38-85 (PDF - 1.7MB

Lecture 6 readings
Ab-initio methods, practice (PDF -1.4 MB)

Lecture 6 readings
Payne-Joannopoulos review (Chapter II)

Lecture 6 readings
Kohn's Nobel lecture

Lecture 8
Interatomic potentials from DFT

Molecular Dynamics
Lecture 10    
Ercolessi, Furio. "Molecular dynamics primer."

Lecture 12     
Marx, and Hutter review. "Ab-initio Molecular Dynamics."

Empirical Energy Methods
Empirical Potentials readings - Allen and Tildesley, pp. 1-26.