Computational Physics - Department of Physics

The last part of this book contains several project orientedadvanced topics. Each of these
topics can serve as a regular one-semester course based on the solution of the pertinent
projects. We present several topics, mainly within applications to quantum mechanical sys-
tems and statistical mechanics. We discuss Hartree-Fock and density-functional theory cal-
culations for electronic systems, variational and diffusion Monte Carlo calculations of many-
particle systems (atoms, quantum dots and Bose-Einstein condensation), large molecular-
dynamics calculations of solids, percolation and criticalphenomena and advanced simulations
of phase transitions.