Boulder School 2010: Lecture Notes

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