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== Lecture 3: Introduction to deterministic chaos ==
== Lecture 3: Introduction to deterministic chaos ==
*[[Media:deterministic_chaos.pdf|PDF]]
*[[Media:deterministic_chaos.pdf|PDF]]
*D. Gonze, [http://homepages.ulb.ac.be/~dgonze/TEACHING/autocorrel.pdf Autocorrelation function].
*T. Tél and M. Gruiz, [http://chaoticdynamics.net/ Chaotic Dynamics] (CUP, Cambridge, 2006).
*T. Tél and M. Gruiz, [http://chaoticdynamics.net/ Chaotic Dynamics] (CUP, Cambridge, 2006).


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*[http://www.scholarpedia.org/article/Fermi-Pasta-Ulam_nonlinear_lattice_oscillations Fermi-Pasta-Ulam nonlinear lattice oscillations], T. Dauxois and S. Ruffo (2008), Scholarpedia, 3(8):5538.
*[http://www.scholarpedia.org/article/Fermi-Pasta-Ulam_nonlinear_lattice_oscillations Fermi-Pasta-Ulam nonlinear lattice oscillations], T. Dauxois and S. Ruffo (2008), Scholarpedia, 3(8):5538.


== Lecture 5: Random Numbers, Random Walks, Monte Carlo, and all that ==
== Lecture 5: Monte Carlo Simulations in Statistical Physics ==
*PDF
*[[Media:monte_carlo_statphys.pdf|PDF]]


== Lecture 6: Monte Carlo Simulations in Statistical Physics ==
== Lecture 6: Numerical algorithms for time-dependent Schrödinger equation ==
*PDF
*[[Media:quantum_numerics.pdf|PDF]]


== Lecture 7: Computational Methods for Quantum Mechanics ==
== Lecture 7: Interdisciplinary Topics in Complex Systems ==
* PDF
*[[Media:complexity.pdf|PDF]]
 
== Lecture 8: Interdisciplinary Topics in Complex Systems ==
*PDF

Latest revision as of 22:23, 22 April 2014

Lecture 1: Computation as a tool for discovery in physics

Lecture 2: Numerical methods for ordinary differential equations

Lecture 3: Introduction to deterministic chaos

Lecture 4: Vibrational normal modes: From glasses to Fermi-Pasta-Ulam problem

Vibrational normal modes in disordered one-dimensional systems

  • P. B. Allen and J. Kelner, Evolution of a vibrational wave packet on a disordered chain, Am. J. Phys. 66, 497 (1998). [PDF]
  • J. Fabian, Decay of localized vibrational states in glasses: A one-dimensional example, Phys. Rev. B 55, R3328 (1997). [PDF]

50th Anniversary of the Fermi-Pasta-Ulam Problem

Lecture 5: Monte Carlo Simulations in Statistical Physics

Lecture 6: Numerical algorithms for time-dependent Schrödinger equation

Lecture 7: Interdisciplinary Topics in Complex Systems