====== 10920PHYS401200 ======
====== 計算物理 Computational Physics ======
===== Instructor =====
  * Prof. Pochung Chen.
  * R521, Physics building.
  * pcchen {at} phys {dot} nthu {dott} edu {dot} tw .

===== TA =====
  * 岑美茵

===== Time =====
  * R5R6R7.

===== Room =====
  * R501, physics building.

===== Prerequisites =====
  * Good knowledge of "quantum physics" and "thermal physics".
  * Working knowledge of Python (or other programming languages).

===== Syllabus =====
The goal of this course is to learn computational methods for the simulation of classical and quantum models.
  * Phase transition and critical phenomena of classical models.
  * Monte Carlo method.
  * Tensor network method.
  * Simulation of quantum models.

===== Development Environment Setup =====
  * http://cocalc.com
  * anaconda python (win10, mac)
  * vs code (win10, mac)
  * WSL2 (win10)
  * windows terminal (win10)

===== Links =====

  * [[https://github.com/NTHU-Phys-Qubit/10920PHYS401200]]
  * Markdown
    * [[https://www.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/SSHGWL_1.2.3/analyze-data/markd-jupyter.html|Markdown for Jupyter notebooks cheatsheet]] (IBM Knowledge Center)
    * [[https://daringfireball.net/projects/markdown/]]
    * [[https://markdown.tw]]
  * Numpy, Scipy, Matplotlib
    * [[https://docs.scipy.org/doc/scipy/reference/generated/scipy.sparse.linalg.eigsh.html#scipy.sparse.linalg.eigsh]]
    * [[https://docs.scipy.org/doc/scipy/reference/tutorial/arpack.html]]
  * [[https://tensornetwork.org/mps/algorithms/#linear|Algorithms for Matrix Product States / Tensor Trains]]
    * [[https://tensornetwork.org/mps/algorithms/dmrg/|Density Matrix Renormalization Group Algorithm (DMRG)]]


===== Weekly schedule =====
  * Week 1: 2/25/2021
  * Week 2: 3/4/2021
  * Week 3: 3/11/2021
  * Week 4: 3/18/2021
  * Week 5: 3/25/2021
  * Week 6: 4/1/2021
  * Week 7: 4/8/2021
  * Week 8: 4/15/2021
  * Week 9: 4/22/2021
  * Week 10: 4/29/2021
  * Week 11: 5/6/2021
  * Week 12: 5/13/2021
  * Week 13: 5/20/2021
  * Week 14: 5/27/2021
  * Week 15: 6/3/2021
  * Week 16: 6/10/2021
  * Week 17: 6/17/2021
  * Week 18: 6/24/2021 
===== Homework =====