Solid State Physics

Abstract

In this book on high-performance computing solid state physics is presented with contributions from quite different areas of quantum many-body physics. The majority of computational physics projects were directed towards an interplay between electronic correlations, interactions between electron and lattice degrees of freedom and an interplay with disorder. As in the last few years the materials investigated were ranging from high temperature superconducting systems and other strongly correlated materials such as the manganites (interesting e.g. because of their magnetic recording possibilities) to semiconductors and their surfaces. The corresponding calculations can be taken as prime examples for the fact that the days of conventional workstations for the computational use in modern solid state physics are over and sophisticated large-scale supercomputors such as the architectures in Stuttgart and Karlsruhe are required.