Selected Readings

General Theory

• Theoretical spectroscopy, M. Gatti
• Energy Loss Spectroscopy, F. Sottile

Many-body Theory

• PhD lectures: MBPT and Yambo, L. Chiodo et al.
• Introduction to Many Body Physics, Piers Coleman
• Pedagogical introduction to equilibrium Green's functions: condensed matter examples with numerical implementations, Mariana M. Odashima et al.
• Quantum Condensed Matter Physics, Chetan Nayak
• Application of the Green’s functions method to the study of the optical properties of semiconductors, G. Strinati

The GW method

• The GW methods, F. Aryasetiawan and O. Gunnarsson
• Many-Body Perturbation Theory: The GW Approximation, Christoph Friedrich and Arno Schindlmayr
• Correlation effects in solids from first principles, Aryasetiawan Ferdi
• The GW Compendium: A Practical Guide to Theoretical Photoemission Spectroscopy, Dorothea Golze, Marc Dvorak and Patrick Rinke
• Hedin Equations, GW, GW+DMFT, and All That, K. Held, C. Taranto, G. Rohringer, A. Toschi

Density Functional Theory

• The ABC of DFT, Kieron Burke
• Density Functional Theory -- an introduction, Nathan Argaman, Guy Makov
• A Practical Introduction to Density Functional Theory, Louk Rademaker
• Density Functionals for non relativistic Coulomb Systems, J. Perdew and S. Kurth
• A bird's-eye view of density-functional theory, Klaus Capelle
• Phonons and related properties of extended systems from density-functional perturbation theory, S. Baroni, S. de Gironcoli, A. Dal Corso, P. Giannozzi
• Density functional approach to the many-body problem, Robert van Leeuwen

TDDFT

• Electronic Excitations: Density-Functional VS Many-body Green's, G. Onida, L. Reining, A. Rubio
• A guided tour of time-dependent density functional theory, K. Burke and E.K.U. Gross
• Density functional theory of time-dependent phenomena, E.K.U. Gross , J.F. Dobson , and M. Petersilka
• Time-dependent density-functional theory for extended systems, S. Botti et al.
• Density Functional Theory for Electronic Excited States, John M. Herbert

Non-equilibrium Green's function

• Nonequilibrium Green's function approach, Václav Špička †,§ , Bedřich Velický †,‡ and Anděla Kalvová
• An Introduction to Nonequilibrium Green Functions, Robert van Leeuwen
• An Introduction to Nonequilibrium Many-Body Theory, Joseph Maciejko

Theoretical Spectroscopy

• Electrodynamics of Solids: Optical Properties of Electrons in Matter, Martin Dressel , George Gruner
• Effects of the Electron–Hole Interaction on the Optical Properties of Materials: the Bethe–Salpeter Equation, G. Bussi
• Non-linear response of solids and nanostructures, Claudio Attaccalite, Davide Sangalli, Myrta Grüning
• Linear Response and More: the Bethe-Salpeter Equation, L. Reining

Computer Programming

• Fortran90 for Fortran77 Programmers, Clive Page
• Fortran 90 Lectures, John Mahaffy
• Bash Guide for Beginners, Machtelt Garrels
• Programming in C UNIX System Calls and Subroutines using C, A. D. Marshall
• The C Book, Mike Banahan, Declan Brady and Mark Doran