CECAM VIRTUAL 2021

Plan for the CECAM VIRTUAL 2021 school tutorials. https://www.cecam.org/workshop-details/1081

Setting up Yambo

Setting up the Yambo Quantum Machine

The tutorials will be run on a dedicated Quantum Machine. This is run by installing it as Virtual Machine with the VirtualBox program.

• VirtualBox is installed on your PC. To find it open a terminal and

>which virtualbox
/usr/bin/virtualbox

• The Yambo Quantum Machine image (.ova file) is already in the /scratch

>cd /scratch
>/scratch$ ls
(...) YAMBO_Quantum_Mobile.ova

Now follow exactly the instructions to

• Install the Yambo Quantum Machine
• Start the Yambo Quantum Machine
• Update and install the Tutorials

Tutorials

Thursday 8 April HANDS-ON 1

14:30 - 15:30 From the DFT ground state to the complete setup of a Many Body calculation using Yambo Davide Sangalli (CNR-ISM, Italy), Pedro Melo (University of Liege, Belgium)

• First steps: walk through from DFT to RPA (standalone)

Friday 9 April HANDS-ON 2

13:30 - 16:30 A complete tour through GW simulation in a complex material (from the blackboard to numerical computation: convergence, algorithms, parallel usage) Daniele Varsano (CNR-NANO, Italy), Andrea Ferretti (CNR-NANO, Italy)

• How to obtain the quasi-particle band structure of a bulk material: h-BN

Thursday 15 April HANDS-ON 3

13:30 - 15:00 A guided tour through calculations of spectroscopic properties using the BSE approach Fulvio Paleari (CNR-ISM, Italy), Myrta Gruning (University of Rome Tor Vergata, Italy)

• Calculating optical spectra including excitonic effects: a step-by-step guide
• Obtaining a converged optical spectrum