Computational Physics

Learning goals

After following this course you will be able to:

• describe standard physical simulation algorithms.
• implement these algorithms in a well-structured computer code.
• apply these algorithms to calculate physical properties and interpret the outcome.
• verify correctness of the simulation outcome and use this analysis to improve the code.
• organize and perform joint programming work.
• present the results according to the requirements of scientific communication. -

Checklist for starting the course

Before starting the course, execute the following steps in order.

1. After you sign up for the course on brightspace, you will receive an invitation to the course forum and the course gitlab—a version control server.
2. After you get an account, log in to the course computational environment at https://hub.compphys.quantumtinkerer.tudelft.nl (using the gitlab account from step 1).
3. If you want to follow the programming crash course, or you are otherwise interested in the material covered there, click on this link
4. Follow the steps to start project 1

Notes on the lecture notes

In these notes our aim is to provide learning materials which are:

• self-contained
• easy to modify and remix, so we provide the full source, including the code
• open for reuse: see the license below.

Whether you are a student taking this course, or an instructor reusing the materials, we welcome all contributions, so check out the course repository, especially do let us know if you see a typo!