Are you an EPFL student looking for a semester project?
Work with us on data science and visualisation projects, and deploy your project as an app on top of GraphSearch.
This lecture covers the minimization of the Hartree-Fock functional for N fermions, focusing on the variational principle in quantum physics. It discusses the application of the principle to derive the Hartree-Fock equations and the importance of neglecting certain terms in the calculations.