Graduate student and postdoctoral openings: (updated May 19, 2023)
At the moment the group is in flux: all postdoctoral and grduate student positions that were open have been filled until the fall of 2023. We will post a note here if there are openings; generally, this status changes on a 6-12 month time scale.
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Public software releases:
1. BoSS slave-boson code first released July 13 2018.
2. OpenAtom GW code first released September 3 2018.
Our research group studies condensed matter systems, often in the solid state, using first principles or ab initio electronic structure methods. We are part of
- Yale Applied Physics at Yale University
- Yale Physics and the Condensed Matter Theory Group
- Yale Mechanical and Materials Science Department
- CRISP: a Yale’s materials research center
We study the physics of condensed matter systems, usually the solid state, using first principles or ab initio methods. We solve the quantum mechanical many-body problem of interacting electrons and ions to the best of our abilities, with the fewest approximations possible, and with no adjustable parameters or fitting. The cost is that the calculations must be done numerically and can be quite difficult to perform. The advantage is that the results are generally reliable and accurate, and hence can be compared with confidence to experimental findings to help understand, clarify, and even predict observed physical phenomena.
The reliability also implies that we can use ab initio modeling as an ideal virtual laboratory to study microscopic physical phenomena. By ideal we mean that the physical setup (atomic positions, boundary conditions, imposed fields, etc.) is specifiable and modifiable at will.