Dynamical Mean Field Theory: From Models to Real Materials : J. X. Zhu (Los Alamos)
Abstract Biography Host: Prof. Chin-Sen Ting 634 S & R 1 - 4PM
Dynamical mean field theory maps a strongly correlated electron lattice problem to a quantum impurity problem in a self-consistent manner. It captures the temporal fluctuations but reduces the entangled quantum degrees of freedom significantly. In this talk, I will review its applications to the study of quantum phase transition in heavy fermion models, and the electronic structure calculations in actinide materials when combined with the LDA-based density functional theory.
Jian-Xin Zhu is a staff member at the Los Alamos National Laboratory. He received his Ph.D. from the University of Hong Kong (China) in 1997, and did his postdoctoral research at the University of Houston (1997-2001), and the Los Alamos National Laboratory (2001-2004) as a Director Fellow. His current research interest includes high temperature superconductivity, heavy fermions, and electronic structure calculations of strongly correlated materials. He has authored/co-authored more than 100 papers in peer reviewed journals (including Physical Review Letters, Reviews of Modern Physics, and Nature).