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Dr. John Perdew

Dept. of Physics

2001 Percival Stern Hall

Tulane University

New Orleans, LA 70118

 

 

 

John P. Perdew, Ph.D.

Professor, Graduate Advisor

Recipient of 1st Annual Tulane SSE Outstanding Researcher Award (2007), and the President’s Graduate and Professional Teaching Award (2009)

 

Office: 5064 Percival Stern Hall

Office Phone: (504) 862-3180

 

Fax: (504) 862-8702

 

Email: perdew@tulane.edu

 

Other Sites: Group Website

 

Curriculum Vitae

Research Interests:

Solid State Theory/Density Functional Theory

 

Recent Courses:

PHYS 121/2 – Introductory Physics I & II

PHYS 713 – Solid State Physics

PHYS 716 – Atomic and Molecular Physics

PHYS 717/8 – Quantum Mechanics I & II

 

Education:

A.B., Gettysburg College (1965)

Ph.D., Cornell University (1971)

 

Recent Publications:


J.P. Perdew, A. Ruzsinszky, G.I. Csonka, L.A. Constantin, and J. Sun, Workhorse Semilocal Density Functional for Condensed Matter Physics and Quantum Chemistry, Physical Review Letters 103, 026403 (2009).


J.P. Perdew, A. Ruzsinszky, L.A. Constantin, J. Sun, and G.I. Csonka, Some Fundamental Issues in Ground-State Density Functional Theory: A Guide for the Perplexed, Journal of Chemical Theory and Computation 5, 902-908 (2009).  (Invited article for the John P. Perdew special issue).


J.P. Perdew, V.N. Staroverov, J. Tao, and G.E. Scuseria, Density Functional with Full Exact Exchange, Balanced Nonlocality of Correlation, and Constraint Satisfaction, Physical Review A 78, 052513 (2008).


J.P. Perdew, A. Ruzsinszky, G.I. Csonka, L.A. Constantin, X. Zhou, O.A. Vydrov, G.E. Scuseria, and K. Burke, Restoring the Gradient Expansion for Exchange in Solids and Surfaces, Physical Review Letters 100, 136406 (2008); ibid. 102, 039902 (2009) (E).


L.A. Constantin, J.M. Pitarke, J.F. Dobson, A. Garcia-Lekue, and J.P. Perdew, High-Level Correlated Approach to the Jellium Surface Energy, Without Uniform-Gas Input, Physical Review Letters 100, 036401 (2008).

 

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