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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

 

Office: 5064 Percival Stern Hall

Office Phone: (504) 862-3180

 

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Fax: (504) 862-8702

 

Email: perdew@tulane.edu

 

Other Sites: Personal Website

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. Tao, J.P. Perdew, V.N. Staroverov, and G.E. Scuseria, "Climbing the Density Functional Ladder: Non-Empirical Meta-Generalized Gradient Approximation Designed for Molecules and Solids", Physical Review Letters 91, 146401 (2003).


J.P. Perdew and S. Kurth, "Density Functionals for Non-Relativistic Coulomb Systems in the New Century", in "A Primer in Density Functional Theory", edited by C. Fiolhais, F. Nogueira, and M. Marques (Springer Lecture Notes in Physics, Vol. 620 (2003).


S. Kuemmel and J.P. Perdew, "Simple Iterative Construction of the Optimized Effective Potential for Orbital Functionals, Including Exact Exchange", Physical Review Letters 90, 043004 (2003).


H. T. Tran and J.P. Perdew, "How Metals Bind: The Deformable Jellium Model with Correlated Electrons", American Journal of Physics 71, 1048 (2003).


L.M. Almeida, J.P. Perdew and C. Fiolhais, "Surface and Curvature Energies from Jellium Spheres: Density Functional Hierarchy and Quantum Monte Carlo", Physical Review B 66, 75115 (2002)

 

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