Mark Jarrell 1960 - 2019 |
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Lectures on Computational Many Body Methods Computational Physics Links and Codes A mini workshop on strongly disordered materails.
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The LSU community lost one of its most accomplished faculty members when Mark Jarrell, Ph.D., passed away Saturday, July 20, at his home in Baton Rouge. He was 58 years old. Arriving on the Baton Rouge campus in 2009, Jarrell was a professor in the LSU Department of Physics & Astronomy with a joint appointment in the Center for Computation and Technology, where he led the Materials World focus area. Professor Jarrell’s research employed sophisticated computational tools to capture the behavior of some of the most complex problems in the field of Condensed Matter and Materials Physics. An internationally recognized scholar of the highest stature, Jarrell’s work added significantly to LSU’s reputation in computational materials science. A measure of the great scientific impact of his work, is the high citation rate for his published articles. He published over 200 scientific publications, amassing nearly 13,000 citations with several of these papers surpassing 1000 citations. “Professor Jarrell made a career of lending deep insights into some of the most challenging questions in the field of condensed matter physics. He was one of the foremost experts in many-body physics which describes how novel phenomena emerge from the interaction of a large number of particles, such as electrons in metals,” said John DiTusa, Department Chair, LSU Physics & Astronomy. “A well-respected colleague to many of us at LSU who was well-known to the physics community throughout the world, his passing leaves a large void personally and professionally. In addition to his great success leading the field of computational condensed matter physics, Professor Jarrell had a sustained record of research funding which had a tremendous impact on the University. During his tenure at LSU, he was the principal investigator or co-PI on eleven grants totaling more than $30 million in funding. Most notably, he was the PI for the state-wide LA-SiGMA program for the “Next Generation Supercomputing for the Study of Complex Multiscale Phenomena in Materials.” This particular grant delivered more than $20 million in funding to a consortium of Louisiana universities, including more than nine million dollars to LSU. “At CCT, Mark was a major leader in computation and data-driven interdisciplinary research,” said J. “Ram” Ramanujam, Director, LSU CCT. “He collaborated with several scientists from a variety of disciplines at LSU and internationally, while developing widely disseminated academic courses and mentoring numerous students and post-doctoral scholars. Mark will be sorely missed.” Jarrell mentored more than thirty students and postdocs, with many of them pursuing distinguished careers in academia, the private sector and at national research laboratories. Born September 19, 1960 in Valley Forge, Pennsylvania, Jarrell received his bachelors of science degree in physics with the highest honors from Drexel University, Philadelphia; and his Ph.D. in physics in 1987 from the University of California at Santa Barbara. From 1987 until 1990 he served as a Postdoctoral Associate at The Ohio State University. His main area of research interest was in the physics of strongly correlated electronic materials, which included nanostructures, high critical temperature superconductors, heavy Fermion metals, and magnetic materials. These materials are characterized by one or more of the following phenomena: a Mott-Hubbard insulating phase, magnetism, non-Fermi liquid behavior or a very small Fermion degeneracy energy. Jarrell is survived by his wife, Jane Ellen Jarrell. In lieu of flowers, the family requests backpacks full of school supplies for pre-kindergarten through fifth grade students be delivered to St. Paul Lutheran Church, 2021 Tara Blvd., in Prof. Mark Jarrell’s honor.
Research Interests: My main area of interest lies in the physics of strongly correlated electronic materials which include many nanostructures, high Tc superconductors, and heavy Fermion and magnetic materials. These materials are characterized by one or more of the following phenomena: competing phases such as a Mott-Hubbard, Mott or Anderson insulators, magnetism, superconductivity, non-Fermi liquid phases, quantum criticality where the transition temperature of one or more of these phases vanishes. In general, exact solutions of models of these systems are not possible, and attempts to use uncontrolled analytic techniques have met with limited success. However, in addition to the usual many-body techniques, I have developed techniques which separate the problem into strongly interacting and weakly interacting parts. The weakly interacting parts are treated with either perturbation theory or mean-field approaches, and then integrated out of the action. The remaining strongly interacting part of the action may be mapped to a small effective cluster problem which is treated with Quantum Monte Carlo (QMC) or other non-perturbative approaches. I have also developed methods used to analytically continue QMC imaginary time results to real frequencies. This allows QMC simulations to address experiments such as reflectivity, photoemission, inelastic neutron scattering and transport. Finally, I am interested in high-throughput methods which enable the computer to search for interesting material's properties that may be validated experimentally. For more information, please see the links below:
For more
information about Mark Jarrell's research:
A brief introduction to strongly correlated systems.
Publication List (most papers are available in electronic form).
A hyperlinked discussion of my research.
Vita.
Other Research Related Links:
Physical Review journals online.
Wilkins' List of Online Journals and Databases.
ISI Web of Science database.
Useful Guides, HowTo's, Templates, etc.:
Linux and Compuational links (or click on the penguin above).
John Wilkins' Onepagers (guides for writing, speaking...).
Wilkins' Other Links.
Templates and guides for writing papers with RevTex4.
Previous Students:
Hossein Akhlaghpour, 1990-1995, Thesis: Paper Only, Position: System Developer, Anthem Corp.
Woonki Chung , 1991-1996, Thesis: Quantum Monte Carlo Study of Electron Correlation Effects in Superconductors , Position: System Administrator, Georgetown University Dept. of Physics.
Amitava (Amit) Chattopadhyay 1993-1998, Thesis: Non-Fermi-Liquid Ground States in Certain Heavy Fermion Systems, Position: Research Scientist, IBM Almaden.
Alireza Tahvildarzadeh 1993-1998, Thesis: A Numerical Study of Strongly Correlated Electron Systems, Position: Postdoc, Georgetown University.
N.S. Vidhyadhiraja, Shared with H.R. Krishnamurthy, Professor, JNC, Bangalore.
Thomas Maier (shared with Th. Pruschke) 1996-2000, Thesis: Non-Local Dynamical Correlations in Strongly Interacting Fermion Systems, Position: Wigner Fellow, Oak Ridge National Labs.
Karan Aryanpour 1999-2003, Thesis: Approximation Techniques in Strongly Correlated Electron Systems, Position: Postdoc at University of California, Davis.
Muhammad Aziz Majid (shared with J. Moreno), 1999-2006, Thesis: Computational Studies of Ferromagnetism in Strongly Correlated Electronic Systems, Position: postdoc Univ. of North Dakota.
D. G. S. P. Doluweera, 2008, Thesis: Effect of Weak Inhomogeneities in High Temperature Superconductivity,Position: postdoc at Georgia State University.
B.Q. Cao (shared with J. Meller), Thesis: On Applications of Statistical Learning to Biophysics, Postdoc at Postdoc at U. of Nebraska.
Cyrill Slezak (shared with R. Endorf), 2001-2006, Thesis: Methods for Correlated Electron Systems Assistant Professor at Utah Valley University.
Majid Nili (shared with Juana Moreno), 20??-2010, Thesis: Ferromagnetism and Transport in Diluted Magnetic Semiconductors, Postdoc at Penn State.
Herbert Fotso 2005-2011, Thesis: Two-Particle Level Diagrammatic Approaches for Strongly Correlated Systems, Assistant Professor. University of Albany.
Karlis Mikelsons (shared with J. Moreno), 2009, Thesis: Extensions of Numerical Methods for Strongly Correlated Electron Systems,
Ehsan Khatami (shared with J. Moreno), 2009, Thesis: Criticality and Superconductivity in the Two-dimensional Hubbard Model of Strongly Correlated Electronic Systems,
Peng Zhang ,Thesis: Numerical Investigations of Holstein phonons on the periodic Anderson Model, Position: Professor Xi'An Jiaotong University
Peter Reis (shared with J. Moreno), Thesis: Magnetic Compensation in the Bimetallic Oxalates and the Cerium Volume Collapse.
Kuang-Shing Chen (shared with J. Moreno), Thesis: Quantum Simulations on Square and Triangular Hubbard Models.
Chinedu Ekuma (shared with J. Moreno), Thesis: Towards the Realization of Systematic, Self-Consistent Typical Medium Theory for Interacting Disordered Systems
Ryky Nelson (shared with J. Moreno), Thesis: First-Principles and Many-Body Methods: Implementations and Applications to Study Spintronic Materials
Kalani Hettiarachchilage (shared with J. Moreno), Thesis: Strongly correlated ultra-cold bosonic atoms in optical lattices
Patrick Haase (shared with Thomas Pruschke), Thesis: Dual Fermion Approach to Disordered Correlated Systems.
Nagamalleswararao Dasari (shared with Vidhyadhiraja Sudhindra), Thesis: Development and application of computational quantum many-body methods for strongly correlated models and materials
Sheng Feng, Thesis: Study of Condensed Matter Systems with Monte Carlo Simulation on Heterogeneous Computing Systems
Yun (Eric) Ding (Shared with M. Brylinski) Thesis: Data-Driven Rational Drug Design.
Sudeshna Sen (shared with Vidhyadhiraja Sudhindra), Thesis: Emergent phenomena in spatially and energetically inhomogeneous strongly correlated model electron systems.
Wasim Raja Mondal (shared with Vidhyadhiraja Sudhindra)
Conrad Moore
Samuel Kellar
Nicholas Walker
Previous Postdocs:
Hanbin Pang, Lead Software Developer, CenturyLink.
Matthias Hettler. Institut fuer Nanotechnologie, Karlsruhe, Germany.
William Putikka. Assoc. Prof., The Ohio State University (Mansfield).
Samuel Moukouri. Senior Researcher in Physics at Ben Gurion University
Thomas Maier, Oak Ridge National Laboratory.
Carey Huscroft, Hewlett Packard.
Juana Moreno, Associate Professor, LSU.
Brian Moritz, SLAC research staff.
Paul Kent, ORNL/UT JINCS.
Unjong Yu, Assistant Professor, GIST-college
Dimitris Galanakis, World Traveler
Alex Macridin, FermiLab Research Staff.
Zi Yang Meng, Associate Professor at Institute of Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences
Valy Rousseau, Assistant Prof., Loyola University
Hanna Terletska, Assitant Prof., Middle Tennessee State University
Shuxiang Yang, Foreseefund
Yi Zhang, Kavli Institute for Theoretical Sciences, UCAS
Ka-Ming Tam, Louisiana State University
Teachhing Interests: During the development of a graduate course in classical electrodynamics I became heavily involved in the use of computers in graduate education. I find that my students can use computer to solve more realistic homework problems, visualize their answers, and reduce the algebraic tedium. The computer also allows me to distribute the related courseware, and provide more realistic classroom demonstrations in the various electronic classrooms on campus. Two courses are being developed in this way. Please see the links below for more information.