Mar 2023
Verena's tour de force Highly accurate electronic structure of metallic solids from coupled-cluster theory with nonperturbative triple excitations is posted to the arXiv. A significant improvement over CCSD (see our previous paper), CCSDT recovers 92-99% of the exact correlation energy of the uniform electron gas at metallic densities and gets within a few millihartrees of the experimental cohesive energy of lithium.
Feb 2023
We predicted strongly bound trions in two-dimensional halide perovskites in this Phys. Rev. Lett. in 2021. This has now been confirmed experimentally, in our recent collaboration with the Yaffe and Chernikov groups: Mobile Trions in Electrically Tunable Two‐dimensional Hybrid Perovskites, published in Advanced Materials.
Feb 2023
Jonathan and Petra's paper Conductivity of an electron coupled to anharmonic phonons: Quantum-classical simulations and comparison of approximations is published in Phys. Rev. B!
Feb 2023
Data-Efficient Machine Learning Potentials from Transfer Learning of Periodic Correlated Electronic Structure Methods: Liquid Water at AFQMC, CCSD, and CCSD(T) Accuracy is published in J. Chem. Theory Comput. as part of the Machine Learning for Molecular Simulation special issue.
Jan 2023
Bryan's paper Optical properties of defects in solids via quantum embedding with good active space orbitals is posted to the arXiv—an extension of our previous work on regional embedding, now focused on excited states.
Jan 2023
Electric fields drive bond homolysis, a product of our CCI for Chemistry with Electric Fields, featuring calculations by Ethan, is published in Chem. Sci.
Jan 2023
Two papers are published in J. Phys. Chem. C as part of the virtual special issue "Honoring Michael R. Berman": Petra's paper Anisotropically Fused Clusters Form a 2D Superatomic Sheet Exhibiting Polarized Light Emission, a collaboration with the Nuckolls, Roy, and Zhu groups, and Giulia and Yeongsu's paper Excitons and Their Fine Structure in Lead Halide Perovskite Nanocrystals from Atomistic GW/BSE Calculations.
Postdoc PCTS (2014-2016)
Ph.D. Columbia University (2014)
B.A. NYU (2009)
NSF Graduate Research Fellow (2019-2022)
B.S. Penn State (2019)
Ph.D. Max Planck Institute, Hamburg (2020)
M.Sc. Berlin Institute of Technology & FHI (2016)
B.Sc. Berlin Institute of Technology (2013)
Ph.D. UC Berkeley (2022)
M.Phil. University of Cambridge (2017)
A.B. Harvard University (2016)
Ph.D. University of Pittsburgh (2020)
B.S. Nazarbayev University (2015)
Ph.D. University of Cambridge (2020)
M.Phil. University of Cambridge (2015)
M.Sci., B.A. University of Cambridge (2014)
M.S. National Taiwan University (2018)
B.S. National Taiwan University (2016)
Ph.D. MIT (2022)
M.Phil. University of Cambridge (2017)
B.S. Ohio State (2016)
Ph.D. MIT (2020)
B.S. Peking University (2015)
B.S. Brooklyn College (expected 2024)
Teacher, Newton North High School
M.Sc. student, Oxford (expected 2023)
We work on a variety of quantum-mechanical problems motivated by excited-state phenomena. This research occurs at the fascinating interface of physical chemistry, condensed-matter physics, and materials science.
Building on modern theories of quantum dynamics, we develop powerful simulation techniques for nonequilibrium and time-resolved spectroscopies. These new tools enable the accurate simulation of extremely large and complex sytems, providing new insights into excited-state structure and dynamics.
We are actively exploring the excited-state behavior of fundamentally interesting and technologically promising materials, especially those that are anisotropic, layered, or low-dimensional. Particular materials of interest include conjugated polymers, organic molecular crystals, and quasi-two-dimensional inorganic semiconductors.
Aiming towards highly accurate but insightful descriptions of electronic excitations, we formulate and apply electronic structure methods adapted for the condensed phase. Some of our favorite tools are low-energy effective theories, many-body diagrammatics, and coupled-cluster techniques.
Interested in learning more?
Check out our publications!Timothy Berkelbach is an Associate Professor in the Department of Chemistry at Columbia University. He received his B.A. in physics and chemistry from NYU in 2009 and his Ph.D. in chemical physics from Columbia in 2014. From 2014 to 2016, he was a postdoctoral fellow in the Princeton Center for Theoretical Science, and from 2016 to 2018, he was a Neubauer Family Assistant Professor in the Department of Chemistry and the James Franck Institute at the University of Chicago. He moved to Columbia in 2019 and received tenure in 2022. From 2019 to 2022, he was also a Research Scientist in the Center for Computational Quantum Physics at the Flatiron Institute, where he is now a Visiting Scholar.
2020 ACS National Fresenius Award
2019 Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers (PECASE)
2019 Hermann Kuemmel Early Achievement Award in Many-Body Physics
2019 NSF CAREER Award
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