Aug 2023
A fun collaboration with the Sharma group, Toward linear scaling auxiliary field quantum Monte Carlo with local natural orbitals is posted to the arXiv, featuring LNO machinery developed by Hong-Zhou.
Aug 2023
Welcome to Sohang Kundu, our newest postdoc! Sohang received his Ph.D. from UIUC, where he worked in the Makri group, studying exciton dynamics with real-time path integral methods.
Jul 2023
Jason and Hong-Zhou's latest paper on the arXiv answers the question: Can spin-component scaled MP2 achieve kJ/mol accuracy for cohesive energies of molecular crystals? (no, but it's still pretty good).
Jul 2023
Henry's paper Vibrational heat-bath configuration interaction with semistochastic perturbation theory using harmonic oscillator or VSCF modals is posted to the arXiv! Vibrational excitation energies with cm-1 accuracy at even lower cost than before.
Jul 2023
The latest from the Columbia Center for Computational Electrochemistry, Accurate quantum chemical reaction energies for lithium-mediated electrolyte decomposition and evaluation of density functional approximations is posted to ChemRxiv. PBE barrier height is an underestimation by 10 kcal/mol 😳.
Jul 2023
Congratulations to Hong-Zhou for receiving the 2023 ACS PHYS Young Investigator Award in Physical Chemistry (Theory)!
Jul 2023
Three collaborative papers have recently been posted to the arXiv: Room temperature wavelike exciton transport in a van der Waals superatomic semiconductor, Ab initio quantum many-body description of superconducting trends in the cuprates, and Interplay between local moment and itinerant magnetism in the layered metallic antiferromagnet TaFe1.14Te3, featuring work by Petra, Hong-Zhou, and Sylvia, respectively.
May 2023
Congratulations to Dipti for being selected as the 2023 Frederick A. Howes Scholar in Computational Science from the DOE SCGF, in recognition of "both her outstanding research achievements and demonstrated leadership and character"!
May 2023
We bid farewell to Verena, who leaves to begin a postdoc position at Caltech. Good luck, Verena!
Postdoc, Princeton University (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. UIUC (2023)
M.Sc. IIT Bombay (2017)
B.Sc. Presidency University, Kolkata (2015)
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)
Postdoc, Caltech
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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