Research

Databases

  • X-ray Spectroscopy:
    • X-ray Data Booklet - Binding Energies, Emission Energies, Subshell Cross-Sections, almost too much info to list
    • Center for X-ray Optics - X-ray Interactions with Matter (Transmission, Reflectivity, attenuation length, ect)
  • Crystal Structures:
    • Materials Project - Giant compendium of results from automated calculations (Band Structure, XANES, EXAFS) across crystal structures, as well as just a fast and easy place to spin around a crystal in 3D.
    • Crystallography Open Database - Many crystalographic information files (CIFs). All materials are real.
    • WebAtoms - Generate FEFF input files from crystallographic data

Software

  • Electronics Structure, DFT, Multiplets, ect:
    • FEFF - XAS and EELS based on Cumulant Green’s Function. Appropriate for excited states, NOT full potential.
    • Abinit - Fundamentally a DFT code with a strong user base, but with a some many-body Green’s function techniques stacked on (GW and DMFT)
    • Full potential DFT codes
      • Wein2k - Full-potential, linear augmented plane wave (LAPW) + local orbital
      • FPLO - Full-potential local-orbital, minimal basis set, comparable accuracy to LAPW
      • RSPt - Full-potential Linear Muffin-Tin Orbital, beyond DFT methods DFT+U and DFT+DMFT
    • Quanty - 2nd quantization multiplet code, written in C/C++, but has a scripting language written in Lua. It focuses on tools to solve the mathematics of quantum mechanics so you can focus on the physics.
  • X-ray Spectra Analysis
    • Demeter Suite (Athena, Artemis, and Hephaestus) - Used for processing (background subtraction, Fourier transforming) and fitting of XAS data
    • X-ray Larch - Python based data analysis tool for processing XAS data with capabilities for visualizing multiple other types of spectroscopy (XRF, RIXS)

Pedagogy

Academics

Textbooks

  • Undergraduate
    • An Introduction to Mechanics 2nd Edition, Kleppner and Kolenkow, ISBN-13: 978-0521198110
    • Electricity and Magnetism 3rd Edition, Purcell and Morin, ISBN-13: 978-1107014022
    • A Modern Approach to Quantum Mechanics 2nd Edition, Townsend, ISBN-13: 978-1891389788
    • Introduction to Electrodynamics 2nd Edition, Griffiths, ISBN-13: 978-1108420419
    • Introduction to Quantum Mechanics 2nd Edition, Griffiths, ISBN-13: 978-1107179868
    • Gravity: An Introduction to Einstein’s General Relativity 1st Edition, Hartle, ISBN-13: 978-1316517543
    • Thermal Physics 2nd Edition, Kittel and Kroemer, ISBN-13: 978-0716710882
    • Structure and Dynamics: An Atomic View of Materials 1st Edition, Dove, ISBN-13: 978-0198506782
    • Introduction to Elementary Particles 2nd Edition, Griffiths, ISBN-13: 978-3527406012
    • Physics at Surfaces 1st Edition, Zangwill, ISBN-13: 978-0521321471
  • Graduate
    • Modern Electrodynamics 1st Edition, Zangwill, ISBN-13: 978-0521896979
    • Classical Electrodynamics 1st Edition, Jackson, ISBN-13: 978-0471431329
    • Modern Quantum Mechanics 3rd Edition, Sakurai and Napolitano, ISBN-13: 978-1108473224
    • Quantum Mechanics: Fundamentals 2nd Edition, Gottfried and Yan, ISBN-13: 978-0387220239
    • Elementary Statistical Physics Dover Edition, Kittel, ISBN-13: 978-0486435145
    • Chaotic Dynamics: An Introduction 2nd Edition, Baker and Gollub, ISBN-13: 978-0521476850
    • Theoretical Mechanics of Particles and Continua Dover Edition, Fetter and Walecka, ISBN-13: 978-0486432618 - Sounds scary, but is really just graduate classical mechanics
    • Nonlinear Dynamics and Chaos 2nd Edition, Strogatz, ISBN-13: 978-0813349107
    • Quantum Field Theory 1st Edition, Srednicki, ISBN-13: 978-0521864497
    • Quantum Field Theory and the Standard Model 1st Edition, Schwartz, ISBN-13: 978-1107034730
    • Many Body Quantum Theory in Condensed Matter Physics, Bruus and Flensberg, ISBN-13: 978-0198566335

Notes, Lectures, and Talks

  • David Tong Notes - Everything from Vector Calculus to String Theory
  • MIT Open Courseware - Recorded lectures on almost every possible topic, often with accompanying lecture notes, problem sets, and worked examples
  • Kevin S. Huang Notes - Slapdash of notes from various topics, as well as solutions to Townsend’s A Modern Approach to Quantum Mechanics

Research Experience for Undergraduates (REU) Applications

Graduate School Applications