Richard T. Scalettar

HONORS AND AWARDS
Distinguished Teaching Award, Graduate and Professional Training, UC Davis 2022.
Graduate Program Advising and Mentoring Award, UC Davis 2020.
Charles Nash Award, 2018
Named Distinguisher Professor of Physics, 2017
American Physical Society Outstanding Referee, 2014
UCD Chancellor's Outstanding Undergraduate Mentor Award, 2009
Elected Fellow, American Physical Society, 2004
EMPLOYMENT/EDUCATION HISTORY
Chairman, Department of Physics and Astronomy, UC Davis: 2022-present
Vice Chairman, Physics Department, University of California, Davis: 2009-2011.
Project Coordinator, DOE Computational Materials Science Network: 2006-2009
"Mott Transition in MnO, Multielectron Magnetic Moments, and
Dynamic Effects in Correlated Materials"
Project Coordinator, DOE Computational Materials Science Network: 2003-2006
"Predictive Capability for Strongly Correlated Electron Materials"
Vice Chairman, Physics Department, University of California, Davis: 1998-2003.
Professor of Physics, University of California, Davis: 1997-present.
Associate Professor of Physics, University of California, Davis: 1993-1997.
Assistant Professor of Physics, University of California, Davis: 1989-1993.
Postdoctoral Researcher, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign: 1988-1989.
Postdoctoral Researcher, University of California, Santa Barbara, 1987-88.
Ph.D., Physics, University of California, Santa Barbara, 1986.
B.S., Physics and Mathematics, University of California, Irvine, 1982. Me with my sister's rats, "Salt" and "Pepper", in her office at Lewis and Clark College. Me with my sister's rats, "Licorice", "Cinnamon", and "Coconut", when she stopped in Davis during her drive from El Toro to Portland.

Publications this millenium! (downloadable)

Selected Recent Talks

GENERAL RESEARCH INTERESTS: THEORETICAL CONDENSED MATTER PHYSICS
My research interests are in the study of phases and phase transitions in strongly interacting quantum systems, including magnetism, metal-insulator transitions, and superconductivity. I am currently working on topological materials, novel superconductiviy, quantum phases of the SU(N) Hubbard model and its realization in ultra-cold atoms, charge density wave formation and superconductivity in the Holstein and SSH models. The group is also exploring the fermion sign problem and machine learning algorithms related to these projects. The methodology I most commonly employ in these studies is Quantum Monte Carlo. I am interested in developing algorithms for doing these simulations more effectively. My research is supported by the Department of Energy.

Farewell dinner for Eduardo. Yutan Graduates, June 2025!
He went to Sandia, Albuquerque!
And is now a Professor at Harvey Mudd!

At the top of Blue Ridge at Stebbins
Cold Creek Reserve, June 08, 2024 Farewell lunch for Wiliam, April, 2024

Farewell lunch for Jingyao, February, 2024

Group Photos, April 2022: Postdoc Eduardo Padilla

Graduate Students (Year of Ph.D.):

Yutan Zhang Max Casebolt Owen Bradley (2023) Tyler Cary (2023) Yuxi Zhang (2022)

Chunhan Feng (2022) Ben Cohen-Stead (2022) Bo Xiao (2020) WeiTing Chiu (2019) Wenjian Hu (2018)

Vladimir Iglovikov (2015) Mi Jiang (2014) Dave Cone (2012) Alex Zujev (2010) Chris Varney (2009)

Amy Lazicki (2007)

(Former) Visiting Graduate Students:

Natanael Costa Tiago Mendes Elias Assmann Axel Euverte Val Rousseau

(Former) Postdoctoral Scholars:

Ehsan Khatami Thereza Paiva Simone Chiesa Marcos Rigol Karan Aryanpour

Roger Lee Khan Mahmud Rubem Mondaini Sabyasachi Tarat Pinaki Sengupta

Cynthia Olson Charles Reichhardt

(Recent) Undergraduate Students:

Amelia Broman Eli Baum Alexander Yue Miriam Huntley Thomas Blommel

Max Cohen Claire Kvande Matt Nelson Bianca Pol Justine Partridge

Trevor Clarke Jack Muccaccio