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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.
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Me with my sister's rats, "Salt" and "Pepper", in her office
at Lewis and Clark College.
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Me with my sister's rats, "Licorice", "Cinnamon", and "Coconut",
when she stopped in Davis
during her drive from El Toro to Portland.
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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.
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Farewell dinner for Eduardo.
He is heading to Sandia, Albuquerque!
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At the top of Blue Ridge at Stebbins
   
Cold Creek Reserve, June 08, 2024
     
Farewell lunch for Wiliam, April, 2024
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Farewell lunch for Jingyao, February, 2024
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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)
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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
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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
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Trevor Clarke
           
Jack Muccaccio
RECENT RESEARCH PROJECTS:
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OLDER RESEARCH PROJECTS:
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EVEN MORE RESEARCH PROJECTS:
CURRENT TEACHING (SPRING 2025):
Physics 295
ALL TEACHING:
High School and Lower Division:
Cosmos High School Science Program
2023 NNSA - ORISE High School Science Program
2021 NNSA - ORISE High School Science Program
2019 NNSA - ORISE High School Science Program
DARPA High School Apprenticeship Program
MPS Seminar Fall 2013
MPS Seminar Winter 2014
MPS Seminar Fall 2015
Freshman Seminar, Winter 2016
Freshman Seminar, Spring 2017
Physics 9A, Spring 2012
Physics 9A, Summer 2015
Physics 9A, Spring 2018
Physics 9B, Fall 2013
Physics 9BH, Honors Physics
Physics 9C, Electricity and Magnetism, Winter 2016
Physics 45, Introduction to C for Computational Physics
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Upper Division:
Physics 102 Fall 2016
Physics 110A, Winter 2018
Physics 140A, Winter 2013
Physics 140B, Spring 2013
Physics 115B, Fall 2011
Physics 104A, Mathematical Methods in Physics
Physics 104B, Computational Methods in Physics
Physics 105BL, Classical Mechanics Lab (Numerical Methods)
Physics 112L Fall 2023
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Graduate:
Physics 200B, Electricity and Magnetism
Physics 200C, Electricity and Magnetism S2017
Physics 200C, Electricity and Magnetism S2016
Physics 204A, Mathematical Methods for Physics
Physics 204B, Mathematical Methods for Physics
Physics 210, Numerical Methods
Physics 215B, Winter 2014
Physics 215C, Quantum Mechanics
Physics 219A, Spring 2014
Physics 240A, Fall 2019
Physics 241, Quantum Magnetism
Physics 242, Superconductivity
Physics 250, Quantum Monte Carlo
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Seminars:
Physics 293, Cond. Mat. Seminar, Fall 2000
Physics 293, Cond. Mat. Seminar, Spring 2004
Physics 293, Cond. Mat. Seminar, Spring 2005
Physics 293, Cond. Mat. Seminar, Spring 2008
Physics 295, Introduction to Department Research
Condensed Matter Journal Club, Winter 2009
Condensed Matter Journal Club, Spring 2009
Condensed Matter Journal Club, Spring 2010
Condensed Matter Journal Club, Winter 2011
Condensed Matter Journal Club, Spring 2011
Physics 293, Cond. Mat. Seminar, Fall 2012
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Summer Schools:
2010 Michigan Quantum Summer School
1998 Nato Summer School in Quantum Monte Carlo Methods
2003 Boulder Summer School in Condensed Matter Physics
2006 Salerno Summer School in Condensed Matter Physics
(XI Training Course in the Physics of Correlated
Electron Systems)
Complete 2006 Salerno homepage
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Some Music:
People Has It Hard
Wayfaring Stranger
What a wonderful world
Mercy, Mercy, Me
Dance the night away
What It's Like
The Magnetic Fields!
This Land Is Your Land, This Land is My Land
Low Budget
Waist Deep in the Big Muddy
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INTERNATIONAL CENTRE FOR THEORETICAL PHYSICS
(CO-ORGANIZED WITH
NANDINI TRIVEDI AND SANDRO SORELLA):
Computational Methods in Strongly Correlated Systems (1999)
Faculty/Student/Staff Pick-Up Basketball
University of California, Davis
Pick-Up Basketball
University of California, Davis
MWF 7:30 am, Athletics and Recreation Center
Time evolution of wave functions. Perfect Quantum State Transfer.
UNIFORM HOPPING: STATE SPREADING/LOSS
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ENGINEERED HOPPING: PERFECT QST!
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N=48 for Roman