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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.
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.

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.
He is heading to Sandia, Albuquerque!

    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

Photos with my sister and brother-in-law (and cats!) .


RECENT RESEARCH PROJECTS:








OLDER RESEARCH PROJECTS:







EVEN MORE RESEARCH PROJECTS:
Extensions/Applications of Density Functional Theory
Supersolids
Critical Properties of Disordered Systems
Magnetic Order at Surfaces
Magnetism in Multiband Itinerant Electron and Boson Systems
High Tc Superconductivity
CDW Formation in Electron-Phonon Systems
Superconductor-Insulator Phase Transitions
Quantum Simulation: Algorithms
Random Matrices
FORC Diagrams

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

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

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

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

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

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