David Vanderbilt

David Vanderbilt (born August 20, 1954 in Huntington (New York) ) is an American theoretical solid-state physicist.

Vanderbilt studied physics at Swarthmore College with a bachelor's degree in 1976 and received his PhD in 1981 with John D. Joannopoulos at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology . He was a post-doctoral student at the University of California, Berkeley , before becoming an assistant professor and later an associate professor at Harvard University in 1984 . In 1988 he became a research fellow of the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation ( Sloan Research Fellow ). In 1991 he became a professor at Rutgers University .

He deals with numerical calculations of electronic structures with applications in material science. Among other things, he deals with the electronic structure of amorphous or other non-periodic systems (especially semiconductors), insulators in electrical fields, Wannier functions and the application of the Berry phase in magnetic systems, with structural phase transitions, lattice contributions to dielectric and piezoelectric effects, and dielectric and piezoelectric effects Properties of novel oxide materials, properties of interfaces and superlattices.

In 2006 he received the Aneesur Rahman Prize for his conceptual breakthroughs in his development of the ultra-soft pseudopotential and the modern theory of polarization and its influence on the investigation of material properties based on fundamental principles (laudation).

He is a Fellow of the American Physical Society and a member of the National Academy of Sciences (2013) and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (2019).

Fonts

Soft self-consistent pseudopotentials in a generalized eigenvalue formalism, Phys. Rev. B, Vol. 41, 1990, p. 7892
with RD King-Smith: Theory of polarization of crystalline solids, Phys. Rev. B, Vol. 47, 1993, p. 1651
with K. Laasonen, A. Pasquarello, R. Car, C. Lee: Car-Parrinello molecular dynamics with Vanderbilt ultrasoft pseudopotentials, Phys. Rev. B, Vol. 47, 1993, p. 10142
with RD King-Smith: Electric polarization as a bulk quantity and its relation to surface charge, Phys. Rev. B, Vol. 48, 1993, p. 4442
with W. Zhong, RD King-Smith: Giant LO-TO splittings in perovskite ferroelectrics, Phys. Rev. Letters, Volume 72, 1994, p. 3618
with F. Bernardini, V. Fiorentini: Spontaneous polarization and piezoelectric constants of III-V nitrides, Phys. Rev. B, Vol. 56, 1997, p. R10024
with M. Marzari: Maximally localized generalized Wannier functions for composite energy bands, Phys. Rev. B, Vol. 56, 1997, p. 12847
with I. Souza, N. Marzari: Maximally localized Wannier functions for entangled energy bands, Phys. Rev. B, Volume 65, 2001, p. 035109
with AA Mostofi, JR Yates, YS Lee, I. Souza, N. Marzari: Wannier90: A tool for obtaining maximally-localized Wannier functions, Computer Physics Communications, Volume 178, 2008, pp. 685-699
with N. Marzari, AA Mostofi, JR Yates, I. Souza: Maximally localized Wannier functions: Theory and applications, Reviews of Modern Physics, Volume 84, 2012, p. 1419

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↑ Date of birth American Men and Women of Science , Thomson Gale 2004
^ Aneesur Rahman Prize
↑ Laudation: For his conceptual breakthroughs in his development of the ultrasoft pseudopotential and the modern theory of polarization, and their impact on first-principles investigations of the properties of materials.

personal data
SURNAME	Vanderbilt, David
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	American physicist
DATE OF BIRTH	20th August 1954
PLACE OF BIRTH	Huntington (New York)

[1] Date of birth American Men and Women of Science , Thomson Gale 2004

[2] Aneesur Rahman Prize

[3] Laudation: For his conceptual breakthroughs in his development of the ultrasoft pseudopotential and the modern theory of polarization, and their impact on first-principles investigations of the properties of materials.