James K. Freericks

Professor of Physics and Co-director of Undergraduate Studies, Georgetown University

Transport in Multilayered Nanostructures: The Dynamical Mean-Field Theory Approach (Imperial College Press, 2006)

This ground-breaking book is the first comprehensive text on Dynamical Mean-Field Theory, which has emerged over the past two decades as one of the most powerful developments in many-body physics. DMFT is a technique in theoretical solid state physics for treating many-body problems, such as strongly correlated electron systems, which do not yield to perturbation calculations.The book covers complete derivations and emphasizes how to carry out numerical calculations, including discussions of parallel programming algorithms. An appendix contains 37 mathematical and theoretical problems crafted by the author to illustrate principles and applicaions discussed in the text, providing creative challenges easily extended into larger projects, making this one of the most imaginative and valuable features in the book.

 

James K. Freericks has a Ph.D. and M.A. from the University of California-Berkeley, and an A.B. from Princeton University. He is a pioneer in the advanced numerical methods, and his research interests lie in the theoretical and computational condensed matter physics.