Huy-Viet Nguyen

Huy-Viet Nguyen




Contact information

163 G Chem, UC Davis, One Shields Avenue, Davis, CA, 95616

email: vsmnguyen at ucdavis.edu

phone: (530) 752-0957




Education

Ph.D. in Physics, International School for Advanced Studies (SISSA), Trieste, Italy, October 2008
Supervisor: Prof. Stefano de Gironcoli. Thesis: "Efficient calculation of RPA correlation energy in the Adiabatic Connection Fluctuation-Dissipation Theory" (Thesis approved cum laude)

M.Sc. in Modeling and Simulation of Complex Realities, The Abdus Salam ICTP and SISSA, Trieste, Italy, September 2005

M.Sc. in Physics, Hanoi National University of Education, Hanoi, Vietnam, September 2003

B.S. in Physics, Hanoi National University of Education, Hanoi, Vietnam, June 2001



Research

My current research interest is to develop and apply first-principles methods in the framework of Density Functional Theory to study quantum mechanical properties of materials at microscopic scale. The ongoing project is to develop a new and more efficient algorithm for the calculation RPA correlation energy in the Adiabatic Connection Fluctuation-Dissipation Theory by combining the concept of dielectric band structures and Density Functional Perturbation Theory. My previous research topic includes the study of phase transition properties of magnetic thin films using classical Monte Carlo simulation and Green's function techniques.



Publications

    H. Viet Nguyen, V. Thanh Ngo, H.T. Diep, and V. Lien Nguyen, "Field effects on magnetic properties of three layer films", Physica B 327, 427 (2003) [Proceedings of the International Symposium on Advanced Magnetic Materials, Halong, Vietnam, 2-4 October 2002, Vietnam.],

    V. Thanh Ngo, H. Viet Nguyen, H. T. Diep, and V. Lien Nguyen, "Magnetic properties of exchange-biased three-layer films in perpendicular magnetic field", Phys. Rev. B 69, 134429 (2004).

    Huy-Viet Nguyen and Stefano de Gironcoli, "Van der Waals coefficients of atoms and molecules from a simple approximation for the polarizability", Phys. Rev. B 79, 115105 (2009).

    Huy-Viet Nguyen and Stefano de Gironcoli, "Efficient calculation of exact exchange and RPA correlation energies in the adiabatic-connection fluctuation-dissipation theory", Phys. Rev. B 79, 205114 (2009)

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