Professor Richard Needs

Professor of Theoretical Physics
Professorial Fellow of Robinson College

Address:
Room 535 Mott Building,
Cavendish Laboratory,
JJ Thomson Avenue,
Cambridge CB3 0HE.
Tel: +44 (0)1223 337384
Email: rn11 "at" cam.ac.uk

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Tracey Ingham
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Biography:

Prof Richard Needs has been researching the electronic properties of materials since 1983. He has worked on a wide range of complex systems such as surfaces, interfaces, defects, and clusters, mainly studying structural properties, including phase transitions and excitation energies. He has used a variety of computational techniques, including density functional theory methods, many-body perturbation theory and quantum Monte Carlo methods. In recent years he has been developing continuum fermion quantum Monte Carlo methods and applying them to problems in condensed matter. He and his group have developed the "CASINO" quantum Monte Carlo code which is now used in a number of groups around the world.

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Research Interests:

Computational Electronic Structure of Materials
Quantum Monte Carlo Simulations for Real Materials
Local Density Functional Calculations
Many-Body Perturbation Theory Calculations

Research Group - Theory of Condensed Matter

Selected Publications:

My list of publications.