Tuan Anh Pham

Graduate student

Education

  • Ph.D. candidate, University of California Davis, Present
  • Diploma in Condensed Matter Physics, The Abdus Salam ICTP, Italy, 2008
  • B.S. in Physics, Hanoi National University of Education, Vietnam, 2006

Honors, Awards and Fellowships

  • Lawrence Scholar, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, 2011-present
  • Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory CCMS Summer Institute Graduate Fellow, 2010
  • Pre-PhD Scholarship, The Abdus Salam International Centre for Theoretical Physics, 2007
  • Odon Vallet Scholarship, 2004 and 2005.

Professional Affiliations

  • American Physical Society (APS)

Professional Service

  • Referee for the Applied Physics Letters, Computational Materials Science and Nanoscale

Areas of Interest

  • Many-body perturbation theory methods
  • Liquid mixtures and solid/liquid interfaces
  • Physics of surfaces and interfaces

Experience

  • 2008 – present, Research Assistant, University of California, Davis

Publications

  • P. Huang, T. Anh Pham, G. Galli and E. Schwegler
    Alumina(0001)/Water Interface: Structural Properties and Infrared Spectra from First-Principles Molecular Dynamics Simulations
    J. Chem. Phys. C 108, 8944 (2014)
  • T. Anh Pham, C. Zhang, E. Schwegler and G. Galli
    Probing the electronic structure of liquid water with many-body perturbation theory
    Phys. Rev. B 89, 060202(R) (2014)
  • T. Anh Pham, T. Li, Huy-Viet Nguyen, S. Shankar, F. Gygi and G. Galli
    Band offset and dielectric properties of the amorphous Si3N4/Si(001) interface: a first-principles study
    Appl. Phys. Lett. 102, 241603 (2013)
  • C. Zhang, T. Anh Pham, F. Gygi and G. Galli
    Electronic structure of solvated chloride anion solution from first-principles calculations
    J. Chem. Phys-Comm. 138, 181102 (2013)
  • T. Anh Pham, Huy-Viet Nguyen, D. Rocca and G. Galli
    GW calculations using the spectral decomposition of the dielectric matrix: Verification, validation, and comparison of methods
    Phys. Rev. B 87, 155148 (2013)
  • A. Kaur, E. R. Ylvisaker, D. Lu, T. Anh Pham, G. Galli and W. E. Pickett
    Spectral representation analysis of dielectric screening in solids and molecules
    Phys. Rev. B 87, 155144 (2013)
  • T. Anh Pham, P. Huang, E. Schwegler and G. Galli
    First-principles study of the infrared spectra of the ice Ih(0001) surface
    J. Phys. Chem. A 116, 9255 (2012)
  • Huy-Viet Nguyen, T. Anh Pham, D. Rocca and G. Galli
    Improving accuracy and efficiency of calculations of photoemission spectra within many-body perturbation theory
    Phys. Rev. B 85, 081101(R) (2012)
  • T. Anh Pham, T. Li, S. Shankar, F. Gygi and G. Galli
    Microscopic modeling of the dielectric properties of silicon nitride
    Phys. Rev. B 84, 045308 (2011)
  • T. Anh Pham, T. Li, S. Shankar, F. Gygi and G. Galli
    First principles investigations of the dielectric properties of crystalline and amorphous silicon nitride thin films
    Appl. Phys. Lett. 96, 062902 (2010)
  • T. Anh Pham, R. Gebauer and S. Scandolo
    Magnetism and vibrations in the phase epsilon of oxygen
    Solid State Commun. 149, 160 (2009)
  • T. Anh Pham, V. Hung Nguyen and V. Lien Nguyen
    Phonon-assisted tunneling and shot noise in double barrier structures in a longitudinal magnetic field
    Phys. Lett. A 372, 4947 (2008)
  • V. Hung Nguyen, V. Lien Nguyen and T. Anh Pham
    Current and shot noise in double barrier resonant tunneling structures in a longitudinal magnetic field
    Phys. Rev. B 76, 235326 (2007)
  • H. Nam Nguyen, T. Anh Pham and V. Hung Nguyen
    Current and shot noise in 1D-arrays of quantum dot
    Commun. Phys. 16, 193 (2006)