Ph.D. in Theoretical Chemistry, University of Chicago (2024)
M.S. in Theoretical Chemistry, University of Chicago (2020)
B.S. in Material Chemistry, Peking University, China (2018)
Professional Affiliations
American Physical Society (APS)
American Chemical Society (ACS)
Materials Research Society (MRS)
Areas of Interest
First-principles study of spin and optical properties of point defects in solids
Development of large-scale electronic structure methods for excited states
Experience
2024-present: Postdoctoral Research Scholar, Pritzker School of Molecular Engineering, University of Chicago
2022: Computational Material Science Intern, Bosch, Cambridge, MA
2018-2024: Graduate Student, Department of Chemistry, University of Chicago
2017: Visiting Student, Prof. Heather Kulik's group, Department of Chemical Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology: Theoretical study of scaling relationships in oxygen evolution reaction for transition metal oxides
2016-2018: Undergraduate Research Assistant, Prof. Hong Jiang's group, College of Chemistry and Molecular Engineering, Peking University: First-principles study of surface and catalysis systems
Publications
V. W.-z. Yu, Y. Jin, G. Galli, and M. Govoni GPU-Accelerated Solution of the Bethe-Salpeter Equation for Large and Heterogeneous Systems arXiv:2409.15116 (2024).
V. Somjit, J. Davidsson, Y. Jin, and G. Galli An NV- center in magnesium oxide as a spin qubit for hybrid quantum technologies arXiv:2409.00246 (2024).
Z. Liu, R. Gong, B. Huang, Y. Jin, X. Du, G. He, E. Janzen, L. Yang, E. Henriksen, J. Edgar, G. Galli, and C. Zu Temperature dependent spin-phonon coupling of boron-vacancy centers in hexagonal boron nitride arXiv:2404.15493 (2024).
J. C. Marcks, M. Onizhuk, Y.-X. Wang, Y. Zhu, Y. Jin, B. S. Soloway, M. Fukami, N. Delegan, F. J. Heremans, A. A. Clerk, G. Galli, and D. D. Awschalom Quantum Spin Probe of Single Charge Dynamics Phys. Rev. Lett. 133, 130802 (2024).
J. Li, Y. Jin, J. Yu, W. Yang, and T. Zhu Particle-Particle Random Phase Approximation for Predicting Correlated Excited States of Point Defects J. Chem. Theory Comput. 20, 7979–7989 (2024).
Z. Li,* X. Guo,* Y. Jin, F. Andreoli, A. Bilgin, D. Awschalom, N. Delegan, F. J. Heremans, D. Chang, G. Galli, and A. High (*equal contribution) Atomic optical antennas in solids Nat. Photon. 18, 1113–1120 (2024).
Y. Jin*, M. Rusishvili*, M. Govoni, and G. Galli (*equal contribution) Self-Trapped Excitons in Metal-Halide Perovskites Investigated by Time-Dependent Density Functional Theory J. Phys. Chem. Lett. 15, 3229–3237 (2024).
J. Li, Y. Jin, J. Yu, W. Yang, and T. Zhu Accurate Excitation Energies of Point Defects from Fast Particle–Particle Random Phase Approximation Calculations J. Phys. Chem. Lett. 15, 2757–2764 (2024).
A. Bilgin, I. N. Hammock, J. Estes, Y. Jin, H. Bernien, A. A. High, and G. Galli Donor-acceptor pairs in wide-bandgap semiconductors for quantum technology applications npj Comput. Mater. 10, 7 (2024).
J. C. Marcks, M. Onizhuk, Y.-X. Wang, Y. Zhu, Y. Jin, B. S. Soloway, M. Fukami, N. Delegan, F. J. Heremans, A. A. Clerk, G. Galli, and D. D. Awschalom Quantum spin probe of single charge dynamics arXiv:2312.02894 (2023).
Y. Jin, V. W.-z. Yu, M. Govoni, A. C. Xu, and G. Galli Excited state properties of point defects in semiconductors and insulators investigated with time-dependent density functional theory J. Chem. Theory Comput. 19, 8689–8705 (2023).
X. Guo, A. M. Stramma, Z. Li, W. G. Roth, B. Huang, Y. Jin, R. A. Parker, J. A. Martínez, N. Shofer, C. P. Michaels, C. P. Purser, M. H. Appel, E. M. Alexeev, T. Liu, A. C. Ferrari, D. D. Awschalom, N. Delegan, B. Pingault, G. Galli, F. J. Heremans, M. Atatüre, A. A. High Microwave-based quantum control and coherence protection of tin-vacancy spin qubits in a strain-tuned diamond membrane heterostructure Phys. Rev. X 13, 041037 (2023).
S. Verma, A. Mitra, Y. Jin, S. Haldar, C. Vorwerk, M. R. Hermes, G. Galli, and L. Gagliardi Optical properties of neutral F centers in bulk MgO with density matrix embedding J. Phys. Chem. Lett. 14, 7703–7710 (2023).
Y. Jin, M. Govoni, and G. Galli Vibrationally resolved optical excitations of the nitrogen-vacancy center in diamond npj Comput. Mater. 8, 238 (2022).
C. P. Anderson, E. O. Glen, C. Zeledon, A. Bourassa, Y. Jin, Y. Zhu,
C. Vorwerk, A. L. Crook, H. Abe, J. Ul-Hassan, T. Ohshima, N. T. Son, G. Galli, and D. D. Awschalom Five-second coherence of a single spin with single-shot readout in silicon carbide Sci. Adv. 8, eabm5912 (2022).
Y. Jin, M. Govoni, G. Wolfowicz, S. E. Sullivan, F. J. Heremans, D. D. Awschalom, and G. Galli Photoluminescence spectra of point defects in semiconductors: Validation of first-principles calculations Phys. Rev. Mater. 5, 084603 (2021).
H. Huang, Y. Jin, Z. Chai, X. Gu, Y. Liang, Q. Li, H. Liu, H. Jiang, and D. Xu Surface charge-induced activation of Ni-loaded CdS for efficient and robust photocatalytic dehydrogenation of methanol Appl. Catal. B 257, 117869 (2019).
