Tuan Anh Pham

Former 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)