Dr. Yu Jin

Postdoctoral Research Scholar

Education

• 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)

Areas of Interest

• First-principles study of optical properties of point defects
• Development of electronic structure methods for excited states

Experience

• 2024-present: Postdoctoral Research Scholar, Department of Chemistry, 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

• Yu Jin*, Mariami Rusishvili*, Marco Govoni, and Giulia 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).
• Jiachen Li, Yu Jin, Jincheng Yu, Weitao Yang, and Tianyu Zhu
  Accurate Excitation Energies of Point Defects from Fast Particle–Particle Random Phase Approximation Calculations
  J. Phys. Chem. Lett. 15, 2757–2764 (2024).
• Anil Bilgin, Ian N Hammock, Jeremy Estes, Yu Jin, Hannes Bernien, Alexander A High, and Giulia 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).
• Yu Jin, Victor Wen-zhe Yu, Marco Govoni, Andrew C Xu, and Giulia 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).
• Shreya Verma, Abhishek Mitra, Yu Jin, Soumi Haldar, Christian Vorwerk, Matthew R. Hermes, Giulia Galli, Laura Gagliardi
  Optical properties of neutral F centers in bulk MgO with density matrix embedding
  J. Phys. Chem. Lett. 14, 7703–7710 (2023).
• Yu Jin, Marco Govoni, and Giulia 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).
• Yu Jin, Marco Govoni, Gary Wolfowicz, Sean E. Sullivan, F. Joseph Heremans, David D. Awschalom, and Giulia Galli
  Photoluminescence spectra of point defects in semiconductors: Validation of first-principles calculations
  Phys. Rev. Mater. 5, 084603 (2021).
• Hanlin Huang, Yu Jin, Zhigang Chai, Xianrui Gu, Yongqi Liang, Qi Li, Haichao Liu, Hong Jiang, and Dongsheng Xu
  Surface charge-induced activation of Ni-loaded CdS for efficient and robust photocatalytic dehydrogenation of methanol
  Appl. Catal. B 257, 117869 (2019).