Faculty

Jianmin Tao, Ph.D.
Research Assistant Professor

Email: jtao@tulane.edu
Phone: (504) 862-3557
Fax: (504) 862-8702

Department of Physics
2001 Percival Stern Hall
Tulane University
New Orleans, LA 70118

Research Interests

Solid State/Density Functional Theory

Recent Courses

• n/a

Education

• M. Sc. University of Science and Technology of China (1988)
  
• Ph.D. Tulane University, New Orleans, LA (2002)

Recent Publications

J. Tao, J.P. Perdew, and A. Ruzsinszky, "Long-range van der Waals attraction and

alkali-metal lattice constants", Phys. Rev. B 81, 233102 (2010).

 

J. Tao, S. Tretiak, and J.-X. Zhu, "Prediction of excitation energies for congugated

oligomers and polymers from time-dependent density functional theory",

Materials 3, 3430 (2010).

 

J. Tao and J.-X. Zhu, "Theory of the time-resolved spectral function of high-temperature

superconductors with bosonic modes", Phys. Rev. B 81, 224506 (2010).

 

X. Gao, J. Tao, G. Vignale, and I.V. Tokatly, "Continuum mechanics for quantum

many-body systems", Phys. Rev. B  81, 195106 (2010).

 

J. Tao, X. Gao, G. Vignale, and I.V. Tokatly, "Linear continuum mechanics for

quantum many-body systems", Phys. Rev. Lett. 103, 086401 (2009).

 

J. Tao, G. Vignale, and I.V. Tokatly, "Quantum stress focusing in descriptive

chemistry, Phys. Rev. 100, 206405 (2008).