Faculty

John P. Perdew, Ph.D.
Professor
Graduate Advisor

Email: perdew@tulane.edu
Phone: (504) 862-3180
Fax: (504) 862-8702

Department of Physics
5064 Percival Stern Hall
Tulane University
New Orleans, LA 70118

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Research Interests

Solid State Theory/Density Functional Theory »

Recent Courses

• PHYS 1210/1220 – Introductory Physics I & II
• PHYS 7130 – Solid State Physics
• PHYS 7160 – Atomic and Molecular Physics
• PHYS 7170/7180 – Quantum Mechanics I & II

Education

• A.B., Gettysburg College (1965)
• Ph.D., Cornell University (1971)

Awards

• Materials Theory Award (2012) of the Materials Research Society
  
• Elected to the National Academy of Sciences (2011)
  
• Elected to the International Academy of Molecular Sciences (2003)
  
• Recipient of 1st Annual Tulane SSE Outstanding Researcher Award (2007)
• Recipient of the President’s Graduate and Professional Teaching Award (2009)

Recent Publications

J.P. Perdew, A. Ruzsinszky, L.A. Constantin, J. Sun, and G.I. Csonka, "Some Fundamental Issues in Ground-State Density Functional Theory: A Guide for the Perplexed," Journal of Chemical Theory and Computation 5, 902-908 (2009). (Invited article for the John P. Perdew special issue).

J.P. Perdew, A. Ruzsinszky, G.I. Csonka, L.A. Constantin, and J. Sun, "Workhorse Semilocal Density Functional for Condensed Matter Physics and Quantum Chemistry," Physical Review Letters 103, 026403 (2009); ibid. 106, 179902 (2011) (E).

J. Sun, J.P. Perdew, and M. Seidl, Correlation Energy of the Uniform Electron Gas, from an Interpolation Between High- and Low-Density Limits, Physical Review B 81, 085123-8 (2010).

L.A. Constantin, J.C. Snyder, J.P. Perdew, and K. Burke, Ionization Potentials in the Limit of Large Atomic Number, Journal of Chemical Physics 133, 241103-4 (2010) (Communications).

J. Sun, M. Marsman, A. Ruzsinszky, G. Kresse, and J.P. Perdew, Improved Lattice Constants, Surface Energies, and CO Desorption Energies from a Semilocal Density Functional, Physical Review B 83, 121410-4 (Rapid Communications) (2011).

J. Tao, J.P. Perdew, and A. Ruzsinszky, Accurate van der Waals Coefficients from Density Functional Theory, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (USA) 109, 18-21 (2012).