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Physics
Georgetown University
“Professor Freericks has worked in a wide variety of different areas in condensed matter and cold atomic physics. He has been working in dynamical mean-field theory since 1992 and has been involved in solving the Falicov-Kimball model, Hubbard model, periodic Anderson model, and the Holstein model. Dynamical mean-field theory is a relatively new theoretical and computational method that allows one to solve the many-body problem; it becomes exact in the limit of large spatial dimensions. His computational work has focused on exact solutions, quantum Monte Carlo methods, and the numerical renormalization group. Many of these computational projects are carried out on large national supercomputers, and run on thousands of processors. Recently he has focused on inhomogeneous systems (multilayers, cold atoms in a trap) and on nonequilibrium effects, showing how to generalize dynamical mean-field theory for nonequilibrium situations. Currently, his group is funded by the National Science Foundation, the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, the Army Research Office, the Air Force Office of Scientific Research (under a MURI), and the Department of Energy.”
Prof. Freericks has worked extensively with undergraduate students on research projects during the summer. A 2014 Bose scholar completed a project on effective spin couplings in a quantum computer made from trapped ions in a Penning trap. This work was published in Physical Review A in 2015. I continue to have projects related to quantum simulators and quantum computing available for students with appropriate interests and backgrounds. Please contact me to discuss further if you have any questions regarding the projects themselves or the required preparation needed to be able to be successful.