Abstract:

It is commonly perceived that the application of DFT to correlated systems is restricted. Nevertheless, this talk aims to show that by carefully designing the calculation and/or defining the framework, DFT can still provide important physical insights.

Profile：

Zheng Liu, obtained his BS in Physics from Department of Physics in Tsinghua University at 2006, Ph.D in physics from Institute for Advanced Study, Tsinghua University at 2012, after that he went to Prof. Feng Liu’s group in University of Utah for Post Doc until 2015. He worked as an associate member in the Institute for Advanced Study since 2015 and promoted as member in 2020. He has been granted Discovery Early Career Researcher Award from Australian Research Council in 2015 and Thousand talents plan of China for young scholars in 2016. His research lies in the intersection of condensed matter physics and materials science, particularly focusing on bridging the theoretical frontier with first-principles computation. By designing computational schemes from unique angles, as well as rebuilding the foundation of first-principles calculations from bottom, we aim to expand the territory of density functional theory and provide unforeseen insights into quantum many-body systems.