Timothy Berkelbach
Email: tcb2112-at-columbia-dot-eduTim is currently a postdoctoral fellow at the Princeton Center for Theoretical Science. His website can be found here.
Research Interests
Quantum transport, dissipation, and non-adiabatic processes; reduced density matrices and generalized quantum master equations; charge and energy transfer in molecular systems.
Education
- Ph.D. Candidate, Chemical Physics, Columbia University, 2014 (Advisor: David Reichman)
- M.A. Chemical Physics, Columbia University, 2010
- B.A. Chemistry, B.A. Physics, New York University, 2009 (Advisor: Mark Tuckerman)
Honors
- DOE Office of Science Graduate Fellowship, 2010
- NSF Graduate Research Fellowship, 2010
- Barry M. Goldwater Scholarship, 2008
Publications
- , Exciton Binding Energy and Nonhydrogenic Exciton Rydberg Series in Monolayer WS2. Phys. Rev. Lett. (accepted) (2014).
- , Multiphonon Relaxation Slows Singlet Fission in Crystalline Hexacene. J. Am. Chem. Soc. Article ASAP (2014).
- , Length-Dependent Conductance of Oligothiophenes. J. Am. Chem. Soc. 136, 10486 (2014).
- , Coherent quantum dynamics in donor-bridge-acceptor systems: beyond the hopping and super-exchange mechanisms. New J. Phys. 115, 105020 (2013).
- , Impact of Molecular Symmetry on Single-Molecule Conductance. J. Am. Chem. Soc. 135, 11724-11727 (2013).
- , Theory of neutral and charged excitons in monolayer transition metal dichalcogenides. Phys. Rev. B 88, 045318 (2013).
- , The Quantum Coherent Mechanism for Singlet Fission: Experiment and Theory. Acc. Chem. Res. 46, 1321 (2013).
- , Grains and grain boundaries in highly crystalline monolayer molybdenum disulfide. Nature Materials 12, 554 (2013).
- , Microscopic theory of singlet exciton fission. II. Application to pentacene dimers and the role of superexchange. J. Chem. Phys. 138, 114103 (2013).
- , Microscopic theory of singlet exciton fission. I. General formulation. J. Chem. Phys. 138, 114102 (2013).
- , Reduced density matrix hybrid approach: Application to electronic energy transfer. J. Chem. Phys. 136, 084104 (2012).
- , Reduced density matrix hybrid approach: An efficient and accurate method for adiabatic and non-adiabatic quantum dynamics. J. Chem. Phys. 136, 034113 (2012).
- , Quantum quench spectroscopy of a Luttinger liquid: Ultrarelativistic density wave dynamics due to fractionalization in an XXZ chain. Phys. Rev. B 84, 085146 (2011).
- , Conductivity of disordered quantum lattice models at infinite temperature: Many-body localization. Phys. Rev. B 81, 224429 (2010).
- , Concerted hydrogen-bond dynamics in the transport mechanism of the hydrated proton: A first-principles molecular dynamics study. Phys. Rev. Lett. 103, 238302 (2009).
- , Optimizing the pulling function for free-energy calculations: An on-the-fly approach. J. Chem. Phys. 130, 174705 (2009).
- , Modeling energy dependence of the inner-shell x-ray emission produced by femtosecond-pulse laser irradiation of xenon clusters. Phys. Rev. E 79, 016407 (2009).