PIAIS Staff

Davoud Nasr Esfahani

Senior Research Scientist

 Email: davoud.nasr@piais.ir

            dd.nasr@gmail.com

Education:

  • University of Antwerpen, BELGIUM (August 2010 - July 2014); PhD, Condensed Matter Physics.
  • Thesis Title; Strongly Correlated Electronic Systems: Influence Of Electric     Field And Doping.    
  • Supervisors; Prof. Dr. Francois Peeters, Dr. Lucian Covaci.
  • UNIVERSITY OF ISFAHAN, IRAN (SEPTEMBER 2005- SEPTEMBER 2008); M. Sc. PHYSICS.

             THESIS TITLE; QUANTUM THEORY OF MESOSCOPIC ELECTRIC CIRCUITS.

  • ISAFHAN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY, IRAN (SEPTEMBER 1995- SEPTEMBER 2000), B. Sc. Material engineering.

WORK EXPERIENCE:

Khatam University (Tehran, Iran, March 2017-Now),  And

Pasargade Institute of Advanced Innovative Solutions “PIAIS” (Tehran, Iran, March 2017-Now): Research scientist

INSTITUTE for RESEARCH in FUNDAMENTAL SCIENCES (IPM, Tehran, Iran, September2015 – March 2017), Postdoctoral researcher:

UNIVERSITY OF ANTWERPEN (Antwerpen, Belgium, September 2014 - August 2015), Post doctoral researcher:

QUALIFICATIONS (Computational Condensed Matter Physics):

  • Methods/Models: Tight-binding models, Many body methods, Density Functional Theory, Quantum monte carlo, Lanczos/Arnoldi/Chebichev methods, Dynamical Mean Field Theory, Keldysh formalism, NEGF, Optimization techniques.
  • Libraries: Lapack, Arpack, PETSC, ALPS, TRIQS, Minpack, FEAST, STL, BOOST, CUSP (CUDA).
  • Programming Tools: C++ (OOP, generic programming, templates, MPI), FORTRAN, CUDA, Python, MATLAB, Linux shell scripting.
  • Physics software:  VASP, Quantum Espresso(PWSCF), TRIQS, ALPS.

RSEARCH INTERTESTS:

  • Strongly correlated systems.
  • Tight-binding models from first principle calculations, in particular for two dimensional systems.
  • Time dependent/non-equilibrium phenomena based on Keldysh formalism and exact time propagation schemes, such as Lanczos and Chebichev.
  • Superconductivity and thermoelectric effects in 2-D materials. 

 PUBLICATIONS

  •  Bakalov, D. Nasr Esfahani, et al, An electric­-field driven Mott metalinsulator transition in correlated thin films: an inhomogeneous dynamical mean-field theory approach, Phys. Rev. B. 93, 16511 (2016)
  •  Martens, J.W. Jeong, N. Aetukuri, C. Rettner, D. Nasr Esfahani, et al, Field effect, space charge and transport in the strongly correlated metal­insulator transition material VO2, Phys. Rev. Lett. 115, 196401 (2015) 
  •  Homm, Leander Dillemans, Mariela Menghini, Bart Van Bilzen, Petar Bakalov, Chen­Yi Su, Ruben Lieten, Michel Houssa, Davoud Nasr Esfahani et al. Collapse of the low temperature insulating state in Cr­ doped V2O3 thin films, Appl. Phys. Lett. 107, 111904 (2015).
  • Nasr Esfahani, O. Leenarts, B. Paroens and F. M. Peeters, Structural transitions in monolayer MoS2 by lithium adsorption, J. Phys. Chem. C, 2015, 119 (19), pp 10602–10609.
  • Nasr Esfahani, L. Covaci and F. M. Peeters, Surface correlation effects in two-band strongly correlated slabs, J. Phys.: Condens. Matter 26, 075601 (2014).
  • Nasr Esfahani, L. Covaci and F. M. Peeters, Non-linear response to electric field in extended Hubbard models, Phys. Rev. B 90, 205121 (2014).
  • Nasr Esfahani, L. Covaci and F. M. Peeters, Field effect on surface states in a doped Mott-insulator thin film, Phys. Rev. B.  87, 035131 (2013).
  • Nasr Esfahani, L. Covaci and F. M. Peeters, Electric-field-induced shift of the Mott metal-insulator transition in thin films, Phys. Rev. B.  85, 085110 (2012).
  • Nasr Esfahani, F. Kheirandish, Dissipation in mesoscopic electric circuits, Iranian Journal of Physics Research, 2010, v9, number 4, p299-303.