Position Title
Distinguished Professor
Professor Richard Scalettar joined the faculty at UC Davis in 1989. His research activities are in the area of magnetism, superconductivity, and metal-insulator transitions in solids, and related quantum phase transitions in ultracold atomic gases on optical lattices. He has over 200 publications in these fields. His most recent research focuses on the role of spatial inhomogenieties on quantum phases of matter which exhibit the effect of strong interparticle interactions.
Funding for this work has come from the National Science Foundation (NSF), the Department of Energy (DOE), the Office of Naval Research (ONR), and the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA).
Most of Professor Scalettar's work uses Quantum Monte Carlo simulation techniques, and he has significant expertise in numerical algorithm development. In this area he has worked with colleagues in the Applied Mathematics and Computer Science groups at UC Davis, with grants from the NSF Information Technology Research and the DOE Scientific Discovery through Advanced Computing Programs.
- Ph.D., University of California, Santa Barbara, 1988
- Distinguished Teaching Award, Graduate and Professional Training, UC Davis 2022.
- Graduate Program Advising and Mentoring Award, UC Davis 2020. Charles Nash Award, 2018