QSG: People: Randy Hood

	Contact Information
	NAME	Randolph Q. Hood
	PHONE	(925) 423-5787
	FAX	(925) 422-6594
	E-MAIL	hood9@llnl.gov
	ADDRESS	Lawrence Livermore National Lab 7000 East Avenue, L-415 Livermore, CA 94550

Research Interests
The electronic and structural theory of solids and liquids using techniques such as molecular dynamics, density functional theory, and quantum Monte Carlo.
Publications
Selected	Y.H. Kim, I.H. Lee, S. Nagaraja, J.P. Leburton, R.Q. Hood, R.M. Martin, "Two-dimensional limit of exchange-correlation energy functional approximations", Phys. Rev. B 61, 5202 (2000). G. Galli, R.Q. Hood, A.U. Hazi, F. Gygi, "Ab initio simulations of compressed liquid deuterium", Phys. Rev. B 61, 909 (2000). W.M.C. Foulkes, R.Q. Hood, and R.J. Needs, "Symmetry constraints and variational principles in diffusion quantum Monte Carlo calculations of excited-state energies", Phys. Rev. B 60, 4558 (1999). P.R.C. Kent, R.Q. Hood, A.J. Williamson, R.J. Needs, W.M.C. Foulkes, and G. Rajagopal, "Finite size errors in quantum many-body simulations of extended systems", Phys. Rev. B 59, 1917 (1999). P.R.C. Kent, R.Q. Hood, M. Towler, R.J. Needs, and G. Rajagopal, "Variational Quantum Monte Carlo Calculations of the One-Body Density Matrix and Excitation Energies in Silicon", Phys. Rev. B. 57, 15293 (1998). W.M.C. Foulkes, M. Nekovee, R.L. Gaudoin, M.L. Stedman, R.J. Needs, R.Q. Hood, G. Rajagopal, M.D. Towler, P.R.C. Kent, Y. Lee, W.K. Leung, A.R. Porter, and S.J. Breuer, "Quantum Monte Carlo Simulations of Real Solids", High Performance Computing, edited by R.J. Allan, M.F. Guest, A.D. Simpson, D.S. Henty, and D.A. Nicole (Plenum) 1998. A.J. Williamson, R.Q. Hood, R.J. Needs, and G. Rajagopal "Diffusion Quantum Monte Carlo Calculations of the Excited States of Silicon", Phys. Rev. B. 57, 12140 (1998). R.Q. Hood, M.Y. Chou, A.J. Williamson, G. Rajagopal, and R.J. Needs, "Exchange and Correlation in Silicon", Phys. Rev. B 57, 8972 (1998). R.Q. Hood, M.Y. Chou, A.J. Williamson, G. Rajagopal, R.J. Needs, and W.M.C. Foulkes, "Quantum Monte Carlo Investigation of Exchange and Correlation in Silicon", Phys. Rev. Lett. 78, 3350 (1997).

People in the Quantum Simulations Group

[Giulia Galli | Lorin Benedict | Stanimir Bonev | Erik Draeger | Jeffrey Grossman | Randy Hood | Burkhard Militzer |
Laurent Pizzagalli | Aaron Puzder | Jean-Yves Raty | Fernando Reboredo | Eric Schwegler | Andrew Williamson ]

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