Professor John Dobson

PhD (University of California 1974), MSc (University of Melbourne, 1969)

Professor, School of Biomolecular and Physical Sciences

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Research Expertise

  • Theoretical condensed matter physics
  • Nanoscience
  • Chemical physics
  • Fundamentals of Density Functional Theory
  • Dispersion forces 

Currently Teaching

  • 1301SCE Physics 1A
  • 1607SCE Engineering Physics
  • 2326SCE Statistical Mechanics
  • 3335SCE Nanoscale Properties of Materials
  • 3350SCE Solid State III
  • 6376SCE Honours Statistical Mechanics
  • 6377SCE Topics in Physics

Publications

  • “Asymptotics of the dispersion interaction: analytic benchmarks for van der Waals energy functionals”, John F. Dobson,  Angela White  and Angel Rubio,  Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 073201 (2006).
  • “Dispersion (van der Waals) forces and time dependent density functional theory”, John F. Dobson, invited book chapter, Lect. Notes Phys. 706, 443 (2006) (Springer-Verlag).
  • “Soft Cohesive Forces”,  John F. Dobson, Jun Wang, Bradley P. Dinte, K. McLennan and  Hung M. Le. International Journal of Quantum Chemistry 101, 579-598 (2005)
  • “Spin-resolved kinetic correlation energy of spin-polarised uniform electron gas from the STLS formalism”,  John F. Dobson, H. Le and G. Vignale, Phys. Rev. B 70, 205126 (2004)
  • “Effects beyond the random-phase approximation in calculating the interaction between metal films“ J. Jung, P. Garcia-Gonzalez, J.F. Dobson, R.W. Godby, Phys. Rev. B 70, 205107 (2004)
  • “Testing the Local Density Approximation for energy-versus-separation curves of jellium slab pairs”, John F. Dobson and Jun Wang, Phys. Rev. B 69, 235104 (2004)
  • “Collisionless hydrodynamics for 1D motion of inhomogeneous degenerate electron gases: equivalence of two recent descriptions” John F. Dobson and Hung M. Le., Phys. Rev. B 66, 075301 (2002)
  • “Correlation energies of inhomogeneous many-electron systems”, John F. Dobson, Jun Wang, and Tim Gould ,  Phys. Rev. B (Rapid Communications) 66, 081108 (2002)
  • “Energy-optimized, local exchange-correlation kernel for the electron gas, with application to van der Waals forces”, John F. Dobson and Jun Wang, Phys. Rev. B 62, 10038 (2000).
  • "Successful test of a seamless van der Waals density functional", John F. Dobson and Jun Wang, Phys. Rev. Lett. 82, 2123 (1999)
  • ”Electronic Density Functional Theory: Recent Progress and New Directions” (book). Eds. J. F. Dobson, G. Vignale and M. P. Das. (Plenum, New York, 1998, ISBN 0-306-45834-9)
  • “Time-dependent density functional theory beyond linear response: an exchange-correlation potential with memory”, John F. Dobson, M. J. Bunner and E. K. U. Gross, Phys. Rev. Lett. 79, 1905 (1997)
  • "Constraint satisfaction in local and gradient susceptibility approximations: application to a van der Waals density functional" John F. Dobson and Bradley P. Dinte, Phys. Rev. Lett. 76, 1780 (1996)
  • 'Density functional theory of time-dependent phenomena', E.K.U. Gross, J.F. Dobson and M. Petersilka, invited chapter pp.81-172 in 'Density Functional Theory' (V. 181 of 'Topics in current chemistry' series) Ed. R.F. Nalewajski. (Springer-Verlag, Berlin 1996.  ISBN 3-540-61092-8)
  • "The harmonic potential theorem: implications for approximate many-body theories" John F. Dobson, Phys. Rev. Lett.  73, 2244-7 (1994)

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