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Some ab initio calculations necessitate constraining ion magnetic moments. For instance when determining the direction of anisotropy (in-plane, out-of-plane, etc.), or doing a 4-state mapping…

Strain engineering has proven quite exciting in exploring quantum phenomena in condensed matter physics, materials science, and other fields. For instance, one could investigate the…

Well, you probably know about STEM Pals (founded by yours truly, and run by an AMAZING team). (Here’s an old post about it.) Well, we…

In case you missed it, I founded a K-12 outreach organization STEM Pals that aims to help make STEM more accessible to underserved students. We…

It is an honor to be awarded the 2023 Weis Prize from the Physics Department at the University of Washington. I also sincerely appreciate being…

Here is a letter I sent to the STEM Pals membership on 05/22/2023, as its founder and outgoing co-president: Dear STEM Pals Family, I hope…

It is a great honor to have been selected as one of the University of Washington’s Husky 100. It was so cool to have met…

Well, ya boi has been working on organizing a workshop for women+ in physics, scheduled for early May, 2023. Swag working with the Community Building…

One may run into a situation that calls for numerical differentiation of some quantity along a curve in a 2D parameter space. That is, we…

Outline:1) Get vasprun.xml from a VASP phonon calculation.2) Use Phonopy to find the irreducible representations of each phonon mode.3) Separately find the Raman/IR selection rules…

I was making a simple website for a conference and realized there was no straightforward way to create a simple HTML table in Google Sites.…

Oftentimes, we would like VASP to detect and honor a material system’s symmetry (natural or otherwise). However, assuming you modeled the system well-enough, if there…

I could not find a simple tutorial on creating block tridiagonal matrices online. So, here is a quick tutorial on how to achieve this using…

Following are simple instructions, derived from notes by Kaichen Xie. These notes are not meant to replace the detailed instructions given in the official Quantum…

The time-independent Schrödinger equation appears in several applications of quantum mechanics. In this post, I will go over how I numerically calculate energy dispersions of…

Over the last year, I have been rallying other students and faculty to start an outreach endeavor for Washingtonian high school students. Well, after getting…

If you are one of my students, this section might contain material I might refer you to, or additional material that you might want to…