Travi Sjostrom

Education

• Ph.D., Physics
• University of Utah
• 2008

• B.S., Physics
• University of Utah
• 2002

Positions

• 2/2016 - Present | Scientist, T-1, Physics and Chemistry of Materials
• 1/2013 - 2/2016 | Postdoctoral Associate, T-5, Applied Mathematics and Plasma Physics

Publications

• T. Dornheim, S. Groth, T. Sjostrom, F. D. Malone, W. M. C. Foulkes, and M. Bonitz, Ab Initio Quantum Monte Carlo Simulation of the Warm Dense Electron Gas in the Thermodynamic Limit, Phys. Rev. Lett. 117, 156403 (2016).
• T. Sjostrom, S. Crockett, and S. Rudin, Multiphase aluminum equations of state via density functional theory, Phys. Rev. B 94, 144101 (2016).
• J. Daligault, S.D. Baalrud, C.E. Starrett, D. Saumon, and T. Sjostrom, Ionic Transport Coefficients of Dense Plasmas without Molecular Dynamics, Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 075002 (2016).
• T. Sjostrom and J. Daligault, Ionic and electronic transport properties in dense plasmas by orbital-free density functional theory, Phys. Rev. E 92, 063304 (2015).
• T. Sjostrom and S. Crockett, Orbital-free extension to Kohn-Sham density functional theory equation of state calculations: Application to silicon dioxide, Phys. Rev. B 92, 115104 (2015).
• T. Sjostrom and J. Daligault, Gradient corrections to the exchange-correlation free energy, Phys. Rev. B 90, 155109 (2014).
• T. Sjostrom and J. Daligault, Fast and accurate quantum molecular dynamics of dense plasmas across temperature regimes, Phys. Rev. Lett. 113, 155006 (2014).
• V.V. Karasiev, T. Sjostrom, and S.B. Trickey, Finite-temperature orbital-free DFT molecular dynamics: coupling Profess and Quantum Espresso, Comput. Phys. Commun. 185, 3240 (2014).
• V.V. Karasiev, T. Sjostrom, J.Dufty, and S.B. Trickey, Accurate homogeneous electron gas exchange-correlation free energy for local spin-density calculations, Phys. Rev. Lett. 112, 076403 (2014).
• T. Sjostrom and J. Daligault, Nonlocal orbital-free noninteracting free-energy functional for warm dense matter, Phys. Rev. B 88, 195103 (2013).
• T. Sjostrom and J. Dufty, Uniform electron gas at finite temperatures, Phys. Rev. B 88, 115123 (2013).
• V.V. Karasiev, T. Sjostrom, D.Chakraborty, J.W. Dufty, F.E. Harris, K. Runge, and S.B. Trickey, Innovations in Finite-Temperature Density Functionals, Chapter in Frontiers and Challenges in Warm Dense Matter, Lecture Notes in Computational Science and Engineering, Vol. 96, F. Graziani et al. eds., (Springer 2014).
• V.V. Karasiev, T. Sjostrom, and S.B. Trickey, Generalized Gradient Approximation Non-interacting Free Energy Functionals for Orbital-free Density Functional Calculations, Phys. Rev. B 86, 115101 (2012).
• V.V. Karasiev, T. Sjostrom, and S.B. Trickey, Comparison of Density Functional approximations and the Finite-temperature Hartree-Fock Approximation in Warm Dense Lithium, Phys. Rev. E 86, 056704 (2012).
• T. Sjostrom, F.E. Harris, and S.B. Trickey, Temperature-Dependent Behavior of Confined Many-electron Systems in the Hartree-Fock Approximation, Phys. Rev. B 85, 045125 (2012).
• T. Sjostrom, D. C. Mattis, W.-G. Yin and W. Ku, Electronic Properties of Thin Film Periodic Nanostructures, J. Comput. Theor. Nanosci. Vol. 6, pp 403-417 (2009).
• T. Sjostrom, Electronic Energy Band Calculations in Nano-structures, Thesis, University of Utah (2008).
• D. C. Mattis and T. Sjostrom, Bloch's Theorem in Nanoarchitectures, Mod. Phys. Lett. B, Vol. 20, pp 501-513 (2006)