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Overview

Richard J. Needs is affiliated with the University of Cambridge in the United Kingdom and focuses primarily on materials science. Their research covers a broad range of topics within this field, with a particular emphasis on materials chemistry and high-pressure geophysics. Additional areas of study include condensed matter physics, atomic and molecular physics and optics, as well as environmental chemistry.

Their recent publications reflect engagement with various specialized topics. These papers include:

  • High-throughput discovery of high-temperature conventional superconductors (2021, Physical Review B)
  • Predicting novel superconducting hydrides using machine learning approaches (2020, Physical Review B)
  • Superionic iron oxide-hydroxide in Earth's deep mantle (2021, Nature Geoscience)
  • Plastic and Superionic Helium Ammonia Compounds under High Pressure and High Temperature (2020, Physical Review X)
  • Coexistence of plastic and partially diffusive phases in a helium-methane compound (2020, National Science Review)

The frequent publication venues for this researcher include:

  • The Cambridge Structural Database
  • Physical Review B
  • Apollo (University of Cambridge)
  • Nature Geoscience
  • Physical Review X

Collaborative work forms a significant part of their scientific output. Their most frequent co-authors are:

  • Chris J. Pickard
  • Yanming Ma
  • Feng Peng
  • Ying Sun
  • Qiang Wu

The main topics tackled in their research focus on:

  • X-ray Diffraction in Crystallography
  • Crystallization and Solubility Studies
  • High-pressure Geophysics and Materials
  • Advanced Chemical Physics Studies
  • Rare-earth and Actinide Compounds
  • Geological and Geochemical Analysis
  • Hydrogen Storage and Materials

Richard J. Needs has contributed extensively to research in these domains, producing scholarly work that spans both theoretical and experimental approaches in materials science and related subfields. The breadth of their publication record demonstrates interdisciplinary engagement with topics of crystallography, superconductivity, geophysics, and chemical physics.

Best Publications

  • Quantum Monte Carlo simulations of solids

    W. M. C. Foulkes;L. Mitas;L. Mitas;R. J. Needs;G. Rajagopal

  • Ab initio random structure searching

    Chris J Pickard;R J Needs

  • High-pressure phases of group-IV, III–V, and II–VI compounds

    A. Mujica;Angel Rubio;A. Muñoz;R. J. Needs

  • Hydrogen Clathrate Structures in Rare Earth Hydrides at High Pressures: Possible Route to Room-Temperature Superconductivity.

    Feng Peng;Ying Sun;Chris J. Pickard;Richard J. Needs

  • Structure of phase III of solid hydrogen

    Chris J. Pickard;Richard J. Needs

  • High-pressure phases of silane.

    Chris J. Pickard;R. J. Needs

  • Structure prediction drives materials discovery

    Artem R. Oganov;Artem R. Oganov;Artem R. Oganov;Chris J. Pickard;Chris J. Pickard;Qiang Zhu;Richard J. Needs

  • Report on the sixth blind test of organic crystal-structure prediction methods

    Anthony M. Reilly;Richard I. Cooper;Claire S. Adjiman;Saswata Bhattacharya

  • First-principles calculations of the electronic properties of silicon quantum wires.

    A. J. Read;A. J. Read;R. J. Needs;R. J. Needs;K. J. Nash;K. J. Nash;L. T. Canham;L. T. Canham

  • High-pressure hydrogen sulfide from first principles: a strongly anharmonic phonon-mediated superconductor.

    Ion Errea;Ion Errea;Matteo Calandra;Christopher Pickard;Joseph Nelson

  • Metal-insulator transition in Kohn-Sham theory and quasiparticle theory.

    R. W. Godby;R. J. Needs

  • Continuum variational and diffusion quantum Monte Carlo calculations.

    R. J. Needs;M. D. Towler;Neil Drummond;P. Lopez Rios

  • Jastrow correlation factor for atoms, molecules, and solids

    Neil Drummond;M. D. Towler;R. J. Needs

  • Quantum hydrogen-bond symmetrization in the superconducting hydrogen sulfide system

    Ion Errea;Ion Errea;Matteo Calandra;Chris J. Pickard;Joseph R. Nelson

  • Space-time method for ab initio calculations of self-energies and dielectric response functions of solids.

    H. N. Rojas;R. W. Godby;R. J. Needs

  • Inhomogeneous backflow transformations in quantum Monte Carlo calculations.

    P. Lopez Rios;A. Ma;Neil Drummond;M. D. Towler

  • Finite-size effects and Coulomb interactions in quantum Monte Carlo calculations for homogeneous systems with periodic boundary conditions

    Louisa M. Fraser;W. M. C. Foulkes;G. Rajagopal;R. J. Needs

  • High-Pressure Phases of Nitrogen

    Chris J. Pickard;R. J. Needs

  • Aluminium at terapascal pressures

    Chris J. Pickard;R. J. Needs

  • Finite-size errors in continuum quantum Monte Carlo calculations

    Neil Drummond;R. J. Needs;A. Sorouri;W. M. C. Foulkes

Frequent Co-Authors

Chris J. Pickard
Chris J. Pickard University of Cambridge
Volker Heine
Volker Heine University of Cambridge
Ronald E. Cohen
Ronald E. Cohen Carnegie Institution for Science
Alfonso Muñoz
Alfonso Muñoz University of La Laguna
Yanming Ma
Yanming Ma Jilin University
Paul R. C. Kent
Paul R. C. Kent Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Rajeev Ahuja
Rajeev Ahuja Uppsala University
Hanyu Liu
Hanyu Liu Jilin University
Mei-Yin Chou
Mei-Yin Chou Academia Sinica
Mohamed Mezouar
Mohamed Mezouar European Synchrotron Radiation Facility

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