Welcome to the Wang Research Group! We hope this guide will make your transition into our group easier. This guidebook will also keep evolving with the input of new teammates. Use the following bookmarks to navigate.
Our group’s computing resources
UNT Scholarship info
Readings
Common Research Tools
Blogs and Youtube channels
Getting Settled in North Texas
Technical tips (opens new page)
TACC Lonestar6 (account setup here)
TACC Stampede2 (subject to availability)
Scholarship at the College of Science and the Graduate School levels
Readings (available in group library)
- Textbooks on density functional theory
- W. Yang, Density functional theory of atoms and molecules
- Richard M. Martin, Electronic Structure: Basic Theory and Practical Methods
- Sholl and Steckel, Density Functional Theory: A Practical Introduction
- Textbooks on solid state physics and chemistry
- Burdett, Chemical Bonding in Solids
- Rössler, Solid State Theory
- Louie and Cohen, Contemporary concepts of condensed matter science
- Madelung, Introduction to Solid-State Theory
- Cardona and Yu, Fundamentals of Semiconductors: Physics and Materials Properties
- Introductory resources on materials science, from the University of Cambridge
(DoITPoMS): https://www.doitpoms.ac.uk - This book on why we do the things we do
- DFPT, Rev. Mod. Phys. 73, 515 (2001)
- Defects in 2D, PRX 4, 031044 (2014), PRB 91, 125304 (2015)
- Defects in solids in general, Rev. Mod. Phys. 86, 253 (2014)
- Raman tensors from symmetry, Advances in Physics, 50:7, 813-864
- GW-BSE in TMDs, PRL 111, 216805 (2013), PRB 93, 235435 (2016)
- Lattice thermal conductivities, PRB 82, 134301 (2010), PRB 91, 094306 (2015)
- High-throughput, Nat. Mater. 12, 191 (2013)
- Good pratices on data visualization
● How to access journals off-campus
● CrystalMaker, Vesta, VMD – crystal structure visualization
● Mendeley or Zotero – reference management
● Overleaf – online collaborative latex
● Webplot digitizer
● Remote desktop at UNT, Win or Mac
● Earth abundance of elements (before you ask “why doesn’t everyone use compound XYZ”)
● Kpoint path seeker
● Phonon database by Atsushi Togo
● Phonon visualization by Dr. Henrique Miranda
● Bilbao Crystallographic Server
● NIST-JANAF thermochemical tables
● Webplot Digitizer
● How to be better at making graphs?
1. subscribe to r/dataisbeautiful
2. subscribe to r/dataisugly
3. get a book by Edward Tufte
- Gravity and Levity, also twitter
- This Condensed Life
- Nanosclae Views
- Nathan Frey’s blog
- KITP blackboard lunch
- Raul Pacheco-Vega’s blog and other notes
- Hacking Materials’ blog
– - Numberphile
- SixtySymbols
- Periodic videos
- Vihart
- Physics girl
- 3Blue1Brown
- Any talk by Tadashi Tokieda
- Veritasium
- Kurzgezagt
- Minute Physics
Getting Settled in North Texas
UNT Benefits website
UNT Rec Sports
Trails in Denton: link 1, link 2
Yuanxi Wang's Homepage 
