The Physics of Disorder. David Drabold, Distinguished Professor of Physics
Spectral methods for large matrices
Methods
D. A. Drabold, O. F. Sankey, Maximum-entropy approach for linear scaling in the electronic structure problem, Phys. Rev. Lett. 70 3631 (1993).
O. F. Sankey, D. A. Drabold, A. Gibson, Projected random vectors and the recursion method in the electronic structure problem, Phys. Rev. B 50 1376 (1994).
H. Roder, R. N. Silver, Jian Jun Dong and D. A. Drabold, The Kernel Polynomial Method for a non orthogonal electronic structure calculation of amorphous diamond, Phys. Rev. B 55 15382 (1997).
P. Ordejon, D. A. Drabold, R. M. Martin, Linear Scaling Method for phonon calculations from electronic structure, Phys. Rev. Lett. 75 1324 (1995)
K.Bandyopadhyay, A.K.Bhattacharya, Parthapratim Biswas, D.A.Drabold Maximum Entropy and the Problem of Moments: a Stable Algorithm, Phys Rev E 71 057701 (2005).
Applications to Carbon
D. A. Drabold, P. Ordejon, J. Dong and R. M. Martin, Spectral properties of large fullerenes: from cluster to crystal , Solid State Comm. 96 833 (1995).
J. Dong and D. A. Drabold, Band tail states and the localized to extended transition in amorphous diamond, Phys. Rev. B 54 10284 (1996).
V. Deringer, N. Bernstein, G. Csanyi, M. Wilson, D. A. Drabold and S. R. Elliott, Structural transitions in dense disordered silicon from quantum-accurate ultra-large-scale simulations, Nature 589 59 (2021), paper here, Commentary by Paul McMillan (2021).