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Ville Härkönen

Senior Research Fellow, Tampere Institute for Advanced Study
Tampere University
ville.j.harkonen [at] tuni.fi (ville[dot]j[dot]harkonen[at]tuni[dot]fi)

About me

  • Senior Research Fellow (IAS), computational physics.
  • Head of the Many-Body Theory group.

Fields of expertise

  • Many-body Green's function theory.
  • Nuclear dynamics in condensed matter.
  • Many-body quantum mechanics.
  • Quantum field theory.
  • Computational physics.

Top achievements

  • Many-Body Green's function theory beyond the Born-Oppenheimer approximation (link).
  • Exact factorization of the many-body Green's function theory (link).
  • Quantum field theory of electrons and nuclei (link).

Mission statement

  • Development of theoretical approaches to describe quantum mechanical many-body systems.
  • Implementation of the developed theoretical approaches in the case of realistic materials.
  • A deeper understanding of superconductivity with the developed approaches and implementations.

Research unit

Physics, Computational physics lab.

Research fields

  • Physics.
  • Theoretical physics.
  • Solid state physics.
  • Computational physics.

Funding

Jenny and Antti Wihuri foundation, Magnus Ehrnrooth foundation.

Selected publications