Professor Tony Paxton

Department of Physics

King's College London

Strand

London WC2R 2LS

Telephone: +44 (0)20 7848 7476

Email: tony.paxton@kcl.ac.uk

Office: S6.21

Research Group: Theory and Simulation of Condensed Matter

Teaching

5CCP2380 Electromagnetism

Selected Publications

Google Scholar Publications List

• G. C. G. Skinner, A. T. Paxton and J. A. Moriarty, Local volume effects in generalized pseudopotential theory, Physical Review B, 99, art. 214107 (2019)
• L. Cimbaro, A. P. Sutton, D. S. Balint, A. T. Paxton, M. C. Hardy Embrittlement of an elasto-plastic medium by an inclusion, International Journal of Fracture, 216, pp. 87-100 (2019)
• E. I. Andritsos and A. T. Paxton, Effects of calcium on planar fault energies in ternary magnesium alloys, Physical Review Materials, 3, art. 013607 (2019)
• Bingqing Cheng, Anthony T Paxton and Michele Ceriotti, Hydrogen diffusion and trapping in alpha-Fe: the role of quantum and anharmonic fluctuations, Physical Review Letters, 120, art. 225901 (2018)
• Ivaylo H. Katzarov, Dimitar L. Pashov and Anthony T. Paxton, Hydrogen embrittlement I. Analysis of hydrogen-enhanced localized plasticity: effect of hydrogen on the velocity of screw dislocations in alpha-Fe, Physical Review Materials, 1, art. 033602 (2017)
• Ivaylo H. Katzarov, and Anthony T. Paxton, Hydrogen embrittlement II. Analysis of hydrogen-enhanced decohesion across (111) planes in alpha-Fe, Physical Review Materials, 1, art. 033603 (2017)
• Anthony T. Paxton and Ivaylo H. Katzarov, Quantum and isotope effects on hydrogen diffusion, trapping and escape in iron Acta Materialia, 103, 71-76 (2016)
• T. J. Sheppard, A. Y. Lozovoi, D. L. Pashov, J. J. Kohanoff and A. T. Paxton, Universal tight binding model for chemical reactions in solution and at surfaces. I Organic molecules J. Chemical Physics, 141 art. 044503 (2014)
• A. Y. Lozovoi, T. J. Sheppard, D. L. Pashov, J. J. Kohanoff and A. T. Paxton, Universal tight binding model for chemical reactions in solution and at surfaces. II Water J. Chemical Physics, 141 art. 044504 (2014)
• A. Y. Lozovoi, T. J. Sheppard, D. L. Pashov, J. J. Kohanoff and A. T. Paxton, Universal tight binding model for chemical reactions in solution and at surfaces. III Stoichiometric and reduced surfaces of titania and the adsorption of water J. Chemical Physics, 141 art. 044505 (2014)
• Ivaylo H. Katzarov, Dimitar L. Pashov and Anthony T. Paxton, Fully quantum mechanical calculation of the diffusivity of hydrogen in iron using the tight-binding approximation and path integral theory, Physical Review, 88, art. 054107 (2013)
• A. T. Paxton and C. Elsaesser, Analysis of a carbon dimer bound to a vacancy in iron using density functional theory and a tight binding model, Physical Review, 87, art. 224110 (2013)
• A. T. Paxton and C. Elsaesser, Electronic structure and total energy of interstitial hydrogen in iron: Tight-binding models Physical Review, 82, art. 235125 (2010)
• Ivaylo H. Katzarov and Anthony T. Paxton, Microscopic origin of channeled flow in lamellar titanium aluminide, Physical Review Letters, 104, art. 225502 (2010)
• A. T. Paxton, T. N. Todorov and A. M. Elena, Ring currents in Azulene, Chemical Physics Letters, 483, 154-158 (2009)
• Anthony T. Paxton and Michael W. Finnis, Magnetic tight binding and the iron-chromium enthalpy anomaly, Physical Review, 77, art. 024428 (2008)
• Rainer Schweinfest, Anthony T. Paxton and Michael W. Finnis, Bismuth embrittlement of copper is an atomic size effect, Nature, 432 23/30 December 2004, p 1008

Lectures

Two lectures on tight binding delivered at EPFL Lausanne, August 2015, and some lecture notes.

• Lecture 1
• Lecture 2
• Lecture notes A. T. Paxton, "An Introduction to the Tight Binding Approximation: Implementation by Diagonalisation," in, "Multiscale Simulation Methods in Molecular Sciences," eds. J. Grotendorst, N. Attig, S. Blügel and D. Marx, NIC Series Volume 42, Institute for Advanced Simulation Jülich Supercomputing Centre, 2009. ISBN 978-3-9810843-8-2

Lecture notes

When I'm preparing new lecture courses I frequently find it very useful to consult notes that other lecturers have put on their web pages for their students. So with absolutely no guarantee and in the hope that they will be useful here are some of mine.

• Equations of motion in electrodynamics This is my tribute to the late Professor Alessandro De Vita.
• Solid State Physics Third year course taught at Queen's University Belfast, 2007-2012.
• Electronic Structure Graduate lectures, mostly density functional theory.
• Elastic and inelastic scattering of electrons.
• Lecture notes on Steel delivered at Imperial College, 2015-2018
• A jolly lecture on quench and tempering.
• The complete lecture notes and lecture slides.
• Notes on solid state diffusion.
• Notes on solubility products in microalloy steel. (With Vivian Tong, now at NPL I fear)
• For electrochemistry notes, see QuantumCorrosion.org