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
Professor Tony Paxton at King's College London
Professor Tony Paxton at Imperial College London
Professor Tony Paxton at Thomas Young Centre
Quantum Corrosion
Royal Society Scientific Discussion Meeting: The challenges of hydrogen and metals
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.