Homepage of Dr. Karim Zantout

Address: Institut für Theoretische Physik Goethe-Universität Frankfurt am Main Max-von-Laue-Straße 1 60438 Frankfurt Germany Office: 01.142 Phone: +49-69-798-47827 Fax: +49-69-798-47832 E-Mail: zantout itp.uni-frankfurt.de

Former PhD student in the group of Prof. Dr. Roser Valenti

Currently, I'm working at the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research where I investigate the effects of Climate Change on international human migration.
For more information, please visit my homepage at PIK: Link to the PIK homepage

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Research interests:

• Two Particle Self-Consistent Method
  
• Density Functional Theory
  
• High-temperature superconductors
  

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• On Twitter
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Publications:

• K. Zantout, S. Backes, A. Razpopov, D. Lessnicht, R. Valenti,
  Improved effective vertices in the multi-orbital Two-Particle Self-Consistent method from Dynamical Mean-Field Theory,
  Phys. Rev. B 107, 235101 (2023)
  arXiv:2211.01400 (2022)
  
• K. Zantout, S. Backes, R. Valenti,
  Two-Particle Self-Consistent method for the multi-orbital Hubbard model,
  Annalen der Physik (2021) 2000399
  arXiv:2008.08098 (2020)
  
• S. Bhattacharyya, K. Björnson, K. Zantout, D. Steffensen, L. Fanfarillo, A. Kreisel, R. Valenti, B. M. Andersen, P. J. Hirschfeld,
  Non-local correlations in Iron Pnictides and Chalcogenides,
  Phys. Rev. B 102, 035109 (2020)
  arXiv:2003.01638 (2020)
  
• J. M. Pizarro, S. Adler, K. Zantout, T. Mertz, P. Barone, R. Valenti, G. Sangiovanni, T. O. Wehling,
  Deconfinement of Mott Localized Electrons into Topological and Spin-Orbit Coupled Dirac Fermions,
  npj Quantum Materials 5, 79 (2020)
  arXiv:2001.04102 (2020)
  
• K. Zantout, S. Backes, R. Valenti,
  Effect of non-local correlations on the electronic structure of LiFeAs,
  Phys. Rev. Lett. 123, 256401 (2019)
  arXiv:1906.11853 (2019)
  
• T. Mertz, K. Zantout, R. Valenti,
  Statistical Analysis of the Chern Number in the Interacting Haldane-Hubbard Model,
  Phys. Rev. B 100, 125111 (2019)
  arXiv:1905.02218 (2019)
  
• T. Mertz, K. Zantout, R. Valenti,
  Self-Energy Dispersion in the Hubbard Model,
  Phys. Rev. B 98, 235105 (2018)
  arXiv:1806.09645 (2018)
  
• K. Zantout, M. Altmeyer, S. Backes, R. Valenti,
  Superconductivity in correlated BEDT-TTF molecular conductors: Critical temperatures and gap symmetries,
  Phys. Rev. B 97, 014530 (2018)
  arXiv:1711.09630 (2017)
  

Mathematics:

• Bachelor thesis (2020):
  Eigenschaften des Spektrums periodischer Schrödingeroperatoren
  

Physics:

• PhD thesis (2020) with corrections (August 2022):
  The Two-Particle Self-Consistent approach and its application to real materials
  
• Master thesis (2016):
  Unconventional superconductivity within the single-orbital Hubbard model beyond the Random Phase Approximation
  
• Bachelor thesis (2014):
  London-, Ginzburg-Landau- und Bardeen-Cooper-Schrieffer-Theorie für konventionelle Supraleiter
  

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Teaching:

• WS 20/21: Tutorial Einführung in die Programmierung für Studierende der Physik
  
• SoSe 20: Tutorial supervision Theoretische Physik IV: Quantenmechanik
  
• WS 19/20: Tutorial supervision Einführung in die Theoretische Festkörperphysik
  
• SoSe 19: Tutorial supervision Theorie zu Magnetismus, Supraleitung und Elektronische Korrelation in Festkörpern
  
• WS 18/19: Tutorial supervision Einführung in die Programmierung für Studierende der Physik
  
• WS 16/17: Tutorial Einführung in die Programmierung für Studierende der Physik
  
• SoSe 16: Tutorial Geometrie
  
• SoSe 16: Tutorial Grundlagen der Algebra
  
• WS 15/16: Tutorial Theoretische Physik V: Thermodynamik und Statistische Physik
  
• SS 15: Tutorial Theoretische Physik II: Klassische Mechanik
  
• SoSe 14: Tutorial Theoretische Physik IV: Quantenmechanik
  
• WS 13/14: Tutorial Mathematik für Physiker III
  
• SoSe 13: Tutorial Mathematik für Physiker II
  

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