Publications Since 1990

• Iterative Approaches to Electronic Structure with Augmented Bases by G. W. Fernando, Physical Review B41, 903 (1990).

• Cohesion and Lattice Stabilities in the 5d Transition Metals by G. W. Fernando, R. E. Watson, M. Weinert and J. Wang, Physical Review B41, 11813, (1990).

• First Principles Calculation of the Activation Energy for Diffusion in Liquid Sodium by G-X. Qian, M. Weinert, G. W. Fernando and J. W. Davenport, Physical Review Letters 64, 1146 (1990).

• Electronic Structure of NiAl by S. -C. Liu, J. W. Davenport, E. W. Plummer, D. M. Zehner and G. W. Fernando, Physical Review B42 , 1582 (1990).

• First Principles Molecular Dynamics Studies of Liquid and Solid Sodium by J. W. Davenport, G.-X. Qian, G. W. Fernando and M. Weinert , The Int. Journal of Supercomputer Applications, Vol. 4, No. 3, 122 (1990).

• Electronic Structure of Transition Metal Alloys and Intermetallics: Charge Transfer and Its Implications for Mossbauer Effect Measurements by R. E. Watson, J. W. Davenport, M. Weinert and G. W. Fernando, Hyperfine Interactions 53, 213, (1990).

• The Local Density Approximation: Cohesion in the Transition Metals and s to d Promotion in the Transition Metal Atoms by R. E. Watson , G. W. Fernando, M. Weinert, Y. J. Wang and J. W. Davenport, Physical Review B43 , 1455, (1991).

• Charge Transfer in Transition Metal Alloying : Charge Tailing Effects by R. E. Watson , M. Weinert and G. W. Fernando, Physical Review B43, 1446, (1991).

• Surface Electronic Structure of Ce in the alpha and gamma Phases by O. Eriksson, R. Albers, M. Boring, G. W. Fernando, Y. G. Hao and B. R. Cooper, Physical Review B43, 3137, (1991).

• Theoretical Studies of Electronic Structure of Hydrogen and Oxygen Chemisorbed on Pu by O. Eriksson, Y. G. Hao, B. R. Cooper, G. W. Fernando, L. E. Cox, J. M. Ward, and A. M. Boring , Physical Review B43, 4590, (1991).

• Analytic Embedded Atom potentials by J. Mei, J. W. Davenport and G. W. Fernando , Physical Review B43, 4653 (1991).

• Electronic structure of the (111) and (100) Surfaces of delta-Pu by Y. G. Hao, O. Eriksson, G. W. Fernando and B. R. Cooper, Physical Review B43, 9467 (1991).

• Anomalies in the Elastic Properties of Metallic Multilayers by J. Mei and G. W. Fernando, Physical Review Letters 66, 1882 (1991).

• Enhanced Orbital Contribution to Surface Magnetism in Fe, Co and Ni by O. Eriksson, G. W. Fernando , R. C. Albers, and A. M. Boring, Solid State Communications 78, 801(1991).

• Charge Transfer, Charge Tailing, Cohesion and Electron Promotion in the Transition Metals by R. E. Watson, M. Weinert, G. W. Fernando, J. W. Davenport, Physica B172, 289 (1991).

• Cohesion and Promotion Energies in Transition Metals : Implications of the local density Approximation by R. E. Watson, G. W. Fernando, M. Weinert, Y. J. Wang and J. W. Davenport, Journal of Applied Physics 69, 5688 (1991).

• Spin and Orbital Contributions to Surface Magnetism in 3d Elements by O. Eriksson, A. M. Boring, R. C. Albers , G. W. Fernando and B. R. Cooper, Physical Review B45 2868, (1992).

• On Prediction of Ferromagnetism and Metamagnetism in 4d Transition-Metal Overlayers, by O. Eriksson, R. C. Albers, A. M. Boring, G. W. Fernando and B. R. Cooper , Modern Physics Letters B6 , 605 (1992).

• The Heats of Formation of Transition Metal Alloys : Pt-Ti system by G. W. Fernando, R. E. Watson and M. Weinert, Physical Review B45, 8233 (1992).

• First Principles Calculations : The Elemental Transition Metals and Their Compounds by R. E. Watson, G. W. Fernando, M. Weinert and J. W. Davenport, Journal of Phase Equilibria,13 , 244 (1992).

• Possibility of a delta-like surface for alpha-Pu: Theory by O. Eriksson, L. E. Cox, B. R. Cooper, J. M. Wills, G. W. Fernando, Y. G. Hao, and M. Boring, Physical Review B46, 13576 (1992).

• Surface Electronic Structure of gamma Uranium by Y. G. Hao, O. Eriksson , G. W. Fernando and B. R. Cooper , Physical Review B47, 6680 (1993).

• Cu-Pd multilayers : Embedded Atom and First Principles Calculations, by G. W. Fernando, J. Mei, R. E. Watson and M. Weinert, Physical Review B47, 13636 (1993).

• Point Group Symmetries and Gaussian Integration by G. W. Fernando, M. Weinert , R. E. Watson and J. W. Davenport Journal of Computational Physics, Vol.112, No. 2, 282 (1994).

• Alloy Heats of Formation : Theory vs Experiment by R. E. Watson, M. Weinert, J. W. Davenport and G. W. Fernando, Journal Phase Equilibria, 15 , 273 (1994).

• NMR study of Y2Fe17 Nitrides by Y. D. Zhang, J. I. Budnick, N. X. Shen, W. A. Hines, G. W. Fernando, and T. Manzur, Journal of Magnetism and Magnetic Materials, 987, 141 (1995).

• Nitrogen Diffusion Behavior in the Y2Fe17 Lattice by Y. D. Zhang, D. P. Yang, J. I. Budnick, G. W. Fernando, T. D. Xiao and T. Manzur, Phys. Rev. B51, 12091 (1995).

• Occupation Numbers in Density Functional Calculations by M. Valiev and G. W. Fernando, Phys. Rev. B52, 10697, (1995).

• On the Nitrogen Occupation in the Y2Fe17 Lattice by Y. D. Zhang, D. P. Yang, J. I. Budnick, W. A. Hines, W. Q. Xu, N. X. Shen, D. M. Pease, G. W. Fernando and T. D. Xiao, Scrpta Metallurgica et Materialia, 33, 1817 (1995).

• Path Integral Formulation of Exchange-Correlation Energy by M. Valiev and G. W. Fernando, Phys. Rev. B54, 7765 (1996).

• Stoner Criterion of Ferromagnetism and Moment Saturation in the Hubbard Model in an Applied Magnetic Field by G. W. Fernando, A. N. Kocharian, R. E. Watson, and M. Weinert, Physica B, Vol. 230-232, 509 (1997).

• Density Functional Theory of One Electron Propagators by M. Valiev and G. W. Fernando, Physics Letters A 227, 265 (1997).

• Interatomic Potentials via the Effective Action Formalism by M. F. Rasamny, M. Valiev, and G. W. Fernando, Physical Review B58, 9700 (1998).

• Magnetic Moment of Iron in Metallic Environments by G. W. Fernando, R. E. Watson, M. Weinert, A. N. Kocharian, A. Ratnaweera and K. Tennakone, Physical Review B61, 375 (2000).

• A Theoretical Study of Relativistic Effects in the Electronic Structure of Plutonium by G. W. Fernando, E. H. Sevilla and B. R. Cooper, Physical Review B61, 12562 (2000).

• Electronic Structure and Thermodynamics of Defects in NiAl$_3$, by M. Rasamny, M. Weinert, G. W. Fernando and R. E. Watson, Physical Review B64, 144107, (2001).

• In-situ high temperature X ray study ..., by H. Zhang et al., Current research and industrial practice, TMMM Society, p59, 2001.

• Synthesis and Characterization of novel Pd-Mn oxides, by H. Zhang et al., To be published in MRS Proceedings, Fall 2001.

• PdO/Pd System equilibrium phase diagram, by H. Zhang, J. Gromek, G. W. Fernando, S. Boorse and H. Marcus, Journal of Phase Equilibria, 23, 246 (2002)

• Density Functional Theory and Atomic Multiplet Levels, M. Weinert, R. E. Watson and G. W. Fernando, Physical Review A 66, 032508 (2002)

• Study of Novel Nanostructured Pd-Mn Oxides, H. Zhang, J. Gromek, G. Fernando, R. S. Boorse and H. L. Marcus, Physica B 334, 278 (2004).

• Reduction of the 3 Dimensional Schr{\"o}dinger Equation for Multilayered Films, C. Abbott, G. W. Fernando, and M. Rasamny, Physical Review B69, 205412 (2004).

• H. Zhang, J. Gromek, G. Fernando, and H. L. Marcus, Novel Nanostructured Pd-Zr Oxides, Mat. Sci. and Engineering, A 366, 248 (2004).

• Thermodynamic properties, Magnetism and Mott-Hubbard like Transitions in Nanoscale Clusters, A. N. Kocharian, G. W. Fernando, K. Palandage and J. W. Davenport, Journal of Magnetism and Magnetic Materials, 300, e585 (2006)- available online - Nov. 2005.

• First principles study of CdSe quantum dots: Stability, surface unsaturations and experimental validation, M. Yu, G. W. Fernando, R. Li, F. Papadimitrakopoulos, N. Shi and R. Ramprasad, Applied Physics Letters 88, 231910 (2006).

• An exact study of charge-spin separation, pairing fluctuations and pseudogaps in 4-site Hubbard clusters, A. N. Kocharian, G. W. Fernando, K. Palandage and J. W. Davenport, Phys. Rev. B74, 024511 (2006).

• Exact Thermodynamics of pairing and charge spin separation crossovers in small Mott-Hubbard nanoclusters, A. N. Kocharian, G. W. Fernando, T. Wang, K. Palandage and J. W. Davenport, Physics Letters A 364, 57 (2007).

• Phase separation and electron pairing in repulsive Hubbard Clusters, G. W. Fernando, A. N. Kocharian, K. Palandage, Tun Wang and J. W. Davenport, Phys. Rev. B75, 085109 (2007).

• Discrete size series of CdSe quantum dots: A combined computational and experimental investigation, M. Yu, G. W. Fernando, R. Li, F. Papadimitrakopoulos, N. Shi and R. Ramprasad, Journal of Computer-Aided Materials Design, 14, 167 (2007). -- Conference Proceedings.

• Exact study of pairing fluctuations and phase diagrams in 4-site Hubbard nanocluster, K. Palandage, G. W. Fernando, A. N. Kocharian, J. W. Davenport, Journal of Computer-Aided Materials Design, 14, 103 (2007). -- Conference Proceedings.

• An energy conservation approach to adsorbate-induced surface stress and the extraction of binding energy using nanomechanics, L. A. Pinnaduwage, V. I. Boiadjiev, J. E. Hawk, A. C. Gehl, G. W. Fernando and L. C. R. Wijewardhana, Nanotechnology, 19, 105501 (2008).

• Coherent and incoherent pairing instabilities and spin charge separation in bipartite and nonbipartite nanoclusters: Exact results, A. N. Kocharian, G. W. Fernando, K. Palandage and J. W. Davenport Phys. Rev. B 78, 075431 (2008).

• Electron coherent and incoherent pairing instabilities in inhomogeneous bipartite and nonbipartite nanoclusters, A. N. Kocharian, G. W. Fernando, K. Palandage and J. W. Davenport Physics Letters A 373, 1074 (2009).

• Pairing in bipartite and nonbipartite repulsive Hubbard clusters: Octahedron, G. W. Fernando, K. Palandage, A. N. Kocharian and J. W. Davenport, Physical Review B 80, 014525 (2009).

• A.N. Kocharian, G.W. Fernando, K. Palandage, and J.W. Davenport, Ultramicroscopy 109, 1066 (2009) -- Conference Proceedings.

• Role of point defects on conductivity, magnetism and optical properties in In2O3, Kalum Palandage and G. W. Fernando, Physics Letters A 374, 2879 (2010).

• Spin and charge pairing instabilities in nanoclusters and nanomaterials, A.N. Kocharian, G.W. Fernando and C. Yang, Chapter 15, pp. 507-570, Scanning probe microscopy in nanoscience and nanotechnology, ed. by Bharat Bushan (published by Springer, 2010).

• Archived Preprints

• M. Valiev and G. W. Fernando, Generalized Kohn-Sham Density Functional Theory via Effective Action Formalism, preprint: cond-mat/9702247.

• Phase Diagrams and Charge-Spin Separation in Two and Four Site Hubbard Clusters, A. N. Kocharian, G. W. Fernando and J. W. Davenport, preprint: cond-mat/0510609.

• Phase separation and electron pairing in repulsive Hubbard Clusters, G. W. Fernando, A. N. Kocharian, G. W. Fernando, K. Palandage, Tun Wang and J. W. Davenport, preprint: cond-mat/0608579.

• Novel insights into charge and pairing instabilities, A. N. Kocharian, G. W. Fernando, K. Palandage and J. W. Davenport, preprint: cond-mat/0804.0958.

• Books and Popular Science Articles

• Metallic Multilayers and their Applications, Gayanath W. Fernando, ISBN: 978-0-444-51703-6, published by Elsevier, 2008.

• `` Einstein's Miracle Year" , published in the English daily newspaper, Island, in Sri Lanka (August 2005). This article was distributed among some middle school students in Mansfield, CT, during a World Year of Physics event.

  Book Chapters

• Surface Electronic Structure and Chemisorption of Plutonium and Uranium by B. R. Cooper, O. Eriksson, Y. G. Hao and G. W. Fernando , Transuranium Elements - A Half Century, Chapter 36, 365 (1992) - published by the American Chemical Society.

• The Energetics of Ordered Intermetallic Alloys (of the Transition Metals) by R. E. Watson, M. Weinert, J. W. Davenport, G. W. Fernando, and L. H. Bennett - Statics and Dynamics of Alloy Phase Transitions, Edited by P. E. A. Turchi and A. Gonis, Plenum Press, New York, 1994

• Energetics of Metal-Metal Interfaces by M. Weinert, R. E. Watson, J. W. Davenport and G. W. Fernando. Ordering at Surfaces and Interfaces, Springer-Verlag, Berlin, 1990 (Conference Proceedings)