David Jacob

Ikerbasque Research Associate, UPV/EHU

Ikerbasque research associate at the Material Physics Department (UPV/EHU).

Research line:

Strong electronic correlations and magnetic excitations in nanoscale devices and molecules.

Postdoctoral Fellowship from German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD), PhD fellowship from Spanish Ministery of Science and Education (MECD).

Previolus research experience at Rutgers University (USA) and Max Planck Institute of Microstructure Physics (Germany).

Doctor in Materials Physics (2007) from University of Alicante.

2023

Article / Accurate Kondo temperature determination of spin-1/2 magnetic impurities

Preprint

Elia Turco, Markus Aapro, Somesh C Ganguli, Nils Krane, Robert Drost, Nahual Sobrino, Annika Bernhardt, Michal Juríček, Roman Fasel, Pascal Ruffieux, Peter Liljeroth and David Jacob

Article / Beyond spin models in orbitally-degenerate open-shell nanographenes

Preprint

J. C. G. Henriques, D. Jacob, A. Molina-Sánchez, G. Catarina, A. T. Costa, J. Fernández-Rossier

Article / What can lattice DFT teach us about real-space DFT?

Journal of Chemical Physics

Sobrino, N.; Jacob, D.; Kurth, S.

Article / Exchange Interactions and Intermolecular Hybridization in a Spin-<sup>1</sup>/2 Nanographene Dimer

Nano Letters

Krane, N.; Turco, E.; Bernhardt, A.; Jacob, D.; Gandus, G.; Passerone, D.; Luisier, M.; Juríček, M.; Fasel, R.; Fernández-Rossier, J.; Ruffieux, P.

Article / Temperature evolution of the Kondo peak beyond Fermi liquid theory

Physical Review B

Jacob, D.

2022

Article / Level occupation switching with density functional theory

Physical Review B

Sobrino, N.; Jacob, D.; Kurth, S.

Article / Theory of intermolecular exchange in coupled spin- 12 nanographenes

Physical Review B

Jacob, D.; Fernández-Rossier, J.

2021

Article / Observation of fractional edge excitations in nanographene spin chains

Nature

Mishra, S.; Catarina, G.; Wu, F.; Ortiz, R.; Jacob, D.; Eimre, K.; Ma, J.; Pignedoli, C.A.; Feng, X.; Ruffieux, P.; Fernández-Rossier, J.; Fasel, R.

Article / Renormalization of spin excitations and Kondo effect in open-shell nanographenes

Physical Review B

Jacob, D.; Ortiz, R.; Fernández-Rossier, J.

2020

Article / Mott Metal-Insulator Transition from Steady-State Density Functional Theory

Physical Review Letters

Jacob, D.; Stefanucci, G.; Kurth, S.

Article / Exchange-correlation potentials for multiorbital quantum dots subject to generic density-density interactions and Hund's rule coupling

Physical Review B

Sobrino, N.; Kurth, S.; Jacob, D.

Article / Spin dependent transmission of nickelocene-Cu contacts probed with shot noise

Physical Review B

Mohr, M.; Gruber, M.; Weismann, A.; Jacob, D.; Abufager, P.; Lorente, N.; Berndt, R.

2019

Article / Nonequilibrium spectral functions from multiterminal steady-state density functional theory

Physical Review B

Kurth, S.; Jacob, D.; Sobrino, N.; Stefanucci, G.

Article / Electrically Addressing the Spin of a Magnetic Porphyrin through Covalently Connected Graphene Electrodes

Nano Letters

Li, J.; Friedrich, N.; Merino, N.; De Oteyza, D.G.; Peña, D.; Jacob, D.; Pascual, J.I.

2018

Article / Exchange-correlation functionals of i-DFT for asymmetrically coupled leads

European Physical Journal B

Kurth, S.; Jacob, D.

Article / Many-Body Spectral Functions from Steady State Density Functional Theory

Nano Letters

Jacob, D.; Kurth, S.

Article / Simulation of inelastic spin flip excitations and Kondo effect in STM spectroscopy of magnetic molecules on metal substrates

Journal of Physics Condensed Matter

Jacob, D.

Article / Renormalization of single-ion magnetic anisotropy in the absence of the Kondo effect

Physical Review B

Jacob, D.

Article / Spin Control Induced by Molecular Charging in a Transport Junction

Nano Letters

Karan, S.; García, C.; Karolak, M.; Jacob, D.; Lorente, N.; Berndt, R.

2017

Article / Anomalous magnetism in hydrogenated graphene

Physical Review B

García-Martínez, N.A.; Lado, J.L.; Jacob, D.; Fernández-Rossier, J.

2023

Oral presentation | Accurate temperature evolution of the Kondo peak beyond Fermi liquid theory

The Third Spins on Surfaces Workshop - Oral presentation

David Jacob

Oral presentation | Intermolecular exchange in coupled spin-1/2 nanographenes

SPRING23 International Workshop - Oral presentation

David Jacob and Joaquin Fernández-Rossier

2022

Oral presentation | The Mott metal-insulator transition from steady-state density functional theory

DPG Spring Meeting - Oral presentation

David Jacob, Gianluca Stefanucci, and Stefan Kurth

2021

Invited talk | The Mott Metal-Insulator Transition from Steady-State Density Functional Theory

20th Workshop on Computational Physics and Materials Science: Total Energy and Force Methods - Invited talk

David Jacob, Gianluca Stefanuccie, Stefan Kurth

2019

Conference organization | What about U in nanoscale systems?

What about U in nanoscale systems? - Conference organization

David Jacob, Silke Biermann and Massimo Capone

Oral presentation | Many-body spectral functions from steady- state density functional theory

DPG Spring Meeting 2019, Regensburg (Germany) - Oral presentation

David Jacob, Stefan Kurth

Oral presentation | Renormalization of single-ion magnetic anisotropy by charge fluctuations

DPG Spring Meeting 2019, Regensburg (Germany) - Oral presentation

David Jacob

2018

Invited talk | Transport signatures of nanoscale magnets from NanoDMFT

Theoretical Methods in Molecular Spintronics - Invited talk

David Jacob

Invited talk | Many-body spectral functions from steady state density functional theory

Lectiones Clitumnalae, Campello sul Clitunno (Italy) - Invited talk

David Jacob, Stefan Kurth

Poster presentation | Simulation of transport signatures of molecular quantum spins

Spins on Surfaces II - Poster presentation

David Jacob

2017

Oral presentation | Strong correlations in molecular devices from first principles

New Generation in Strongly Correlated Electrons Systems - Oral presentation

David Jacob