Fredrik Eriksson

Research

Fredrik’s research concerns methods and models for describing the vibrational properties of solids. Specifically, he studies phonon-phonon scattering in relation to modeling thermal transport in materials. He is also the main developer of the hiphive package.

Education

• 2022: Licentiate in Physics; Chalmers University of Technology

• 2018: M.Sc. in Applied Physics; Chalmers University of Technology

• 2014: B.Sc. in Applied Physics; Chalmers University of Technology

Publications

• Tuning the lattice thermal conductivity in van-der-Waals structures through rotational (dis)ordering Permalink
  F. Eriksson, E. Fransson, C. Linderälv, Z. Fan, and P. Erhart
  arXiv:2304.06978 (2023)
• Limits of the phonon quasi-particle picture at the cubic-to-tetragonal phase transition in halide perovskites Permalink
  E. Fransson, P. Rosander, F. Eriksson, J. M. Rahm, T. Tadano, and P. Erhart
  Communications Physics 6, 173 (2023)
• Extremely anisotropic van der Waals thermal conductors Permalink
  S. E. Kim, F. Mujid, A. Rai, F. Eriksson, J. Suh, P. Poddar, A. Ray, C. Park, E. Fransson, Y. Zhong, D. A. Muller, P. Erhart, D. G. Cahill, and J. Park
  Nature 597, 660 (2021)
• Efficient calculation of the lattice thermal conductivity by atomistic simulations with ab-initio accuracy Permalink
  J. Brorsson, A. Hashemi, Z. Fan, E. Fransson, F. Eriksson, T. Ala-Nissila, A. V. Krasheninnikov, H. Komsa, and P. Erhart
  Advanced Theory and Simulations 4, 2100217 (2021)
• Efficient construction of linear models in materials modeling and applications to force constant expansions Permalink
  E. Fransson, F. Eriksson, and P. Erhart
  npj Computational Materials 6, 135 (2020)
• Thermal conductivity in intermetallic clathrates: A first-principles perspective Permalink
  D. O. Lindroth, J. Brorsson, E. Fransson, F. Eriksson, A. Palmqvist, and P. Erhart
  Physical Review B 100, 19078 (2019)
• The hiphive package for the extraction of high-order force constants by machine learning Permalink
  F. Eriksson, E. Fransson, and P. Erhart
  Advanced Theory and Simulations 2, 1800184 (2019)

Theses

• Development and application of techniques for predicting and analysing phonon-derived materials properties Permalink
  F. Eriksson, Licentiate Thesis (2022)
• An efficient approach for extracting anharmonic force constants from atomistic simulations Permalink
  F. Eriksson, Master′s Thesis (2018)
• The battle between Energy and Entropy: Molecular Dynamics and Free Energies Permalink
  F. Eriksson, M. Kjelltoft, O. Larsson, and M. Svensson, Bachelor′s Thesis (2014)