Our group provides theory, simulation, and computational capabilities impacting Los Alamos National Laboratory programs in materials physics, nanotechnology, AMO physics, quantum information science and technology, energy security, global security, and weapons physics.
Physics of Condensed Matter and Complex Systems
Leading research in condensed matter, statistical mechanics, AMO physics, and quantum physics
We conduct basic and applied research in correlated electrons, nonequilibrium statistical mechanics and the foundations of quantum mechanics
Capabilities
- Computational materials science
- Foundations of quantum mechanics
- Monte Carlo methods
- Molecular dynamics
- Density functional theory
- Extreme event statistics
- Uncertainty quantifications and risk analysis
- Quantum information science
- Quantum photonics and sensing
- Metamaterials
- Opacity modeling and simulation
- Reliable and secure energy
- Soft and active matter
- Nonconventional computing
- Network analysis and smart grids
Databases
- Los Alamos Materials Properties Database
Software
- TBM3: Tight-Binding Modeling for Materials at Mesoscale
- Nemeton: Modeling tools for both particle and field theoretical treatments of complex soft matter systems, as well as support for analytical theory development, literature management, and rudimentary quantum simulation emulation.