Vision: An interdisciplinary collaborative computational center to develop mesoscale computational models, efficient numerical algorithms for exascale simulations, and software experimentally validated for quantum and functional materials.

Mission: COMMS advances the basic mesoscale science of quantum and functional materials and develops open-source software for simulating the formation and responses of mesostructures in these materials to external stimuli towards accelerating their insertion into devices.

Objectives:

(1) to significantly expand the scope and capability of mesoscale computational models based on the phase-field method for understanding and predicting the formation and dynamical evolution of mesoscale structures in systems exhibiting complex polar and magnetic textures, metal-insulator transitions, superconductivity, and quantum Hall effect

(2) to develop new software modules and tools that will be deployed in the open-source environment under Q-POP (Quantum Phase-Field Open-Source Package) and parallelized to enable petascale and exascale computing for understanding mesoscale quantum phenomena towards accelerating materials insertion into next-generation neuromorphic computing chips, terahertz spintronic and magnonic devices, and superconducting qubits for quantum memories and transducers.