Long-Qing Chen’s Group

Long-Qing Chen’s group develops phase-field models and software for understanding and predicting stability and evolution of mesoscale structures during electronic, structural, ferroelectric, and magnetic phase transitions of quantum and functional materials and their responses to thermal mechanical, electrical, and magnetic stimuli.

Jinchao Xu’s Group (2019-2022)

Jinchao Xu’s group develops numerical algorithms and solvers, based on finite-element and multigrid methods and implement them, for solving a set of phase-field equations describing mesoscale structural evolution of quantum and functional materials, that will harness the full potential of DOE leadership computing facilities.

 

Venkatraman Gopalan’s Group

Venkatraman Gopalan’s group performs ultrafast pump-probe and mesoscale structural imaging experiments of high-quality crystals to provide experimental validation of the predictions on the kinetics of phase transitions and the accompanying mesoscale structural evolution from the phase-field models.

 

Roman Engel-Herbert’s Group (2019-2022)

Roman Engel-Herbert’s group grows high-quality hybrid Molecular Beam Epitaxy (MBE) thin films of model quantum and functional materials for mesostructural characterization to support the experimental validation of computational models and software.

 

Ismaila Dabo’s Group

Ismaila Dabo’s group performs density-functional theory calculations to obtain fundamental thermodynamic and kinetic parameters of electronic and structural phase transitions in quantum and functional materials that can be used as input to phase-field simulations of mesoscale structural evolution.

 

Wenrui Hao’s Group

Wenrui Hao’s team specializes in developing numerical algorithms and solvers, with a primary focus on addressing a set of phase-field equations that detail the structural evolution of quantum and functional materials. Additinally, the team employs advanced nonlinear numerical methods to address DOE challenges.

 

Jaimian Hu’s Group

Jiamian Hu’s group specializes in phase-field modeling of ferroic (e.g., magnetic, ferroelectric) materials and devices for a wide range of applications from low-power computing to high-frequency electromagnetic wave emission to quantum operation. They also work on the acceleration of phase-field modeling by advanced machine learning tools.

Anna N. Morozovska’s Group

Anna N. Morozovska’s group specializes in Landau-Ginzburg-Devonshire phenomenological approach, analytical calculations using electrostatics and semiconductor theory, and elastic theory.

 

Eugene A. Eliseev’s Group

Eugene A. Eliseev’s group specializes in Landau-Ginzburg-Devonshire phenomenological approach, finite element modeling using electrostatics and elasticity theory, and symmetry theory.

 

Student and Postdoc Team