Department of Physics
Condensed Matter Theory
The group is active in several areas of the theory of matter, and consists of 8 members of academic staff, two Emeritus Professors, 4 postdoctoral research fellows and 15 graduate students.
Research Areas
- Properties of microstructured photonic materials.
- Electronic and optical properties of nanostructures and other systems.
- Computer simulation of complex processes in materials using molecular dynamics.
- Computational micromagnetics and nanomagnetism.
- Electrons in nanostructures for spin electronics and quantum computing.
- Molecular modelling of biological macromolecules.
Follow the links below for more information on the interersts of each staff member.
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Mohamed Babiker Low Dimensional Semiconductors, Quantum and Atom Optics Theory |
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Roy Chantrell
Magnetic Materials |
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Irene D'Amico Spin-Transport and Spintronics, Quantum information/computation |
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Rex Godby Ab-inito Many-Body Theory. Density-Functional Theory |
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Robert Greenall X-ray Crystallography, Biophysics |
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Yvette Hancock Model Hamiltonians Density Functional Theory Nanotechnology Magnetism |
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Peter Main X-ray Crystallography, Biophysics |
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Jim Matthew Electron loss spectroscopy, Magnetic Materials |
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Keith McKenna Electron and ion dynamics in polycrystalline materials Nanoparticles at finite temperature and pressure Electronic transport in spintronic devices |
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Matt Probert Density-Functional Theory, Structure and Dynamics of Solids and Liquids |
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Michael Woolfson Planetary science and star formation, X-ray Crystallography, Biophysics |
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The group makes extensive use of the departmental 64-processor Beowulf cluster, as well as the White Rose Grid and national HPCx supercomputing service.
A regular seminar series is held with external and internal speakers. Magnetic materials research is conducted in close collaboration with the Nanophysics research group.
