Shiwei Zhang
Professor of Physics
B.Sc. in Physics, University of Science and Technology of China, 1988
Ph.D.
in Physics,
Cornell University, 1993.
Brief bio (PDF file)
Contact:
Department of Physics
College of William and Mary
Williamsburg, VA 23187, USA
Email:
user@physics.wm.edu
(user=shiwei)
Phone: (757) 221-1644
Fax: (757) 221-3540
Office: 177 Small Hall
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Research:
My research interests are in the field of computational
condensed-matter and materials physics. Recent effort has focused on
the study of many-body quantum mechanical systems by Monte Carlo
simulations. This research combines computational algorithm development with
applications to tackle significant physical problems.
Problems of interest have included:
- electronic structure of atoms, molecules, and solids
- Bose-Einstein condensation of atomic Bose and Fermi gases
- high-temperature superconductivity
- superfluid-insulator phase transitions in dirty boson systems
- properties of liquid helium droplets
- quantum spin systems
- critical behaviors of equilibrium crystal shapes
- parallel computation
Here are some
publications of mine from
the LANL e-print
archive.
A review article:
"Quantum Monte Carlo Methods for Strongly Correlated Electron Systems"
(pdf file, 36 pages), chapter in
Theoretical Methods for Strongly Correlated Electron Systems,
Eds. D.Senechal and A.-M. Tremblay (Springer-Verlag, 2003).
Research group:
(We are a part of the
W&M computational materials physics group)
-
Dr. Chia-Chen Chang
- Postdoctoral Research Associate
- Dr. Wirawan Purwanto
- Postdoctoral Research Associate
- Hendra Kwee - Ph.D
student
- Former members
New: postdoctoral positions avalable
Research support:
Also affiliated with:
Teaching:
Some of the courses that I am teaching or have taught:
Created by: Shiwei Zhang [Feb. 1997];
last modified in Aug 2005