Shiwei Zhang
Sally G.S. Spears Associate 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