Shiwei Zhang

Professor of Physics

B.Sc. in Physics, University of Science and Technology of China, 1988
Ph.D. in Physics, Cornell University, 1993.

Short bio

Contact:

Department of Physics
College of William and Mary
Williamsburg, VA 23187, USA
Email: user@wm.edu (user=shiwei)
Phone: (757) 221-1644
Fax: (757) 221-3540
Office: 158 Small Hall

campus map with Small Hall marked (pdf); directions to Small Hall, and more maps

Research:

My group's research centers on fundamentally advancing our computational capabilities in order to solve significant problems in condensed matter and materials physics. We have pioneered some of the methodological advances in the simulation of interacting many-electron systems. With them and with the availability of petascale computing platforms, quantum simulations present tremendous opportunities. We work on a broad range of problems, including both materials-specific first-principles electronic structure calculations and lattice model simulations of strongly correlated systems and novel phases of matter.

Here are some of our publications that are on the e-print archive.

A (somewhat outdated) pedagogical article on quantum Monte Carlo, focusing on auxiliary-field methods: "Quantum Monte Carlo Methods for Strongly Correlated Electron Systems" (pdf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)

Postdoctoral positions avalable

Research support:

Computing:

The 25th Annual Workshop on Recent Developments in Electronic Structure Theory (ES2013) will be held in Williamsburg on June 11-14, 2013.

Teaching:

Current and recent courses are all on "Blackboard". Websites for some of the older courses that I have taught:

Created by: Shiwei Zhang [Feb. 1997]; last modified in Dec 2012