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Los Alamos National LaboratoryCenter for Integrated Nanotechnologies
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CINT Capabilities: Theory & Simulation

Prediction/Analysis - Modeling and computational techniques that explain structure/property relationships and provide verifiable hypotheses

Prediction & Analysis

Computational Models for Complex Fluids, Polymer Melts, and Networks, and Nanoparticle Self-Assembly

Techniques: molecular dynamics and Monte Carlo simulations.

Contact:
Gary Grest

Theory and Simulation of Complex Fluids Including Polymers, Polymer Nanocomposites, and Inhomogeneous Charged Fluids

Techniques: molecular theory including classical density functional theory for fluids, self-consistent field theory, and Polymer Reference Interaction Site Model (PRISM) theory; molecular dynamics simulations.

Contact:
Amalie Frischknecht

TRAMONTO

A parallel, classical density functional theory code for inhomogeneous atomic and polymeric fluids.

Contact:
Amalie Frischknecht

Large-Scale Atomic/Molecular Massively Parallel Simulator (LAMMPS)

A parallel molecular dynamics code for classical atomistic and coarse grained level simulations.

Contact:
Mark Stevens

Simulations Using Atomistic or Coarse-Grained Models for Studying Nanoparticles, Biomolecules, and Polymers

Techniques: Molecular dynamics simulations

  • Atomistic simulations of interactions between coated nanoparticles
  • Simulation of charged polymers
  • Molecular simulation of interfacial phenomena

Contact:
Mark Stevens

Computational Modeling of Nonlinear Optical Responses (e.g. Two-Photon Absorption, Second and Third Harmonic Generations) in Organic and Organo-Metallic Chromophores

Techniques: quasi-particle density matrix response formalism in combination with time-dependent density functional theory.

Contact:
Sergei Tretiak

Large-Scale Molecular Dynamics Simulations of Biomolecules and Molecular Motors

Techniques: molecular dynamics simulations.

Contact:
Sergei Tretiak

MEsoscale Multi-physics PHase fIeld Simulator (MEMPHIS)

A parallel 3D phase field code for simulating microstructure evolution. Current models include physical vapor deposition (PVD), quantum dot growth, surface corrosion, dendritic growth, spinodal decomposition.

Contact:
Rémi Dingreville

Quantum-Chemical Simulation of Photoinduced Adiabatic and Non-Adiabatic Excited State Dynamics in Conducting Polymers and (Bio)Organic Chromophores
  • CEO: LANL-developed parallel molecular dynamics code based on semiempirical approaches
  • TURBOMOLE: ab initio molecular dynamics package
  • Reduced Hamiltonian models for treating state crossings and conical intersections

Contact:
Sergei Tretiak

Theory and Models of Multi-Particle Excitations and Energy/Charge Transport Phenomena in Semiconductor Nanocrystals and their Assemblies

Techniques: density functional theory and solid-state (e.g. tight-binding) approaches.

Contact:
Sergei Tretiak

Theory of Quantum Dynamics of Coupled Systems, Including Inelastic Tunneling Dynamics and Fast Optical Probes of Correlated Systems

Techniques: exact diagonalization, Lanczos, and numerical quantum dynamics in a large many-body Hilbert space.

Contact:
Stuart Trugman

Theory of Ultrafast Optical Probes of Correlated Systems

Techniques: Interpretation of experimental ultrafast data; exact quantum dynamics simulations, slave-boson mean-field modeling and Gutzwiller variational wavefunction approach.

Contact:
Stuart Trugman
Jian-Xin Zhu

First-Principles Quantum Many-Body Theory to Strongly Correlated Electronic Systems
  • First –principles simulations of electronic, magnetic, optical properties in complex metal oxides.
  • Dynamical mean-field theory in combination of density functional theory in local density approximation for bulk d-electron and f-electron materials.
  • First-principles quantum many-body simulations of quantum impurity embedded in metallic host.
  • Construction of low-energy models based on the Wannier functions.

Contact:
Jian-Xin Zhu

Local Electronic Structure and Bulk Properties in Inhomogeneous Superconductors (Including the presence of magnetic field)

Analytical and numerical technique: Lattice Bogoliubov-de Gennes theory.

Contact:
Jian-Xin Zhu

Numerical Simulations and Modeling of Quantum Criticality and Local Electronic Structure in Strongly Correlated Electronic Systems
  • Extended dynamical mean-field theoretical study of Kondo lattice models
  • Cluster dynamical mean-field theory for periodic Anderson lattice models
  • Simulation of single and multiple impurity problem in fermonic and bosonic media
  • Simulation of local electronic structure around Kondo hole and Kondo stripes in Kondo and Anderson lattice models
  • Techniques: Numerical Renormalization Group method; Hirsch-Fye Quantum Monte Carlo Method, Continuous Quantum Monte Carlo Method; Large-N based approach; Gutzwiller approximation; Slave-boson mean-field method

Contact:
Jian-Xin Zhu

Theory of Electrical and Thermal Transport Through Unconventional Junctions out of Equilibrium

Analytical techniques: Keldysh non-equilibrium Green's function; scattering theory based on transfer matrix and Blonder-Tinkham-Klapwij theory.

Contact:
Jian-Xin Zhu

FDTD and MODE Simulations

CINT has extensive electromagnetic software modeling capabilities. We can model E&M field propagation using Finite Difference Time Domain commercial codes and modes of optical cavities, waveguides, etc, using a separate software for mode calculations. The software packages run in a cluster of high-end workstations.

Contact:
Igal Brener