NORMAL, Ill., Nov. 3 -- Illinois State University issued details related to the following event:
Blue Waters Professor
Department of Materials Science and Engineering University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
Contact: Colloquium Organizer Dr. Uttam Manna (umanna@ilstu.edu)
Title: Shaking atoms, tilting spins, and electron wave packets in quantum-mechanical simulations
Much of what we know about materials comes from shining light or firing particles at them. Modern technology, from magnetic data storage to electron microscopes and nanofabrication, relies on the same interactions. Simulations based on quantum mechanics can predict these responses without experimental input. However, they usually make two convenient simplifications: the cr...