Center for Mesoscale Computational Materials Science

Long-Qing Chen's group develops phase-field models and software for understanding and predicting stability and evolution of mesoscale structures during electronic, structural, ferroelectric, and magnetic phase transitions of quantum and functional materials and their responses to thermal mechanical, electrical, and magnetic stimuli.

Jinchao Xu's group develops numerical algorithms and solvers, based on finite-element and multigrid methods and implement them, for solving a set of phase-field equations describing mesoscale structural evolution of quantum and functional materials, that will harness the full potential of DOE leadership computing facilities.