by Lijun Wang | Apr 21, 2025
Stefano has been a Lecturer in the Biological Physics and Soft Matter Group at King’s College London, UK, since January 2023, where he leads his research group. His research focuses on the interplay between thermodynamics and information theory to study biological...
by Eamonn Boylan | Jul 9, 2024
Peter is Professor of Theory and Simulation of Materials, a post held jointly between the departments of Materials and Physics at Imperial. His research interests focus on the development of new methods for performing first-principles quantum-mechanical simulations...
by Owen Harrison | Apr 29, 2015 | News, Publication, Research Highight
Quantum computers have the possibility of transforming the world’s computing infrastructure overnight, with an effectual quantum cloud forming to handle some of the most perplexing computational challenges. Problems that have been unsolvable with current...
by Owen Harrison | Feb 11, 2015 | News, Publication, Research Highight
Researchers at UCL in a collaboration study with Laurent Joly, from the University of Lyon, have investigated the friction properties of liquid water at the interface with graphene and with an hexagonal boron nitride sheet, using ab initio molecular dynamics for the...
by Owen Harrison | Jan 19, 2015 | News, Publication, Research Highight
Random forces usually have a destabilising effect. A tightrope walker would rather not experience gusts of wind, for example. There are, however, cases where random forces can stabilize a system in state that would otherwise be unstable. The essential ingredient is...