by Owen Harrison | May 13, 2015 | News, Outreach, Publication
The transition between ferromagnetism and paramagnetism in metals is one of the simplest examples of a continuous phase transition. Interesting behaviour is expected when the transition temperature becomes small because incoherent fluctuations above the transition...
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 26, 2015 | News, Publication, Research Highight
A new way to use a single molecule as a magnetic field sensor has been discovered by LCN researchers at UCL and the University of Liverpool. In the study, published in Nature Nanotechnology, the scientists show how magnetism can manipulate the way electricity flows...
by Eamonn Boylan | Mar 23, 2010
Prof Alfè’s research interests are mainly focused on theoretical-computational first principles techniques applied to a variety of problems, from the study of the properties of Earth’s forming materials at the extreme conditions of Earth’s deep...
