March 2021
Warp drive
An open-source supercomputer code called WarpX simulates laser-made plasmas and presents a path for shrinking particle accelerators.
Category Archives: Physics
August 2017
Matter in motion
DOE researchers design algorithms that model a million atoms and probe the detailed chemical behavior of materials.
May 2017
Calculating collapse
Researchers turn to DOE supercomputers to study the havoc – and promise – of tiny bubbles.
January 2016
State of excitement
Advances in excited-state physics promise to fine-tune energy-related materials.
October 2015
Laser focus
Simulations explore how a tumor-killing laser’s high-energy fields can rip matter apart.
July 2015
When electrons cooperate
University of Illinois physicists apply supercomputing to explore unconventional, high-temperature superconductivity.