Nonequilibrium kinetics and dynamics
THE KUBIS GROUP @ PURDUE UNIVERSITY
Developing, implementing and expanding the nonequilibrium Green's function method to all sorts of nonequilibrium systems

Research projects
UNLOCKING THE POWER OF QUANTUM TRANSPORT METHODS

Self-disinfecting surfaces
Surface coating with wide band gap 2D materials can emit germ killing UVC light
Team:
Jinying Wang
KuanChung Wang
James Charles
Yuanchen Chu

HIGH PERFORMANCE COMPUTING
Nonequilibrium Green's function calculations create immense numerical load. Its implementation has to scale to the size of world-largest supercomputers.
Team:
Xinchen Guo

NEW RECURSIVE GREEN'S FUNCTION METHODS
Atomically resolved Green's functions have to be solved within the RGF method. RGF is expanded to support nonlocal scattering.
Team:
James Charles

INCOHERENT SCATTERING IN NANODEVICES
Covering incoherent scattering accurately is one of the core challenges of quantum transport.
Team:
Prasad Sarangapani
Yuanchen Chu
James Charles

LOW RANK APPROXIMATIONS IN QUANTUM TRANSPORT
The numerical load of the nonequilibrium Green's function method can be dramatically reduced with low rank approximations. When chosen carefully, the predictive power of NEGF is preserved.
Team:
Daniel Lemus

REPRESENTING NOVEL MATERIALS
Spearhead experimental research involves a growing number of unstudied materials. Each new material and material combination needs careful parameterizations.
Team:
Daniel Valencia
KuangChung Wang
Prasad Sarangapani

2D MATERIALS AND DEVICES
Devices composed of atomically thin materials are an rapidly emerging research field.
Team:
KuangChung Wang
Daniel Valencia

HUMAN/MACHINE INTERFACES
Controlling a multiphysics code, setting up atomically resolved devices, visualization of multidimensional results pose challenges to human-machine interfaces.
Team:
Daniel Mejia

HEAT TRANSPORT IN NANODEVICES
Modern nanodevices generate extremely high heat densities. Optimizing the heat flow is increasingly important for nanodevice design.
Team:
Yuanchen Chu

MOLECULES IN DYNAMIC ENVIRONMENTS
Quantum models of molecules have to include interaction with the dynamic environment.
Team:
James Charles
Yuanchen Chu

LIGHT EMITTING DIODES
Light emitting diodes face challenges such as the performance droop and inaccessible UV-frequencies.
Team:
KuangChung Wang
Prasad Sarangapani

BAND MIXING DEVICES
Tunneling field effect transistors are candidates for next generation logic devices
Team:
Prasad Sarangapani
Yuanchen Chu



NEW APPLICATIONS COMING...
The nonequilibrium Green's function method is the most general many particle method as of today. Many particle problems can be found in every aspect of nature.
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