Widom Research Group

Department of Physics
Carnegie Mellon University

Current and Recent Projects

Metal alloys
Atomistic modeling and statistical mechanics of quasicrystals, metal alloys with noncrystalline quasiperiodic structures of high symmetry (description)
Structure, formation and properties of bulk metallic glass-forming alloys (sample publication)
Intermetallic structures and their enthalpies of formation (cohesive energy database)
Biological Physics
Buckling instability of viral capsids (reprint)
Normal mode analysis of spherical and icosahedral shells (description, reprint)
Secondary structure of RNA (description)

People

Hassan Albuhairan (Graduate Student)

Abir Mahmud (Graduate Student)

Marek Mihalkovic (Visiting Scientist, Slovakia)

Michael Widom (Professor) (CV, publications)

Publications (full listing, ResearcherID, Google Scholar)

Teaching
33-755 Quantum I (Fall 2020)
33-448 Solid State (Spring 2021)
33-658 Quantum Computing/Quantum Information (Fall 2021)
33-785 Special Topics in Condensed Matter Physics (Spring 2022)

Software
Wavetrans is a set of tools for extracting electronic wavefunctions from VASP WAVECAR files.
MCMD is a hybrid Monte Carlo/molecular dynamics method for atomistic simulation from first principles.
Enthalpy database with formation enthalpies of many compounds.