THEORETICAL AND COMPUTATIONAL PHYSICS RESEACH GROUP

Our research group is the smallest among all the research groups in the School of Physics, USM. The Theory lab, located in the 2nd floor in the School of Physics building, is our headquarter. Formally the group consists of 5 academic staffs, namely,

Dr. Wong Khai Ming (group leader)

Dr. Mohd Mahadi bin Halim

Dr. Edmond Loh

Dr. Muhammad Rabie Omar

Dr. Wan Mohamad Husni Wan Mokhtar

Dr. John Soo Yue Han

Dr. Yoon Tiem Leong

Research interest of the group members is highly diversified, and often not overlapping. The main research subjects conducted by the group members include computational / theoretical condensed matter physics, theoretical High Energy Physics, and quantum optics. Our research topics includes: Theoretical aspects of superconductivity; Computational materials science, including DFT, DFTB, molecular dynamics simulations, first-principles calculations, computational physics, theoretical physics, configurations of the monopole solutions of the SU(2) Yang-Mills-Higgs theory, quantum optics, Monte Carlo simulation of nuclear processes, machine learning photometric redshift (photo-z) algorithm, quantum mechanical calculations, application of machine learning in physical systems, etc. Group members also conduct other research topics not listed above.

Members of the group

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Dr. Wong Khai Meng Group Leader	Dr. Edmond Loh	Dr. Yoon Tiem Leong (link to computational Physics subgroup)	Dr. Mohd Mahadi Bin Halim	Dr. John Soo Yue Han

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Dr. Muhammad Rabie Omar (link to TRIMON page)	Dr. Wan Mohamad Husni Wan Mokhtar

Non-exhaustive examples of our research projects

Search for ground state structures of Au-Pt nano cluster at empirical level	Molecular dynamics on nano-peapods	Precise identification of melting behaviour of Au-Pt, Hf nanoclusters via molecular dynamics simulations	An extended Hubbard model for high-Tc cuprates
link	link Electronics properties of transition atom-doped s-triazine and heptazine sheets with foreign adatoms adsorption	link	FDTD simulation of electromagnetic waves in ionosphere as earthquake precursor
MD simulation of epitaxial growth of graphene on 6H-silicon substrate	Nanomechanics of boron nitride and carbon nanotubes via MD simulations	Quantum Monte Carlo calculations of Josephson junctions as superconducting qubits	Ternary alloy clusters search from first-principles
Superconducting Density functional (SCDFT) calculations for 2D materials	MD simulation of melting of silicene, graphene sheets and carbon nanotubes.	monopole-antimonopole chain and vortex-ring solutions Electronic and magnetic properties of Rhodium clusters via DFT calculations
TRIMON	Monte Carlo Simulation	Classification with machine learning

Facilities

FORMER ACADEMIC MEMBERS:
PROF. ROSY TEH CHOOI GIM (RETIRED, Jun 2015), PROF. ONG LYE HOCK (RETIRED, Jun 2016)