Roger G. Melko

Physics

 

Associate Professor

Department of Physics & Astronomy

University of Waterloo

Waterloo, ontario, canada, N2L 3G1

rgmelko (-at-) uwaterloo (-dot-) ca

phone: (519) 888-4567 x38406

fax: (519) 746-8115

  1. • Quantum Matters at Waterloo

  2. • SHARCNET

  3. • Taipei DMRG101 Winter School

Links:

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Members:

  1. • Stephen Inglis, PhD Student

  2. • Ann Kallin, PhD Student

  3. • Lauren Hayward, PhD Student

Support:

Affiliations:

  1. • Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics

  2. • Institute for Quantum Computing

ERA

 

My research interests involve strongly-correlated many-body systems, with a focus on emergent phenomena, ground state phases, phase transitions, quantum criticality, and entanglement. I emphasize computational methods as a theoretical technique, in particular the development of state-of-the-art algorithms for the study of strongly-interacting systems. My work has employed Monte Carlo simulations and Density Matrix Renormalization Group methods to explore the low-temperature physics of classical and quantum magnetic materials, cold atoms in optical lattices, bosonic fluids and low-dimensional systems. I am particularly involved in studying microscopic models that display interesting quantum behavior in the bulk, such as superconducting, spin liquid, topological, superfluid or supersolid phases.  I am also interested in broader ideas in computational physics, the development of efficient algorithms for simulating quantum mechanical systems on classical computers, and the relationship of these methods to the field of quantum information science.

 

Quantum Matters

Press:

  1. •  Former local splits electron, in theory (Opasquia Times)

  2. •  UW Prof finds way to split virtual electron (Waterloo Record)

  3. •  Electron’s negativity cut in half by supercomputer (phys.org)

  4. •  Solid, liquid, glass... Superglass? (newswire)