In a paper recently published in Physical Review Letters, Los Alamos National Laboratory researchers offer a new theory that predicts defect density across a variety of phase transitions. The research ...

Density functional theory (DFT) is a cornerstone tool of modern physics, chemistry, and engineering used to explore the behavior of electrons. While essential in modeling systems with many electrons, ...

A puddle freezing on the sidewalk, your humidifier pumping out water vapor, salt trucks melting icy streets—wintertime in Chicago is full of examples of a physics phenomenon called a “phase transition ...