Theoretical Physics

International collaboration lays the foundation for AI for materials

AI is accelerating the development of new materials. Large-scale use and exchange of data on materials is facilitated by a broad international standard. A major international collaboration now presents an extended version of the OPTIMADE standard.

LiU Theorists provide computational insight into the properties of novel ultra-incompressible, hard and superconducting W-N materials

There is an enormously growing demand for materials capable of withstanding extreme conditions, in particular advanced hard and highly electrically conducting materials.

Theoretical Physics (TEOFY)

The research in the division of Theoretical Physics is focused on analyzing and explaining existing experimental observations, makeing a systematics of the generated knowledge, and using the knowledge for novel discoveries.

Nanophysics and non-linear optics

The research in our unit deals with materials physics, quantum physics, non-linear optics and quantum chemistry.

Theoretical physicists at Linköping University play a crucial role in discovery of ultra hard material that can rival diamond

Research synergy from different fields, research institutes and countries has resulted in the discovery of near-unbreakable materials that show a wide range of further properties with possible applications in a broad range of fields.

Three LiU researchers share SEK 53 million from the ERC

Three researchers at LiU have received European Research Council Starting grants awarded to promising researchers. Their research areas are new cancer treatment, materials development and how people are affected by grief.

Materials science at the service of humankind

Artificial nerve cells, electronic plants, cheap solar cells and new types of diodes are all examples of materials science conducted at Linköping University. Research and development of new  materials could be a major key to a sustainable future.

VR Grant in Theoretical Physics on nuclear fusion technologies

Davide Gambino has been awarded the International Postdoc grant from The Swedish Research Council.

Theory of disordered materials

Research and publications in Theory of Disordered Materials.

IFM big winner in WISE approved projects

In 2022 the research program approved its first ever PhD and Postdoc projects. Out of the 18 approved projects from LiU, nine came from IFM.

New AI model helps discover previously unknown materials

The “chemical space” can now be mapped on a greater scale thanks to a new AI model developed by a group of researchers at LiU and the University of Cambridge in England. The discovery has been published in the journal Science Advances.

Impossible materials are created under extreme pressure

Researchers at LiU, among other places, have created a new material that ought to be impossible. Its synthesis is, however, possible thanks to a new method that creates pressure approximately three times higher than in the Earth’s core.

Things are heating up for superconductors

Researchers at Linköping University have, by way of a number of theoretical calculations, shown that magnesium diboride becomes superconductive at a higher temperature when it is stretched.

Björn Alling sees new opportunities for strengthening NSC

Björn Alling is the new director of the National Supercomputer Centre at Linköping University. One of his goals is to make more researchers aware of supercomputers as a resource. He also wants the NSC to grow, both nationally and internationally.

Conference on Defects in Solids for Quantum Technologies (DSQT2020) postponed until 2022

Conference on Defects in Solids for Quantum Technologies (DSQT) After consulting with the invited speakers, the conference has been postponed to June, 2022

Ab initio methods and energy materials

New ultrathin material created under extreme pressure

An international research team with members from Linköping University has discovered a new material with a thickness of a single layer of atoms. The properties of the material, beryllonitrene, are similar to those of graphene.

The quest for a deep understanding of iron and steels

Björn Alling have, together with colleagues and students, developed new methods for calculating mechanical properties of iron and steel all the way up to the temperatures when the metal glows from heat. The results are published in Physical Review B.

Materials Design and Informatics

The research in the unit of Materials Design and Informatics is aimed at increased understanding of the theory of materials and has applications in the development of new materials

Physics at extreme conditions

Chains of atoms move at lightning speed inside metals

A phenomenon that has been seen when researchers simulate the properties of planet cores at extreme pressures has now been observed in pure titanium at atmospheric pressure. Chains of atoms dash around at lightning speeds inside the solid material.