Phase Transitions
Dr. Jeffrey Rickman
Dr. Jean Toulouse
Scientists at Lehigh currently study both equilibrium and nonequilibrium aspects of phase transitions, such as the phase diagrams and crystal nucleation rates of globular proteins in solution, heterogeneous nucleation , dislocation theory and Rayleigh-Benard convection. A variety of theoretical and computational methods are employed in these studies, including density functional theory, renormalization group theory, Monte Carlo simulations and umbrella sampling techniques.
