We are a research group in the Department of Physics at the University of Louisiana at Lafayette. We work on some of the most exciting and puzzling phenomena in nanoscale magnetism. We take materials and heat them up to extreme temperatures, cool them down to absolute zero, we stretch them, shine lasers on them, and run electrical currents through them. All of these activities are done safely in the computer. We apply computational methods, mainly micromagnetic simulations and Monte Carlo simulations, to study how magnetic materials respond to external stimuli, such as temperature, magnetic fields, and electric currents, with the goal of obtaining a deeper understanding of the connection between structure, microstructure, and magnetism on the nanoscopic scale.

We work alongside experimentalists who make materials, who measure their magnetic properties, and who look at them with powerful microscopes that can see individual atoms. Our goal is to obtain a deeper understanding of magnetism at fundamental length scales and provide solutions for the development of novel technologies. Magnetic materials and nanoparticles are essential elements in some of the most important technologies, such as energy conversion, biomedicine, data storage, and Earth and space exploration. Our research aims at making contributions to those technologies from the bottom up. 

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