theophys sigma storage
Abstract
The request is for NSC Center storage for the existing compute allocation LiU-compute-2024-23, whose associated storage was lost in the migration from Tetralith to Arrhenius, before which part of NAISS 2025/6-431 covered the storage for the LiU project. The allocation will support the theoretical physics environment at LiU, the same people and general research activities supported by NAISS 2025/6-431, but the activities motivating this storage request are now described by LiU-compute-2024-23. We, and the PI of LiU-compute-2024-23, welcome the simple addition of a storage specification to LiU-compute-2024-23 if NSC finds it an acceptable outcome of this proposal.
The environment of the Theoretical Physics Division at the Department of Physics, Chemistry and Biology (IFM), Linköping University includes all our Ph.D. students, senior members, and some collaborators, which makes around 50 researchers pursuing computation in connection to various NAISS grants connected to this division. We have consistently over many years produced high-quality scientific publications citing SNIC and NAISS resources, including Nature Materials, Nature Communications, and Physical Review Letters. Our grants pertain to a wide range of research in materials science, materials design, functional materials, etc. We employ a wide range of methods, e.g., electronic structure simulations, molecular dynamics, Monte Carlo simulations, phonon calculations, etc.
The Theoretical Physics division leader, Igor Abrikosov, is well recognized in Sweden and internationally. He has more than 350 papers with more than 20000 citations and h-index 66. In 2007, he was awarded Göran Gustafsson Prize in Physics, perhaps the most prestigious national scientific prize in Sweden. In 2016 Igor Abrikosov was elected as a member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences (KVA, class Physics).
