Milan Lab for Materials Simulation 

The Milan Lab for Materials Simulation (MLMS) is based at the Physics Department "Aldo Pontremoli", University of Milan (UniMi). It is part of the European Theoretical Spectroscopy Facility (ETSF), Psi-K, and the Nanoalloys network.

MLMS is active in multiple research subjects in Condensed Matter theory and focuses on exploiting and developing various theoretical and numerical methods to study  

1. Structural properties and dynamical/spectroscopic response of solid-state and molecular materials, surfaces, 2D materials, and nanomaterials;

2. Atomic-scale friction in several contexts, mainly by means of classical molecular-dynamics simulations and of many-body theory;

3. Design of nanoparticles with specific chemo-physical properties, combining classical molecular-dynamics and ab-initio methods;

4. Quantum gases, fluids and solids treated with quantum Monte Carlo;

5. Numerical simulation and statistical analysis of mechanical properties of complex systems;

6. Phase transitions of fluids and soft-matter systems by liquid-state theories.

7. Computational modeling of disordered materials and metamaterials

The lab currently involves: 

Simona Achilli

Francesca Baletto

Guido Fratesi

Davide Galli

Roberto Guerra

Nicola Manini

Elena Molteni

Giovanni Onida

Davide Pini

Davide Sangalli

Mirko Vanzan

Alessio Zaccone

Stefano Zapperi