Welcome to Rabani Research Group

Research in the Rabani group involves theoretical understanding of both fundamental and applied aspects in nanostructure and disordered materials. The group makes use of both analytical and computer simulation techniques to investigate the behavior of a wide variety of topics including: structural, electronic and optical properties of nanocrystals, transport in molecular and mesoscopic junctions, self-assembly of nanomaterials, energy transfer in nanosystems, and properties of liquids and glasses. These require the development of new theoretical and computational tools and the application of these tools to these challenging problems in direct connection to experiments.

Research Interests

Nanomaterials: Our group has been involved in the development of theories and atomistic models to understand the fundamental properties of nanomaterials. Emphasize is given to model the structure, electronic and optical properties.Read more.
Liquids and Glasses: The study of quantum mechanical fluctuations in condensed phases is a challenging subject. We have developed accurate approaches based on a quantum version of mode-coupling theory and numerical analytic continuation approaches. Read more.
Self-Assembly :Self-assembly is one of the promising approaches to creating well organized nanostructures. Our group has been involved in the developed of theories to understand self-assembly at the nanometer length scale and above. Read more.
Conduction: Our group has been involved in the development of theories for single molecular junctions including the Aharonov-Bohm effect in nanosystems and the development of numerical diagrammatic techniques. Read more.
Computational Methods: Modern materials research relies heavily on computer simulations. We have been involved in the development of algorithms for scientific simulations on GPUs, and the development of numerical methods for electronic structure and path integration techniques. Read more.
Rydberg States: Can Rydberg states decay by intramolecular coupling or due to external perturbations? We have addressed this problem, where both couplings to rotations and vibrations as well as electric and magnetic fields were considered. Read more.