Speaker: 

Abstract: 

More than one hundred years after its discovery, superconductivity is still one of the most fascinating and challenging topics in physics and engineering. In this talk, I will review the evolution of superconducting materials over the years, their understanding, design and applications, as well as obstacles that limit their wider use. I will demonstrate that superconductors are already strongly present in our daily lives, and that such presence will only increase in the years and decades to come. I will dare to speculate on the expected further breakthroughs in that respect, and show some recently realized superconducting circuitry where our state-of-the-art numerical simulations go hand-in-hand with experimental capabilities at KFUPM to characterize the behavior of the superconducting condensate in nonequilibrium conditions and reveal the physics behind the advanced performance of those quantum devices.

Biography:

Prof. Milorad Milosevic situates his research on in silico design of multifunctional materials and their tailored applications in nanoengineered electronic devices for 1st and 2nd generation of quantum technology, in close collaboration with over 20 experimental labs worldwide. For this purpose, he specializes in multiscale modeling at the interface of solid-state physics and condensed-matter physics. High-performance computations (in the past applied to superconductivity, magnetism, metal-semiconductor and soft-hard matter hybrids, 2D materials and heterostructures), including efficient (multigrid) solvers for multiple coupled nonlinear differential equations, GPU accelerated parallel computations, multiscale techniques, calculations of structural, electronic, vibrational, magnetic, optical and transport properties of (atomic) heterostructures, using LAMMPS, Quantum Espresso, AbInit, VASP, TranSiesta, home-made spin-resolved and micromagnetic solvers for descriptions of magnetic devices, tight-binding codes (pybinding and TBStudio), anisotropic Eliashberg solver for electron-phonon coupling, and Bogoliubov-deGennes and Ginzburg-Landau solvers for characterization of nanostructured superconducting devices. He supervised more than 20 PhD students, and currently 12 PhD students.

(He has an h-index 44, 205 publications, 174 in high-profile journals in the past ten years (cited >5800 times), out of which:  Rev. Mod. Physics (IF 54.49), 2 Nature Commun. Nature Physics, 2D Materials,  Nanoletters, Phys. Rev. Lett., Nanoscale, npj Quantum Materials, Nature Sci. Rep He is an Editorial board member of Scientific Reports, Journal of Superconductivity and Novel Magnetism, and Condensed Matter. Guest Editor Superconductor Science and Technology, New Journal of Physics, AIP Journal of Applied Physics. 

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All faculty, researchers and students are invited to attend.