Ash Baldwin
Contact Details:
Department of Chemistry: G209
PhD student, October 2024-present
PhD Project
My research aims to model the influence of strong quantum correlation and coupling effects on ultra-fast, light and electron-driven dynamics at surfaces. I am currently working on modelling how the effects of Pauli-repulsion and local Coulomb interactions affect hydrogen scattering from metal surfaces.
Background
I completed my master's degree in Physics at the University of Bristol where my research project focused on modelling strongly-interacting quantum spin systems. The models were implemented in Julia and I tested the efficacy of DMRG and Matrix Product State (MPS) methods for finding the ground state of these systems over completely connected, randomly weighted graphs. The project aimed to better our understanding of the scalability of MPS based algorithms over a wider class of system geometries and topologies.