Sergio Davis: Personal Homepage

Currently at

Grupo de Nanomateriales (GNM)
Departamento de Física, Universidad de Chile
Las Palmeras 3425 Ñuñoa
Santiago
Chile

Phone (at GNM): 56-2-978 7439

Mobile phone: 56-9-6-220 9444

Graduate and post-graduate studies

Publications

  1. Dynamic properties of a classical anisotropic Heisenberg chain under external magnetic field.
    S. Davis and G. Gutiérrez, Physica B 355, 1-8 (2005)
  2. Solitonic elliptical solutions in the classical XY model.
    R. Ferrer, J. Rogan, S. Davis, and G. Gutiérrez, Physica B 384, 236-238 (2006)
  3. Xenon melting: Density functional theory versus diamond anvil cell experiments.
    A. B. Belonoshko, S. Davis, A. Rosengren, R. Ahuja, et al, Physical Review B 74, 054114 (2006)
  4. Properties of the fcc Lennard-Jones crystal model at the limit of superheating.
    A. B. Belonoshko, S. Davis, N. V. Skorodumova, P. H. Lundow, A. Rosengren, B. Johansson, Physical Review B 76, 064121 (2007)
  5. Origin of the Low Rigidity of the Earth's Inner Core.
    A. B. Belonoshko, Natalia V. Skorodumova, Sergio Davis, Alexander N. Osiptsov, Anders Rosengren, Borje Johansson, Science 316, 1603 (2007)
  6. High-pressure melting curve of hydrogen.
    Sergio M. Davis, Anatoly B. Belonoshko, Natalia V. Skorodumova, Adri C. T. van Duin, Borje Johansson, J. Chem. Phys. 129, 194508 (2008)
  7. Onset of failure in solid argon by the effect of a shockwave: a molecular dynamics study.
    Claudia Loyola, Sergio Davis, Joaquín Peralta and Gonzalo Gutiérrez, Computational Materials Science (2010), doi:10.1016/j.commatsci.2010.05.052
  8. Molecular dynamics simulation of zirconia melting
    Sergio M. Davis, Anatoly B. Belonoshko, Anders Rosengren, Adri C. T. van Duin and Borje Johansson, Central European Journal of Physics, DOI: 10.2478/s11534-009-0152-3
  9. Computer simulation study of amorphous compounds: structural and vibrational properties.
    G. Gutiérrez, E. Menendez-Proupin, C. Loyola, J. Peralta and S. Davis, Journal of Materials Science, (2010), doi:10.1007/s10853-010-4579-0
  10. A stochastic optimization code for detecting atomic vacancies in crystalline and non-crystalline systems.
    Sergio M. Davis, Anatoly B. Belonoshko and Borje Johansson, Computer Physics Communications (submitted), 2009
  11. An atomistic model for homogeneous melting.
    Sergio M. Davis, Anatoly B. Belonoshko, Borje Johansson and Anders Rosengren, (in manuscript), 2009
  12. Las Palmeras Molecular Dynamics: a flexible and modular molecular dynamics code.
    Sergio Davis, Claudia Loyola, Felipe González, Joaquín Peralta, Computer Physics Communications (accepted), 2010

Research Interests

Statistical Mechanics, Molecular Dynamics, Atomistic models of melting, High-Pressure Physics, Spin systems, Computational Physics in general

Computer Programming Projects

My own:

  1. TaDaPro, a command-line tool for processing numerical tables
  2. NMC, a configuration tool aimed to replace GNU Configure (source at svn://www.gnm.cl/nmc/stable)
  3. Tyrel, a multi-syntax experimental computer language

As a collaborator:

  1. LPMD, Las Palmeras Molecular Dynamics, a full-blown molecular dynamics package

Other interests

Human languages, Japanese culture, Science Fiction media, Anime and Manga, Chess

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Last Update: February 12, 2010. Send comments to sergdavis at gmail dot com.