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, Physical Review E, submitted (2009)
  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. 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 (to be submitted), 2009
  10. An atomistic model for homogeneous melting.
    Sergio M. Davis, Anatoly B. Belonoshko, Borje Johansson and Anders Rosengren, (in manuscript), 2009

Research Interests

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

Computer Programming Projects

  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

Other interests

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

Internet coordinates

e-mail: sergdavis at gmail dot com, sdavis at gnm dot cl

Twitter: @sergdavis

Blog: http://dashpedantic.wordpress.com

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