Center for Nonlinear Studies

Current Focus Areas

The CNLS Executive Committee selects areas that address Laboratory needs while advancing emerging directions in complex-systems research.

Dynamics of Systems Far from Equilibrium

Understanding systems whose behavior is driven by transport, instability, collective motion, and nonlinear interactions across scales.

Applied mathematics for plasma physics
Space plasmas
Structural properties of materials
Fluid dynamics and turbulence
Soft matter
Active matter
Dynamical systems

Mechanistic Studies of Human Disease

Linking molecular, cellular, and population-level mechanisms to quantitative descriptions of disease initiation, progression, and response.

Stochastic gene regulation
Biomolecular simulations
Disease modeling
Viral dynamics

Enhanced Modeling

Creating innovative solutions for applied problems through new multiscale, multiphysics, and application-specific modeling approaches.

New approaches to challenging applications
Application-specific algorithm development
Artificial intelligence and machine learning
Quantum and neuromorphic architectures
Combining subject-matter expertise with mathematical methods, software, algorithms, and emerging computing platforms.

Theory and Computation of Quantum Systems

Advancing predictive theory and computation for quantum information, correlated matter, molecules, and matter under extreme conditions.

Quantum information
Quantum many-body physics
Bose–Einstein condensates
Strongly correlated electron systems
Molecular physics
Nonadiabatic excited-state dynamics
Warm dense matter

Explore Related Research

Learn more about quantum-computing activities at Los Alamos or browse earlier CNLS focus areas that helped shape the Center’s evolving scientific portfolio.

Quantum Computing at LANL Previous Focus Areas