General Research Focus

The general research directions of Professor Shih-I Chu's group are to develop new theoretical formalisms and accurate and efficient large-scale computational methods for in-depth ab initio investigation of chemical, physical, and astronomical processes of current significance in science and/or technology.

Current Research Interests

• Atomic and Molecular Physics in Strong Fields : Multiphoton and Very High-Order Nonlinear Optical Processes in Intense and Superintense Laser Fields.
• Generalized Floquet Formalisms and Quasienergy Methods for Strong-Field Processes.
• New Time-dependent Methods for High-Precision Solution of Schrödinger, Dirac, and Kohn-Sham Equations in Space and Time.
• New Developments of Self-Interaction-Free Density Functional Theory (DFT) and Time-Dependent (TD) DFT for Probing the Excited Electronic Structure and Dynamics of Many-Electron Quantum Systems.
• Structure and Quantum Dynamics of Rydberg Atoms in External Fields.
• Classical and Quantum Chaos and Fractals.
• Many-Body Resonances in Atomic and Molecular Systems.
• Scattering Theory and Chemical Reaction Dynamics.
• Coherent and Optimal Control of Atomic and Molecular Processes.
• SQUID Quantum Computing and Quantum Information.
• Atomic and Molecular Astrophysics.
• Attosecond science and ultrafast physical processes.