Researcher Spotlight
Nick Abboud
Nick is a PhD student in the Department of Physics. His research aims to uncover and better understand quantum-mechanical effects in the large-scale collective motion of many-body systems driven far from thermal equilibrium. His work finds applications in diverse physical settings across widely separated scales, from tiny droplets of quark-gluon plasma produced in collisions between atomic nuclei to electron gases in tabletop quantum materials.
What do you see as the primary benefit to you of archiving your data in a repository?
Numerical codes play an essential role in interpreting experimental data. By making my code publicly accessible, I establish a transparent reference for methods and results that cannot be fully captured in a traditional publication format. This allows others to examine the numerical implementation directly and reproduce the results, ultimately strengthening the work and facilitating extensions in related settings. Publishing in the Illinois Data Bank also ensures that this material remains available over the long term without requiring me to personally maintain a separate repository.