Gases adsorbed on and inside carbon nanotube bundles: Adsorption and thermodynamical properties, kinetic and diffusive behavior, quantum effects, phase transitions

Bose-Einstein condensation in low dimensional systems: Condensates in optical lattices

Forces between nanosize particles: Van der Waals forces between atomic clusters, size and many-body effects; aggregation phenomena in fluids

My theoretical approaches are based on statistical and quantum mechanical methods and include density functional techniques for liquid helium, grand canonical Monte Carlo simulations and kinetic Monte Carlo schemes. An effort is made to formulate simple models in order to identify the key features of the problem and provide a general understanding of the investigated phenomena.