Studying the modification of Beeler-Reuter model (MBR model) for the dynamics of sustained re-entry in a cable cardiac tissue with gap junction by the linear finite element method and the numerical simulation method.
Using ART-OPEP and Molecular Dynamic methods to study the amyloid beta protein aggregation. This research is associated with Alzheimer's Disease.
Theoretical study of the statistical mechanics of quantum spin systems with spatial structures using numerical exact diagonalization, conformal field theory, level spectroscopy method and phenomenological renormalization group method.
Selected Publications:
Wei Chen, J. Andrew Wasserstrom and Y. Shiferaw: "Role of coupled gating between cardiac ryanodine receptors in the genesis of triggered arrhythmias". Am. J. Physiol. Heart Circ. Physiol. 297, H171 (2009). Source
Xiao Dong, Wei Chen, Normand Mousseau and Philippe Derreumaux, "Energy landscapes of the monomer and dimer of the Alzheimer's peptide Aβ(1-28)." J. Chem. Phys. 128, 125108 (2008). Abstract
Wei Chen, Mark Potse and Alain Vinet: "The Dynamics of Sustained Re-entry in a Ring Model of Cardiac Tissue with Discrete Gap Junction Resistances." Phys. Rev. E. 76, 021928 (2007). Abstract
Wei Chen, Normand Mousseau and Philippe Derreumaux: "Lowest-energy structures of the Alzheimer's fragment Aβ21-30 in solution by computer simulations". J. Chem. Phys. 125, 084911 (2006). Abstract
Kazuo Hida and Wei Chen: "Emergence of Long Period Antiferromagnetic Orders from Haldane Phase in S=1 Heisenberg Chains with D-Modulation", J. Phys. Soc. Jpn. 74 (2005) 2090. Abstract
Kazuo Hida, Masaru. Shiino, Wei Chen: "Bond Operator Mean Field Approach to the Magnetization Plateaux in Quantum Antiferromagnets -- Application to the S=1/2 Coupled Dimerized Zigzag Heisenberg Chains", J. Phy. Soc. Jpn. 73 (2004) 1587. Abstract
Wei Chen, Kazuo Hida and B. C. Sanctuary: "Ground State Phase Diagram of S=1 XXZ Chains with Uniaxial Single-Ion-Type Anisotropy", Phys. Rev. B 67 (2003) 104401. source
Wei Chen, Kazuo Hida and B. C. Sanctuary: "Magnetization plateaus and phase diagram in polymerized S=1/2 XXZ chains", Phys. Rev. B 63 (2001) 134427. source
Wei Chen, Kazuo Hida and B. C. Sanctuary: "Magnetization plateaus in antiferromagnetic-(ferromagnetic)n polymerized S=1/2 XXZ chains", J. Phys. Soc. Jpn. 69 (2000) 3414. Abstract
Wei Chen, Kazuo Hida and B. C. Sanctuary: " Critical Properties of the Spin-1 Antiferromagnetic Heisenberg Chain with Bond Alternation and Uniaxial Single-Ion-Type Anisotropy", J. Phys. Soc. Jpn. 69 (2000) 237. Abstract
Wei Chen and Kazuo Hida, " Ground State Phase Diagram of the One Dimensional S=1/2 XXZ Model with Dimerization and Quadrumerization", J. Phys. Soc. Jpn. 68 (1999) 2779. Abstract
Wei Chen, Kazuo Hida and Hiroki Nakano, " Magnetization Plateaus in One Dimensional S=1/2 Heisenberg Model with Dimerization and Quadrumerization", J. Phys. Soc. Jpn. 68 (1999) 625. Abstract
Wei Chen and Kazuo Hida, " Ground State Properties of One Dimensional S=1/2 Heisenberg Model with Dimerization and Quadrumerization", J. Phys. Soc. Jpn. 67 (1998) 2910. Abstract
Yoshio Aoyama, Wei Chen and Motoyuki Tanaka, " Monte Carlo Studies on Phase Transitions of the Two-Dimensional S=1 Ising Model with Biquadratic Interaction", J. Phys. Soc. Jpn. 66 (1997) 272. Abstract