Areas of Research
The Physics Department provides several opportunities for students to participate in both experimental and theoretical research:
Atomic, Molecular, and Optical (AMO) physics involves the study of structures of atoms
and molecules and Plasma physics involves the study of interactions of charged particles
created by ionization. At Binghamton, students study AMO and plasma physics via light
matter interactions using high-intensity, femtosecond lasers.
Biophysics is the study of physical processes in living things that seeks to explain
what is special about life. Concepts from statistical mechanics, such as entropy,
phase transitions, and the emergence of order in complex systems, play a key role
in achieving this understanding. At Binghamton, students can explore the physics of
individual DNA molecules inside nanofluidic structures that they build.
Condensed matter physics is concerned with understanding and predicting physical phenomena
that occur in materials with relatively large atomic density. The large density of
atoms as well as electronic interactions in these materials leads to exciting and
emerging many-body effects. At Binghamton, students have the opportunity to explore
the physics of transport phenomena in nanostructured materials, exotic forms of magnetic
materials, nucleation and growth phenomena in condensed matter systems, materials
for energy harvesting, the physics of quantum phase transitions, topologically non-trivial
states of matter, and the search for emerging phenomena at the nanoscale.Featured Research
- Full-bandwidth anisotropic Migdal-Eliashberg theory and its application to superhydrides (Margine, Communications Physics, 2024)
- Revealing Fermi surface evolution and Berry curvature in an ideal type-II Weyl semimetal (Zhong, Nature Communications, 2024)
- Nonlinear and Nonreciprocal Transport Effects in Untwinned Thin Films of Ferromagnetic Weyl Metal SrRuO3 (Lee, Phys Rev X, 2024)
- Comparative study of optical nonlinearities of CO2 and N2O via single-shot spatio-temporally-resolved visualization (Shim, Optics Communications, 2023)
- Machine learning search for stable binary Sn alloys with Na, Ca, Cu, Pd, and Ag (Kolmogorov, Phys Chem Chem Phys, 2023)
- Reversible Electrochemical Anionic Redox in Rechargeable Multivalent-Ion Batteries (Smeu, JACS, 2023)
- Nonlinear electrophoretic velocity of DNA in slitlike confinement (Levy, Phys Rev E, 2022)
- Ion Migration at Perovskite Grain Boundaries (Mativetsky, Adv. Mater. Interfaces 2021)
- Inhomogeneous Kondo-lattice in frustrated Pr2Ir2O7 (Kolmogorov, Lawler, Aynajian, Nat.Comm. 2021)
- Nature of structural phase transition of NbO2 (Piper, Lee, ACS Chem. Mat. 2021)
- Light- and voltage-induced perovskite lattice strain (Mativetsky, Nanoscale 2021)
- Spontaneous defect-free MoS2 functionalization with Au atoms (Elias, Sci.Adv.2020)
- Structural transition of strain-engineered VO2 (Lee, Piper, Nanoscale 2020)
- Few-cycle pulse generation via molecular Raman effects (Shim, Sci. Adv. 2020)
- Doped WS2: RT Dilute Magnetic Semiconductor (Elias, Adv.Sci. 2020)
- Structural and Electronic Transitions in Epitaxial VO2/TiO2 (Lee, Piper, PRL2020)
- 2D magnetic monopole gas in oxide heterostructure (Lawler, Nat.Com. 2020)
- Paper-based sensors via folding and stacking (Mativetsky, ACS AMI 2019)
- Orbital selective Kondo lattice in AFM heavy fermion (Aynajian, Sci.Adv. 2019)
- Charge order near Mott insulating Mn-Sr3Ru2O7 (Lee, Aynajian, Comm. Phys. 2019)
- High conductivity voltage-reduced graphene oxide (Mativetsky, Nanoscale 2019)
- Pair density wave in cuprates (Lawler, Science 2019)
