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 in these materials leads to exciting many-body effects such as superfluidity, superconductivity, metal-insulator phase transitions, and exotic forms of magnetism. At Binghamton, students have the opportunity to explore Bose condensation in semiconducting systems, the behavior of complicated molecules such as DNA in microfluidic channels, the physics of transport phenomena in nanostructured materials, exotic forms of magnetic materials, nucleation and growth phenomena in condensed matter systems, the physics of quantum phase transitions, and the search for exotic particles in many body systems.
B. White: carrier transport and lattice vibrations in nanostructures
L. Piper: electronic properties of novel materials, like complex metal oxides, by x-ray spectroscopy
J. Jang: optical and electronic properties of semiconductors, excitonic matter, and nonlinear optical responses of polymers
E. Cotts: atomic transport in thin film metal systems and in liquid systems, with particular emphasis on materials for electronics packaging
M. Suzuki: properties of semimetals, graphite intercalation compounds, high-Tc superconductors and low-dimensional magnetic systems
M. Lawler: strongly interacting particles in frustrated quantum mechanical and quantum liquid crystal systems
T. DeSilva: strongly correlated and collective phenomena in many-body systems, like cold atomic gases and electronic matter
