Experimental
Chicago physics faculty conduct a broad program of experiments in condensed matter phenomena. The main site of this research is the interdisciplinary James Franck Institute. Topics of study include optical and electronic transport in normal and superconducting nanocrystals and arrays. Collective effects at ultra-low temperatures including the (fractional) quantum Hall effect, vortex tunneling, metal-insulator transitions, and magnetic quantum critical points. Symmetry-breaking and fluctuations in heavy fermion, organic, and high-Tc superconductors. Nonlinear dynamics and flow properties of granular materials. Scaling behavior of liquid flow and droplet breakup. Mathematical analysis and computer simulation of singularity formation. Universal scaling behavior of relaxation phenomena in supercooled liquids and glasses. Microscopic kinetics and dynamics of phase transitions in colloidal suspensions. Manipulation by dynamic optical holographic traps. Molecular regulation within living cells. Self-assembly and morphology of ultrathin polymer films.
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Theoretical
Chicago physics faculty conduct a wide range of theoretical investigations into condensed matter phenomena. The main site of this research is the interdisciplinary James Franck Institute and the Kadanoff Center for Theoretical Physics . Topics of study include macroscopic dynamics of materials, interfacial singularities, and non-linear processes. Turbulent, chaotic, and stochastic behavior in hydrodynamic and other dynamical systems. Spatial self-organization in polymers, surfactant monolayers, colloids and cell assemblies. Physics of magnetic and superconducting materials (systems) driven by a strong interaction. Physics in low dimensions. Fermi liquid and non-Fermi liquid states in many body systems. High temperature superconductivity. Quantum phase transitions. Phase ordering kinetics and defect dynamics. Non-perturbative phenomena in electronic systems; strongly correlated electronic systems, magnetism. Transition between jammed and fluid states in granular matter, glass-forming liquids, and magnetic flux lattices. Integrable models of statistical mechanics and quantum field theory.
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Experimental Condensed Matter Faculty
David Awschalom
Professor.
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Philippe Guyot-Sionnest
Professor.
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Andrew Higgenbotham
Assistant Professor
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William Irvine
Professor.
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Heinrich Jaeger
Distinguished Service Professor.
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Woowon Kang
Professor.
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Sidney Nagel
Distinguished Service Professor.
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Theoretical Condensed Matter Faculty
Luca Delacrétaz
Assistant Professor
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Kathryn Levin
Professor.
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Michael Levin
Associate Professor.
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Peter Littlewood
Professor.
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Ivar Martin
CASE Senior Scientist.
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Arvind Murugan
Assistant Professor.
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Dam Thanh Son
University Professor.
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Vincenzo Vitelli
Professor.
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Pavel Wiegmann
Professor.
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Thomas Witten
Professor Emeritus.
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Wendy Zhang
Associate Professor.
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AFFILIATED FACULTY
Aashish Clerk
Professor of Molecular Engineering.
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Liang Jiang
Professor of Molecular Engineering.
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Shuolong Yang
Assistant Professor in Molecular Engineering.
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Ruben Verresen
Postdoctoral Researcher at Harvard and MIT
Ruben will join UChicago as an Assistant Professor (starting August 2024)