Explore the Harvard Physics Department's research groups
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The Cohen Lab develops and applies new tools to study biology. We push the limits of physics and chemistry to make measurements in previously inaccessible regimes.
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Neurophotonics & Biophysics
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Cotler’s current research interests include developing quantum algorithms to analyze quantum many-body and quantum gravitational systems and more.
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Photonics & Quantum Optics
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We use theory and experiments to study evolutionary dynamics and population genetics, particularly when selection is pervasive.
Research Area
Evolutionary Biophysics
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Searching for new particles using particle accelerators at CERN.
Research Area
Particle Physics
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We are interested in a broad range of subjects that depend on time-dependant wave mechanics in one form or another.
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Quantum Physics
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Huth's present work centers on the exploration of the Higgs boson, particularly the decay of the Higgs into a b b-bar pair, which is a challenging final state.
Research Area
Experimental Particle Physics
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The research of Daniel Jafferis involves string theory, supersymmetric quantum field theory, and quantum gravity.
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Quantum Gravity
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Khalaf's work addresses questions in the physics of disorder, topological insulators and semimetals, mechanisms for superconductivity in multi-layer graphene heterostructures, and new phenomena in quasicrystals and moiré systems.
Research Area
Condensed Matter Theory
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Our group’s research focuses on the mesoscopic investigation of transport phenomena, particularly, electric, thermal and thermoelectrical properties of low dimensional nanoscale materials.
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Condensed Matter Physics
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Our group builds novel experiments to directly detect axion dark matter in the µeV - meV mass range.
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Particle Astrophysics
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We do experiments to understand how complex systems such as interacting nanoparticles or proteins spontaneously order themselves — a process called self-assembly or self-organization.
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Soft Matter & Biophysics
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We study the dynamics of molecules, chemical reactions, and condensed matter on very short timescales -- down to femtoseconds (millionths of billionths of a second).
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Optics & Photonics
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Our research focuses on the investigation and the control of collective electronic behavior in quantum materials at ultrafast timescales.
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Ultrafast Quantum Materials
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Prof. Morii and his team of postdocs and students have searched for supersymmetry, for dark matter, and for rare processes involving top quarks.
Research Area
Experimental Particle Physics
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Work in the Mundy group will design, synthesize and probe such emergent phenomena in complex oxide thin films.
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Oxide Heterostructures
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The group focuses on fundamental studies of nanoscale electrical, optical, and plasmonic devices that operate based upon quantum mechanical principles.
Research Area
Quantum Materials & Sensing
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Recently, Ro has focused on studying collective phenomena in active matter, which consists of units driven out of equilibrium at the individual level.
Research Area
Statistical Physics
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Subir Sachdev's research describes the consequences of quantum entanglement on the macroscopic properties of natural systems.
Research Area
Condensed Matter Theory
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To make progress, we use accessible biophysical models of organism behavior that can be studied from sensory input to motor output.
Research Area
Neurophysics
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Recent projects have primarily used the tools and techniques of observational astronomy, providing the opportunity to measure the properties of the dark sector where signal is non-zero.
Research Area
Observational Astrophysics
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We study the physics of soft condensed matter, materials which are easily deformable by external stresses, electric or magnetic fields, or even by thermal fluctuations
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Soft Matter Physics
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I am a theoretical physicist interested in quantum field theory, string theory, and mathematical physics.
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Theoretical High Energy Physics
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