凝聚态与材料物理哲学博士

凝聚态和材料物理学（CMMP）的重点是理解基本定律如何在我们周围的物理世界中展开。一个典型的系统由许多单个的粒子或单元组成，这些粒子或单元已经聚集成具有新的，通常令人惊讶的特性的介质。超导体和液晶是两个经典的例子。近年来，CMMP已经变得非常广泛。积极追求的话题包括，例如，新型材料中的电子之间的强相关性，低维系统中的量子现象，软物质的相和动力学，量子相变，远离平衡现象以及粒状材料。在杜克大学，我们专注于凝聚态物质和材料物理学的两个领域：纳米尺度系统中的量子现象以及非线性和复杂系统。
The focus of condensed matter and materials physics (CMMP) is understanding how underlying laws unfold in the physical world around us. A typical system consists of many individual particles or units which have coalesced into a medium with new, often surprising, properties. Superconductors and liquid crystals are two classic examples. In recent years, CMMP has grown to be tremendously broad. Topics being actively pursued include, for instance, strong correlations between electrons in novel materials, quantum phenomena in low dimensional systems, phases and dynamics of soft matter, quantum phase transitions, far from equilibrium phenomena, and granular materials. Here at Duke, we focus on two areas of condensed matter and materials physics: quantum phenomena in nanometer scale systems, and nonlinear and complex systems.