Dr. Hugh Chen Won Lightning Talk Award at 2025MMM-Intermag
March 7th, 2025
Zhijie (Hugh) Chen, a PhD graduate from the Georgetown Physics Department and currently a postdoctoral researcher in Professor Kai Liu’s group, was selected as 2nd place winner in the Young Professional Lightning Talk Competition at the recent 16th Joint MMM-Intermag Conference held in New Orleans.…
Floquet engineering with continuous-wave irradiation.
March 6th, 2025
Graduate student Yijing Liu and Prof. Barbara published a paper in Nature Communication.…
Georgetown researchers to present invited talks at the 2025 APS Global Physics Summit
March 5th, 2025
Three members of the Georgetown physics community are giving invited presentations at the 2025 Global Physics Summit of the American Physical Society, March 16-21, in Anaheim, CA.…
Prof. Freericks wins DCOMP prize on for an image illustrating quantum mechanics
March 4th, 2025
Prof. Freericks won a prize from the Division of Computational Physics of the American Physical Society for the best image illustrating quantum mechanics.…
Former postdoctoral fellows Marko Petrovic and Manuel Weber publish nonequilibrium work in Physical Review X
February 20th, 2025
Professor Freericks led a group including former postdoctoral fellows Marko Petrovic and Manuel Weber on a project that simulates materials with electrons coupled to their lattice vibrations after they have been illuminated by intense laser beams that drive them into a nonequilibrium state.…
Professor Freericks publishes article on quantum computing in Nature Communications
February 10th, 2025
Professor Freericks completed a project on showing how to use a linear-response formalism to calculate Green’s functions on quantum computers.…
2023 REU student Joseph Noonan publishes his research in the American Journal of Physics
February 7th, 2025
Joseph Noonan, a student in the 2023 REU program, completed a research project with Prof. Freericks on determining a general methodology for calculating wavefunctions algebraically in quantum mechanics.…
Prof. Emanuela Del Gado and ISMSM-NIST Fellow Dr. Mauro Mugnai Publish Paper in ScienceAdvances
January 29th, 2025
Prof. Emanuela Del Gado and Dr. Mauro Mugnai (ISMSM-NIST Fellow) in collaboration with TU Eindhoven, have developed groundbreaking synthetic gel materials that mimic the dynamic properties of…
NSF CAREER Award Secured by Dr. Gen Yin
January 21st, 2025
Professor Gen Yin, Physics, received a CAREER award of $600,000 from the National Science Foundation for a five-year project to study how to detect and manipulate the hidden spin orders in antiferromagnets for various device applications. …
Physics PhD Student Amjad Alqahtani Wins Best Poster Award at MRS Fall Meeting
January 21st, 2025
Physics PhD student Amjad Alqahtani was selected for a Best Poster Award at the 2024 Materials Research Society (MRS) Fall Meeting. …
