Research
Condensed Matter Physics
Condensed Matter physicists study matter in its nearly unlimited variety of condensed states from liquids to crystalline solids, from thin films to fabricated nanostructures, from quantum Hall electron gases to superconductors, from carbon nanotubules to liquid crystals, and from amorphous structures to complex fluids. We seek both to clarify the fundamental issues behind the striking properties of these systems, and to illuminate their potential for useful application. Condensed matter physics underlies many key devices of information technology, including the transistor, the solid-state laser, optical fiber, magnetic storage media, and the liquid crystal display.
Much of the explosive growth in Condensed Matter Physics in the last decade has come at the mutual boundaries of physics, chemistry, and materials science. Recently in ever more dramatic ways, this intellectual cross-fertilization is producing key discoveries at the convergence of these fields and biology.
The school of physical sciences gruop at NISER has many faculties concentrating in differenet areas in Condensed matter Physics like Electronic structure calculation of atoms, molecules and solids, Superconductivity, Quantum phase transitions, Functional materials, nanomaterials and nanophotonics/Plasmonics, colloidal physics, and many other fields. There are currently 2 experimentalists and 4 theorists pursuing research in many areas of condensed matter physics. We expect to add more faculties in the near future.