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Anton Burkov

Anton Burkov

- Superconductivity; superconductor-insulator transitions in thin films
-Superfluidity; cold-atom superfluids: nonequilibrium dynamics, quantum phase transitions, instabilities
-Strongly correlated many-particle physics : condensed matter/AMO theory

Michel Gingras

Michel Gingras

- Random disorder in condensed matter physics
-Frustrated antiferromagnets
-Condensed matter theory/statistical mechanics

David Hawthorn

David Hawthorn

-Correlated electrons/superconductivity
-X-ray spectroscopy
-Condensed matter experiment

Robert Hill

Robert Hill

-Correlated electrons
-Exotic and unconventional superconductors
-Condensed matter experiment/low temperature physics

Jan Kycia

Jan Kycia

-Josephson junctions, Coulomb blockade, unconventional superconductors
-Fabrication (e-beam and optical lithography)
-Condensed matter experiment/low temperature physics

Roger Melko

Roger Melko

- Superfluids, supersolids, mott insulators, and unconventional bulk quantum phases
-Exotic quantum phase transitions
-Condensed matter theory/computation

Pierre-Nicholas Roy

Pierre-Nicholas Roy (UW Department of Chemistry)

-Computational and Theoretical Chemistry
-Nanoscale superfluid behavior in Helium clusters
-Classical and Quantum dynamics

Frank Wilhelm

Frank Wilhelm

- Quantum computing with superconductor nanocircuits
-Decoherence theory
-Nonequilibrium quantum statistics/condensed matter theory

postdoctoral researchers

students

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