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Physics

One simple definition of physics is the study of how the universe works the way that it does.  The physics division of the Mathematics, Statistics, and Physics department has 8 research active faculty members and study various aspects of physics from the evolution of stars to the quantum of information technology and minute building blocks of atoms.

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Grant Activity 2023

14 proposals submitted for over $5.5M

4 active research grants including 1 new grant

Over $2.0 M in active grant funding

Support for 2 MS students, 7 PhD students, and 2 undergraduate student.

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FY 2023 Grant Highlights

  1. Ambal“Understanding and controlling decoherence in hybrid spin qubit-magnon systems” with J. Wang in Chemistry for $800,000 from the NSF

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FY2023 Publication Highlights

Karki, Timalsina, Dowran, Aregbesola, Laraoui, and Ambal“An efficient method to create high-density nitrogen-vacancy centers in CVD diamond for sensing applications”

J.E.Steck, N.L. Thompson, and E.C. Behrman “Programming quantum hardware via Levenberg Marquardt machine learning”

  1. Sun, Z. Ge, X. Chen, S. Bi, T. Li, Z. Zhang, Y. Li, Y. Wu, S.A. Bird, J.W. Ferguson, J. Zhou, L.Ye, L. Long “Age of FGK Dwarfs Observed with LAMOST and GALAH: Considering the Oxygen Enhancement”

Taha et al. with H Hamdeh“Mössbauer spectral analysis and Rietveld structural refinement for cationic distribution of Cr-Co ferrites”

DUNE collaboration with H. Meyer, M. Muether, N. Solomey, “Measurement of the neutrino-Nucleus Charged-Current Double-Differential Cross Section at 2.4 GeV Using NOvA”

  1. Solomey, “How Unitarity in the CKM Matrix of quark interactions was proven correct”

Publications & Presentations FY 2023

14 Peer-reviewed publications                  logo

Several conference presentations

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