The biggest mysteries of the universe are not hiding only in faraway galaxies or among subatomic particles. Instead, they may be in your hand, literally, as you hold a pencil. When you use that pencil to draw or write on a sheet of paper, you are creating your own sampling of graphene, hailed as a wonder material and rewarded the 2010 Nobel Prize in physics for its discovery. In recent years, graphene and other materials have been shown to host exotic physics previously thought to only exist either in the large-scale fabric of cosmos or in the subatomic space roamed by elementary particles. This is an exciting era in the sciences that study the physics of such materials, in particular condensed matter physics, atomic physics, and quantum information.
Recent news
July 29, 2026
🎙 Praneel presented his REU project at the 2026 Indiana Undergraduate Math Research Conference in Indianapolis.
July 27, 2026
📃 New paper with Suman Aich published in Physical Review B, available open-access on arXiv with the code.
July 23, 2026
🎓 Dr. Suman Aich has successfully defended his PhD thesis. Congratulations! 👏🏼🎉🍾
June 8, 2026
👥 Praneel Samal has officially joined the group as a Math REU participant for the summer.
June 5, 2026
🎙 Suman presented at the 2026 APS DAMOP meeting.
April 17, 2026
🎙 Nabil and Gopi presented posters on their research projects at the 2026 HHC Undergraduate Research Conference.
April 15, 2026
🏅 Suman has received a DAMOP award to participate in the 2026 DAMOP meeting in Providence, RI.
April 3, 2026
🎙 Babak gave an invited Condensed Matter Seminar at the National High Magnetic Lab in Tallahassee, FL.
March 18, 2026
🎙 Suman, Nicolas, and Babak presented contributed talks at the 2026 APS Global Summit.
March 16, 2026
🗞 New preprint with Suman Aich, Ceren Dag, Herb Fertig, and Debayan Mitra posted on arXiv along with the code.
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