Physics Club students attended Cosmic Pathways/SPS Conference

Prof. Azriel Genack and his group published the paper "Ohm's law lost and regained: observation and impact of zeros and poles," in December 2024. The work was a collaboration with students  Israel Kurtz and Zhou Shi, and postdoctoral fellow Joshi Krishna.
DOI: 10.48550/arXiv.2406.05112

Prof. So Takei’s paper, co-authored with his former postdoc Dr. Subrata Chakraborty, is now published as a Letter in Physical Review B and was selected for Editor’s Suggestion. "Controlling orbital magnetism of band electron systems via bath engineering,” Phys. Rev. B 110, L140405 (2024)

A book “Quantum Optics of Light Scattering” with Prof. Lisyansky as a lead author is recently published by Springer in Springer Series in Optical Sciences. 

Professor Keaton Bell is a recipient of a National Science Foundation grant “Collaborative Research: The Seismic Technique for Accurate White Dwarf Parameters” (08/24 - 07/27)

A Physics Department team led by Professor Tim Benseman (also Profs. Almeida, Genack, Kuskovsky and Miri) was awarded $492,000 for a “Wide-range FTIR spectrometer for photonics research and education” by Department of Defense (DoD) Research and Education Program for Historically Black Colleges and Universities and Minority-Serving Institutions (HBCU/MI).

Prof. Azriel Genack and his group published the paper "Velocities of transmission eigenchannels and diffusion," in Nature Communiations in March 2024. The work was a collaboration with former students Yiming Huang and Zhou Shi, and with postdoctoral fellow Asher Maor.
DOI: 10.1038/s41467-024-46748-0

Prof. Euclides Almeida is a recipient of Department of Defense, HBCU/MI grant “Extreme Nonlinear Metamaterials Based on Hybrid Light-Matter States” (June 2023-May 2027).

Professor Miri is a recipient of a grant for “Instrumentation for Developing Universal Programmable Photonic Integrated Circuits for Analog Information Processing” by the Defense University Research Instrumentation Program (DURIP), Air Force Office of Scientific Research (AFOSR), 08/2023 - 07/2024.

Professor Miri (lead PI), in collaboration with colleagues from Georgia Techa and UCF, have been awarded an NSF FuSe-REG grant “Enabling Photonic Computing Engines through Hetero-integration”, 10/2023 - 09/2026.

Prof. Timothy Benseman and his student Sarah Elghazoly published a new paper "Powerful terahertz emission from a Bi₂Sr₂CaCu₂O_8+δ mesa operating above 77 Kelvin" in Physical Review Applied 19, 034055 (2023).

Congratulations to Dr. Al-Karim Gangji for being selected as a winner of 2023 President’s Award for Excellence in Teaching by Part-Time Faculty in the School of Mathematics and Natural Sciences for his dedication to the students at Queens College.

Prof. So Takei’s paper, co-authored with his former PhD student Joshua Aftergood, is now published in Physical Review Letters: "Conductivity Enhancement in a Diffusive Fermi Liquid due to Bose-Einstein Condensation of Magnons,” Phys. Rev. Lett. 130, 086702 (2023).