Department ofPhysics of Complex Systems
Rewriting the rules of light and matter.
AMO · Quantum · Light–Matter
Quantum Frontiers
Quantum chaos, topological phases, and the transition from microscopic physics to macroscopic complexity.
10 groups→
Soft matter · Hydrodynamics Soft Matter & Flows
Active matter, fluid dynamics, and the emergent properties of non-equilibrium systems.
3 groups→
Biophysics · Living systems Biological Complexity
The principles behind neural networks, ant colonies, and information processing in living systems.
4 groups→
Statistical mechanics · Geometry Theory & Chaos
Geometry and dynamical-systems theory applied to the unpredictability of physical phenomena.
5 groups→
01 / Calendar
What's on
Sample data — pending real calendar source.
Prof. Ariel Amir
Stochastic processes in biological growth: from single cells to populations.
↳ Weissman Hall & Zoom
Quantum Optics Seminar
Strongly interacting photons in cold atomic ensembles.
↳ Cohen Building · Room 102
Department Seminar
Elastic turbulence and drag reduction in dilute polymer solutions.
↳ Weissman Hall
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Prestigious awardsFigures to be confirmed.
03 / News
Recent highlights
2024 Nature Physics Viscous electronics and its signature in grapheneElectron flow that behaves like a viscous fluid — a hydrodynamic regime observed in ultra-clean graphene. 2023 Editor's Suggestion Ultracold atoms heating up a single ionProbing atom–ion interactions at the quantum level, published in Physical Review Letters. 2022 Computational biology Pathway-based personalized analysis of cancerA computational-biology highlight from the Domany group.