Welcome to the Department of 物理
作为一个部门, we are a community of more than 150, 包括教师, administrative staff, 博士后, 来访的科学家, and graduate and undergraduate students. Devoted to our teaching, 服务, and research missions, all of our 19 faculty teach lecture courses and actively involve students in their research.
Our research program is “decidedly noncomprehensive,” with intentional foci on fundamental and applied condensed matter and nanoscale physics. Our campus home is Higgins Hall, located at the heart of the BC Chestnut Hill campus at the western edge of Boston, and fully renovated in 2002 with state-of-the-art teaching and research laboratories.
Featured Recent 出版物
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Electronic nematicity without charge density waves in titanium-based kagome metal
We use spectroscopic-imaging scanning tunneling microscopy to discover spontaneous rotation symmetry breaking of the electronic structure, or electronic nematicity, in a new kagome metal.
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Visualization of bulk and edge photocurrent flow in anisotropic Weyl semimetals
Quantum sensors reveal that the anisotropy in the thermoelectric properties of Weyl semimetals generates spontaneous, circulating photocurrents.
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Dual quantum spin Hall insulator by density-tuned correlations in TaIrTe4
A study reports a dual quantum spin Hall insulator in monolayer TaIrTe4, arising from the interplay of its single-particle topology and density-tuned electron correlations.
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工程 Anomalously Large Electron Transport in Topological Semimetals
This work demonstrates the dramatic mobility enhancements result from phonons primarily returning momentum to electrons due to phonon-electron dominating over phonon–phonon scattering.
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Low-temperature thermal and physical properties of lunar meteorites
We have made the first low-temperature (5–300 K) measurements of thermal conductivity, specific heat capacity, and the coefficient of thermal expansion for six lunar meteorites, materials derived from the surface of the Moon.
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Radio-frequency manipulation of state populations in an entangled fluorine-muon-fluorine system
Entangled spin states are created by implanting muons into single-crystal LiY0.95Ho0.05F4 to form a cluster of dipole-coupled magnetic moments. The time evolution of the muon spin polarization can be manipulated by a radiofrequency field, and calculated via a model of a quantum cluster interacting with a classical, oscillating magnetic field.
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陈费米口袋, topological pair density wave, and charge-4e and charge-6e superconductivity in kagome superconductors
We find that the pairing of electrons on the 陈费米口袋s leads to a superconducting state with an emergent vortex-antivortex lattice and the formation of a complex triple-Q pair density wave.
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High-frequency phonons drive large phonon-drag thermopower in semiconductors at high carrier density
Unexpectedly large electron-phonon drag enhancements of the thermopowers are found in certain heavily-doped semiconductors, even at room temperature from first principles calculations.
本科 电子游戏正规平台 Opportunities
The Department of 物理 at 电子游戏软件 offers a 100% guarantee that a research opportunity will be made available to all physics majors that seek one, providing they meet the required criteria.
We go to great lengths to honor this commitment.
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Teaching Laboratories
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Integrated Sciences Cleanroom and
Nanofabrication FacilityOpen to both 电子游戏软件 and external users, this laboratory is home to more than 30 high-end micro and nanoscale instrumentation systems worth several million dollars.
