Our research includes a strong focus on fundamental questions about the new physics underlying the Standard Models of particle physics, cosmology, and gravity; and the nature and applications of our basic frameworks (quantum field theory and string theory) for attacking these questions.   Our research also includes a major emphasis on the novel phenomena in condensed matter physics that emerge in systems with many degrees of freedom.

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The deadline for SITP Condensed Matter Postdoctoral Fellow applications is November 1, 2023.
The deadline for Q-FARM Bloch Fellowship applications is November 3, 2023.
The deadline for SITP Postdoctoral Fellow applications is November 15, 2023.
Measurement and entanglement both have a “spooky” nonlocal flavor to them. Now physicists are harnessing that nonlocality to probe the spread of quantum information and control it.

Photo by Zhenhua Wang

The Abdus Salam International Centre for Theoretical Physics (ICTP) has awarded its 2023 Dirac Medal to four physicists who have made wide-ranging contributions to string theory.

Photo by Alexander Nie

Inside of a black hole, the two theoretical pillars of 20th-century physics appear to clash. Now a group of young physicists think they have resolved the conflict by appealing to the central pillar of the new century — the physics of quantum information.

Upcoming Events

September
25
Date
Monday, September 25, 2023. 2:00pm
Location
Varian 355
Speaker: Manki Kim

Computation of string loop corrections to the effective action has been one of the main challenges in string phenomenology. One major complication…

September
29
Date
Friday, September 29, 2023. 3:00pm
Location
Varian 312
Speaker: Andrew Long

The phenomenon of cosmological gravitational particle production (CGPP) occurs during and after inflation as light fields “feel” the cosmological…

October
2
Date
Monday, October 2, 2023. 2:00pm
Location
Varian 355
Speaker: Erez Urbach

String stars, or Horowitz-Polchinski solutions, are string theory saddles with normalizable condensates of thermal-winding strings. In the past,…

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