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Victor Galitski

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    Andrey Grankin

    Postdoctoral Researcher

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    Yunxiang Liao

    Postdoc

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    Masoud Mohammadi-Arzanagh

    Graduate Student

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    Gautam Nambiar

    Graduate Student

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    Jonathan Curtis

    Graduate Student

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    Benjamin Fregoso

    Postdoctoral Researcher

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    Zachary Raines

    Graduate Student

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    Efim Rozenbaum

    Graduate Student

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    Tigran Sedrakyan

    Postdoctoral Fellow

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    Kai Sun

    Postdoctoral Researcher

Recent News

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    Embracing Uncertainty Helps Bring Order to Quantum Chaos

    September 27, 2023

    In physics, chaos is something unpredictable. A butterfly flapping its wings somewhere in Guatemala might seem insignificant, but those flits and flutters might be the ultimate cause of a hurricane over the Indian Ocean. The butterfly effect captures what it means for something to behave chaotically: Two very similar starting points—a butterfly that either flaps its wings or doesn’t—could lead to two drastically different results, like a hurricane or calm winds. But there's also a tamer, more subtle form of chaos in which similar starting points don’t cause drastically different results—at least not right away. This tamer chaos, known as ergodicity, is what allows a coffee cup to slowly cool down to room temperature or a piece of steak to heat up on a frying pan. It forms the basis of the field of statistical mechanics, which describes large collections of particles and how they exchange energy to arrive at a shared temperature. Chaos almost always grows out of ergodicity, forming its most eccentric variant.

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    Bilayer Graphene Inspires Two-Universe Cosmological Model

    May 5, 2022

    Physicists sometimes come up with crazy stories that sound like science fiction. Some turn out to be true, like how the curvature of space and time described by Einstein was eventually borne out by astronomical measurements. Others linger on as mere possibilities or mathematical curiosities. In a new paper in Physical Review Research, JQI Fellow Victor Galitski and JQI graduate student Alireza Parhizkar have explored the imaginative possibility that our reality is only one half of a pair of interacting worlds. Their mathematical model may provide a new perspective for looking at fundamental features of reality—including why our universe expands the way it does and how that relates to the most miniscule lengths allowed in quantum mechanics. These topics are crucial to understanding our universe and are part of one of the great mysteries of modern physics.

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    Growing into a Physicist at UMD

    March 23, 2022

    JQI graduate student Michael Winer has had a relationship with physics—and physics at the University of Maryland in particular—since he was a kid. He first came to UMD as a high school student pursuing his competitive spirit when physics was a fun challenge. Then over time, physics became something more nuanced for him. Now, he has returned to UMD to pursue physics as a career and is also helping introduce the joys of physics to a new generation of bright young minds.

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