The University of Edinburgh · Full-time
Condensed Matter
This group incorporates molecular and optical physics, and covers a world of applications, from computational materials physics, to quantum ordering, to soft-matter physics. Condensed matter physics overlaps considerably with materials science, as well as biol…
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School of Physics and Astronomy · Physical sciences
This group incorporates molecular and optical physics, and covers a world of applications, from computational materials physics, to quantum ordering, to soft-matter physics. Condensed matter physics overlaps considerably with materials science, as well as biological and earth sciences, and relies on fundamental developments in statistical physics and novel simulation methodologies. Our research is concerned with the study of liquids and solids, and ‘viscoelastic’ materials (such as polymers and suspensions) with properties inbetween. We aim to discover and characterise the behaviour of these materials in the laboratory, and understand such behaviour in terms of the microscopic constituents. Experimentally, the determination of structure and the characterisation of static and dynamic optical, electrical, magnetic, mechanical and other properties under ambient and extreme conditions call upon a wide range of tools.
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