Experimental Condensed Matter Physics Group


Our group includes three faculty members with a range of interests related to experimental condensed matter physics. The group currently also includes six undergraduates, nine graduate students, and one postdoctoral fellow.

Our interests include soft materials, polymers, nonlinear dynamics, and fluid mechanics. We also "interact" frequently with the statistical physics theory group.

We try to have a group meeting every week, to help facilitate collaboration and interaction between the theory and experimental work. If you are interested in attending these meetings, email Eric Weeks (erweeks@emory.edu) to be put on the email list.

  • Connie B. Roth
    Experiment: polymer blends and films, glass transition, structural relaxation, and nanoscale interactions affecting dynamics at and near interfaces.
  • Sergei Urazhdin
    Experiment: spintronics, electronic and magnetic properties of surfaces and nanostructures, nonlinear dynamics in nanomagnetic systems, and strongly correlated materials.
  • Eric R. Weeks
    Experiment: microscopy of colloidal glasses, granular materials, complex fluids, and emulsions.

colloidal gel surfactants neurons foam structure neuronal morphogenesis colloids with microscopic stir bar polymer film
Pictures: (1) colloidal gel; (2) surfactants; (3) polymer blend; (4) foam structure; (5) neuronal morphogenesis; (6) colloids with microscopic "stir bar"; (7) polymer film