The Laboratory of Atomic and Solid State Physics is a major center for research in the area of condensed matter physics and related areas. It was founded in 1959, and there are currently 34 faculty members of the Department of Physics associated with the Laboratory. LASSP is a research center associated with the Physics Department. (All physics research is associated with one of two research labs: LASSP and LEPP.)
Research in the Laboratory spans experimental and theoretical studies of many topics, including biophysics; computational physics and multi-scale modeling; electronic, mechanical, and optical properties of nanostructures; exotic and disordered materials; fundamental and applied quantum phenomena; high-precision measurements; low-temperature helium physics; liquid physics; magnetic phenomena and devices; phonons, oscillators, and two-level systems; protein crystallization, scanning-probe microscopies; soft condensed matter physics; strongly-correlated matter; and x-ray physics.
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Research Areas
- Theoretical Condensed-Matter Physics
- Experimental Condensed-Matter Physics (Including Complex Systems and Nanoscale Systems)
- Biophysics
- Optics
- Kavli Institute at Cornell
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