Collaborative Research Activities

Part of Condensed matter/AMO physics

While we conduct creative and independent research in the group, there are many successful examples of collaborations within the group and with researchers outside our department. Almost all of Choyke’s and Devaty’s research work involves collaborations with other university, industrial, and government labs in the US and several foreign countries. The same is true for Levy’s and Snoke’s experiments. Levy is also running an inter-university program, the Center for Oxide-Semiconductor Materials for Quantum Computation sponsored by DARPA. Wu has enjoyed many years of collaborative work with Goldburg. Together they brought 2D turbulence into the realm of experimental physics, and it is now studied around the world. Wu also has an active collaboration with Prof. G.Q. Bi at UPMC and Prof. Chuck Yeung of Penn State at Erie to study neuron biophysics.





Petek has active research collaborations, which bring researchers from top laboratories in Europe and Asia (Free University Berlin, Tohoku University, RIKEN, National Institute for Materials Science) to Pittsburgh to use the unique experimental facilities in his laboratory. He and his staff have been actively involved in collaborations with these laboratories, as well as with the Donostia International Physics Center in Spain and the Max Planck Institute for Microstructure Physics in Germany.





Jasnow has many years of successful multidisciplinary collaborations with A. C. Balazs of the Department of Chemical and Petroleum Engineering at the University of Pittsburgh. Together they have done significant work in complex fluids including one paper cited by APS as one of the most important papers in adhesion. Jasnow also fostered a new and productive collaboration with D. Zuckerman in the Department of Computational Biology. Liu has collaborated with Peter Zoller from University of Innsbruck, Austria, and with MIT Professor and Nobel Laureate Frank Wilczek. For many years Pratt has worked closely with many scientists from around the globe, such as Russia, Argentina, Croatia, Romania, India, Korea, and USA. One of his most favorable publications, on the relation of high-energy behavior of cross sections to the singularities in the Hamiltonian, was completed with Suric at Boskovic Institute in Zagreb.





Weisheit has worked at DOE laboratories, or collaborated on some of their programs, for more than three decades. His research has spanned a wide range of problems in atomic and plasma physics, with applications in fusion energy and astrophysics. Presently, he is engaged with efforts at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory to simulate the complex quantum processes occurring in dense, burning fusion plasmas; this research relies heavily on the statistical physics of partially degenerate matter.