Hero
Group Lead
Crystal Imperfections Reveal Rich New Phases of Familiar Matter
Matter—all the stuff we see around us—can be classified into familiar phases: our chairs are solid, our coffee is liquid, and the oxygen we breathe is a gas. This grouping obscures the nitty gritty details of what each molecule or atom is up to and reduces all that complexity down to a few main features that are most salient in our everyday lives.
Chris Fechisin
Research Areas
Strongly interacting photons