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While most quantum systems evolve in a linear fashion, there exist some, such as Bose-Einstein condensates, in which complicated interactions give rise to effectively non-linear dynamics....

“Information Scrambling versus Decoherence—Two Competing Sinks for Entropy” Akram Touil and Sebastian Deffner A thermodynamic description of quantum scrambling for open quantum system...

Two recent papers published in ACS Applied Materials and Interfaces from Dr. Ataca's group have been highlighted in UMBC news and phys.org. The first publication, written by graduate student...

Atmospheric Physics PhD: Lipi Mukherjee* Mentor: Dr. Pengwang Zhai "Radiative Properties of Oceanic Particles" Chamara Rajapakshe* Mentor: Dr. Zhibo Zhang "Interactions of Radiation with...

“Influence of Cr-substitution on the structural, magnetic, electron transport, and mechanical properties of Fe3-xCrxGe Heusler alloys” Rabin Mahat, Shambh KC, Daniel Wines, Sudhir Regmia, Upama...

“Powerful extragalactic jets dissipate their kinetic energy far from the central black hole” Harvey, A.L.W., Georganopoulos, M. & Meyer, E.T. Adam Leah W. Harvey, Markos Georganopoulos,...

Recently, Dr. Zhibo Zhang’s ACROS group and his collaborators in the Department of Information Systems and NASA Goddard Space Flight center won a $1.4M interdisciplinary research project from...

Congratulations to our grad students who have advanced into PhD Candidacy over the past year: Neranga Prasadi Kaluappuwa Hannadige Mentor: Dr. Pengwang Zhai Vijin Kizhake Veetil Mentor:...

Dr. Jaron Kropp is the lead author in a new collaborative paper published in ACS Applied Materials and Interfaces. Jaron’s PhD dissertation was supervised jointly by Profs Gougousi and Ataca who...

“A first-principles Quantum Monte Carlo study of two-dimensional (2D) GaSe” Daniel Wines, Kayahan Saritas, Can Ataca STEAM Lab members Daniel Wines and Dr. Ataca and collaborator Dr. Kayahan...