Astrophysics
For further information see, Yale Department of Astronomy and The Yale Center for Astronomy and Astrophysics
- Charles Bailyn
- Charles Baltay: The QUEST Project - Experimental Cosmology (with David Rabinowitz); SNAP - A space based experiment on free properties of Dark Energy via the study of Supernovae (with David Rabinowitz and Andrew Szymkowiak)
- Paolo Coppi
- Marla Geha
- Reina Maruyama: Neutrino physics and dark matter
- Daisuke Nagai: Computational Cosmology and Astrophysics
- Priyamvada Natarajan
- Laura Newburgh
- Nikil Padmanabhan
- Peter Parker (Emeritus)
- Meg Urry: Active Galactic Nuclei
- Pieter van Dokkum
Atomic Physics
For further information see, Atomic Physics web site
- Sidney Cahn
- David DeMille: Fundamental Physics with Diatomic Molecules
- Steve Girvin: Many Body Physics and Quantum Computation
- Leonid Glazman: Quantum Dynamics of Cold Atomic Gases
- Jack Harris: Quantum Optics and Optomechanics
- Steve Lamoreaux: Precision optical and electronic measurements of fundamental physical properties of fields and matter
- David Moore: Neutrino physics, precision tabletop tests of gravity and dark matter
- Nir Navon: Ultracold Quantum Matter
Beam Physics
For further information see, Yale Wright Laboratory
Biophysics
For further information see, Physical Engineering and Biology (PEB)
- Murat Acar: Adaptive Gene Network Evolution and Cellular Aging
- Sean E. Barrett: Development of novel MRI imaging methods
- Damon Clark: Understanding how networks of neurons work together to perform computations
- Thierry Emonet: How cells process information and make decisions
- Jonathon “Joe” Howard: Mechanics of the cytoskeleton with a particular emphasis on microtubules and microtubule-based motor proteins
- Benjamin Machta
- Simon Mochrie: Soft Condensed Matter and Biological Physics
- John Murray: Computational Neuroscience
- Michael Murrell
- Corey O’Hern: Soft Matter Research
Experimental Condensed Matter Physics
- Charles Ahn: Artificially grown materials in strong electric fields
- Sean E. Barrett: Optically Pumped Nuclear Magnetic Resonance
- Hui Cao: Nanophotonics, quantum optics and mesoscopic physics of photons
- Michel Devoret: Quantum coherence in mesoscopic superconductors
- Jack Harris: Quantum Optics and Radiation Pressure, Persistant current in normal metal rings
- Victor Henrich (Emeritus): Surface Science
- Simon Mochrie: Scattering studies of soft condensed matter and biomaterials
- Daniel Prober: Quantum transport, mesocsopic physics, superconducting quantum detectors
- Peter Rakich
- Robert Schoelkopf: Quantum Transport, Single-Electron Devices, and Charge Dynamics in Nanostructures
Experimental Nuclear Physics
For further information see, Yale Wright Laboratory and Relativistic Heavy Ion group
- Helen Caines: Relativistic Heavy Ion Physics
- Richard Casten (Emeritus): Nuclear Structure
- John Harris: Relativistic Heavy Ion Physics (with Nikolai Smirnov, Richard Majka and Thomas Ullrich)
- Karsten Heeger: Neutrino physics, weak interactions
- Reina Maruyama: Neutrino physics and dark matter
- David Moore: Neutrino physics, precision tabletop tests of gravity and dark matter
- Laura Newburgh
- Peter Parker (Emeritus)
Experimental Particle Physics
For further information see, Yale High Energy Physics Web Server, The LaSilla-QUEST Variablity Survey, STAR, and World Wide Linear Collider
- Robert Adair (Emeritus)
- Keith Baker: ATLAS Experiment
- Charles Baltay: The SLD experiment at SLAC; International Linear Collider - Vertex Detector R&D; The QUEST Project - Experimental Cosmology (with David Rabinowitz); SNAP - A space based experiment on the properties of Dark Energy via the study of Supernovae (with David Rabinowitz and Andrew Szymkowiak)
- Sarah Demers: ATLAS Experiment
- Bonnie Fleming: High Energy Neutrino Physics
- Karsten Heeger: neutrino physics, dark matter
- Reina Maruyama: Neutrino physics and dark matter
- David Moore: Neutrino physics, precision tabletop tests of gravity and dark matter
- Laura Newburgh
- Jack Sandweiss (Emeritus): Search for Strangelets with the AMS ; New States of Hadronic Matter; Relativistic Heavy Ion Physics (with John Harris and Helen Caines); Lunar Soil Strangelet Search(LSSS) (with High Energy Group and Wright Lab)
- Paul Tipton: ATLAS Experiment
- Michael Zeller (Emeritus): CP Violation in Kaons (KOPIO); ATLAS Experiment
Gravitational Physics
- Vincent Moncrief: Gravitation Physics
High Energy Theory and Cosmology
For further information see, theoretical high energy physics website
- Thomas Appelquist
- George Fleming
- Walter Goldberger
- Samuel MacDowell (Emeritus)
- David Poland
- Witold Skiba
- Charles Sommerfield (Emeritus)
Instrumentation
For further information see Instrumentation at Yale or Wright Lab
Quantum Optics
- Hui Cao: Nanophotonics, quantum optics and mesoscopic physics of photons
- Richard Chang (Emeritus): Laser Diagnostics and Optical Scattering
- Jack Harris: Quantum Optics and Optomechanics
- Douglas Stone: Mesoscopic and Optical Physics
Quantum Information Physics (CQuIP)
For further information see, quantum computing
- Sean E. Barrett: Optically Pumped Nuclear Magnetic Resonance
- David DeMille: Ultracold Polar Molecules
- Michel Devoret: Quantum coherence in mesoscopic superconductors
- Steve Girvin: Many Body Physics and Quantum Computation
- Jack Harris: Quantum Optics, Quantum Electronics, and Micromechanics
- Robert Schoelkopf: Quantum Transport, Single-Electron Devices, and Charge Dynamics in Nanostructures
Theoretical Condensed Matter Physics
For further information see, Condensed Matter Theory web page, Theoretical Chemistry Group, Condensed Matter Geophysics
- Yoram Alhassid: Nuclear Many Body Theory and Mesoscopic Quantum Dots
- Meng Cheng
- Steve Girvin: Many Body Physics and Quantum Computation
- Leonid Glazman: Physics of Low-dimensional and Mesoscopic Systems, Quantum Many-Body Theory
- Sohrab Ismail-Beigi: Ab Initio and Computational Solid State, Nanoscale, and Many-body Physics
- Corey O’Hern: Soft Matter Research
- Nicholas Read: Many Body and Statistical Physics
- R. Shankar: Statistical and Many Body Physics
- Douglas Stone: Mesoscopic and Optical Physics
- John Tully (Emeritus): Physical and Theoretical Chemistry
- John Wettlaufer: Microscopic kinetics in crystal growth and melting
Theoretical Nuclear Physics
- Yoram Alhassid: Nuclear Many Body Theory and Mesoscopic Quantum Dots
- Francesco Iachello (Emeritus): Nuclear and molecular structure: the interacting boson model