The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) has awarded a grant to Florida State University physicist Hitesh Changlani and his collaborator at Brown University. The 3½-year research award started in July 2026.
DOE Awards FSU Physicist Hitesh Changlani a Grant to Study Out-of-Equilibrium Quantum Matter
FSU physicist Hitesh Changlani and Brown University's Kemp Plumb have received a $2 million Department of Energy grant to pursue a cutting-edge project that combines quantum theory and neutron scattering experiments, in close collaboration with the Oak Ridge National Laboratory. The team will study how frustrated quantum magnets relax after being driven out of equilibrium, watching quantum correlations evolve in real time.
Faculty Highlight: Peng Xiong
Dr. Peng Xiong joined the Department of Physics at FSU in 1997, drawn by the National High Magnetic Field Laboratory and the Center for Materials Research and Technology. He studies the new physics that emerges when electrons are confined in low-dimensional materials and nanostructures, with a recent focus on the chirality-induced spin selectivity (CISS) effect, in which electron spins become spontaneously polarized as they pass through materials with broken mirror symmetry. The CISS phenomenon raises fundamental questions while carrying practical implications for spintronics and quantum information science.
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