Research Lines

I. Atomic and Molecular Physics

Topics:
  • Eletronic Structure of Atoms and Molecules;
  • Interaction of Photons and Electrons with Atoms and Molecules;
  • Molecular Nanostructures;
  • Potential Energy a Surfaces and Molecule Nucleus Dynamics.
Professor:
  • Frederico Vasconcellos Prudente;
  • Ricardo dos Reis Teixeira Marinho;
  • Roberto Rivelino de Melo Moreno;
  • Elizane Efigenia de Moraes;
  • José David Mangueira Vianna (Visitant).

II. Statistical Physics and Complex Systems 

Topics:
  • Desordered and Aperiodic Physical Systems;
  • Nonextetensive Statistical Mechanics;
  • Graphsand Complex Networks;
  • Scale Properties in Complex Systems.
Professor:
  • Ernesto Pinheiro Borges;
  • José Garcia Vivas Miranda;
  • Roberto Fernandes Silva Andrade;
  • Suani Tavares Rubim de Pinho;
  • Thiago Albuquerque de Assis;
  • Massimo Ostilli;
  • Caio Porto de Castro;
  • Elizane Efigenia de Moraes;
  • Julien Chopin;
  • Raphael Silva do Rosário.

III. Physics of Solids and Materials

Topics:
  • Application of Oxides and Semicond;
  • Optical, Thermal, Morphological, Conductive, Magnetic and Structural Properties of Materials;
  • Semiconductors.
Professor:
  • Antônio Ferreira da Silva;
  • Iuri Muniz Pepe;
  • Eliel Gomes da Silva Neto;
  • Elizane Efigenia de Moraes;
  • Marcus Vinicius Santos da Silva.

IV. Surface and Nanomaterials Physics

Topics:
  • Cold Field Electron Emission;
  • Low Energy Electron Diffraction (LEED);
  • Scanning Tunneling Microscopy (STM);
  • Density Functional Theory (DFT) and Quasi-Harmonic Approximation (QHA);
  • Surface Growth under Nonequilibrium Conditions.
Professor:
  • Caio Mário Castro de Castilho;
  • Fernando de Brito Mota;
  • Roberto Rivelino de Melo Moreno;
  • Thiago Albuquerque de Assis;
  • Eliel Gomes da Silva Neto;
  • Caio Porto de Castro.

V. Particle and Field Physics

Topics:
  • Nonclassical States of the Electromagnetic Field, Quantum Entanglement and Quantum Electrodynamics in Cavities;
  • Classical Field Theory and Nonlinear Dynamics;
  • Duffin-Kemmer-Petiau Theory, Nonrelativistic Field Theory and Galilean Covariancy;
  • Quantum Field Theory in the Study of Elementary Particle Phenomenology;
  • Gauge Theory, Symmetries, Dynamic Invariants and Quantum Gravity.
Professor:
  • Luciano Melo Abreu;
  • Eduardo da Silva Almeida;
  • José David Mangueira Vianna (Visitante/Visitor).

VI. Gravitation and Cosmology

Topics:
  • Anisotropic Cosmology;
  • Models with Interaction in the Dark Sector;
  • Observational Tests;
  • Perturbation Theory in Cosmology;
  • Quantum Field Theory in Curve Space-Time.
Professor:
  • Cassio Bruno Magalhães Pigozzo;
  • Carlos Enrique Valcárcel Flores;
  • Humberto de Almeida Borges;
  • Rodrigo Fernando Lugon Cornejo Von Marttens;
  • Saulo Carneiro de Souza Silva.

VII. Applied Physics

Topics:
  • Biomotricity;
  • Dynamics and Control of Diseases and Neoplasms;
  • Dynamics of evolutive and ecological models;
  • Applied Instrumentation;
  • Econophysics.
Professor:
  • Iuri Muniz Pepe;
  • José Garcia Vivas Miranda;
  • Raphael Silva do Rosário.
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