PHYSICS
The Department of Physics at Colorado School of Mines is dedicated to high-quality physics education for undergraduate and graduate students and advancing the world’s knowledge in the areas of condensed matter physics, applied optics, quantum physics, renewable energy physics, and subatomic physics.
Education and Research
Our faculty and students at all levels conduct more than $6 million in externally funded research every year, with many projects associated with Mines’ pioneering research centers.
Research centers with strong connections to Physics include the Mines/NREL Nexus, High Performance Computing (HPC), the Microintegrated Optics for Advanced Bioimaging and Control Center (MOABC), and the Nuclear Science and Engineering Center (NuSEC).
Our faculty are consistently recognized for both their research and their teaching, while our graduate and undergraduate students are often the recipients of awards and grants.
Physics is also heavily involved with Mines’ interdisciplinary graduate programs in Materials Science, Nuclear Engineering, and Quantum Engineering.
Watch the video below to learn more about the varied and exciting physics research taking place at Mines.
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SUPERCONDUCTIVE ELECTRONICS AS A PATH FOR SCALABILITY OF QUANTUM COMPUTING
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Biography: Dr. Manuel Castellanos Beltran attended college in Mexico at the Monterrey Institute of Technology and Higher Education (Monterrey, NL.) where he received his BE in Engineering physics in 2003. He then attended the University of Colorado-Boulder where he earned his PhD in physics in 2010 working on developing Josephson parametric amplifiers for Quantum Information applications and quantum limited measurements under the guidance of Dr. Konrad Lehnert. Afterwards, he worked at Yale University as a Post-Doctoral Fellow (2010-2012) under Dr. Jack Harris where he studied persistent currents in normal metal mesoscopic rings using torque magnetometry techniques. Dr. Castellanos-Beltran then joined NIST as a PREP Post-Doctoral Fellow (2012-13) and NRC Post-Doctoral Fellow (2013-2015) working with Dr. Jose Aumentado studying low noise amplification with Josephson parametric amplifier for Qubit Readout. He is currently a researcher for the Superconductive Electronics Group working in the development of a high frequency arbitrary waveform synthesizer using cryogenic superconductive electronics for microwave metrology and quantum computing applications.
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Dr. Susanta Sarkar receives a $1.14M 4-year NIH R01 grant
Grant: Single-PI NIH R01 grant of $1.14 million over four years. This is the first single-PI NIH R01 grant at Mines
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