When you look at a crystal with the naked eye, it sits perfectly still. However, the atoms inside of crystals are moving at an ultrafast rate.
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Physics Programs
Studying physics encourage critical thinking and problem solving, while helping you understand everything around you – and how it all works. Whether you are a physics major or merely looking for an exciting option to fulfill your quantitative sciences requirement, we have courses for you!
Undergraduate Advising
From beginning to end, we can help! Our advisors can help you choose classes, understand degree program requirements, and stay up-to-date on university and department policies and procedures. Consistent meetings with your advisor will ensure you’re on track.
Our Faculty
Our nationally recognized faculty are members of prestigious science organizations and are published in leading scientific journals. They conduct innovative research in various aspects of physics, and their acclaimed work has elevated ASU’s position as a premier institution.
Recent news from the department
July 7, 2021
David Wirth took his first modeling class from Arizona State University in 1999 and later earned his Masters Degree in Natural Science - Physics from ASU in 2014.
June 30, 2021
John Spence, the Richard Snell Professor of Physics and an ASU Regents Professor, died peacefully Monday morning, June 28, in Boston.
Research Highlights
Dr Daniel Martin working in the Matyushov group has recently took advantage of one of the fastest high performance supercomputers (Anton, D. E. Shaw) to look at electron tunneling in proteins. Membrane-bound bc1 complex is one of the key elements of biology’s energy production chain in mitochondria of animals and photosynthetic centers of bacteria. Longer than 10 microseconds of fully atomistic computer simulations have allowed for the first time to study the protein's low frequency motions driving electron transfer. A broad range of fluctuations, spanning from picoseconds to microseconds, affects the transition. Surprisingly, slow motions, in the range 0.1-1.6 microseconds turned out to be particularly important. This work recently appeared in the J. Chem. Phys. 142, 161101 (2015).
