Our group currently consists of 8 full-time faculty members:

• Abdi, Yaser (Professor)
• Khazaei, Mohammad (Assistant Professor)
• Miri, Mirfaez (Associate Professor)
• Mohammadizadeh, Mohammad Reza (Professor)
• Saberi, Abbas Ali (Associate Professor)
• Savaloni, Hadi (Professor)
• Sepehrinia, Reza (Assistant Professor, head of the group)
• Vaez Allaei, Seyed Mehdi (Associate Professor)

Condensed matter physics aims to discover the properties of matter in its condensed phases and understand them from fundamental principles of quantum mechanics, electromagnetism, and statistical mechanics.

The Condensed Matter Group at the University of Tehran is carrying out research in a broad range of areas of experimental, theoretical, and computational physics. The main research subjects in our group are:

Experimental physics:

• Nanophysics (Physics and applications of nano-structures and 2D materials in nanoelectronics, optoelectronics, and bioelectronics)
• Surface Science (Thin films, Hetro-structures, Nano-porous films, Self-clean glasses,  Nano-sculptured thin films and applications, Surface plasmonics, Surface-enhanced Raman spectroscopy, Gas ionization and field emission sensor, Electronic and optical properties, Corrosion, Photonic crystals, Modification, mechanical, & tribological effects, Hydrophobicity, Wetting)
• Superconductivity (Bulk and Thin films)
• Supermaterials (Superhydrophilicity, Superhydrophobicity, Wetting)

Theoretical physics:

• Bio-physics and complex systems (Tumor Growth, Networks)
• Disordered systems (Wave propagation in random media, Anderson localization, Transport in random media, Stochastic processes)
• Nanophysics (Nano-machines, Optics of nanostructures)
• Soft matter (Foam, Granular matter)
• Statistical physics (Growth models, Fractals, Fluctuation induced interactions, Spin systems)
• Interaction of light and matter (Foams, Nanoparticles, Quantum dots, Quantum rings, Graphene, Topological insulators, Hybrid systems)
• Solid-state physics (Quantum transport, Topological phases)

Computational Physics:

• Density functional theory-based calculations
• First principle calculations
• Molecular dynamics
• Machine learning

The group has access to extensive experimental and computational facilities, in particular, physical and chemical deposition systems, sputtering, morphological and structural analysis facilities (AFM, STM, XRD), optical characterization systems (UV-visible photo-spectrometer), electrical measurement tools, GPU computing, and a 128-core cluster.