Areas of Active Research

  • Charge or spin density waves
  • Strongly correlated electron systems
  • General relativity and cosmology
  • Theory of defects in metals
  • Metal-matrix composites
  • Metal-Hydrogen systems
  • Atomic clusters
  • Cluster-assembled materials
  • Nanostructured Materials
  • Scanning tunneling microscopy
  • Conducting polymers
  • Semiconductor defects

Research Groups

Jena Research Group
Baski Research Group
General Relativity, Cosmology, Quantum Gravity
Khanna Research Group


Virginia Commonwealth University
College of Humanities and Sciences
Department of Physics
701 W. Grace St.
PO Box 842000
Richmond, VA 23284-2000
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