THEORY OF QUANTUM MATTER AND DYNAMICS

We are a theoretical condensed matter research group at the University of Alabama. Our research interests span a broad swath of electronic properties in low-dimensional quantum materials, including transport, optical, topological and many-body interaction effects. 

TSE Group is recruiting!

  • ​​​We are looking for new graduate students to join our group. Please send Dr. Tse an email if you are interested! In particular, having a masters degree in physics specializing in any fields of theoretical physics will be a valuable asset. Graduate application fee is waived in the coming week Oct 18-22. 
  • We are also looking for undergraduate research students who are proficient in a programming language (C/C++, Python, etc.) to work on computational physics projects. 

Group News (not updated often)

  • (5/17/2024) Modi Ke successfully defended his dissertation. Congratulations Dr. Ke!
  • (7/15/2021) Mahmoud Asmar moves to Kennesaw State University to start a new faculty position. Congratulations!
  • (2/15/2019) Our paper “Interlayer RKKY Coupling in Bulk Rashba Semiconductors under Topological Phase Transition” is posted on the arXiv.
  • (12/27/2018) Our paper “Photon-Induced Suppression of Interlayer Tunneling in van der Waals Heterostructures” is posted on the arXiv.
  • (8/7/2018) Our paper “Valley Hall Transport of Photon Dressed Quasiparticles in Two-Dimensional Dirac Semiconductors” is published in New Journal of Physics.​
  • (9/1/2018) Dr. Tse receives the 2018 DOE Early Career Award.
  • (6/26/2018) We have an immediate opening for a postdoctoral position to start in Fall 2018. Interested candidates please contact Dr. Tse.  
  • ​Group meeting Fall 2018: every Friday 4-5pm at MINT seminar room​
  • (5/2018) Phuong Nyugen got accepted into the NSF REU program and will work at the Vanderbilt University this summer. Congratulations!
  • (8/7/2017) Dr. Tse gives an invited talk at SPIE Nanoscience + Engineering.
  • (5/23/2017) Our paper “Dynamical Quantum Anomalous Hall Effect in Strong Optical Fields” is published at PRB Rapid Communications.
  • (3/8/2017) James Hong got accepted into the NSF REU program and will work at the Louisana State University this summer. Congratulations!
  • (3/1/2017) Our paper “Dynamical Quantum Anomalous Hall Effect in Strong Optical Fields” is posted on the arXiv. 
  • (2/27/2017) Our paper on the interaction effects in the optical properties of multilayer graphene is published in PRB.