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Gregory Fiete

Gregory Fiete

Professor
Physics

Expertise:

  • Condensed Matter Theory, Non-equilibrium Systems, Quantum Magnetism, Strongly Correlated Electrons, Topological States Of Matter

About Gregory Fiete

Greg Fiete received his PhD in theoretical physics from Harvard University, and did postdoctoral work at the Kavli Institute for Theoretical Physics at UC Santa Barbara. He was a Lee A. DuBridge Prize Fellow in Theoretical Physics at Caltech. He is a recipient of the NSF CAREER Award, the DARPA Young Faculty Award, a DARPA Director’s Fellowship, the Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers (PECASE), a Simons Fellowship in Theoretical Physics, and a Bessel Research Award from the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation. He is an elected Fellow of the American Physical Society.

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617.373.2933
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Center for Quantum Matter and Correlated Electron Theory

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111 DA (Dana Research Center), Boston, MA 02115
Institutes, Labs & Research Centers
Quantum Matter and Correlated Electron Theory Lab
Physics

The Fiete lab has broad interests in condensed matter physics that range from confined electrons at the nanoscale to frustrated magnetism in macroscopic samples. Their research focuses primarily on interaction effects in quantum many-body systems. The theoretical methods they use range from numerics to powerful non-perturbative analytical techniques. Often experiments are a strong motivation for the problems they work on.

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Gregory Fiete in the news

This illustration provided by the National Ignition Facility at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory depicts a target pellet inside a hohlraum capsule with laser beams entering through openings on either end. The beams compress and heat the target to the necessary conditions for nuclear fusion to occur.
December 13, 2022
The US achieved a major nuclear fusion breakthrough–but obstacles remain. Here’s why fusion power may still be decades out of reach
The U.S. Department of Energy on Tuesday announced that a national lab in California made a “major scientific breakthrough”—namely, that it produced a nuclear fusion reaction that resulted in a net energy gain, a condition known as “ignition.”
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Mars Crater
November 15, 2022
Scientists have found proof of an ancient Martian ocean. It could mean we’re closer to finding life on Mars
Mars is known for its crimson, frozen terrain, but a recent discovery from a team of researchers provides new evidence that there was once an ancient ocean on the now-harsh Martian terrain.
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sunlight leaking out from behind a shadow
September 19, 2022
How quantum physicists are looking for life on exoplanets
[email protected] spoke to Gregory Fiete, a physics professor at Northeastern, about some of the broad applications of quantum research.
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digital representation of an atom and quantum waves illustrated with fractal elements
May 19, 2022
Researchers discover new “unexpected” phenomenon in quantum physics of materials
Researchers at Northeastern have discovered a new quantum phenomenon in a specific class of materials, called antiferromagnetic insulators, that could yield new ways of powering “spintronic” and other technological devices of the future.
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Campus Feature
December 17, 2020
Luigi Morelli Fund supports 2020 honoree, Sree Kankanala
Physics student Sree Kankanala came to the United States in September 2019 from her home in India. She spent the next four months longing to go home.  Even for a bright, curious and friendly graduate student, it’s hard to be so far away from friends and family, and in a new country for the very […]
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Gregory Fiete meeting with students
October 28, 2020
Is Math Really the Language of Nature? This Physicist is on a Quest to Find Out.
Growing up in a small Mexican town, Martin Rodriguez-Vega, a postdoctoral research associate in physics, felt disconnected from anything scientific. Now, as he studies the exotic properties of quantum materials, Rodriguez Vega finds that one of the most important parts of being a physicist is the bonds he’s formed with budding and accomplished scientists alike.
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Gregory Fiete meeting with students
March 26, 2020
Scientists Are Baffled by This Magnet. Shooting It With Lasers Might Help.
Faster electronics, better communication devices, more efficient ways to store data are just some of the outcomes that the researchers can think of - if magnetite’s puzzle of hidden powers could be figured out. Eventually, it lead to new ways to manipulate materials and improving electronics by harnessing the behavior of their electrons.
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Gregory Fiete, a professor of physics at Northeastern, is leading a team of theoretical physicists who study subatomic behaviors hidden within superconductors and other rare materials that could lead to better and faster technologies based on quantum physics. Photo by Matthew Modoono/Northeastern University
January 24, 2020
He’s on a Quest to Find the Patterns That Built ‘Everything Around Us’
Gregory Fiete, a professor of physics at Northeastern, is exploring the electrons of materials that could catalyze a new technological era based on quantum systems.
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Gregory Fiete
June 5, 2019
The Secret to Making Stuff Better? Shoot it With a Laser.
Northeastern physicist Gregory Fiete, left, and his doctoral student Michael Vogl have taken the first step in developing the next generation of electronics.
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