The Physics Department hosts a broad range of research activities spanning gravitation, cosmology, quantum theory, mathematical physics, and experimental condensed matter.
Theoretical Quantum Gravity and Cosmology
Prof. Dr. Habib Mazharimousavi
- Differential-geometric approaches to lipid membranes and bilayer deformations
- Ab initio studies of two-dimensional curved biological surfaces
- Collisions and stability of thin shells in general relativity
- Spherical and cylindrical thin-shell geometries
- Deformed thin-shell configurations in gravitation
- Generalizations of Israel junction conditions from Einstein to Weyl gravity
- Einstein–Yang–Mills theory in four and higher dimensions
Prof. Dr. İzzet Sakallı
- Exact solutions of relativistic wave equations
- Hawking radiation of particles with arbitrary spin from black holes
- Black hole physics in lower and higher dimensions
- Perturbations, stability, and quasinormal modes
- Area and entropy quantization
- Geodesics, chaos, and quantum tunneling
- Information theory, astrophysical clouds, colliding plane waves, and cosmic strings
Prof. Dr. Mustafa Halilsoy
(Distinguished Professor of Physics)
- Exact solutions to Einstein’s field equations
- Gravitational waves
- Black hole theories
- Wormholes and related spacetime structures
Assoc. Prof. Dr. Ali Övgün
- Gravitational lensing and black hole shadows
- Quantum optics in curved spacetimes
- Cosmological models with nonlinear electrodynamics and inflation
- Thin-shell and Lorentzian wormholes
- Hawking radiation, quasinormal modes, and greybody factors
- Geodesics and black holes as particle accelerators
- Black hole thermodynamics, P–V criticality, and holographic superconductors
- Quantum complexity, action growth, and entanglement in black holes
- Bumblebee gravity, Gauss–Bonnet gravity, symmergent gravity, f(R) gravity, cosmic strings, and global monopoles
Assist. Prof. Dr. Huriye Gürsel Mangut
- Hawking radiation
- Quasinormal modes
- Greybody factors
- AdS/CFT correspondence
- Holographic superconductors
- Black branes and black holes
Assoc. Prof. Dr. İbrahim Güllü
- Massive gravity
- Born–Infeld gravity
- Higher-derivative gravity theories
Dr. Mert Mangut
- Theoretical and mathematical physics
- General relativity and gravitational waves
- Classical and quantum singularities
- Black holes
- Functional analysis
- Topology and differential geometry
Dr. Zahra Amirabi
- Physics around wormholes
- Thin-shell wormholes
- Stability of thin shells and thin-shell wormholes in Rainbow Gravity
- Thin-shell wormholes in f(R) gravity
Theoretical Quantum Physics and Quantum Computation
Prof. Dr. Omar Mustafa
- Position-dependent mass Lagrangians and nonlocal transformations
- Euler–Lagrange invariance and exact solvability
- Classical and quantum position-dependent mass systems
- Nonlinear dynamics of position-dependent mass models
- Non-Hermitian PT-symmetric and Hermitian Hamiltonians
Assist. Prof. Dr. Mustafa Rıza
- Quantum theory and quantum computing
- Non-commutative quantum mechanics
- Dynamical systems and chaos
- Non-Newtonian calculi
- Computational physics
- Quantum tunneling and quantum cryptography
- Time-dependent phenomena in quantum mechanics
Experimental Physics
Assist. Prof. Dr. Mehmet Okcan
- Liquid crystals
- Phase transitions
