Areas of Active Research

  • Charge density waves
  • Spin density waves
  • Response functions for simple metals
  • Strongly correlated electron systems
  • Polymerization kinetics of biopolymers
  • Theory of high temperature superconductivity
  • General relativity
  • Cosmology
  • Quantum gravity
  • 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

Computational Physics
Scanning Tunneling Microscopy
General Relativity, Cosmology, Quantum Gravity
Khanna Research Group


Virginia Commonwealth University
College of Humanities and Sciences
Department of Physics
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PO Box 842000
Richmond, VA 23284-2000
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