Professor Lyudvig Petrosyan from the Jackson State University (Mississippi, USA) teaches the students of “Quanta” master’s program in quantum and mesoscopic physics in Armenia. His professional area of focus is the modern application of quantum physics in different materials.

“As an Armenian physicist working abroad, for a long time I have wanted to be helpful in some way to physics education in Armenia, be that at school or university level. When I received the offer from the “Quanta” academic board, I took it immediately, with great pleasure,” said Professor Petrosyan.

He teaches plasmonics, a part of nanophotonics. Lyudvig Petrosyan explained:

“There are two important aspects in hardware manufacturing: hardware needs to be small to be efficient and cost-effective, but at the same time we need it to have a high speed of operation. Plasmonics tries to combine the best features of electronics and photonics to solve size and speed-related issued. In this science, the size is small, and the speed is high. We anticipate that in the future, hardware will be based on plasmons and not electrons or photons.”

Professor Petrosyan conducts his classes in a classic format. First, he explains the topic, then it is time for discussions and Q&A. According to him, mainly they try to understand fully the theoretical materials, watch the educational videos, and make calculations, and the more difficult topics are explained through Q&A.

“In the framework of “Quanta” physics and engineering students from different universities receive diverse knowledge in a short period of time. In the future, this will create for them a wide range of opportunities in terms of scientific or professional activities,” said Prof. Petrosyan.

After getting acquainted with the subjects, taught at “Quanta”, and their content, Professor Petrosyan noted that one of the program’s advantages is that it teaches the latest areas of quantum physics and its application.