Elizabeth R. S. Burnim
I work at the boundary of two fields that rarely share a sentence: theoretical condensed matter physics and abstract painting. In both, I am chasing the same question — how ordered, coherent structure emerges from a mess of interacting, disordered parts.
Research
My work sits at the intersection of many-body physics, continuum mechanics, and microscopic quantum transport theory, centered on a production-grade, GPU-accelerated quasiclassical transport solver for superconducting order parameters. See the Research page for the full technical description.
Painting
I also paint, under the banner of QuantumField Expressionism — a contemporary evolution of abstract painting that treats the canvas as a live relational field, where matter and energy exist in a state of perpetual exchange. Where mid-century Abstract Expressionism looked inward toward psychological interiority, this work looks outward, toward connected realities: the same emergence-from-disorder questions I work on analytically, made visceral instead of computed.
Browse the Paintings gallery, or read about the current series, In Metamorfosi.
Get in touch
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