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The 2015-2026 picture for Arizona State University Department of Physics is a 91-PI network with 89 internal PI collaborations. The research center of gravity is Physics and Astronomy as the leading field (29% of slots across 52 PIs; 52 labels), Nuclear and High Energy Physics as the leading subfield (12% of slots across 26 PIs; 26 labels), and Black Holes and Theoretical Physics as the leading topic (6% of slots across 16 PIs; 16 labels). This is a solid, readable collaboration map: group-level fit matters more than a single department-wide label. The top weighted PIs are Sefaattin Tongay (59.5 weighted works; 2D Materials and Applications, Perovskite Materials and Applications); Dmitry V. Matyushov (58.3 weighted works; Spectroscopy and Quantum Chemical Studies, Photosynthetic Processes and Mechanisms). The strongest pairings are J. Menéndez and John Kouvetakis (47 shared works, weight 27.2). The standout breakdown groups are group 1 with 10 PIs, 10 internal connections, weight 30.1, around Materials Chemistry, Condensed Matter Physics, Surfaces, Coatings and Films, led by Sefaattin Tongay, Houlong Zhuang, Yang Jiao; group 2 with 10 PIs, 10 internal connections, weight 14.8, around Nuclear and High Energy Physics, Astronomy and Astrophysics, Statistical and Nonlinear Physics, led by Tanmay Vachaspati, Maulik Parikh, Cynthia Keeler.