thesis, under the supervision of Gideon Rakavy, was on the distorted wave Born approximation for direct nuclear reactions (1965), from the same university.

At that year he joined Ben Gurion University of the Negev, where he became Distinguished Professor Emeritus during 2013–2020.

Aharony was also an adjunct professor in the University of Oslo, Norway during the years 1987–2012, and a Consultant at IBM Research, MIT and the Weizmann Institute of Science (1987–present).

[1] Phase transitions: Aharony applied the renormalization group to identify and classify universality classes of critical (e.g. cubic, dipolar) and multicritical points.

This includes the magnetic structures of the high temperature superconducting parent cuprates, and the prediction of the spin glass phase there,[16] the discovery of a special symmetry in the Dzyaloshinskii-Moria interaction (now called the Shekhtman-Entin-Wohlman-Aharony symmetry)[17] and the ordered phases of various multiferroic materials.

[19] [20] [21] In recent years, he concentrates on the effects of the spin-orbit interaction on transport in mesoscopic spintronic systems, including proposals of spin filters which may be relevant to quantum information processing.