Projects as Principal Investigator:
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NAWA Bekker Grant for a 4 month visit to Freie Universiatät Berlin to work with Prof. Piet Brouwer, 2021
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NCN Opus grant on Quench Dynamics of Topological Materials: Dynamical Phase Transitions and Entanglement, 2020-2023
- DAAD/NAWA Bilateral Exchange Grant on "The Effect of Coulomb Interactions on Topological Spin Orbit Torques" jointly between Dr Nicholas Sedlmayr and Prof. Sebastian Eggert from the Technical University of Kaiserslautern, 2019.
I am a theoretical condensed matter physicist, concerned with how the quantum behaviour of electrons in materials leads to all sorts of strange emergent phenomena. Below are just a few of the particular areas I work in. More details can be found by looking at my publications or my blog. For an open access collection of my publications try the arxiv.
Topological insulators and superconductors
- Majorana bound states in one and two dimensional systems
- Superconducting proximity effect in topologically protected surface states
- Inverse proximity effects in superconductors from topological insulators
- Effect of interactions on topologically protected states
- Non-equilibrium topological insulators and superconductors
- Effect of disorder on topological insulators and superconductors
- Kink states in bilayer graphene
Spintronics
- Anti-ferromagnetic spintronics
- Ferroelectrics
- Domain walls and skyrmions
- Domain wall motion in wires
- Electron mediated domain wall interactions
- Ordering of domain walls
- Effect of electron correlations on domain wall structure and motion
Dynamics and thermalization
- Dynamics of non-Hermitian systems
- Thermalization and dynamics in closed and open quantum systems
- Dynamical phase transitions
Quantum information of topological materials
- Entanglement entropy and fidelity of topological systems
- Scrambling and the spread of quantum information
- Topological phase transitions
Interacting one dimensional physics and inhomogeneous systems
- Luttinger liquids in inhomogeneous systems
- Carbon nanotubes
- Transport and thermal properties
