Professor Minhyea Lee's Research Group 

My group studies quantum materials — crystalline solids with unusual physical properties arising from the quantum mechanical nature and interactions of electrons. Our interests include exotic magnetic phases and their low energy excitations, heat transport mechanisms,  strong spin-orbit interaction, and its imprints on light-matter interactions. These topics are not only at the heart of exciting developments in quantum materials research but also have strong potential to play a vital role in future technologies. 

We are particularly interested in magnetic materials: Advances in spintronics and quantum information processing are firmly rooted in understanding not only the properties of magnetically ordered states, spin excitations, and exotic ground states but also of the nature of the interaction between spin and lattice degrees of freedom.

My group employs a range of experimental probes --  transport properties,  Magneto-Optical Spectroscopy, Cantilever-Based Magnetometry, and various Thermodynamic Variable measurements under intense magnetic fields, high pressure and low temperature, to investigate the ground states and their low-energy excitations as well as the fundamental nature of couplings among different degrees of freedoms within crystalline solids

• Magnetic Materials

• Transport Properties

• Magneto-Optical spectroscopy

• Cantilever-based magnetometry

Please contact Professor Minhyea Lee for further information! 

Principal Investigator 

• Dr. Minhyea Lee  (CV)

Graduate Research Assistant

• Emily Chavez  (Emily.Chavez@colorado.edu)

• Elliot Roberts (Elliot.Roberts-1@colorado.edu)

** We are looking for highly motivated graduate students. If you are interested in talking to Professor Lee, please feel free to contact me  at minhyea.lee@colorado.edu

Please see  Professor Lee's Google Scholar  page  for the full list 

12. Pocs CA, Leahy IA, Xing J, Choi E, Sefat AS, Hermele M, Lee M. Generic magnetic field dependence of thermal conductivity in effective spin-1/2 magnetic insulators via hybridization of acoustic phonons and spin-flip excitations. arxiv:2401.01407. 2024(Submitted); DOI: 10.48550/arXiv.2401.01407

11. Suetsugu S, Shimomura M, Kamimura M, Asaba T, Asaeda H, Kosuge Y, Sekino Y, Ikemori S, Kasahara Y, Kohsaka Y, Lee M, Yanase Y, Sakai H, Opletal P, Yoshifumi Tokiwa Y, Haga Y, Matsuda Y. Fully gapped pairing state in spin-triplet superconudctor UTe2. Science Advance. 2024; DOI:10.1126/sciadv.adk3772

10. Feng K, Bush C, Oladehin O, Lee M, Baumbach R. Complex Antiferromagnetic Order in the Metallic Triangular Lattice Compound SmAuAl4Ge2. Physical Review B. 2024; DOI:10.1103/PhysRevB.109.014436 

9. Nelson JN, Leahy IA, Rice AD, Brook C, Teeter G, Schilfgaarde Mv, Lany S, Fluegel B, Lee M, Alberi, K. Direct Link between disorder and magnetoresistance in topological semimetals. Physical Review B. 2023; DOI:10.1103/PhysRevB.107.L220206

9. Jo S, Lee M,  Leahy IA, Vendrell X,  Raj, R. Capacitive discharge in flash experiments: A discussion of the charged species. Journal of the American Ceramic Society 2023;DOI:10.1111/jace.19250

8. Spann BT,  Weber JC,  Brubaker MD,  Todd  EH, Yang L, Honarvar H, Tsai CN, Treglia AC, Lee M, Hussein MI et al. Semiconductor Thermal and Electrical Properties Decoupled by Localized Phonon Resonances. Advanced Materials. 2023; DOI: 10.1002/adma.202209779.

7. Feng K, Leahy IA, Oladehin O, Wei K, Lee M, Baumbach R. Magnetic ordering in GdAuAl4Ge2 and TbAuAl4Ge2 : Layered compounds with triangular lanthanide nets. Journal of Magnetism and Magnetic Materials. 2022; DOI: 10.1016/j.jmmm.2022.170006 

6. Leahy I, Feng K, Dery R, Baumbach R, Lee M. Field-induced magnetic states in the metallic rare-earth layered triangular antiferromagnet TbAuAl4Ge2. Physical Review B. 2022; DOI:10.1103PhysRevB.106.094426 

5. Pocs C, Siegfried P, Xing J, Sefat A, Hermele M, Normand B, Lee M. Systematic extraction of crystal electric-field effects and quantum magnetic model parameters in triangular rare-earth magnets. Physical Review Research. 2021;DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevResearch.3.043202

4. Zhao H, Hu B, Ye F, Lee M, Schlottmann P, Cao G. Ground state in proximity to a possible Kitaev spin liquid: The undistorted honeycomb iridate NaxIrO3 ( 0.60 ≤ x ≤ 0.80 ). Physical Review B. 2021; DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevB.104.L041108 

3. Tran T, Pocs C, Zhang Y, Winiarski M, Sun J, Lee M, McQueen T. Spinon excitations in the quasi-one-dimensional S = 1/2 chain compound Cs4CuSb2Cl12. Physical Review B. 2020; DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevB.101.235107 

2. Cao G, Zheng H, Zhao H, Ni Y, Pocs C, Zhang Y, Ye F, Hoffmann C, Wang X, Lee M, Hermele M, Kimchi I. Quantum liquid from strange frustration in the trimer magnet Ba4Ir3O10. npj Quantum Materials. 2020; DOI: 10.1038/s41535-020-0232-6 

1. Pocs C, Leahy I, Zheng H, Cao G, Choi E, Do S, Choi K, Normand B, Lee M. Giant thermal magnetoconductivity in CrCl 3 and a general model for spin-phonon scattering. Physical Review Research. 2020; DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevResearch.2.013059 

Professor Minhyea Lee  

• minhyea.lee@Colorado.edu   

• Office at  Duane F517  

• Phone: 303-492-1440

Lab 

• Duane E2B28, E2B42-44

• Lab Phone : 303-492-7551

• Mailing address :  2000 Colorado Ave  Boulder CO 80309-0390