Research

Selected Publications:

[1] U. Seifert*, MY*, L. Balents, Ultrafast optical excitation of magnetic dynamics in van der Waals magnets: Coherent magnons and BKT dynamics in NiPS$_3$, Phys. Rev. B 105, 155138 (2022) [arXiv: 2111.03674].

[2] J. Shan, MY, H. Chu, S. Lee, J. Park, L. Balents, D. Hsieh, Giant modulation of optical nonlinearity by Floquet engineering, Nature 600, 235-239 [arXiv: 2206.08385].

[3] X. Ying, MY and L. Balents, Current switching of valley polarization in twisted bilayer graphene, Phys. Rev. B 103, 115436 (2021) [arXiv: 2101.01790].

Selected publications:

[1] MY and A. V. Chubukov, Crucial role of thermal fluctuations and vertex corrections for the magnetic pseudogap, Phys. Rev. B 108, L081118 (Editor's Suggestion) [arXiv: 2306.05489]

[2] Y. Xu, X. Wu, MY, Z. Luo, C. Jian, C. Xu, Metal-Insulator Transition with Charge Fractionalization, Phys. Rev. X 12, 021067 (2022), [arXiv: 2106.14910].

[3] MY and A. V. Chubukov, The Hubbard model on a triangular lattice -- pseudogap due to spin-density-wave fluctuations, Phys. Rev. B 100, 035135 (2019) [arXiv: 1905.11412].

Selected publications:

[1] T. Park, MY, L. Balents, Electronic instabilities of kagome metals: saddle points and Landau theory, Phys. Rev. B 104, 035142 (2021) (Editor's Suggestion) [arXiv: 2104.08425]. See the experimental collaborations on related problem in Nature here and in Nature Physics here.

[2] MY and A. V. Chubukov, Itinerant fermions on a triangular lattice: unconventional magnetism and other ordered states, Phys. Rev. B 97, 245112 (2018) [arXiv: 1803.04977].

Selected publications:

[1] MY, L. Savary and L. Balents, Phonon Hall viscosity in magnetic insulators [arXiv: 2103.04223].

[2] MY, R. M. Fernandes, N. B. Perkins, Phonon dynamics in the Kitaev spin liquid, Phys. Rev. R. 2, 033180 (2020) [arXiv: 2002.05328].

[3] MY, G. B. Halász, L. Savary and L. Balents, Quantization of the thermal Hall conductivity at small Hall angles, Phys. Rev. Lett. 121, 147201 (2018) [arXiv: 1805.10532].