NEW Paper: Spectroscopy of the Fractal Hofstadter Energy Spectrum
My teammates and I have a new paper on arXiv! To-date, direct spectroscopy of the fractal energy spectrum predicted by Hofstadter nearly 50 years ago has remained out of reach. In this new study, we use scanning tunneling spectroscopy to measure this fractal spectrum directly for the first time, verifying its predicted fundamental properties and uncovering new correlation-driven phenomena. I'm excited to share our findings through our new paper in Nature and through this talk!
Welcome!
kpn (at) mit.edu
Hi there! I'm a Pappalardo Postdoctoral Fellow in Physics, working with Prof. Joe Checkelsky and his group at MIT. I received my PhD in physics from Princeton University in 2023, working with Prof. Ali Yazdani and his group. I also received BAs in physics and applied mathematics from UC Berkeley in 2017.
I plan to be on the academic job market in Fall 2025.
Research Interests
I'm an experimental condensed matter physicist studying the electronic, magnetic, and thermodynamic properties of quantum materials.
My long term goal is to understand the emergent quantum laws of strongly interacting electron systems, with a particular focus on how they produce exotic superconducting states and correlation-driven topological phases in materials.
2024 Pappalardo Fellowship Symposium
I was recently invited to give a public-lecture-style talk at this year's Pappalardo Fellowship Symposium. It was a great chance for me to speak very broadly about the goals and challenges of superconductivity research, and about how my teammates and I are working to answer some open questions in the field at MIT.