Latest Paper: Quantum Textures of the Many-Body Wavefunctions in Magic-Angle Graphene
My teammates and I have a new paper in Nature! In this new study, we leverage the unparalleled spatial resolution of the scanning tunneling microscope (STM) to identify the nature of symmetry-breaking in magic-angle graphene. This project has been an enormous team effort, two years in the making, and I feel very fortunate to be able to share our findings through our new publication / preprint and through this talk shown here.
Welcome!
kpn (at) mit.edu
Hi there! I'm a Pappalardo Postdoctoral Fellow in Physics, working with Prof. Joseph Checkelsky and his group in the Department of Physics at MIT. Before this, I received my PhD in physics from Princeton University in May 2023, working with Prof. Ali Yazdani and his group. I also studied physics and applied mathematics as an undergrad at the University of California, Berkeley.
Research Interests
I'm an experimental condensed matter physicist interested in the electronic and magnetic properties of quantum materials. Contemporary quantum materials research is broadly guided by two major themes: electronic correlation effects and topologically protected properties. Correlation effects result from interactions among an Avogadro number (~1023) of electrons, which produce exotic collective phases of matter which cannot be understood as the sum of their parts. Topological properties are perplexingly immutable qualities of materials that are derived from geometric qualities of a material’s electronic energy bands. My research focuses on how these two paradigms give rise to new and unusual material properties, some of which may be useful for next-generation quantum technological applications.