Recent Publications

Showing publications since 2018.

For a complete list, see Google Scholar or the arXiv.

2023

• Sandeep Joy and Brian Skinner, Wigner crystallization in Bernal bilayer graphene, arXiv:2310.07751 (2023).

• Aaron Hui, Resolving the Corbino Shockley-Ramo Paradox for Hydrodynamic Current Noise, arXiv:2310.09312 (2023).

• Aaron Hui*, Calvin Pozderac*, and Brian Skinner, 2D hydrodynamic electron flow through periodic and random potentials, arXiv:2309.15917 (2023).

• Sandeep Joy and Brian Skinner, How prominent are microemulsion phases in 2D electron systems?, arXiv:2309.03961 (2023).

• Fangyuan Yang, Ruiheng Bai, Alexander A. Zibrov, Sandeep Joy, Takashi Taniguchi, Kenji Watanabe, Brian Skinner, Mark O. Goerbig, and Andrea F. Young, Cascade of multi-electron bubble phases in monolayer graphene at high Landau level filling, Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 226501 (2023).

• Xiaozhou Feng, Brian Skinner, and Adam Nahum, Measurement-induced phase transitions on dynamical quantum trees, PRX Quantum 4, 030333 (2023).

• Aaron Hui and Brian Skinner, Current noise of Hydrodynamic Electrons, Phys. Rev. Lett. 130, 256301 (2023).

• M. Kosugi, R. Obata, K. Suzuki, K. Kuroyama, S. Du, B. Skinner, T. Kikkawa, T. Yokouchi, Y. Shiomi, S. Maruyama, K. Hirakawa, E. Saitoh, J. Haruyama, Gate-tunable resistance drops related to local superconducting gaps in thin TaS2 layers on SrTiO3 substrates, APL Mater 11, 081106 (2023).

• Brian Skinner, Lecture Notes: Introduction to random unitary circuits and the measurement-induced entanglement phase transition, arXiv: 2307.02986 (2023).

• Calvin Pozderac, Steven Speck, Xiaozhou Feng, David A. Huse, and Brian Skinner, Exact solution for the filling-induced thermalization transition in a 1D fracton system, Phys. Rev. B 107, 045137 (2023).

• Eleanor F. Scott, Katherine A. Schlaak, Poulomi Chakraborty, Chenguang Fu, Satya N. Guin, Safa Khodabakhsh, Ashley E. Paz y Puente, Claudia Felser, Brian Skinner, Sarah J. Watzman, Doping as a tuning mechanism for magnetothermoelectric effects to improve zT in polycrystalline NbP, Phys. Rev. B 107, 115108 (2023).

2022

• Sandeep Joy and Brian Skinner, Wigner crystallization at large fine structure constant, Phys. Rev. B 106, L041402 (2022).

• Yi Huang, Brian Skinner, B. I. Shklovskii, Conductivity of two-dimensional small gap semiconductors and topological insulators in strong Coulomb disorder, JETP 135, 409 (2022).

• Yi Huang, Yanjun He, Brian Skinner, and B. I. Shklovskii, Conductivity of two-dimensional small gap semiconductors subjected to strong Coulomb disorder, Phys. Rev. B 105, 054206 (2022).

• Xiaozhou Feng and Brian Skinner, Hilbert space fragmentation produces an effective attraction between fractons, Phys. Rev. Research 4, 013053 (2022).

2021

• Joseph Falson, Inti Sodemann, Brian Skinner, Daniela Tabrea, Yusuke Kozuka, Atsushi Tsukazaki, Masashi Kawasaki, Klaus von Klitzing, Jurgen H Smet, Competing correlated states around the zero field Wigner crystallization transition of electrons in two-dimensions, Nature Materials (2021).

• Jonah Waissman, Laurel E. Anderson, Artem V. Talanov, Zhongying Yan, Young J. Shin, Danial H. Najafabadi, Takashi Taniguchi, Kenji Watanabe, Brian Skinner, Konstantin A. Matveev, and Philip Kim, Electronic thermal transport measurement in low-dimensional materials with graphene non-local noise thermometry, Nat. Nanotechnol. (2021).

• Calvin Pozderac and Brian Skinner, Relation between Johnson Noise and heating power in a two-terminal conductor, Phys. Rev. B 104, L161403 (2021).

• Adam Nahum, Sthitadhi Roy, Brian Skinner, and, Jonathan Ruhman, Measurement and entanglement phase transitions in all-to-all quantum circuits, on quantum trees, and in Landau-Ginsburg theory, PRX Quantum 2, 010352 (2021).

• Liangji Zhang, Isaac King, Kostyantyn Nasyedkin, Pei Chen, Brian Skinner, Richard R. Lunt, Johannes Pollanen, Coherent Hopping Transport and Giant Negative Magnetoresistance in Epitaxial CsSnBr₃, ACS Appl. Electron. Mater. 3, 2948–2952 (2021).

• Calvin Pozderac and Brian Skinner, Superspreading of SARS-CoV-2 in the USA, PLoS ONE 16(3): e0248808 (2021).

• Xiaozhou Feng and Brian Skinner, Large enhancement of thermopower at low magnetic field in compensated semimetals, Phys. Rev. Materials 5, 024202 (2021).

2020

• Sandeep Joy, Saad Khalid, and Brian Skinner, Transparent mirror effect in twist-angle-disordered bilayer graphene, Phys. Rev. Research 2, 043416 (2020).

• Fei Han et. al., Quantized thermoelectric Hall effect induces giant power factor in a topological semimetal, Nature Communications volume 11, 6167 (2020).

• Brian Skinner, The fractal dimension of the Appalachian trail, arXiv:2011.03332 (2020).

• Alexandrinata et. al., The Future of the Correlated Electron Problem, arXiv:2010.00584 (2020).

• Art Ramirez and Brian Skinner, Dawn of the topological age?, Physics Today 73, 9, 30 (2020).

• Adam Nahum and Brian Skinner, Entanglement and dynamics of diffusion-annihilation processes with Majorana defects, Phys. Rev. Research 2, 023288 (2020).

• Wenjie Zhang*, Peipei Wang*, Brian Skinner*, Ran Bi, Vladyslav Kozii, Chang-Woo Cho, Ruidan Zhong, John Schneeloch, Dapeng Yu, Genda Gu, Liang Fu, Xiaosong Wu, Liyuan Zhang, Observation of a thermoelectric Hall plateau in the extreme quantum limit, Nature Communications 11, 1046 (2020).

• Brian Skinner, First-order transition in a model of prestige bias, SciPost Phys. 8, 030 (2020).

2019

• Neda Lotfizadeh, Daniel R. McCulley, Mitchell J. Senger, Han Fu, Ethan D. Minot, Brian Skinner, and Vikram V. Deshpande, Band-Gap-Dependent Electronic Compressibility of Carbon Nanotubes in the Wigner Crystal Regime, Phys. Rev. Lett. 123, 197701 (2019).

• Brian Skinner, Properties of the donor impurity band in mixed-valence insulators, Phys. Rev. Materials 3, 104601 (2019).

• Vladyslav Kozii*, Brian Skinner*, and Liang Fu, Thermoelectric Hall conductivity and figure of merit in Dirac/Weyl materials, Phys. Rev. B 99, 155123 (2019). 

• Brian Skinner, Jonathan Ruhman, and Adam Nahum, Measurement-Induced Phase Transitions in the Dynamics of Entanglement, Phys. Rev. X 9, 031009 (2019).

• Sihang Liang, Satya Kushwaha, Tong Gao, Max Hirschberger, Jian Li, Zhijun Wang, Karoline Stolze, Brian Skinner, B. A. Bernevig, R. J. Cava, and and N. P. Ong, A gap-protected zero-Hall effect state in the quantum limit of the nonsymmorphic metal KHgSb, Nature Materials 18, 443 (2019).

2018

• D. Nandi*, Brian Skinner*, G.H. Lee, K.-F. Huang, K. Shain, Cui-Zu Chang, Y. Ou, S.-P. Lee, J. Ward, J.S. Moodera, P. Kim, B.I. Halperin, A. Yacoby, Signatures of long-range-correlated disorder in the magnetotransport of ultrathin topological insulators, Phys. Rev. B 98, 214203 (2018).

• S. V. Syzranov, Ya. I. Rodionov, and B. Skinner, Adiabatic dechiralization and thermodynamics of Weyl semimetals, Phys. Rev. B 98, 081114(R) (2018).

• D. K. Efetov, R.-J. Schiue, Y. Gao, B. Skinner, E. Walsh, C. Choi, J. Zheng, C. Tan, G. Grosso, C. Peng, J. Hone, K. C. Fong, and D. Englund, Fast thermal relaxation in cavity-coupled graphene bolometers with a Johnson noise read-out, Nature Nanotechnology 13, 797 (2018).

• Debanjan Chowdhury*, Brian Skinner*, and Patrick A. Lee, Semiclassical theory of the tunneling anomaly in partially spin-polarized compressible quantum Hall states, Phys. Rev. B 97, 195114 (2018).

• Debanjan Chowdhury*, Brian Skinner*, and Patrick A. Lee, Effect of magnetization on the tunneling anomaly in compressible quantum Hall states, Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 266601 (2018).

• Brian Skinner and Liang Fu, Large, nonsaturating thermopower in a quantizing magnetic field, Science Advances 4, eaat2621 (2018).