Advanced Materials

Theoretical description and identification of advanced functional materials via development and application of new methodologies

Q4 Advanced Materials

This line involves research into condensed matter theory and it focuses on the development of new methodologies that could improve the identification and description of different systems with advanced technologically interesting properties. It includes research activity on topological materials, graphene and other low-dimensional layered systems, quantum transport, and superconductivity, among other topics.

Specific topics

  • Topological materials and topological quantum chemistry.
  • Superconductivity and hybrid superconducting junctions.
  • Vibrational properties of solids in the strongly anharmonic limit.

Related publications

  1. Scientific article 1 Non-trivial quantum geometry and the strength of electron-phonon coupling
    J. Yu, C. J. Ciccarino, R. Bianco, I. Errea, P. Narang, and B. A. Bernevig
    Nat. Phys. 20, 1262 (2024).
  2. Scientific article 2 Evidence for ground state coherence in a two-dimensional Kondo lattice
    Wen Wan, Rishav Harsh, Antonella Meninno, Paul Dreher, Sandra Sajan, Haojie Guo, Ion Errea, Fernando de Juan, and Miguel M. Ugeda
    Nature Communications 14, (2023).
  3. Scientific article 3 Softening of a flat phonon mode in the kagome ScV6Sn6
    A. Korshunov, H. Hu, D. Subires, Y. Jiang, D. Calugaru, X. Feng, A. Rajapitamahuni, C. Yi, S. Roychowdhury, M. G. Vergniory, J. Strempfer, C. Shekhar, E. Vescovo, D. Chernyshov, A. H. Said, A. Bosak, C. Felser, B. A. Bernevig, and S. Blanco-Canosa
    Nature Communications 14, (2023).
  4. Scientific article 4 Two-dimensional heavy fermions in the van der Waals metal CeSiI
    V. A. Posey, S. Turkel, M. Rezaee, A. Devarakonda, A. K. Kundu, C. S. Ong, M. Thinel, D. G. Chica, R. A. Vitalone, R. Jing, S. Xu, D. R. Needell, E. Meirzadeh, M. L. Feuer, A. Jindal, X. Cui, T. Valla, P. Thunstrom, T. Yilmaz, E. Vescovo, et al.
    Nature 625, 7995 (2024).
  5. Scientific article 5 Correlated order at the tipping point in the kagome metal CsV3Sb5
    C. Guo, G. Wagner, C. Putzke, D. Chen, K. Wang, L. Zhang, M. Gutierrez-Amigo, I. Errea, M. G. Vergniory, C. Felser, M. H. Fischer, T. Neupert, and P. J. W. Moll
    Nat. Phys. 20, 579 (2024).
  6. Scientific article 6 An atomic-scale multi-qubit platform
    Y. Wang, Y. Chen, H. T. Bui, C. Wolf, M. Haze, C. Mier, J. Kim, D. -J. Choi, C. P. Lutz, Y. Bae, S. -H. Phark, and A. J. Heinrich
    Science 382, 87 (2023).
  7. Scientific article 7 Long-lived spin waves in a metallic antiferromagnet
    G. Poelchen, J. Hellwig, M. Peters, D. Y. Usachov, K. Kliemt, C. Laubschat, P. M. Echenique, E. V. Chulkov, C. Krellner, S. S. P. Parkin, D. V. Vyalikh, A. Ernst, and K. Kummer
    Nat. Commun. 14, 1 (2023).
  8. Scientific article 8 Order-disorder charge density wave instability in the kagome metal (Cs,Rb)V3Sb5
    D. Subires, A. Korshunov, A. H. Said, L. Sanchez, B. R. Ortiz, S. D. Wilson, A. Bosak, and S. Blanco-Canosa
    Nat. Commun. 14, 1 (2023).
  9. Scientific article 9 Fermi arc reconstruction in synthetic photonic lattice
    D. -H. -M. Nguyen, C. Devescovi, D. X. Nguyen, H. S. Nguyen, and D. Bercioux
    Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 5 (2023).
  10. Scientific article 10 Kibble-Zurek mechanism of Ising domains
    K. Du, X. Fang, C. Won, C. De, F. -T. Huang, W. Xu, H. You, F. J. Gomez-Ruiz, A. del Campo, and S. -W. Cheong
    Nat. Phys. 19, 1495 (2023).