Open positions / projects
We welcome enthusiastic researchers to join our team as PhD or Postdoctoral candidates, lab technical support, or to carry out a Master's or semester project in our group. Please see below for application details.
PhD/Post-doc Projects
We are seeking motivated students or young researchers to undertake a variety of PhD/postdoctoral projects, ranging from theoretical modeling to experimental exploration. Candidates with a background in solid-state and condensed matter physics are preferred. If you are interested, please email us with a motivation letter and a short CV.
Example Projects:
Topological semi-metals represent a new class of materials in which electrons behave like massless particles. These unique characteristics result in unusual material behavior, which we aim to leverage for future technological advancements. One notable property of these materials is their strong paramagnetic response in high magnetic fields. In this project, you will investigate this quantum property across various classes of topological materials while subjected to extremely high magnetic fields and low temperatures.
Spontaneously broken symmetries are at the heart of many phenomena of quantum matter. In charge-density-wave (CDW) materials, the formation of a charge order may significantly alter the electronic symmetry of the system. In this project, you are going to explore such an electronic symmetry-breaking effect in various CDW materials by probing the non-reciprocal magnetotransport responses.
The recently discovered family of Kagome superconductors is an intriguing example of competing correlated orders with robust entanglement, leading to an exciting hypothesis of orbital loop current, a prime example of correlation-driven electronic instabilities. In this project, you will build an optical and electrical transport platform to explore correlated order in Kagome materials. The central goal is to demonstrate optical control over orbital magnetism by reorganizing chiral domains.
When electrons in metals interact, they give rise to emergent phenomena and electronic properties that go beyond the behavior of individual particles. In this project, you will investigate quantum-coherent electronic transport in strongly interacting electronic systems that extend well beyond the single-particle paradigm.
Master's and Semester Projects
Our group offers a variety of short-term projects, including numerical simulations of electronic transport and the development of experimental techniques such as atomic layer deposition (ALD). If you are interested in exploring potential Master's or semester projects, please email us. Make sure to include a recent transcript with your application.
Example Projects:
Superconducting circuits are the basis for quantum technology. Usually, superconductors are fabricated in thin-film form and patterned by lithography. Here you will explore a different approach: Solidifying a gaseous precursor of WCO6 under strong ion irradiation is a method to directly grow superconductors onto any surfaces. Meanwhile, the carbon concentration critically determines the superconducting transition, the relation between them needs to be explored.
We plan to explore the feasibility of constructing a thermal platform for rapid control over the local temperature of an on-chip microstructure. Using ALD (atomic layer deposition) and FIB techniques, a multi-layer device with designed thermal boundary conditions will be built and tested under cryogenic environments.
In this project, you will create an efficient code to simulate how electrons flow between stacked atomic layers in a quantum material. In particular, you will explore how the magnetic field and the microstructure's geometry alter the pathways of electrons.
In this semester project, you will explore the mechanical properties of the membrane substrate we use most frequently, the basis for all strain-free studies in our lab. Utilizing a laser vibrometer, you can systematically study the membranes of different materials, thicknesses and geometries.
