by Louk Rademaker | Feb 23, 2023 | Next Meeting
Simplified as it is, the Hubbard model embodies much of the complexity of the `strong correlation problem’ and has established itself as a paradigmatic model in the field. In this talk, I will argue that several key aspects of its physics in two dimensions can now be...
by Louk Rademaker | Feb 23, 2023 | Next Meeting
UTe2 is a recently discovered heavy fermion superconductor. In this Flat Club, I will highlight some of the remarkable properties of this material, with a focus on scanning tunneling microscopy experiments. Differential conductance measurements at step edges have...
by Louk Rademaker | Feb 23, 2023 | Past meetings
EuCd2As2 has emerged as a topological material where magnetism may produce strong effects. This compound has been understood as a candidate Weyl semimetal, based mostly on transport and photoemission measurements. I will present our recent results on samples in which...
by Louk Rademaker | Oct 17, 2022 | Last meeting
In oxide heterostructures, different materials are integrated into a single artificial crystal, resulting in a breaking of inversion symmetry across the heterointerfaces. A notable example are interfaces between polar and nonpolar materials, where structural...
by Louk Rademaker | Oct 17, 2022 | Past meetings
Quasicrystals are a fascinating state of matter which is characterized by long-range but nonperiodic order. They display a number of intriguing properties, including unusual localization properties, fractal properties and anomalous critical scalings. Such structures...
by Louk Rademaker | Oct 17, 2022 | Past meetings
One of the major challenges in understanding high-temperature superconductivity in copper oxides, is to disentangle the rich variety of electronic phases that can co-exist, cooperate or compete with d-wave superconductivity. In this context, much theoretical and...
by Louk Rademaker | Oct 17, 2022 | Past meetings
A recent ARPES study on surface doped black phosphorus reported funny non-monotonous k(E) dispersions near the chemical potential [1]. I will discuss this paper and show that dispersive “band-like” features in ARPES do not always imply Bloch states. If time permits, I...
by Louk Rademaker | Oct 17, 2022 | Past meetings
Electrolytes can be used to very effectively transfer the electrostatic potential from a metal electrode (gate) to the surface of a semiconductor, to realize ionically gated devices. Even though the technique is by now long established, its application to 2D materials...
by Louk Rademaker | May 3, 2022 | Past meetings
The so-called strange metals are characterized by various anomalous properties, the most famous of which being a resistivity that remains linear down to the lowest temperatures. Such behavior is observed in several systems, starting historically from the cuprates and...
by Louk Rademaker | Apr 1, 2022 | Past meetings
Ferroelectrics are materials exhibiting a remanent polarisation that can be switched by applying an electric field. These materials can consist of regions where the polarisation points in different directions, and each region with a uniform polarisation is called a...