Benjamin M. Hunt
Associate Professor
Materials Science & Engineering (Courtesy)
Condensed Matter Experiment
Wean Hall 6412
412-268-9918
Education & Professional Experience
PhD: Cornell University (2009)
Professional Societies:
American Physical Society
Honors and Awards:
Kaufman Young Investigator Award, 2016
DOE Early Career Research Award, 2017
Cottrell Scholar, 2019
Assistant Professor, 一本道无码, 2015–2021
Post-doctoral Research: Columbia University, 2014–15
Post-doctoral Research: Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2009–14
Research Interests
I am broadly interested in condensed-matter physics, but particularly in the way that electrons behave when they are subjected to extreme conditions such as ultra-low temperatures and high magnetic fields. Under such conditions, electrons can display striking collective quantum behavior such as superconductivity, fractionalization of charge, and crystallization. Currently, we are investigating phenomena such as these by studying:
- The physics of low-dimensional structures, especially "van der Waals heterostructures" of two-dimensional crystals (the most familiar of which is graphene), which we build in the lab and then fashion into mesoscopic devices using nanofabrication techniques, and
- A variety of methods for probing these mesoscopic devices, such as electronic transport, capacitance, tunneling spectroscopy, and shot noise.
Recent Publications
F. Lüpke et al., Proximity-induced superconducting gap in the quantum spin Hall edge state of monolayer WTe2,
D. Aasen et al., Electrical Probes of the Non-Abelian Spin Liquid in Kitaev Materials,
M.R. Sinko et al., Superconducting contact and quantum interference between two-dimensional van der Waals and three-dimensional conventional superconductors,
J. Liang et al., Molecularly Thin Electrolyte for All Solid-State Nonvolatile Two-Dimensional Crystal Memory,
R. Garg et al., Electron Transport in Multidimensional Fuzzy Graphene Nanostructures,
S.C. de la Barrera et al., Tuning Ising superconductivity with layer and spin-orbit coupling in two-dimensional transition-metal dichalcogenides,
B.M. Hunt et al., Direct measurement of discrete valley and orbital quantum numbers in bilayer graphene,
J.D. Sanchez-Yamagishi et al., Helical edge states and fractional quantum Hall effect in a graphene electron-hole bilayer,
R. Garg et al., Nanowire-Mesh-Templated Growth of Out-of-Plane Three-Dimensional Fuzzy Graphene,
B.M. Hunt et al., Competing Valley, Spin, and Orbital Symmetry Breaking in Bilayer Graphene,
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