Optical studies of quantum materials

该研究计划的目标是双重的：在新材料系统中发现新的物理学，并探索这些材料的潜在应用，这些材料可以提供比现有技术更好的性能。我的团队将建立和开发先进的光学技术，以探测并最终控制新材料中的量子自由度。前两个目标系统是二维（2D）原子薄过渡金属二硫属化物（TMD）和拓扑Weyl半金属（WSM）。这些新兴的材料家族目前引起了极大的兴趣，因为它们为探索新物理提供了新的游乐场。

The goals of this research program are twofold: to discover new physics in novel materials systems, and to explore potential applications of these materials that offer performance enhancements over existing technology. My group will build and develop advanced optical techniques to probe, and ultimately control, quantum degrees of freedom in new materials. The first two target systems are two-dimensional (2D) atomically-thin transition-metal dichalcogenides (TMDs) and topological Weyl semimetals (WSMs). These emerging materials families are currently of great interest, because they provide new playgrounds to explore new physics.