WEDNESDAY, MARCH 15, 5:30PM

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Magic Angle Graphene:

The Twist and Shout of Quantum Materials

Pablo Jarillo-Herrero, MIT

This winter, our lectures are in Flug Forum at Aspen Center for Physics. Join us early (starting at 5pm) for tea and cookies prior to each talk. The talks will begin at 5:30pm sharp. You do not need to RSVP. There is free parking at the Center and in the neighborhood. We also recommend taking the Downtowner or the Crosstown Shuttle. Our address is 700 West Gillespie, Aspen, CO 81611.

Tea graciously provided by Two Leaves and a Bud Tea Company.

Abstract

Among the most fascinating states of matter are those where individual constituents (for example, electrons) interact strongly with each other. However, the understanding of strongly-interacting quantum matter has challenged physicists for decades. The discovery five years ago of superconductivity in magic angle twisted bilayer graphene has led to the emergence of a new materials platform to investigate strongly interacting physics, namely moiré quantum matter. These systems exhibit a plethora of quantum phases, such as correlated insulators, superconductivity, magnetism, ferroelectricity, and more.

In this talk, Jarillo-Herrero will review some of the recent advances in the field, focusing on the newest generation of moiré quantum systems, where correlated physics, superconductivity, and other fascinating phases can be studied with unprecedented tunability. He will end the talk with an outlook of some exciting directions in this emerging field.

About Pablo Jarillo-Herrero

Pablo Jarillo-Herrero is currently the Cecil and Ida Green Professor of Physics at MIT. He received his “Licenciatura” in physics from the University of Valencia, Spain, in 1999, and his PhD in physics from Delft University of Technology in The Netherlands in 2005. After his postdoc at Columbia University, he joined MIT as an assistant professor of physics in January 2008 and received tenure in 2015. He was promoted to Full Professor of Physics in 2018.

Prof. Jarillo-Herrero is the recipient of the APS 2020 Oliver E. Buckley Condensed Matter Physics Prize, the 2020 Wolf Prize in Physics, the 2020 Medal of the Spanish Royal Physics Society, the 2021 Lise Meitner Distinguished Lecture and Medal, the 2021 Max Planck Humboldt Research Award, and the 2021 US National Academy of Sciences Award for Scientific Discovery. He was elected to the US National Academy of Sciences in 2022.