Milan Allan Lab - Understanding Quantum Matter
We are a dynamic research group at the Leiden Institute of Physics. Our aim is to explore and understand quantum materials, including strange metals, high-temperature superconductors, and quantum critical electron matter.
To this end, we develop novel spectroscopic-imaging scanning tunneling microscopy (SI-STM) tools to visualize the relevant quantum mechanical degrees of freedom. We want do be able to build the perfect instruments to answer the scientific questions we deem most important.
News
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Chasing gravitational waves: damping vibrations in underground Einstein Telescope -
New method to find Majorana’s tested for the first time -
Raindrops on the roof-technique reveals new quantum liquid -
Koen Bastiaans wins first Paul & Tatiana Ehrenfest physics thesis prize.
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Superconductivity with a twist explained -
Discoverer of the Year Irene Battisti wants to see the invisible
Key Papers
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Cho D.H., Bastiaans K.M., Chatzopoulos D., Gu G.D. & Allan M.P. (2019), A strongly inhomogeneous superfluid in an iron-based superconductor, Nature 571: 541-545.
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Bastiaans K.M., Cho D.H., Benschop T., Battisti I., Huang Y., Golden M.S., Dong Q., Jin Y., Zaanen J. & Allan M.P. (2018), Charge trapping and super-Poissonian noise centers in a cuprate high-temperature superconductor, Nature Physics 14: 1183-1187.
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Allan M.P., Fischer M.H., Ostojic O. & Andringa A. (2017), Creating better superconductors by periodic nanopatterning, SciPost Physics 3(2017): 010.
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Battisti I., Bastiaans K.M., Fedoseev V., Torre A. de la, Iliopoulos N., Tamai A., Hunter E.C., Perry R.S., Zaanen J., Baumberger F. & Allan M.P. (2017), Universality of pseudogap and emergent order in lightly doped Mott insulators, Nature Physics 13: 21-25.