Professor Petr Stepanov is a member of the Condensed Matter Physics group at University of Notre Dame and the Stavropoulos Center for Complex Quantum Matter. He uses two-dimensional materials for studying emergent quantum phenomena with multiple experimental approaches including microscopic high-quality 2D crystal assembly, cryogenic near-field microscopy and quantum electronic transport.
Professor Stepanov’s research highlights include:
Manipulation of strong electronic interactions in graphene-based moiré materials.
Local photocurrent studies of strongly correlated phenomena in magic angle twisted bi/trilayer graphene heterostructures.
Plasmon polaritons in strongly correlated environment.
Studies of crystal symmetry breaking in moiré electronic flat bands.
Revealing superconductors and orbital ferromagnetic states in the same moiré device for further studies of exotic quantum phenomena.
Studies of pure spin transport in graphene antiferromagnetic insulators.
Quantum Hall effect in multi-Dirac band electronic systems.