Andrea Young

Andrea F. Young is an American solid-state physicist.

Young studied physics and mathematics at Columbia University with a bachelor's degree in 2006, received a master's degree in physics there in 2010 and received his doctorate in 2012 with Philip Kim (Quantum transport in graphene hetereostructures). He was a post-doctoral student at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and the Weizmann Institute . He has been an Assistant Professor at the University of California, Santa Barbara since 2014 .

He experimentally investigates novel electronic states in graphene heterostructures (such as graphene bilayers). These include phenomena in FQHE and other topological states (Bosonic Symmetry Protected Topological States, BSPT, Fractional Chern Insulators, Berry Phase ) and anyons . He also developed special instruments such as a nano- SQUID microscope in his laboratory .

In 2011 he received the Frances and Charles Townes Award from Columbia University. For 2018 he was one of the recipients of the New Horizons in Physics Prize as a co-developer of van der Waals heterostructures and their application in the discovery of new phases in the quantum Hall effect .

Fonts (selection)

• with Philip Kim : Quantum interference and Klein tunneling in graphene heterojunctions , Nature Physics, Volume 5, 2009, pp. 222-229, Arxiv
• CR Dean et al. a .: Boron nitride substrates for high-quality graphene electronics. Nature Nanotechnology, Volume 5, 2010, p. 722, Arxiv
• with P. Kim: Electronic transport in graphene heterostructures , Annual Review of Condensed Matter Physics, Volume 2, 2011, p. 101
• with CR Dean u. a .: Multicomponent fractional quantum Hall effect in graphene , Nature Physics, Volume 7, 2011, pp. 693-696, Arxiv
• with CR Dean: Graphen based heterostructures , Solid State Communic., Volume 152, 2012, pp. 1275-1282
• with P. Maher, CR Dean, T. Taniguchi, K. Watanabe, KL Shepard, J. Hone, P. Kim: Evidence for a spin phase transition at charge neutrality in bilayer graphene , Nature Physics, Volume 9, 2013, p. 154-158, Arxiv
• with B. Hunt et al. a .: Massive Dirac fermions and Hofstadter butterfly in a van der Waals heterostructure , Science, Volume 340, 2013, pp. 1427-1430, Arxiv
• with Y. Zhang, P. Kim: Experimental manifestation of Berry phase in graphene , in: H. Aoki, M. Dresselhaus (Eds.), Physics of Graphene, Springer 2014
• with B. Hunt et al. a .: Tunable symmetry breaking and helical edge transport in a graphene quantum spin Hall state, Nature, Volume 505, 2014, pp. 528-532, Arxiv
• with Aviram Uri u. a .: Electrically tunable multi-terminal SQUID-on-tip, Nano Lett., Volume 16, 2016, pp. 6910–6915, Arxiv (Arxiv does not list all authors)
• with Zhen Bi u. a .: Bilayer Graphene as a platform for Bosonic Symmetry Protected Topological States , Phys. Rev. Lett., Volume 118, 2017, p. 126801, Arxiv
• with AA Zibrov, CR Kometter, T. Taniguchi, K. Watanabe, MP Zaletel: Tunable interacting composite fermion phases in a half-filled bilayer-graphene Landau level. Nature, Volume 549, 2017, pp. 360-364, Arxiv
• with EM Spanton u. a .: Observation of fractional Chern insulators in a van der Waals heterostructure, Arxiv 2017

Web links

• Homepage and Young Lab