Charge Density Wave Orders in Rhombohedral Graphene by Prof Leo Jia Li
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Join us at this seminar by Prof Leo Jia Li from the University of Texas at Austin. This seminar is organised as part of the IAS Frontiers Seminars: Quantum Horizons, jointly supported by the Institute of Advanced Studies (IAS) and School of Physical and Mathematical Sciences (SPMS).
About the seminar
Charge density waves (CDWs), electronic states characterised by spontaneously broken translational symmetry, are a common instability in strongly interacting electron systems. They are ubiquitous across condensed matter physics, playing important roles in both quantum Hall systems and unconventional superconductors. In this talk, I will explore CDW orders in rhombohedral multilayer graphene using transport techniques. I show that CDW order in this material is intimately intertwined with the emergence of both superconductivity and the fractional quantum Hall effect. I will discuss the origin of this intertwinement and its implications for understanding Cooper pairing, charge fractionalisation, and the broader emergence of correlated phases at the intersection of strong correlations, topology, and broken symmetries.
About the speaker
Leo Jia Li is a condensed matter experimentalist specialising in low-temperature electronic systems in low-dimensional materials. He received his PhD in Physics from Northwestern University and conducted postdoctoral research at Columbia University. Leo arrived at UT Austin from Brown University, where he was an associate professor of physics.
This seminar is part of our seminar series, the IAS Frontiers Seminars: Quantum Horizons. The seminars in this series are:
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11 Aug 2026 β Prof Liang Wu (University of Pennsylvania)
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5 Oct 2026 β Prof Leo Jia Li (University of Texas at Austin)
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2 Nov 2026 β Prof Tomas Jungwirth (Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic)
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16 Nov 2026 β Prof Youchi Yanase (Kyoto University)
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14 Dec 2026 β Prof Sven HΓΆfling (University of WΓΌrzburg)
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25 Jan 2027 β Prof Maksym Serbyn (Institute of Science and Technology Austria)
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9 Feb 2027 - To be announced.
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5 Mar 2027 - To be announced.
Find out more about these seminars here.