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Title:Superconductivity and charge density waves in two dimensional crystals
Two dimensional crystals such as graphene, twisted bilayer graphene and transition
metal dichalchogenides are a playground to investigate correlated states of matter
with enhanced quantum effects, such as superconductivity, charge density waves,
room temperature quantum Hall effect and frustrated magnetism.
In this PhD thesis we plan to investigate the occurrence of non-conventional superconductivity
and charge density waves in crystals based on transition metal dichalcogenides by using
state-of-the-art first principles electronic structure calculations and many body techniques.
The theoretical work will be carried out in tight collaboration with
the experimental superconductivity group headed by
Prof. Tristan Cren at Sorbonne Université at the Institut for Nanoscience
(Institut des Nanosciences de Paris), in Paris.
The theoretical phd candidate will join the Theory group at University of Trento and is
expected to to spend part of his PhD thesis in Paris
with an increased salary payed by Sorbonne Université. In Paris he will
be supervised by Prof. Matteo Calandra and Dr. Davide Romanin and will
actively collaborate with the experimental group of Tristan Cren.
The university of Trento is ideally situated in the heart of the Dolomites
and Sorbonne Université is located in the Latin Quarter in Paris and is
routinely ranked in the top 50 Universities in the world.
At the end of the PhD, the candidate will have both the Italian and French PhD
title (from Trento University and From Sorbonne Université).
The phd will be attributed by an official competition that will be carried out
at the end of may/beginning of June, for a PhD position starting the 1st of
November 2021.
Interested candidates should contact Matteo Calandra at the email
[email protected] by sending a CV and a motivation letter.
Publications related to the subject:
Misfit Layer Compounds: A Platform for Heavily Doped 2D Transition Metal Dichalcogenides
R. T. Leriche et al.
Adv. Funct. Materials 31, 2007706 (2021)
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1002/adfm.202007706
van der Waals driven anharmonic melting of the 3D charge density wave in VSe2
J. Diego et al.
Nature communications 12, 1 (2021)
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-020-20829-2
Black metal hydrogen above 360 GPa driven by proton quantum fluctuations
L Monacelli, I Errea, M Calandra, F Mauri
Nature Physics 17 (1), 63-67 (2021)
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41567-020-1009-3
Anharmonicity and Doping Melt the Charge Density Wave in Single-Layer TiSe2
JS Zhou, L Monacelli, R Bianco, I Errea, F Mauri, M Calandra
Nano Letters 20 (7), 4809-4815 (2020)
https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.nanolett.0c00597
Theory of the thickness dependence of the charge density wave transition in 1 T-TiTe2
JS Zhou, R Bianco, L Monacelli, I Errea, F Mauri, M Calandra
2D Materials 7, 045032 (2020)
https://doi.org/10.1088/2053-1583/abae7a
Additional information on the research activities of Matteo Calandra can be found
at the following urls:
https://scholar.google.it/citations?user=8EJhV9wAAAAJ&hl=en
https://mcalandra.github.io/
Additional information on Trento University:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PYM8w5qiePE