Physics graduate students Kevin Allen and Yichen Zhang and applied physics graduate student Ziqin Yue have been invited to attend the prestigious 73rd Lindau Nobel Laureate Meeting in Lindau, Germany, this summer.
Held annually on the picturesque shores of Lake Constance in the Bavarian Alps, Lindau Meetings are unique conferences that foster scientific exchange between generations, cultures and disciplines. Each meeting is attended by more than 30 Nobel laureates and a select group of 650 undergraduates, graduate students and postdocs. This year’s meeting will be the first in five years to focus on physics.
The research interests of all three students center upon quantum materials. Allen joined the research group of Emilia Morosan in the fall of 2020 and is interested in the interplay between structural, magnetic and electronic properties that give rise to unconventional superconductors, topological semimetals and materials that may host quantum objects called skyrmions.
Yue also joined Rice in 2020 and is co-advised by Rice’s Junichiro Kono and Ming Yi. He is broadly interested in the magnetic properties and behaviors of materials and is currently focused on studying magnetic materials using an experimental technique known as angle-resolved photoemission spectroscopy (ARPES).
Zhang, who joined Yi’s research group in 2019 and also uses ARPES, is studying materials that exhibit electronic topology as well as correlated phases with regard to quantum variables like charge and spin. Prior to working in condensed matter experiments at Rice, Zhang studied theoretical aspects of Floquet topological phases as an undergraduate.