Aharon Kapitulnik

Professor of Applied Physics and of Physics

Stanford University, CA 94305

Research Interests:

Condensed matter physics; Physics of low-dimensional systems; 
Disordered and Strongly correlated electron systems; 
Superconductivity, magnetism, quantum phase transitions.
 
Micro- and Nano- Mechanical devices; Tests of gravity at sub-mm 
length scales; Casimir forces at macroscopic lengths.

Projects and Graduate Students:

1. STM STUDIES OF HIGH-Tc SUPERCONDUCTORS and OTHER STRONGLY CORRELATED SYSTEMS

(Supported by DoE)

Graduate Student: Zhanybek Alpichshev

2. SEARCH FOR GRAVITY-LIKE FORCES AT SUB-MM SCALE

(Supported by NSF)

Post-doctoral Fellow: T.J. Bay
Graduate Student: Suhas Kumar
Undergraduate student: Jeff Arnold

3. TWO-DIMENSIONAL SUPERCONDUCTORS, QUANTUM PHASE TRANSITIONS AND SUPERCONDUCTOR-INSULATOR TRANSITION

(Supported by NSF)

Graduate Students: Nicholas Breznay, Li Zhang

4. OPTICAL STUDIES OF BROKEN TIME REVERSAL SYMMETRY IN SOLIDS

(Supported by DoE, Instrumentation supported by NSF Center for Probing the Nanoscale)

Students: Elizabeth Schemm, Hovnatan Karapetyan, Alexander Fried

5. PHYSICS OF TOPOLOGICAL-INSULATORS

(Supported by FENA and DOE)

Graduate Students: Zhanybek Alpichshev, Li Zhang

Links to my other web pages:

Web page in the Dept. of Applied Physics

Web page in the Dept. of Physics

KGB Group Web Page

Courses I teach this year (2010/2011)

Physics 220:Graduate E&M; (Winter quarter)

E-mail: [email protected]

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