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Research.com Recognitions

  • 2015 - Member of the National Academy of Sciences
  • 2015 - Oliver E. Buckley Condensed Matter Prize, American Physical Society For discovery and pioneering investigations of the superconductor-insulator transition, a paradigm for quantum phase transitions.
  • 2009 - Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
  • 1994 - Fellow of American Physical Society (APS) Citation For contributions to the understanding of high Tc superconductors, particularly the vortex lattice and timereversal symmetry
  • 1986 - Fellow of Alfred P. Sloan Foundation

Overview

Aharon Kapitulnik is affiliated with Stanford University in the United States. Their research primarily focuses on Physics and Astronomy and Materials Science, with specific work in the subfields of Condensed Matter Physics, Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics. Their publication record includes studies in Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials, Materials Chemistry, and Electrical and Electronic Engineering.

The main topics of Kapitulnik's research cover the physics of superconductivity and magnetism, organic and molecular conductors, rare-earth and actinide compounds, quantum and electron transport phenomena, advanced condensed matter physics, topological materials and phenomena, and iron-based superconductors research.

Kapitulnik has published in several scientific venues, frequently contributing to the following:

  • arXiv (Cornell University)
  • Physical Review B
  • Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • Physical Review Research
  • Physical Review Letters

Recent notable papers include:

  • "Multicomponent superconducting order parameter in UTe 2," 2021, Science
  • "High Resolution Polar Kerr Effect Studies of CsV3Sb5: Tests for Time-Reversal Symmetry Breaking below the Charge-Order Transition," 2023, Physical Review Letters
  • "Nanoscale Turing patterns in a bismuth monolayer," 2021, Nature Physics
  • "Interplay between magnetism and superconductivity in UTe2," 2022, Physical Review B
  • "Weyl Superconductivity in UTe2," 2020, arXiv (Cornell University)

Their frequent coauthors are:

  • I. R. Fisher
  • Steven A. Kivelson
  • Xinyang Zhang
  • Anisha G. Singh
  • Claudia Felser

Kapitulnik has a book published by Springer Nature titled Microwave Cavities and Detectors for Axion Research (2020).

The scientist has been recognized with multiple awards, including:

  • Oliver E. Buckley Condensed Matter Prize, American Physical Society (2015) for work on the superconductor-insulator transition as a paradigm for quantum phase transitions
  • Membership in the National Academy of Sciences (2015)
  • Fellowship of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (2009)
  • Fellow of the American Physical Society (1994) for contributions to understanding high-temperature superconductors, particularly vortex lattice and time-reversal symmetry
  • Fellow of the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation (1986)

Best Publications

  • How to detect fluctuating stripes in the high-temperature superconductors

    S. A. Kivelson;I. P. Bindloss;E. Fradkin;V. Oganesyan

  • Excitation Gap in the Normal State of Underdoped Bi2Sr2CaCu2O8+δ

    A. G. Loeser;Z.-X. Shen;D. S. Dessau;D. S. Marshall

  • Anomalously large gap anisotropy in the a - b plane of Bi 2 Sr 2 CaCu 2 O 8 + δ

    Z.-X. Shen;Z.-X. Shen;D. S. Dessau;D. S. Dessau;B. O. Wells;B. O. Wells;D. M. King;D. M. King

  • Unconventional electronic structure evolution with hole doping in Bi2Sr2CaCu2O8+ delta : Angle-resolved photoemission results.

    D. S. Marshall;D. S. Dessau;D. S. Dessau;A. G. Loeser;C. H. Park

  • STM imaging of electronic waves on the surface of Bi2Te3: topologically protected surface states and hexagonal warping effects.

    Zhanybek Alpichshev;Zhanybek Alpichshev;Zhanybek Alpichshev;J. G. Analytis;J. G. Analytis;J.-H. Chu;J.-H. Chu;J.-H. Chu;I. R. Fisher;I. R. Fisher;I. R. Fisher

  • High resolution polar Kerr effect measurements of Sr2RuO4: evidence for broken time-reversal symmetry in the superconducting state.

    Jing Xia;Yoshiteru Maeno;Peter T. Beyersdorf;M. M. Fejer

  • Upper critical field, fluctuation conductivity, and dimensionality of YBa2Cu3O7-x.

    B. Oh;K. Char;A. D. Kent;M. Naito

  • Key features in the measured band structure of Bi2Sr2CaCu2O8+ delta : Flat bands at EF and Fermi surface nesting.

    D. S. Dessau;Z.-X. Shen;D. M. King;D. S. Marshall

  • Magnetic Field Dependence of the Density of States of Y Ba 2 Cu 3 O 6.95 as Determined from the Specific Heat

    K. A. Moler;D. J. Baar;J. S. Urbach;Ruixing Liang

  • Periodic density-of-states modulations in superconducting Bi 2 Sr 2 CaCu 2 O 8+δ

    C. Howald;H. Eisaki;N. Kaneko;Martin Greven

  • From a single-band metal to a high-temperature superconductor via two thermal phase transitions.

    Rui-Hua He;Rui-Hua He;Rui-Hua He;M. Hashimoto;M. Hashimoto;M. Hashimoto;H. Karapetyan;H. Karapetyan;J. D. Koralek;J. D. Koralek

  • Polar Kerr-effect measurements of the high-temperature YBa2Cu3O6+x superconductor: evidence for broken symmetry near the pseudogap temperature.

    Jing Xia;Jing Xia;Elizabeth Schemm;Elizabeth Schemm;G. Deutscher;S.A. Kivelson;S.A. Kivelson

  • Anomalous spectral weight transfer at the superconducting transition of Bi 2 Sr 2 CaCu 2 O 8 + δ

    D. S. Dessau;B. O. Wells;Z.-X. Shen;W. E. Spicer

  • Growth and properties of oxygen- and ion-doped Bi 2 Sr 2 CaCu 2 O 8+δ single crystals

    D. B. Mitzi;L. W. Lombardo;A. Kapitulnik;S. S. Laderman

  • Critical current densities and transport in superconducting YBa2Cu3O7−δ films made by electron beam coevaporation

    B. Oh;M. Naito;S. Arnason;P. Rosenthal

  • Weakly coupled grain model of high‐frequency losses in high Tc superconducting thin films

    T. L. Hylton;A. Kapitulnik;M. R. Beasley;John P. Carini

  • Anomalous Spin Scattering Effects in the Badly Metallic Itinerant Ferromagnet SrRuO3.

    L. Klein;J. S. Dodge;C. H. Ahn;G. J. Snyder

  • Dissipation Effects on the Superconductor-Insulator Transition in 2D Superconductors

    N. Mason;A. Kapitulnik

  • New experimental constraints on non-newtonian forces below 100 μm

    J. Chiaverini;S. J. Smullin;A. A. Geraci;D. M. Weld

  • Observation of a commensurate array of flux chains in tilted flux lattices in Bi-Sr-Ca-Cu-O single crystals.

    C. A. Bolle;P. L. Gammel;D. G. Grier;C. A. Murray

Frequent Co-Authors

M. R. Beasley
M. R. Beasley Stanford University
David B. Mitzi
David B. Mitzi Duke University
T. H. Geballe
T. H. Geballe Stanford University
W. E. Spicer
W. E. Spicer Stanford University
Kookrin Char
Kookrin Char Seoul National University
Steven A. Kivelson
Steven A. Kivelson Stanford University
Zhi-Xun Shen
Zhi-Xun Shen Stanford University
Ian R. Fisher
Ian R. Fisher Stanford University
I. Lindau
I. Lindau Stanford University
Chang-Beom Eom
Chang-Beom Eom University of Wisconsin–Madison

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