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Research.com Recognitions

  • 2010 - Member of the National Academy of Sciences
  • 2005 - Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
  • 1989 - Fellow of American Physical Society (APS) Citation For theoretical contributions to the understanding of the fractional quantum Hall effect

Overview

Allan H. MacDonald is affiliated with The University of Texas at Austin in the United States, contributing extensively to the fields of Physics and Astronomy as well as Materials Science. Their research spans multiple subfields, with a particular focus on Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics, Materials Chemistry, Condensed Matter Physics, Electrical and Electronic Engineering, and Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials.

The main topics of their research include:

  • Quantum and electron transport phenomena
  • Graphene research and applications
  • Topological Materials and Phenomena
  • 2D Materials and Applications
  • Physics of Superconductivity and Magnetism
  • Advanced Condensed Matter Physics
  • Strong Light-Matter Interactions

Their publication record includes appearances in prominent venues with numerous contributions. The most frequent publication venues for their work are:

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

Some recent papers associated with Allan H. MacDonald are:

  • "Simulation of Hubbard model physics in WSe2/WS2 moiré superlattices," 2020, Nature
  • "The marvels of moiré materials," 2021, Nature Reviews Materials
  • Colloquium: Quantum anomalous Hall effect, 2023, Reviews of Modern Physics
  • "Emerging exciton physics in transition metal dichalcogenide heterobilayers," 2022, Nature Reviews Materials
  • "Strongly correlated excitonic insulator in atomic double layers," 2021, Nature

Frequent collaborators include:

  • Takashi Taniguchi
  • Kenji Watanabe
  • Jihang Zhu
  • Nemin Wei
  • Chao Lei

Allan H. MacDonald has received several awards recognizing their professional contributions, including:

  • Member of the National Academy of Sciences (2010)
  • Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (2005)
  • Fellow of the American Physical Society (APS) (1989) with a citation for theoretical contributions to the understanding of the fractional quantum Hall effect

Best Publications

  • Anomalous hall effect

    Naoto Nagaosa;Jairo Sinova;Shigeki Onoda;Allan H Macdonald

  • Moiré bands in twisted double-layer graphene

    Rafi Bistritzer;Allan H. MacDonald

  • Universal intrinsic spin Hall effect.

    Jairo Sinova;Jairo Sinova;Dimitrie Culcer;Qian Niu;N. A. Sinitsyn

  • Observation of Majorana fermions in ferromagnetic atomic chains on a superconductor

    Stevan Nadj-Perge;Ilya K. Drozdov;Jian Li;Hua Chen

  • Photonic topological insulators

    Alexander B. Khanikaev;S. Hossein Mousavi;Wang Kong Tse;Mehdi Kargarian

  • Superconductors, orbital magnets and correlated states in magic-angle bilayer graphene

    Xiaobo Lu;Petr Stepanov;Wei Yang;Ming Xie

  • Theory of ferromagnetic (III, Mn) V semiconductors

    T. Jungwirth;Jairo Sinova;J. Mašek;J. Kučera

  • Photonic Analogue of Two-dimensional Topological Insulators and Helical One-Way Edge Transport in Bi-Anisotropic Metamaterials

    Alexander B. Khanikaev;S. Hossein Mousavi;Wang-Kong Tse;Mehdi Kargarian

  • Evidence for moiré excitons in van der Waals heterostructures

    Kha Tran;Galan Moody;Fengcheng Wu;Xiaobo Lu

  • Intrinsic and Rashba spin-orbit interactions in graphene sheets

    Hongki Min;J. E. Hill;N. A. Sinitsyn;B. R. Sahu

  • First Principles Calculation of Anomalous Hall Conductivity in Ferromagnetic bcc Fe

    Yugui Yao;Yugui Yao;Leonard Kleinman;Allan H Macdonald;Jairo Sinova;Jairo Sinova

  • Anomalous Hall effect in ferromagnetic semiconductors

    T. Jungwirth;Qian Niu;A. H. MacDonald

  • Graphene: Exploring carbon flatland

    Andrey K. Geim;Allan H. MacDonald

  • Spintronics and pseudospintronics in graphene and topological insulators.

    Dmytro Pesin;Allan H. MacDonald

  • Bose–Einstein condensation of excitons in bilayer electron systems

    J. P. Eisenstein;Allan H Macdonald

  • Magneto-roton theory of collective excitations in the fractional quantum Hall effect

    S. M. Girvin;A. H. MacDonald;P. M. Platzman

  • Ferromagnetic semiconductors: moving beyond (Ga,Mn)As

    Allan H Macdonald;P. Schiffer;N. Samarth

  • Quantum hall ferromagnetism in graphene

    Kentaro Nomura;Allan H. MacDonald

  • Moir'e Excitons in Van der Waals Heterostructures

    Kha Tran;Galan Moody;Fengcheng Wu;Xiaobo Lu

  • Spin Hall effect in a two dimensional spin-orbit coupled semiconductor system

    Joerg Wunderlich;Bernd Kaestner;K. Nomura;Jairo Sinova

Frequent Co-Authors

Jairo Sinova
Jairo Sinova Johannes Gutenberg University of Mainz
Marco Polini
Marco Polini University of Pisa
Tomas Jungwirth
Tomas Jungwirth Czech Academy of Sciences
Steven Girvin
Steven Girvin Yale University
Qian Niu
Qian Niu The University of Texas at Austin
Takashi Taniguchi
Takashi Taniguchi National Institute for Materials Science
Kenji Watanabe
Kenji Watanabe National Institute for Materials Science
Sanjay K. Banerjee
Sanjay K. Banerjee The University of Texas at Austin
Emanuel Tutuc
Emanuel Tutuc The University of Texas at Austin
Chun Ning Lau
Chun Ning Lau The Ohio State University

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