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Research.com Recognitions

  • 2007 - Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada Academy of Science
  • 2003 - Prix Marie-Victorin, Government of Quebec
  • 2002 - Fellow of American Physical Society (APS) Citation For pioneering experimental studies of magneto and thermal transport in heavy fermion and high Tc superconductors
  • 1993 - Fellow of Alfred P. Sloan Foundation

Overview

Louis Taillefer is affiliated with the Canadian Institute for Advanced Research in Canada. Their research predominantly focuses on physics and astronomy, with a specialization in condensed matter physics, materials science, and related subfields. This includes electronic, optical and magnetic materials, atomic and molecular physics and optics, electrical and electronic engineering, and materials chemistry.

Their research interests span key topics such as the physics of superconductivity and magnetism, advanced condensed matter physics, magnetic and transport properties of perovskites and related materials, topological materials and phenomena, theoretical and computational physics, perovskite materials and their applications, and magnetic properties of thin films.

Louis Taillefer has published extensively in several scientific venues. Frequent publication venues include Physical Review B, arXiv (Cornell University), Nature Physics, Physical Review X, and Nature Communications.

  • S. Benhabib (2020), "Ultrasound evidence for a two-component superconducting order parameter in Sr2RuO4," Nature Physics
  • Étienne Lefrançois (2022), "Evidence of a Phonon Hall Effect in the Kitaev Spin Liquid Candidate α−RuCl3," Physical Review X
  • Dong Chen (2022), "Anomalous thermoelectric effects and quantum oscillations in the kagome metal CsV3Sb5," Physical Review B
  • Yawen Fang (2022), "Fermi surface transformation at the pseudogap critical point of a cuprate superconductor," Nature Physics
  • Lu Chen (2022), "Large phonon thermal Hall conductivity in the antiferromagnetic insulator Cu3TeO6," Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

The scientist often collaborates with a group of frequent co-authors that includes G. Grissonnanche, Lu Chen, Étienne Lefrançois, Marie-Eve Boulanger, and Amirreza Ataei.

Throughout their career, Louis Taillefer has received several awards recognizing their contributions to the field, including the Prix Marie-Victorin from the Government of Quebec in 2003, being named a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada in 2007 under the Academy of Science, a Fellow of the American Physical Society in 2002 with a citation noting pioneering experimental studies of magneto and thermal transport in heavy fermion and high Tc superconductors, and a Fellowship from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation in 1993.

Best Publications

  • Quantum oscillations and the Fermi surface in an underdoped high-Tc superconductor.

    Nicolas Doiron-Leyraud;Cyril Proust;David LeBoeuf;Julien Levallois

  • Broken rotational symmetry in the pseudogap phase of a high- T c superconductor

    R. Daou;Johan Juul Chang;David Leboeuf;Olivier Cyr-Choinière

  • Electron pockets in the Fermi surface of hole-doped high-Tc superconductors.

    David LeBoeuf;Nicolas Doiron-Leyraud;Julien Levallois;R. Daou

  • Effect of spin fluctuations on the magnetic equation of state of ferromagnetic or nearly ferromagnetic metals

    G G Lonzarich;L Taillefer

  • The superconducting phases of UPt 3

    Robert Joynt;Louis Taillefer

  • Change of carrier density at the pseudogap critical point of a cuprate superconductor

    S. Badoux;W. Tabis;F. Laliberté;G. Grissonnanche

  • Scattering and Pairing in Cuprate Superconductors

    Louis Taillefer

  • Field-Induced Quantum Critical Point in C e C o I n 5

    Johnpierre Paglione;M. A. Tanatar;D. G. Hawthorn;Etienne Boaknin

  • The Remarkable Underlying Ground States of Cuprate Superconductors

    Cyril Proust;Cyril Proust;Louis Taillefer;Louis Taillefer

  • Universal T -linear resistivity and Planckian dissipation in overdoped cuprates

    A. Legros;A. Legros;S. Benhabib;W. Tabis;W. Tabis;F. Laliberté

  • Small Fermi surface pockets in underdoped high temperature superconductors: observation of Shubnikov-de Haas oscillations in YBa2Cu4O8.

    A.F Bangura;J.D Fletcher;Antony Carrington;J Levallois

  • Heat conduction in the vortex state of NbSe2: evidence for multiband superconductivity.

    Etienne Boaknin;M. A. Tanatar;Johnpierre Paglione;D. Hawthorn

  • Thermal conductivity across the phase diagram of cuprates: Low-energy quasiparticles and doping dependence of the superconducting gap

    Mike Sutherland;D. G. Hawthorn;R. W. Hill;F. Ronning

  • Linear temperature dependence of resistivity and change in the Fermi surface at the pseudogap critical point of|[nbsp]|a|[nbsp]|high-Tc superconductor

    R. Daou;Nicolas Doiron-Leyraud;David LeBoeuf;S. Y. Li

  • Universal Heat Conduction in YBa 2 Cu 3 O 6.9

    Louis Taillefer;Benoit Lussier;Robert Gagnon;Kamran Behnia

  • Lifshitz critical point in the cuprate superconductor YBa2Cu3Oy from high-field Hall effect measurements

    David LeBoeuf;Nicolas Doiron-Leyraud;B. Vignolle;Mike Sutherland

  • Phase diagram of UPt3 from ultrasonic velocity measurements

    Shireen Adenwalla;S. W. Lin;Q. Z. Ran;Z. Zhao

  • Heat transport in a strongly overdoped cuprate: Fermi liquid and a pure d-wave BCS superconductor.

    Cyril Proust;Etienne Boaknin;R. W. Hill;Louis Taillefer

  • Low-energy quasiparticles in cuprate superconductors: A quantitative analysis

    May Chiao;R. W. Hill;Christian Lupien;Louis Taillefer

  • Broken rotational symmetry in the pseudogap phase of a high-Tc superconductor

    J. Chang;R. Daou;D. LeBoeuf;O. Cyr-Choiniere

Frequent Co-Authors

D. A. Bonn
D. A. Bonn University of British Columbia
W. N. Hardy
W. N. Hardy University of British Columbia
Ruixing Liang
Ruixing Liang University of British Columbia
Johnpierre Paglione
Johnpierre Paglione University of Maryland, College Park
Ruslan Prozorov
Ruslan Prozorov Iowa State University
Jianshi Zhou
Jianshi Zhou The University of Texas at Austin
Paul C. Canfield
Paul C. Canfield Iowa State University
Hidenori Takagi
Hidenori Takagi Max Planck Institute for Solid State Research
Jiaqiang Yan
Jiaqiang Yan Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Hai-Hu Wen
Hai-Hu Wen Nanjing University

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