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Pablo Jarillo-Herrero

Pablo Jarillo-Herrero

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Materials Science

D-Index
108
Citations
69794
World Ranking
740
National Ranking
249

Physics

D-Index
112
Citations
72225
World Ranking
1078
National Ranking
569

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2021 - Lise Meitner Distinguished Lecture and Medal, Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences
  • 2020 - Wolf Prize in Physics for pioneering theoretical and experimental work on twisted bilayer graphene.
  • 2020 - Oliver E. Buckley Condensed Matter Prize, American Physical Society For the discovery of superconductivity in twisted bilayer graphene.
  • 2018 - Fellow of American Physical Society (APS) Citation For seminal contributions to quantum electronic transport and optoelectronics in van der Waals materials and heterostructures
  • 2009 - Fellow of Alfred P. Sloan Foundation

Overview

Pablo Jarillo-Herrero is a researcher affiliated with MIT in the United States specializing in materials science, physics and astronomy, and engineering. Their work spans several subfields including atomic and molecular physics and optics, materials chemistry, electrical and electronic engineering, biomedical engineering, and artificial intelligence.

The main focus of their research is on graphene and related materials, covering topics such as graphene research and applications, quantum and electron transport phenomena, topological materials and phenomena, 2D materials and applications, plasmonic and surface plasmon research, quantum information and cryptography, and the physics of superconductivity and magnetism.

Frequent coauthors collaborating with Pablo Jarillo-Herrero include Kenji Watanabe, Takashi Taniguchi, Jeong Min Park, Yuan Cao, and Frank H. L. Koppens.

The researcher has a significant publication record with major contributions in venues such as arXiv (Cornell University) with 30 publications, Nature with 15 publications, Nature Materials with 7, Nature Physics with 6, and Physical Review Letters with 5.

Recent papers highlighting their work include the following:

  • "Tunable strongly coupled superconductivity in magic-angle twisted trilayer graphene," 2021, Nature
  • "The marvels of moiré materials," 2021, Nature Reviews Materials
  • "Strange Metal in Magic-Angle Graphene with near Planckian Dissipation," 2020, Physical Review Letters
  • "Fractional Chern insulators in magic-angle twisted bilayer graphene," 2021, Nature
  • "Interfacial ferroelectricity in rhombohedral-stacked bilayer transition metal dichalcogenides," 2022, Nature Nanotechnology

Among notable recognitions, Pablo Jarillo-Herrero has received the Lise Meitner Distinguished Lecture and Medal from the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences in 2021, the Wolf Prize in Physics in 2020 for pioneering theoretical and experimental work on twisted bilayer graphene, and the Oliver E. Buckley Condensed Matter Prize from the American Physical Society in 2020 for the discovery of superconductivity in twisted bilayer graphene.

They have also been named a Fellow of the American Physical Society in 2018 for contributions to quantum electronic transport and optoelectronics in van der Waals materials and heterostructures, and a Fellow of the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation in 2009.

Best Publications

  • Unconventional superconductivity in magic-angle graphene superlattices

    Yuan Cao;Valla Fatemi;Shiang Fang;Kenji Watanabe

  • Layer-dependent ferromagnetism in a van der Waals crystal down to the monolayer limit

    Bevin Huang;Genevieve Clark;Efrén Navarro-Moratalla;Dahlia R. Klein

  • Correlated Insulator Behaviour at Half-Filling in Magic Angle Graphene Superlattices

    Yuan Cao;Valla Fatemi;Ahmet Demir;Shiang Fang

  • Massive Dirac Fermions and Hofstadter Butterfly in a van der Waals Heterostructure

    B. Hunt;J. D. Sanchez-Yamagishi;A. F. Young;M. Yankowitz

  • Optoelectronic devices based on electrically tunable p–n diodes in a monolayer dichalcogenide

    Britton W. H. Baugher;Hugh O. H. Churchill;Yafang Yang;Pablo Jarillo-Herrero

  • Bipolar supercurrent in graphene

    Hubert B. Heersche;Pablo Jarillo-Herrero;Jeroen B. Oostinga;Lieven M. K. Vandersypen

  • Scanning tunnelling microscopy and spectroscopy of ultra-flat graphene on hexagonal boron nitride

    Jiamin Xue;Javier Sanchez-Yamagishi;Daniel S. Bulmash;Philippe Jacquod

  • STM Spectroscopy of ultra-flat graphene on hexagonal boron nitride

    Jiamin Xue;Javier Sanchez-Yamagishi;Danny Bulmash;Philippe Jacquod

  • Tunable Phonon Polaritons in Atomically Thin van der Waals Crystals of Boron Nitride

    S. Dai;Z. Fei;Q. Ma;A. S. Rodin

  • Observation of Floquet-Bloch states on the surface of a topological insulator

    Yihua Wang;Hadar Steinberg;Pablo Jarillo-Herrero;Nuh Gedik

  • Emergence of superlattice Dirac points in graphene on hexagonal boron nitride

    Matthew Yankowitz;Jiamin Xue;Daniel Cormode;Javier D. Sanchez-Yamagishi

  • Electrical control of 2D magnetism in bilayer CrI 3 .

    Bevin Huang;Genevieve Clark;Dahlia R. Klein;David MacNeill

  • Hot Carrier-Assisted Intrinsic Photoresponse in Graphene

    Nathaniel Gabor;Justin Song;Qiong Ma;Nityan Nair

  • Probing magnetism in 2D van der Waals crystalline insulators via electron tunneling.

    D. R. Klein;D. MacNeill;J. L. Lado;D. Soriano

  • Electrical Control of 2D Magnetism in Bilayer CrI3

    Bevin Huang;Genevieve Clark;Dahlia R. Klein;David MacNeill

  • Tunable strongly coupled superconductivity in magic-angle twisted trilayer graphene

    Jeong Min Park;Yuan Cao;Kenji Watanabe;Takashi Taniguchi

  • Two-dimensional crystals: Phosphorus joins the family

    Hugh O. H. Churchill;Pablo Jarillo-Herrero

  • Nearly flat Chern bands in moiré superlattices

    Ya-Hui Zhang;Dan Mao;Yuan Cao;Pablo Jarillo-Herrero

  • Control over topological insulator photocurrents with light polarization.

    James McIver;David Hsieh;Hadar Steinberg;Pablo Jarillo-Herrero

  • Intrinsic Electronic Transport Properties of High-Quality Monolayer and Bilayer MoS2

    Britton W. H. Baugher;Hugh O. H. Churchill;Yafang Yang;Pablo Jarillo-Herrero

  • Observation of the quantum spin Hall effect up to 100 kelvin in a monolayer crystal

    Sanfeng Wu;Valla Fatemi;Quinn D. Gibson;Kenji Watanabe

Frequent Co-Authors

Kenji Watanabe
Kenji Watanabe National Institute for Materials Science
Takashi Taniguchi
Takashi Taniguchi National Institute for Materials Science
Efthimios Kaxiras
Efthimios Kaxiras Harvard University
Frank H. L. Koppens
Frank H. L. Koppens Institute of Photonic Sciences
Robert Joseph Cava
Robert Joseph Cava Princeton University
Dimitri Basov
Dimitri Basov Columbia University

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