Wladimir BenalcazarAssistant Professor

Research Area

Condensed Matter Theory

Education

Ph.D. in Physics, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 2018

Honors and Awards

Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation Postdoctoral Fellowship, Princeton University, 2021-2022

Eberly Postdoctoral Fellowship, Pennsylvania State University, 2018-2021

Research Interests

I am interested in studying collective effects in quantum matter. Specifically, I investigate the role that topology, symmetries, geometry, and interactions have on the existence of topological phases in insulators, superconductors, and other synthetic metamaterial platforms, such as photonic or acoustic crystals.

If interested in collaborating or in learning more about our research group, feel free to write to me at benalcazar@emory.edu. I currently have one postdoctoral opening, and one or two graduate student openings. Additionally, I have projects for undergraduate students who are proficient in Mathematica, Matlab, C++, or Python.

• Benalcazar and Cerjan, “Chiral-symmetric Higher-order Topological phases”, PRL 2022
• Deng et. al, “Observation of degenerate zero-energy topological states at disclinations in an acoustic lattice”, PRL 2022
• Wu et. al, “Boundary-obstructed topological high-T  superconductivity in iron pnictides”, PRX 2020
• Cerjan et. al, “Observation of a higher-order topological bound state in the continuum”, PRL 2020
• Benalcazar, Li, Hughes, “Quantization of fractional corner charge in Cn-symmetric higher-order topological crystalline insulators”, PRB 2018
• Peterson et. al, “A quantized microwave quadrupole insulator with topologically protected corner states”, Nature 2018
• Noh et al., “Topological protection of photonic mid-gap defect modes”, Nat. Photonics 2018
• Benalcazar, Bernevig, Hughes, “Electric Multipole Moments, Topological Multipole Moment Pumping, and Chiral Hinge States in Crystalline Insulators” PRB 2017
• Benalcazar, Bernevig, Hughes, “Quantized electric multipole insulators”, Science 2017
• Benalcazar, Teo, Hughes, “Classification of two-dimensional topological crystalline superconductors and Majorana bound states at disclinations”, PRB 2014

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