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Prof Phil King

Director of Research

Professor

Phone

+44 (0)1334 46 3067

Email

pdk6@st-andrews.ac.uk

 

Teaching

Currently, I lecture on the following courses:

PH4044: "Advanced Condensed Matter Physics"

PH5024/SUPATOP: "Modern Topics in Condensed Matter Physics"

I am also overall co-ordinator for final-year (BSc and MPhys) projects in Physics and Astronomy, and module co-ordinator for physics projects (PH4111 and PH5101)

Research areas

My research is focussed on studying the electronic states of a complex class of solids termed 'quantum materials'. These systems exhibit a wide range of stunning, and potentially extremely useful, physical properties. From high-temperature superconductivity to exotic topologically ordered states, understanding the physics underpinning quantum materials is a major research challenge of modern condensed matter and materials physics. We use angle-resolved photoemission spectroscopy (ARPES) as a direct momentum-resolved probe of the electronic structure and Fermi surfaces of materials to image their interacting electronic states, and utilise thin-film growth approaches of molecular-beam epitaxy to fabricate new quantum materials, structured at the atomic scale, as a route to tailor their quantum many-body properties. We utilise and develop new instrumentation for such studies within the in 58³Ô¹Ï, and are also make extensive use of international synchrotron facilities. For more information, please see our .

PhD supervision

• Ferran Aliagas Puigdomenech
• Arjit Shankar Banerjee
• Zuzanna Filipiak
• Aryaman Gogoi Baruah
• Naina Kumari
• Shu Mo
• Maria Visscher
• Yu-Chi Yao

Selected publications

• Open access
  Sunko, V., Mazzola, F., Kitamura, S., Khim, S., Kushwaha, P., Clark, O. J., Watson, M., Markovic, I., Biswas, D., Pourovskii, L., Kim, T. K., Lee, T.-L., Thakur, P. K., Rosner, H., Georges, A., Moessner, R., Oka, T., Mackenzie, A. P. & King, P. D. C., 7 Feb 2020, In: Science Advances. 6, 6, eaaz0611.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

• Open access
  Sunko, V., Rosner, H., Kushwaha, P., Khim, S., Mazzola, F., Bawden, L., Clark, O. J., Riley, J. M., Kasinathan, D., Haverkort, M. W., Kim, T. K., Hoesch, M., Fujii, J., Vobornik, I., Mackenzie, A. P. & King, P. D., 28 Sept 2017, In: Nature. 549, 7673, p. 492-496

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

• Open access
  Mazzola, F., Sunko, V., Khim, S., Rosner, H., Kushwaha, P., Clark, O. J., Bawden, L., Marković, I., Kim, T. K., Hoesch, M., Mackenzie, A. P. & King, P. D. C., 18 Dec 2018, In: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America. 115, 51, p. 12956-12960 5 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

• Open access
  Sunko, V., Morales, E. A., Marković, I., Barber, M. E., Milosavljević, D., Mazzola, F., Sokolov, D. A., Kikugawa, N., Cacho, C., Dudin, P., Rosner, H., Hicks, C. W., King, P. D. C. & Mackenzie, A. P., 19 Aug 2019, In: npj Quantum Materials. 4, 7 p., 46.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

• Open access
  Riley, J. M., Caruso, F., Verdi, C., Duffy, L., Watson, M. D., Bawden, L., Volckaert, K., van der Laan, G., Hesjedal, T., Hoesch, M., Giustino, F. & King, P. D., 13 Jun 2018, In: Nature Communications. 9, 8 p., 2305.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

• Open access
  Bahramy, M. S., Clark, O. J., Yang, B.-J., Feng, J., Bawden, L., Riley, J. M., Markovic, I., Mazzola, F., Sunko, V., Biswas, D., Cooil, S. P., Jorge, M., Wells, J. W., Leandersson, M., Balasubramanian, T., Fujii, J., Vobornik, I., Rault, J., Kim, T. K. & Hoesch, M. & 6 others, Okawa, K., Asakawa, M., Sasagawa, T., Eknapakul, T., Meevasana, W. & King, P. D. C., Jan 2018, In: Nature Materials. 17, 1, p. 21-28 8 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

• Open access
  Feng, J., Biswas, D., Akhil, R., Watson, M. D., Mazzola, F., Clark, O. J., Underwood, K., Markovic, I., McLaren, M., Hunter, A., Burn, D. M., Duffy, L. B., Barua, S., Balakrishnan, G., Bertran, F., Le Fevre, P., Kim, T. K., van der Laan, G., Hesjedal, T. & Wahl, P. & 1 others, King, P. D. C., 11 Jul 2018, In: Nano Letters. 18, 7, p. 4493-4499 7 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Letter › peer-review

• Open access
  Clark, O. J., Neat, M. J., Okawa, K., Bawden, L., Marković, I., Mazzola, F., Feng, J., Sunko, V., Riley, J. M., Meevasana, W., Fujii, J., Vobornik, I., Kim, T., Hoesch, M., Sasagawa, T., Wahl, P., Bahramy, M. S. & King, P. D. C., 9 Apr 2018, In: Physical Review Letters. 120, 15, 7 p., 156401.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

• Open access
  Bawden, L., Cooil, S. P., Riley, J. M., Collins-McIntyre, L. J., Sunko, V., Hunvik, K., Leandersson, M., Polley, C. M., Balasubramanian, T., Kim, T. K., Hoesch, M., Wells, J. W., Balakrishnan, G., Bahramy, M. S. & King, P. D., 23 May 2016, In: Nature Communications. 7, 6 p., 11711.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

• Open access
  Riley, J. M., Mazzola, F., Dendzik, M., Michiardi, M., Takayama, T., Bawden, L., Granerød, C., Leandersson, M., Balasubramanian, T., Hoesch, M., Kim, T. K., Takagi, H., Meevasana, W., Hofmann, P., Bahramy, M. S., Wells, J. W. & King, P., Nov 2014, In: Nature Physics. 10, 11, p. 835–839 5 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review