2D Materials – Physics of
van der Waals [hetero]structures

Scientific Projects

• Atomistic theory of excited states in van-der-Waals heterostructures: Moiré confinement, strain and electric field effects
  Gabriel Bester (University Hamburg)

• Confining electrons in twisted and proximity-coupled bilayer graphene
  Christoph Stampfer (RWTH Aachen University)

• Correlations in van der Waals [Hetero]Structures by the Spectroscopic Fingerprints of Quasiparticles and Collective Excitations
  Dante Marvin Kennes (RWTH Aachen University), Tim Wehling (University Hamburg), Ursula Wurstbauer (University of Münster)

• Creating many-body states in two-dimensional van-der-Waals heterostructures by design
  Wouter Jolie (University of Cologne)

• Dark excitons: Energetics, dynamics, transport and correlated phases
  Marcel Reutzel (Georg-August-University Göttingen), Stefan Mathias (Georg-August-University Göttingen)

• Dipolar excitons and interlayer coupling: Optics, dynamics and transport in Janus TMD heterostructures
  Andrey Turchanin (Friedrich-Schiller-UniversityJena), Bernhard Urbaszek (TU Darmstadt), Ermin Malic (Philipps-University Marburg)

• Electronic control of combined spin-orbit and magnetic exchange coupling in graphene vdW-heterostructures (CombSOC)
  Marko Burghard (MPI-FKF Stuttgart), Christoph Kastl (WSI, TU Munich), Alexander Holleitner (WSI, TU Munich)

• Exploring Electronic Correlations, Excitonics and Topology on Ultrafast Timescales in van der Waals Heterostructures
  Tommaso Pincelli (TU Berlin), Ralph Ernstorfer (TU Berlin)

• Fingerprinting, tailoring, and transporting excitons in strained 2D heterostructures
  Kirill Bolotin (FU Berlin)

• High-lying excitons and tuneable excitonic quantum optics in stacked van-der-Waals semiconductors
  Sebastian Bange (University of Regensburg)

• In search of a quantum critical point - Thermodynamic investigations of superconducting and incoherent metal phases in twisted bilayer graphene
  Dmitri Efetov (LMU München)

• Interplay between magnetism and superconductivity in 2D van der Waals heterostructures
  Stuart Parkin (MPI Halle)

• Magnetic and electronic properties of graphene/MOFene superlattices
  Thomas Heine (TU Dresden), Xinliang Feng (TU Dresden, MPI Halle), Thomas Weitz (University Göttingen)

• Magnetotransport studies of interfacial interactions in van der Waals structures
  Jurgen H. Smet (MPI-FKF, Stuttgart)

• Manybody non-linear and coherent phenomena in optical cavities with embedded van der Waals heterostructures: The bosonic versus the fermionic regime
  Christopher Gies (University Bremen), Stephan Reitzenstein (TU Berlin), Christian Schneider (University Oldenburg)

• Nanoscale control of 2D superconductivity and Majorana states
  Felix Lüpke (Peter Grünberg Institute for Quantum Nanoscience, FZ Jülich)

• Non-collinear spin textures in magnetic moiré van der Waals heterostructures
  Jeison Fischer (University of Cologne), Amilcar Bedoya-Pinto (University of Valencia)

• Optical and vibrational properties of twisted 2D layered heterostructures
  Janina Maultzsch (FAU Erlangen-Nürnberg)

• Proximity spin interactions in 2D magnetic vdW (hetero)multilayers
  Jaroslav Fabian (University of Regensburg)

• Quantum gases in moiré-ordered and reconstructed heterostructures: effective dimensionalities, hybrid states, and interactions
  Alexander Steinhoff-List (University of Bremen), Alexey Chernikov (TU Dresden), Alexander Högele (LMU München)

• Straintronics with van der Waals Ferroelectrics
  Emeline Nysten (University of Münster)

• Strong interlayer interactions in two-dimensional pnictogen-based homo- and heterobilayers
  Roland Gillen (Swansea University, UK)

• Tailoring (opto)spintronic phenomena by van-der-Waals heterostructure design
  Hua Lv (PDI Berlin), Hans Tornatzky (PDI Berlin)

• Towards 2D superconducting spintronics
  Angelo Di Bernardo (University of Salerno & University Konstanz), Elke Scheer (University Konstanz), Hadar Steinberg (The Hebrew University of Jerusalem), Wolfgang Belzig (University Konstanz)

• Tunable Moiré Potentials in 2D-Heterostructures using Anisotropic Strain
  Jonathan J. Finley, (WSI & TU Munich), Fei Ding (Leibniz University Hannover), Rolf Haug (Leibniz University Hannover)