Amir Yacoby

About

Amir Yacoby is the Mallinckrodt Professor of Physics and of Applied Physics at Harvard University, affiliated with the Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences. His primary teaching area is Applied Physics. His research areas include Applied Physics and Quantum Engineering, with a focus on exploring quantum effects in materials such as twisted trilayer graphene and 2D materials. His work involves investigating supermoiré engineering, twistronics, and the development of quantum devices and applications. Yacoby's contributions are recognized within the fields of electrical engineering, materials science, and mechanical engineering, and he is actively involved in advancing understanding of exotic quantum particles and phenomena.

Research topics

• Physics
• Nanotechnology
• Quantum mechanics
• Condensed matter physics
• Materials science

Selected publications

• Fractional Chern insulators in magic-angle twisted bilayer graphene

  Nature · 2021-12-15 · 533 citations

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  Abstract Fractional Chern insulators (FCIs) are lattice analogues of fractional quantum Hall states that may provide a new avenue towards manipulating non-Abelian excitations. Early theoretical studies 1–7 have predicted their existence in systems with flat Chern bands and highlighted the critical role of a particular quantum geometry. However, FCI states have been observed only in Bernal-stacked bilayer graphene (BLG) aligned with hexagonal boron nitride (hBN) 8 , in which a very large magnetic…

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• The Magnetic Genome of Two-Dimensional van der Waals Materials

  ACS Nano · 2022 · 466 citations

  , synthesis, device engineering, magneto-optics, imaging, transport, mechanics, spin excitations, and theory and simulations) have joined together to provide a genome of current knowledge and a guideline for future developments in 2D magnetic materials research.

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• Imaging viscous flow of the Dirac fluid in graphene

  RePEc: Research Papers in Economics · 316 citations

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  Abstract The electron–hole plasma in charge-neutral graphene is predicted to realize a quantum critical system in which electrical transport features a universal hydrodynamic description, even at room temperature1, 2. This quantum critical ‘Dirac fluid’ is expected to have a shear viscosity close to a minimum bound3, 4, with an interparticle scattering rate saturating1 at the Planckian time, the shortest possible timescale for particles to relax. Although electrical transport measurements at fin…

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• Superfluid stiffness of twisted trilayer graphene superconductors

  Nature · 2025-02-05 · 38 citations

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• Anyon braiding and telegraph noise in a graphene interferometer

  Science · 2025-04-10 · 28 citations

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  The search for anyons, quasiparticles with fractional charge and exotic exchange statistics, has inspired decades of condensed matter research. Quantum Hall interferometers enable direct observation of the anyon braiding phase through discrete interference phase jumps when the number of encircled localized quasiparticles changes. In this study, we observed this braiding phase in both the filling factor 1/3 and 4/3 fractional quantum Hall states by probing three-state random telegraph noise (RTN)…

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Recent grants

• CMP: Charge Fractionalization and Spin Charge Separation in One Dimensional Conductors

  NSF · $480k · 2007–2012

• PIF: Few Electron Logical Qubits and Cross Chip Shuttling of Quantum Information

  NSF · $150k · 2007–2010

• Spin, Heat and Charge Transport in Quantum Hall Edge Modes

  NSF · $520k · 2012–2016

Frequent coauthors

• Ronald L. Walsworth

  University of Maryland, College Park

  89 shared

• Bertrand I. Halperin

  62 shared

• Mikhail D. Lukin

  Harvard University

  56 shared

• Takashi Taniguchi

  50 shared

• Kenji Watanabe

  National Institute for Materials Science

  48 shared

• V. Umansky

  Weizmann Institute of Science

  47 shared

• Jens Martin

  Leibniz Institute for Crystal Growth

  47 shared

• L. N. Pfeiffer

  45 shared

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