Leibniz Prize for LMU researcher Dmitri Efetov

Graphene is an allotrope of carbon with very special qualities. In the nanomaterial, which consists of just a single layer of atoms, electrons become massless. If you twist two layers of graphene to a certain ‘magic’ angle in relation to each other, you get a variety of exotic quantum phases with new physical phenomena such as superconducting, magnetic, and isolating states, the properties of which Dmitri Efetov studies. His research has yielded fundamental new insights into various quantum effects.

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