Scott Dietrich

Education:

• Ph.D. City University of New York
• B.A. Boston University 2010

Grants:

• NSF: Faculty Early Career Development Program (CAREER)

Research:

My research focuses on the highly-interacting electronic phases of 2D electron systems (2DES) that exist at high magnetic fields and extremely low temperatures through the use of electrical transport and microwave transmission spectroscopy measurements. My laboratory is capable of fabricating heterostructures of van der Waals materials with the precision of a single atomic layer. The posterchild for this family of materials is of course graphene, which is a single layer of carbon atoms, but there are other materials in this family whose properties range from insulator to superconductor. Graphene hosts a rich landscape of electronic solid phases predicted for graphene composed of electron-hole quasiparticles, composite fermions, and charged topological excitations (skyrmions). These studies will elucidate the competition of these states with liquid fractional Quantum Hall Effect states and provide a foothold for exploring two more complicated variations on the electronic solid framework: one where periodic rather than random disorder pins the electronic solids (in graphene moiré superlattices) and another where spin-orbit interaction adds nontrivial topology to the system (in transition metal dichalcogenides). I am also interested the dynamics of vortex interactions and the pinning of vortex lattices in atomically thin type-II superconductors. These studies are crucial for the understanding of superconductivity pushed to the extreme 2D limit.

Course List:

• Fall22-PHY-1101-004 General Physics I Lab
• Fall22-PHY-4100-001 Mechanics I