Leon Balents

Research interests

Publications

• Electronic instabilities of kagome metals: Saddle points and Landau theory

  Physical review. B./Physical review. B · 2021 · 10.1103/physrevb.104.035142

• Superconductivity and strong correlations in moiré flat bands

  Nature Physics · 2020 · 10.1038/s41567-020-0906-9

• Cs V 3 Sb 5 : A Z 2 Topological Kagome Metal with a Superconducting Ground State

  Physical Review Letters · 2020 · 10.1103/physrevlett.125.247002

• Topological Superconductivity in Twisted Multilayer Graphene

  Physical Review Letters · 2018 · 10.1103/physrevlett.121.087001

• Strongly Correlated Metal Built from Sachdev-Ye-Kitaev Models

  Physical Review Letters · 2017 · 10.1103/physrevlett.119.216601

• Coulombic Quantum Liquids in Spin- 1 / 2 Pyrochlores

  Physical Review Letters · 2012 · 10.1103/physrevlett.108.037202

• Spin liquid ground state of the spin- 1 2 square J 1 - J 2 Heisenberg model

  Physical Review B · 2012 · 10.1103/physrevb.86.024424

• Time-reversal invariant realization of the Weyl semimetal phase

  Physical Review B · 2012 · 10.1103/physrevb.85.035103

• Identifying topological order by entanglement entropy

  Nature Physics · 2012 · 10.1038/nphys2465

• Weyl Semimetal in a Topological Insulator Multilayer

  Physical Review Letters · 2011 · https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevlett.107.127205

• Topological nodal semimetals

  Physical Review B · 2011 · https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevb.84.235126

• Spin liquids in frustrated magnets

  Nature · 2010 · https://doi.org/10.1038/nature08917

• Mott physics and band topology in materials with strong spin–orbit interaction

  Nature Physics · 2010 · 10.1038/nphys1606

• Band touching from real-space topology in frustrated hopping models

  Physical Review B · 2008 · 10.1103/physrevb.78.125104

• Topological invariants of time-reversal-invariant band structures

  Physical Review B · 2007 · https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevb.75.121306

• Order-by-disorder and spiral spin-liquid in frustrated diamond-lattice antiferromagnets

  Nature Physics · 2007 · 10.1038/nphys622

• Flat Bands and Wigner Crystallization in the Honeycomb Optical Lattice

  Physical Review Letters · 2007 · 10.1103/physrevlett.99.070401

• Quantum criticality beyond the Landau-Ginzburg-Wilson paradigm

  Physical Review B · 2004 · 10.1103/physrevb.70.144407

• Pyrochlore photons: The U ( 1 ) spin liquid in a S = 1 2 three-dimensional frustrated magnet

  Physical Review B · 2004 · 10.1103/physrevb.69.064404

• Deconfined Quantum Critical Points

  Science · 2004 · 10.1126/science.1091806

• Fractionalization in an easy-axis Kagome antiferromagnet

  Physical review. B, Condensed matter · 2002 · 10.1103/physrevb.65.224412

• Carbon nanotube intramolecular junctions

  Nature · 1999 · https://doi.org/10.1038/46241

• Luttinger-liquid behaviour in carbon nanotubes

  Nature · 1999 · 10.1038/17569

• Coulomb Interactions and Mesoscopic Effects in Carbon Nanotubes

  Physical Review Letters · 1997 · 10.1103/physrevlett.79.5086

• Weak-coupling phase diagram of the two-chain Hubbard model

  Physical review. B, Condensed matter · 1996 · 10.1103/physrevb.53.12133

Current projects

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