Michel Gingras
Professor of Physics & Astronomy,
Canada Research Chair in Condensed Matter Theory & Statistical Mechanics,
Member of the Canadian Institute for Advanced Research/Quantum Materials Program
Email: gingras@uwaterloo.ca
News
- New findings from an international collaboration led by Canadian scientists may eventually lead to a theory of how superconductivity initiates at the atomic level. Professor David Hawthorn, Professor Michel Gingras, doctoral student Andrew Achkar, and post-doctoral fellow Dr. Zhihao Hao from the University of Waterloo’s Department of Physics and Astronomy have experimentally shown that electron clouds in superconducting materials can snap into an aligned and directional order called nematicity. Their results, published in Science, present the most direct experimental evidence to date of electronic nematicity as a universal feature in cuprate high-temperature superconductors. See here for the press release.
- Post-doctoral fellow Jeff Rau and Michel Gingras publishes with Ludovic Jaubert from the Okinawa Institute for Science & Technology (OIST) and a team of collaborators a Physical Review Letter on the energetic vs quantum fluctuation ground state selection in the paradoxical and candidate quantum spin ice material Yb2Ti2O7. http://journals.aps.org/prl/abstract/10.1103/PhysRevLett.115.267208
- Recently graduated Ph.D. Student Behnam Javanparast, post-doctoral fellow Zhihao Hao, collaborator Matt Enjalran and Michel Gingras publish a Physical Review Letter on the theory of order-by-disorder selection of the multiple-k phase near the paramagnetic transition in frustrated pyrochlore antiferromagnets. http://journals.aps.org/prl/abstract/10.1103/PhysRevLett.114.130601
- Post-doctoral fellow Zhihao Hao, M.Sc. student Alex Day and Michel Gingras publish a Physical Review B article on a bosonic theory of quantum spin ice (Editor's Suggestion).
http://journals.aps.org/prb/abstract/10.1103/PhysRevB.90.214430
Open positions
I currently have openings in my group for M.Sc. and/or Ph.D. graduate students. Please feel free to contact me by email for more information