Ph. D. (Physics)
UT Austin(2008)
M.A. (Physics)
UT Austin(2004)
B.S. (Physics/Math)
University of Houston (2002)

Research Interest

Condensed Matter Theory: Low dimensional Electron Systems.
Graphene and Graphene-based nanostructures.
Quantum Hall Effect.
Superconductivity.
Cold Atom Systems

Selected Publications

Title: Chirality and Correlations in Graphene
Authors: Yafis Barlas, Tami Pareg-Barnea, Marco Polini, Reza Asgari and A.H.MacDonald
Publication:cond-mat/0701257 Phys. Rev. Lett. 98, 236601 (2007)

Title: Graphene: A Pseudochiral Fermi Liquid
Authors: Marco Polini, Reza Asgari, Yafis Barlas, Tami Pareg-Barnea and A.H.MacDonald
Publication:cond-mat/0704.3786 Solid State Comm. 143, 58 (2007)

Title: Intra-Landau level Cyclotron Resonance in Bilayer Graphene
Authors: Yafis Barlas, R. Cote, K. Nomura and A.H.MacDonald
Publication:cond-mat/0803.0044 Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 097601, (2008)

Title: Non-Fermi liquid behavior in neutral bilayer graphene
Authors: Yafis Barlas and Kun Yang
Publication:cond-mat/0707.4230 Phys. Rev. B 80, 161408(R) (2009) (Editor's Suggestion)

Title: Fractionalization via $\mathbb{Z}_{2}$ Gauge Fields at a Cold Atom Quantum Hall Transition
Authors: Yafis Barlas and Kun Yang
Publication:cond-mat/0707.4230 Phys. Rev. Lett. 106, 170403 (2011)

Title: Quantum Hall to charge-density-wave phase transitions in ABC-trilayer graphene
Authors: Yafis Barlas, R. Cote and M Rondeau
Publication:cond-mat/0707.4230 Phys. Rev. Lett. 109, 126804 (2012).

Invited Talks

Graphene: A Pseudochiral Fermi Liquid, Texas A&M (2007)

Broken Symmetry states in Bilayer and Trilayer Graphene, KITP UCSB (2009)

Layer and Orbital ordering in Bilayer Graphene, Princeton University PCTS (2010)

Fractionalization at a Cold-Atom quantum Hall transition, UC Riverside (2011)

Quantum Hall to charge-density-wave phase transitions in ABC-trilayer graphene, KITP UCSB (2012)

Quantum Hall to charge-density-wave phase transitions in ABC-trilayer graphene, University of Oklahoma (2012).

Curriculum Vitae

Ph. D. Thesis

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