I am a condensed matter theorist working on strongly correlated quantum materials. I use analytical and phenomenological approaches to study the many-body behavior in a broad range of systems, seeking to deduce the concepts underlying their behavior.
News:
- I have been awarded Nevill F. Mott Prize 2025
- Prediction of light-driven spatiotemporal order is Editor’s Suggestion in PRL
- Study of superfluid stiffness of twisted graphene appears in Nature
- Work on electron microemulsions in monolayer MoSe2 in Nature Physics
- Work on quantum bipolaron superconductivity published as Editor’s Suggestion in PRL
- Experimental work on twisted cuprate superconductors appears in Science
- Work on collective modes in polar metals highlighted as Editor’s Suggestion in PRB
- Work on multiferroic phenomena in a frustrated magnetic material in PRL
- Works on topology and correlations in twisted nodal superconductors published as Editor’s Suggestions in PRL and PRB (see also earlier Journal Club entry)
- Paper on superconductivity in critical polar metals out in Nature Communications
- I received Martin and Beate Block Award at Aspen Center for Physics
Pavel A. Volkov - Theoretical Condensed Matter Physics 