Most of the publications can be found on ArXiV.
- 2022 – now Assistant professor at University of Connecticut
- 2022 – 2023 PostDoc Fellow at Harvard University (on leave from UConn)
- 2018 – 2022 PostDoc Fellow at Rutgers Center for Materials Theory
- 2018 PhD in Physics, Ruhr-Universität Bochum, Advisor : Prof. K.B. Efetov
- 2013 M.Sc. (cum laude) Physics, Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology, Advisor: Prof. Yu. E. Lozovik
Preprints/under review:
J. Tang, Pavel A. Volkov, “Probing Pair Density Waves with Twisted Josephson Junctions” , arXiv:2512.13388
K. Shulga, S. Nishimura, P. A. Volkov, R. Hasegawa, M. Hirano, T. Tsuji, T. Iwasaki, M. Hatano, K. Sasaki, K. Kobayashi, “Observation of individual vortex penetration in a coplanar superconducting resonator”, arXiv:2512.00790
Kevin P. Lucht, J. H. Pixley, P. A. Volkov, “Moiré-induced gapped phases in twisted nodal superconductors”, arXiv:2511.15708
Daniel Kaplan, Pavel A. Volkov, Andrea Cavalleri, Premala Chandra, “Optically-Induced Faraday-Goldstone Waves”, arXiv:2511.07320
J. Tang, Pavel A. Volkov, “Dynamical signatures and control of time-reversal breaking in twisted nodal superconductors”, arXiv:2507.22495
Daniel Kaplan, Pavel A. Volkov, Jennifer Coulter, Shiwei Zhang, Premala Chandra, “Spatiotemporal Order and Parametric Instabilities from First-Principles”, arXiv:2507.14110
J. H. Pixley, Pavel A. Volkov, “Twisted Nodal Superconductors”, arXiv:2503.23683
Daniel Kaplan, Kevin P. Lucht, Pavel A. Volkov, J. H. Pixley, “Quantum geometric photocurrents of quasiparticles in superconductors”, arXiv:2502.12265
N. Drucker, T. Nguyen, M. Mandal, P. Siriviboon, Y. Quan, A. Boonkird, R. Okabe, F. Li, K. Buragge, F. Funuma, M. Matsuda, D. Abernathy, T. Williams, S. Chi, F. Ye, C. Nelson, B. Liao, Pavel Volkov, M. Li, “Incipient nematicity from electron flat bands in a kagome metal”, arXiv:2401.17141
Publications:
41) Serhii Kryhin, Subir Sachdev, Pavel A. Volkov, “Strong non-linear response of strange metals”, Phys. Rev. Lett. 135, 016503 (2025)
40) A. Alexandranata, N. P. Armitage, … Pavel A. Volkov et al., “The Future of the Correlated Electron Problem”, SciPost Phys. Comm. Rep. 8 (2025)
39) P. Myles Eugenio, Zhu-Xi Luo, Ashvin Vishwanath, Pavel A. Volkov, “Tunable t−t′−U Hubbard models in twisted square homobilayers”, Phys. Rev. Lett. 134, (2025)
38) E. Portoles*, M. Perego, P. A. Volkov* et al., “Quasiparticle and superfluid dynamics in Magic-Angle Graphene”, Nature Communications 16, 4273 (2025)
37) Daniel Kaplan*, Pavel A. Volkov*, Ahana Chakrabotry, Zekun Zhuang, Premala Chandra*, “Tunable Spatiotemporal Orders in Driven Insulators”, Phys. Rev. Lett. 134 (Editor’s Suggestion) (2025)
36) A. Banerjee, Z. Hao, M. Kreidel, P. Ledwith, … , Pavel A. Volkov, A. Vishwanath, K. C. Fong, P. Kim, “Superfluid stiffness of twisted multilayer graphene superconductors”, Nature (2025)
35) Kevin P. Lucht, J. H. Pixley, P. A. Volkov, “2.5-dimensional topological superconductivity in twisted superconducting flakes”, npj Quantum Materials 10, 10 (2025)
34) J. Sung*, J. Wang*, I. Esterlis*, P. A. Volkov* et al., “An electronic microemulsion phase emerging from a quantum crystal-to-liquid transition”, Nature Physics (2025)
33) P. A. Volkov, S. Y. F. Zhao, N. Poccia, X. Cui, P. Kim, J. H. Pixley, “Josephson effects in twisted nodal superconductors”, Phys. Rev. B 111, 014514 (2025)
32) Daniel Flavian, Pavel A. Volkov, Shohei Hayashida, Kirill Yu. Povarov, Severian Gvasaliya, Premala Chandra, Andrey Zheludev, “Dielectric relaxation in the quantum multiferroics Rb2Cu2Mo3O12 and Cs2Cu2Mo3O12” Phys. Rev. B 110, 174433 (2024)
31) Z. Han, S. A. Kivelson, P. A. Volkov ” “Quantum bipolaron” superconductivity from quadratic electron-phonon coupling “, Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 226001 (Editor’s Suggestion) (2024)
30) Kevin P. Lucht, Pavel A. Volkov, J. H. Pixley, “Inducing Z2 Topology in Twisted Nodal Superconductors”, Phys. Rev. B 109, 184507 (2024)
29) T. Hazra and P. A. Volkov, “Pair Kondo effect: A mechanism for time-reversal symmetry breaking superconductivity in UTe2”, Phys. Rev. B 109, 184501 (2024)
28) P. A. Volkov, É. Lantagne-Hurtubise, T. Tummuru, S. Plugge, J. H. Pixley, M. Franz “Josephson diode effects in twisted nodal superconductors”, Phys. Rev. B 109, 094518 (2024)
27) S. Y. F. Zhao, X. Cui, P. A. Volkov, H. Yoo, S. Lee, J. A. Gardner, A. J. Key, R. Engelke, Y. Ronen, R. Zhong, G. Gu, S. Plugge, T. Tummuru, M. Franz, J. H. Pixley, N. Poccia, P. Kim “Time-reversal symmetry breaking superconductivity between twisted cuprate superconductors”, Science (2023)
26) A. Kumar, P. Chandra, Pavel A. Volkov, “Phonon-Induced Collective Modes in Spin-Orbit Coupled Polar Metals”, Phys. Rev. B 108, 075162 (Editor’s Suggestion) (2023)
25) Daniel Flavian, Pavel A. Volkov, Shohei Hayashida, Kirill Yu. Povarov, Severian Gvasaliya, Premala Chandra, Andrey Zheludev, “Dielectric relaxation by quantum critical magnons”, Phys. Rev. Lett. 130, 216501 (2023)
24) Pavel A. Volkov, Justin H. Wilson, Kevin P. Lucht, Jed H. Pixley, “Current- and Field-Induced Topology in Twisted Nodal Superconductors”, Phys. Rev. Lett. 130, 186001 (Editor’s Suggestion) (2023)
23) Pavel A. Volkov, Justin H. Wilson, Kevin P. Lucht, Jed H. Pixley, “Magic angles and correlations in twisted nodal superconductors”, Phys. Rev. B 107, 174506 (Editor’s Suggestion) (2023)
22) Zekun Zhuang, Ahana Chakraborty, Premala Chandra, Piers Coleman, Pavel A. Volkov, “Light-Driven Transitions in Quantum Paraelectrics”, Phys. Rev. B 107, 224307 (2023)
21) Junhyun Lee, P. A. Volkov, B. J. DeSalvo, J. H. Pixley, “Rydberg dressed spin-1/2 Fermi gases in one dimension”, Phys. Rev. A 107, 053307 (2023)
20) Pavel A. Volkov, P. Chandra, P. Coleman, “Superconductivity from energy fluctuations in dilute quantum critical polar metals ”, Nature Communications, 13 4599 (2022)
19) A. Kumar, P. Chandra, Pavel A. Volkov, “Spin-Phonon Resonances in Nearly Polar Metals with Spin-Orbit Coupling”, Phys. Rev. B 105, 125142 (2022)
18) Pavel A. Volkov, Mai Ye, Himanshu Lohani, Irena Feldman, Amit Kanigel, Girsh Blumberg, “Failed excitonic quantum phase transition in Ta2Ni(Se1−xSx)5“, Phys. Rev. B 104, L241103 (Letter) (2021)
17) Mai Ye, Pavel A. Volkov, Himanshu Lohani, Irena Feldman, Amit Kanigel, Girsh Blumberg, “Lattice dynamics of the excitonic insulator Ta2Ni(Se1−xSx)5 “, Physical Review B 104, 045102 (Editor’s Suggestion) (2021)
16) Pavel A. Volkov, Mai Ye, Himanshu Lohani, Irena Feldman, Amit Kanigel, Girsh Blumberg, “Critical charge fluctuations and emergent coherence in a strongly correlated excitonic insulator”, npj Quantum Materials volume 6, 52 (2021)
15) Marvin A. Müller, Pavel A. Volkov, Indranil Paul, Ilya M. Eremin, “Interplay between nematicity and Bardasis-Schrieffer modes in the short-time dynamics of unconventional superconductors”, Phys. Rev. B 103, 024519 (2021)
14) P. A. Volkov, S. Gazit, J. H. Pixley, “Magnon Bose-Einstein Condensation in a Frustrated Kondo Lattice”, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 117 (34) 20462 (2020)
13) P. A. Volkov and P. Chandra, “Multiband Quantum Criticality of Polar Metals”, Phys. Rev. Lett. 124, 237601 (2020)
12) V. Grinenko, R. Sarkar, K. Kihou, C. H. Lee, I. Morozov, S. Aswartham, B.
Buchner, P. Chekhonin, W. Skrotzki, K. Nenkov, R. Huhne, K. Nielsch, D. V. Efremov, S. -L. Drechsler, V. L. Vadimov, M. A. Silaev, P. A. Volkov, I. Eremin, H. Luetkens, H. H. Klauss, ”Superconductivity with broken time reversal symmetry inside a superconducting s-wave state ”, Nature Physics 16, 789 (2020)
11) P. A. Volkov, C.-J. Won, D. I.Gorbunov, J. Kim, M. Ye, H.-S. Kim, J. H. Pixley, S.-
W. Cheong and G. Blumberg, ”Random singlet state in Ba5CuIr3O12 single crystals” Phys. Rev. B 101, 020406(R) (2020)
10) Marvin A. Müller, Pavel A. Volkov, Indranil Paul, and Ilya M. Eremin,”Collective
modes in pumped unconventional superconductors with competing ground states ”, Phys. Rev. B 100, 140501(R)(2019)
9) Jakob Böker, Pavel A. Volkov, Peter J. Hirschfeld, Ilya Eremin, ”Quasiparticle
Interference and Symmetry of Superconducting Order Parameter in Strongly Electron-Doped Iron-based Superconductors”, New Journal of Physics, 21 083021 (2019).
8) P. A. Volkov and S. Moroz, ”Coulomb-induced instabilities of nodal surfaces”,
Phys. Rev. B 98, 241107 (Rapid communications) (2018).
7) P. A. Volkov and K. B. Efetov, ”Charge and current orders in the spin-fermion
model with overlapping hot spots”, Phys. Rev. B 97, 165125 (Editor’s Suggestion) (2018).
6) J. Böker*, P. A. Volkov*, I. Eremin and K. B. Efetov, ”s+is state with incipient
bands: doping dependence and STM signatures” , Phys. Rev. B 96, 014517 (2017)(*equal contribution).
5) Yu. E. Lozovik, I. L. Kurbakov and P. A. Volkov, ”Anisotropic superfluidity of two dimensional excitons in a periodic potential” , Phys. Rev. B 95, 245430 (2017).
4) P. A. Volkov and K. B. Efetov, ”Spin-fermion model with overlapping hot spots and charge modulation in cuprates” , Phys. Rev. B 93, 085131 (2016).
3) P. A. Volkov and K. B. Efetov, ”Overlapping hot spots and charge modulation in
cuprates”, J. Supercond. Nov. Magn. 29, 1069 (2016).
2) A. Moor, P. A. Volkov, A. F. Volkov, and K. B. Efetov, ”Fast Dynamics of the
Order Parameter in Superconductors with a Charge-Density Wave”, Phys. Rev. B 90, 024511 (2014).
1) P. A. Volkov, M. V. Fistul, ”Collective quantum coherent oscillations in a globally
coupled array of qubits”, Phys. Rev. B 89, 054507 (2014).
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