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Room 3.48A
HH Wills Physics Laboratory
Tyndall Avenue
Bristol
BS8 1TL
United Kingdom

Phone: +44 (0)117 928 8727
Fax: +44 (0)117 925 5624
Email: physics@jvanwezel.com


I am a lecturer in Condensed Matter Theory at the University of Bristol.
I do research in theoretical condensed matter physics at the Theoretical Physics group of the School of Physics within the Faculty of Science.


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Recent Publications
University of Bristol

This October, I will move to the University of Bristol to take up a position as lecturer. At Bristol I will continue my research on charge ordered phases, spontaneously broken unitarity, and other topics of condensed matter physics. 		  Highlight Picture

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Highlight Picture   Chiral Charge Density Waves

It was recently discovered that electrons in certain materials can conspire to make spiral patterns in their density distribution. We explain this new phenomenon as a consequence of the interactions between the different orbitals occupied by the electrons in these materials.

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Observing the Divergence of Quantum Critical Fluctuations

Although it is well known that phase transition at zero temperature are accompanied by strong quantum fluctuations on all possible length scales, it is usually hard to directly observe these fluctuations in an experiment. We found that high resolution X-ray diffraction can be used to directly follow the divergence of the quantum critical fluctuations in the charge ordered material NbSe2. 		  Highlight Picture

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  1. "Chiral phase transition in charge ordered 1T-TiSe2"
    John-Paul Castellan, Stephan Rosenkranz, Ray Osborn, Qing'an Li, K. E. Gray, X. Luo, U. Welp, Goran Karapetrov, J. P. C. Ruff, and Jasper van Wezel
    Phys. Rev. Lett., 110, 196404 (2013)
    10.1103/PhysRevLett.110.196404

  2. "Incommensurate antiferromagnetism in a pure spin system via cooperative organization of local and itinerant moments"
    Yejun Feng, Jiyang Wang, D. M. Silevitch, B. Mihaila, J. W. Kim, J.-Q. Yan, R. K. Schulze, Nayoon Woo, A. Palmer, Y. Ren, Jasper van Wezel, P. B. Littlewood, and T. F. Rosenbaum
    PNAS, 110, 3287-3292 (2013)
    doi:10.1073/pnas.1217292110

  3. "Quantum phase transition from triangular to stripe charge order in NbSe2"
    Anjan Soumyanarayanan, Michael M. Yee, Yang He, Jasper van Wezel, D. J. Rahn, K. Rossnagel, E. W. Hudson, M. R. Norman and Jennifer E. Hoffman
    PNAS, 110, 1623-1627 (2013)
    doi:10.1073/pnas.1211387110


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