Antonio Štrkalj

Dr Antonio Štrkalj

Swiss Nat. Sci. Foundation Fellow

Office: 544 Mott Bld

TCM Group, Cavendish Laboratory
19 JJ Thomson Avenue,
Cambridge, CB3 0HE UK.

Research

A general topic of my research is the mesoscopic physics of low-dimensional systems. My research is divided into three parts:

Strongly correlated 1D systems (i.e., quantum wires) that host the Luttinger liquid phase. I am interested in how the environment and impurities affect the transport properties of the interacting electrons in one dimension.
Effects of correlated disorder on the localization properties of closed quantum systems. I investigate how the quasiperiodic external potentials cause the coherent localization of wavelike particles in both single-particle and many-body quantum systems. My recent work is concentrated around the out-of-equilibrium dynamics of many-body quasiperiodic systems. Among other things, I am interested in the stability of the many-body localization in specific two-dimensional tight-binding models.
Transport properties of materials with non-trivial band structures. Here I study how the quantum effects, like the Fabry-Pérot interference, can emerge in macroscopic two-dimensional devices made of materials with complex band structures.

Highlighted Research:

The cascade to criticality

A new path for electron optics in solid-state systems

Featured Publications

Optical absorption and transmission in a molybdenum disulfide monolayer Z Rukelj, A Strkalj, and V Despoja, Phys. Rev. B 94 115428 (2016)

Tunneling into a finite Luttinger liquid coupled to noisy capacitive leads A Strkalj, M S Ferguson, T M R Wolf, I Levkivskyi, and O Zilberberg, Phys. Rev. Lett. 122, 126802 (2019)

Electron-Hole Interference in an Inverted-Band Semiconductor Bilayer M Karalic, A Strkalj, et al., Phys. Rev. X 10, 031007 (2020)

Emergence of criticality through a cascade of delocalization transitions in quasiperiodic chains V Goblot, A Strkalj, et al., Nat. Phys., 16, 832 (2020)

Luttinger liquid coupled to Ohmic-class environments A Khedri, A Strkalj, A Chiocchetta, and O Zilberberg, Phys. Rev. Research 3, L032013 (2021)

Many-body localization in the interpolating Aubry-André-Fibonacci model A Strkalj, E V H Doggen, I V Gornyi, and O Zilberberg, Phys. Rev. Research 3, 033257 (2021)

Coexistence of localization and transport in many-body two-dimensional Aubry-André models A Strkalj, E V H Doggen, C Castelnovo, arXiv:2204.05198 (2022)