Teaching
Chris's main current teaching activities are: PH3081 (Maths for Physicists); PH5014/SUPAEPS (Interacting Electrons in Solids); and SUPARFN (Response Functions). The first of these is an undergraduate course at St Andrews; the second is shared between St Andrews final-year undergraduates, CM-DTC PhD students, and other PhD students within SUPA; and the third is for PhD students only. He also co-ordinates the MPhys final-year projects in theoretical physics at St Andrews.
In addition, he was co-creator and inaugural module co-ordinator of the St Andrews interdisciplinary sub-Honours module "Great Ideas 1" (ID1003), and initiated (and still organises) the optional "Advanced Topics in Modern Physics" lecture series at St Andrews. He is a member of the School's Teaching Committee, and also leads a tutorial group in PH3014 (Transferable Skills for Physicists).
His past teaching activities have also included: PH2012 (Physics 2B: Quantum Physics) (2006-2013); PH3062 (Quantum Mechanics 2).
He has twice been recipient of a St Andrews Students' Association University-wide Teaching Award: for "Teaching at Honours" in 2011, and for "Project Supervisor (Science)" in 2013.
Research areas
Chris Hooley is a Senior Lecturer in theoretical condensed matter physics at St Andrews, and also Operations Director of the Scottish Doctoral Training Centre in Condensed Matter Physics. His research interests centre on the quantum many-body problem and its applications in the physics of strongly correlated electrons in crystalline solids, cold atomic gases, and nanoscale devices.
His active research topics at the moment are: the use of matrix product states to describe strongly correlated electron systems; vortex-mediated melting in layered systems with competing orders; the effect of the trapping potential on the many-body physics of ultracold atomic gases; the interpretation of partition function zeros at complex temperature; Majorana-paired mean-field states in magnetic systems; relativistic corrections to the electron-electron interaction in metals at low temperatures (with his student Sam Ridgway); and soliton solutions of the Einstein-Maxwell-Dirac equations (with his student Alasdair Leggat, co-supervised with Professor Keith Horne). He also has research interests in non-equilibrium physics, particularly the out-of-equilibrium Kondo model, and in magnetostrictive effects, including the Invar phenomenon.
PhD supervision
- Francisco Zuniga Frias
- Joe Crossley
- Thomas Sheerin
- Felipe Arevalo Escobar
Selected publications
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Hierarchy of Lifshitz transitions in the surface electronic structure of Sr2RuO4 under uniaxial compression
Abarca Morales, E., Siemann, G-R., Zivanovic, A., Murgatroyd, P., Markovic, I., Edwards, B., Hooley, C., Sokolov, D., Kikugawa, N., Cacho, C., Watson, M., Kim, T., Hicks, C. W., Mackenzie, A. & King, P., 11 Jan 2023, (Accepted/In press) In: Physical Review Letters.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Fisher zeros and persistent temporal oscillations in nonunitary quantum circuits
Basu, S., Arovas, D. P., Gopalakrishnan, S., Hooley, C. & Oganesyan, V., 7 Jan 2022, In: Physical Review Research. 4, 1, 13 p., 013018 .Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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A potential all-electronic route to the charge-density-wave phase in monolayer vanadium diselenide
Trott, M. J. & Hooley, C., 26 Feb 2021, In: Communications Physics. 4, 6 p., 37.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Multi-fixed point numerical conformal bootstrap: a case study with structured global symmetry
Dowens, M. T. & Hooley, C. A., 15 Mar 2021, In: Journal of High Energy Physics. 2021, 3, 27 p., 147.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Nonlinear effects in the excited states of many-fermion Einstein-Dirac solitons
Leith, P. E. D., Hooley, C. A., Horne, K. & Dritschel, D. G., 24 Aug 2021, In: Physical review. D, Particles, fields, gravitation, and cosmology. 104, 4, 19 p., 046024 .Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Electronically driven spin-reorientation transition of the correlated polar metal Ca3Ru2O7
Markovic, I., Watson, M. D., Clark, O. J., Mazzola, F., Abarca Morales, E., Hooley, C., Rosner, H., Polley, C. M., Balasubramanian, T., Mukherjee, S., Kikugawa, N., Sokolov, D. A., Mackenzie, A. & King, P. D. C., 7 Jul 2020, In: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America. 117, 27, p. 15524-15529 6 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Fermion self-trapping in the optical geometry of Einstein-Dirac solitons
Leith, P. E. D., Hooley, C. A., Horne, K. & Dritschel, D. G., 15 May 2020, In: Physical Review D - Particles, Fields, Gravitation and Cosmology. 101, 10, 13 p., 106012 .Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Fidelity plateaus from correlated noise in isolated few-level quantum systems
Taylor, S. R. & Hooley, C. A., 8 Sep 2020, In: Physical Review A. 102, 3, 033704.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Infinite-redshift localized states of Dirac fermions under Einsteinian gravity
Bakucz Canário, D., Lloyd, S., Horne, K. & Hooley, C. A., 21 Oct 2020, In: Physical Review D. 102, 8, 14 p., 084049.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Mixed-parity superconductivity near Lifshitz transitions in strongly spin-orbit-coupled metals
Trott, M. J. & Hooley, C. A., 31 Jan 2020, In: Physical Review Research. 2, 1Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review