Prof Peter Wahl

Director of Research

Professor

Researcher profile

Phone

+44 (0)1334 46 3122

Email

gpw2@st-andrews.ac.uk

Office

207

Location

Physics & Astronomy

 

Research areas

My research is focused on mapping electronic excitations in correlated electron materials with high spatial and spectral resolution by spectroscopic imaging STM. Understanding the physics of correlated electron materials, among them high temperature superconductors, is one of the outstanding problems in current condensed matter physics.

The aim of our research is to improve our understanding of the physics of correlated electron materials by studying excitations close to the Fermi energy and get a picture of the electronic structure. To this end, we develop new instrumentation which is optimized for the retrieval of atomic-scale spectroscopic maps at low temperatures and in high magnetic fields.

Our research benefits from a dedicated ultra-low vibration facility at the School of Physics and Astronomy.

PhD supervision

• Gordon Kentish
• Olivia Armitage
• Siri Berge
• Uladzislau Mikhailau
• Rebecca Bisset
• Daniel Halliday

Selected publications

• Open access

  Real-space imaging of the atomic-scale magnetic structure of Fe_1+yTe

  Enayat, M., Sun, Z., Singh, U. R., Aluru, R., Schmaus, S., Yaresko, A., Liu, Y., Lin, C., Tsurkan, V., Loidl, A., Deisenhofer, J. & Wahl, P., 8 Aug 2014, In: Science. 345, 6197, p. 653-656 4 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

• Open access

  Temperature and magnetic field dependence of a Kondo system in the weak coupling regime

  Zhang, Y., Kahle, S., Herden, T., Stroh, C., Mayor, M., Schlickum, U., Ternes, M., Wahl, P. & Kern, K., 1 Jul 2013, In: Nature Communications. 4, 6 p., 2110.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

• Quantum Point Contact Microscopy

  Zhang, Y., Wahl, P. & Kern, K., Sept 2011, In: Nano Letters. 11, 9, p. 3838-3843 6 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

• A tunable two-impurity Kondo system in an atomic point contact

  Bork, J., Zhang, Y., Diekhoner, L., Borda, L., Simon, P., Kroha, J., Wahl, P. & Kern, K., Nov 2011, In: Nature Physics. 7, 11, p. 901-906 6 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

• Imaging the Fano lattice to 'hidden order' transition in URu₂Si₂

  Schmidt, A. R., Hamidian, M. H., Wahl, P., Meier, F., Balatsky, A. V., Garrett, J. D., Williams, T. J., Luke, G. M. & Davis, S., 3 Jun 2010, In: Nature. 465, 7298, p. 570-576 7 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

 

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