Javad Shabani

Ph.D. 2011, M.A. 2007, Princeton University
B.S. 2004 Sharif University.

Prof. Shabani received his PhD from Princeton University in 2011. After two years of research on semiconductor-based qubits at Harvard University, he joined UC Santa Barbara. There, he worked closely with Microsoft research on hybrid semiconductors/superconductors heterostructures to study topological superconductivity. He is an expert in quantum materials and devices for computation technologies. He is currently an assistant professor of Physics at New York University. His current research interests are 1) Novel states of matter at interfaces with focus on hybrid superconductor-semiconductor systems 2) Mesoscopic and nanoscale physics with emphasis on low dimensional semiconductors with focus on new materials/device development for quantum information 3) Physics of integer and fractional quantum Hall effect and 4) Epitaxial growth of compound superconducting metals-semiconductor, including high mobility two-dimensional electron systems and nano-plates using molecular beam epitaxy.

US Air Force Young Investigator award, 2016
US Army Young Investigator award, 2016

A. Matos-Abiague, J. Shabani, A. D. Kent, G. L. Fatin, B. Scharf, I. Zutic, "Tunable Magnetic Textures: From Majorana Bound States to Braiding", Solid State Communications 262, 1 (2017)

M. Kjaergaard, H. J. Suominen, M. P. Nowak, A. R. Akhmerov, J. Shabani, C. J. Palmstrm, F. Nichele, C. M. Marcus, "Transparent Semiconductor-Superconductor Interface and Induced Gap in an Epitaxial Heterostructure Josephson Junction", Phys. Rev. Applied 7, 034029 (2017).

M. Kjaergaard, F. Nichele, H. J. Suominen, M. P. Nowak, M. Wimmer, A. R. Akhmerov, J. A. Folk, K. Flensberg, J. Shabani, C. J. Palmstrom, and C. M. Marcus, "Hard gap and conductance doubling in a two-dimensional superconductor-semiconductor heterostructure", Nature Comm. 7, 12841 (2016).

J. Shabani, M. Kjaergaard, H. J. Suominen, Younghyun Kim, F. Nichele, K. Pakrouski, T. Stankevic, R. M. Lutchyn, P. Krogstrup, R. Feidenhansl, S. Kraemer, C. Nayak, M. Troyer, C. M. Marcus, and C. J. Palmstrom, "Two-dimensional epitaxial superconductor-semiconductor heterostructures: A platform for topological superconducting networks", Phys. Rev. B 93, 155402 (2016).

J. Shabani, S. Das Sarma and C.J. Palmstrom , "An apparent metal insulator transition in high mobility InAs heterostructures", Phys. Rev. B 90, 161303 (Rapid Communication) (2014).

J. Shabani, Y Liu, M Shayegan, LN Pfeier, KW West and KW Baldwin, "Phase diagrams for the stability of the =1/2 fractional quantum Hall eect in electron systems conned to symmetric, wide GaAs quantum wells", Phys. Rev. B 88, 245413 (2013).

J. Shabani, Y. Liu, and M. Shayegan, "Fractional Quantum Hall Eect at High Fillings in a Two-Subband Electron System" Phys. Rev. Lett., 105, 246805 (2010).

J. Shabani, T. Gokmen, Y.T. Chiu, and M. Shayegan, "Evidence for Developing Fractional Quantum Hall States at Even Denominator 1/2 and 1/4 Fillings in Asymmetric Wide Quantum Wells" Phys. Rev. Lett. 103, 256802 (2009).