Prof Phil King

Professor

Researcher profile

Phone

+44 (0)1334 46 3067

Email

pdk6@st-andrews.ac.uk

 

Teaching

Currently, I lecture on the following courses:

PH4044: "Advanced Condensed Matter Physics"

PH5024/SUPATOP: "Modern Topics in Condensed Matter Physics"

I am also overall co-ordinator for final-year (BSc and MPhys) projects in Physics and Astronomy, and module co-ordinator for physics projects (PH4111 and PH5101)

Research areas

My research is focussed on studying the electronic states of a complex class of solids termed 'quantum materials'. These systems exhibit a wide range of stunning, and potentially extremely useful, physical properties. From high-temperature superconductivity to exotic topologically ordered states, understanding the physics underpinning quantum materials is a major research challenge of modern condensed matter and materials physics. We use angle-resolved photoemission spectroscopy (ARPES) as a direct momentum-resolved probe of the electronic structure and Fermi surfaces of materials to image their interacting electronic states, and utilise thin-film growth approaches of molecular-beam epitaxy to fabricate new quantum materials, structured at the atomic scale, as a route to tailor their quantum many-body properties. We utilise and develop new instrumentation for such studies within the Centre for Designer Quantum Materials in St Andrews, and are also make extensive use of international synchrotron facilities. For more information, please see our group web pages.

PhD supervision

• Gordon Kentish
• Olivia Armitage
• James Crosby
• Brendan Edwards
• Andela Zivanovic
• Gesa-Roxanne Siemann
• Zuzanna Filipiak
• Naina Kumari
• Shu Mo
• Sebastian Buchberger
• Daniel Halliday
• Liam Trzaska
• Maria Visscher

Selected publications

• Open access

  Probing spin correlations using angle-resolved photoemission in a coupled metallic/Mott insulator system

  Sunko, V., Mazzola, F., Kitamura, S., Khim, S., Kushwaha, P., Clark, O. J., Watson, M., Markovic, I., Biswas, D., Pourovskii, L., Kim, T. K., Lee, T. -L., Thakur, P. K., Rosner, H., Georges, A., Moessner, R., Oka, T., Mackenzie, A. P. & King, P. D. C., 7 Feb 2020, In: Science Advances. 6, 6, eaaz0611.

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

• Open access

  Maximal Rashba-like spin splitting via kinetic energy-coupled inversion symmetry breaking

  Sunko, V., Rosner, H., Kushwaha, P., Khim, S., Mazzola, F., Bawden, L., Clark, O. J., Riley, J. M., Kasinathan, D., Haverkort, M. W., Kim, T. K., Hoesch, M., Fujii, J., Vobornik, I., Mackenzie, A. P. & King, P. D., 28 Sept 2017, In: Nature. 549, 7673, p. 492-496

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

• Open access

  Itinerant ferromagnetism of the Pd-terminated polar surface of PdCoO₂

  Mazzola, F., Sunko, V., Khim, S., Rosner, H., Kushwaha, P., Clark, O. J., Bawden, L., Marković, I., Kim, T. K., Hoesch, M., Mackenzie, A. P. & King, P. D. C., 18 Dec 2018, In: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America. 115, 51, p. 12956-12960 5 p.

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

• Open access

  Direct observation of a uniaxial stress-driven Lifshitz transition in Sr₂RuO₄

  Sunko, V., Morales, E. A., Marković, I., Barber, M. E., Milosavljević, D., Mazzola, F., Sokolov, D. A., Kikugawa, N., Cacho, C., Dudin, P., Rosner, H., Hicks, C. W., King, P. D. C. & Mackenzie, A. P., 19 Aug 2019, In: npj Quantum Materials. 4, 7 p., 46.

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

• Open access

  Crossover from lattice to plasmonic polarons of a spin-polarised electron gas in ferromagnetic EuO

  Riley, J. M., Caruso, F., Verdi, C., Duffy, L., Watson, M. D., Bawden, L., Volckaert, K., van der Laan, G., Hesjedal, T., Hoesch, M., Giustino, F. & King, P. D., 13 Jun 2018, In: Nature Communications. 9, 8 p., 2305.

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

• Open access

  Ubiquitous formation of bulk Dirac cones and topological surface states from a single orbital manifold in transition-metal dichalcogenides

  Bahramy, M. S., Clark, O. J., Yang, B-J., Feng, J., Bawden, L., Riley, J. M., Markovic, I., Mazzola, F., Sunko, V., Biswas, D., Cooil, S. P., Jorge, M., Wells, J. W., Leandersson, M., Balasubramanian, T., Fujii, J., Vobornik, I., Rault, J., Kim, T. K., Hoesch, M., & 6 others Okawa, K., Asakawa, M., Sasagawa, T., Eknapakul, T., Meevasana, W. & King, P. D. C., Jan 2018, In: Nature Materials. 17, 1, p. 21-28 8 p.

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

• Open access

  Electronic structure and enhanced charge-density wave order of monolayer VSe₂

  Feng, J., Biswas, D., Akhil, R., Watson, M. D., Mazzola, F., Clark, O. J., Underwood, K., Markovic, I., McLaren, M., Hunter, A., Burn, D. M., Duffy, L. B., Barua, S., Balakrishnan, G., Bertran, F., Le Fevre, P., Kim, T. K., van der Laan, G., Hesjedal, T., Wahl, P., & 1 others King, P. D. C., 11 Jul 2018, In: Nano Letters. 18, 7, p. 4493-4499 7 p.

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

• Open access

  Fermiology and superconductivity of topological surface states in PdTe₂

  Clark, O. J., Neat, M. J., Okawa, K., Bawden, L., Marković, I., Mazzola, F., Feng, J., Sunko, V., Riley, J. M., Meevasana, W., Fujii, J., Vobornik, I., Kim, T., Hoesch, M., Sasagawa, T., Wahl, P., Bahramy, M. S. & King, P. D. C., 9 Apr 2018, In: Physical Review Letters. 120, 15, 7 p., 156401.

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

• Open access

  Spin-valley locking in the normal state of a transition-metal dichalcogenide superconductor

  Bawden, L., Cooil, S. P., Riley, J. M., Collins-McIntyre, L. J., Sunko, V., Hunvik, K., Leandersson, M., Polley, C. M., Balasubramanian, T., Kim, T. K., Hoesch, M., Wells, J. W., Balakrishnan, G., Bahramy, M. S. & King, P. D., 23 May 2016, In: Nature Communications. 7, 6 p., 11711.

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

• Open access

  Direct observation of spin-polarized bulk bands in an inversion-symmetric semiconductor

  Riley, J. M., Mazzola, F., Dendzik, M., Michiardi, M., Takayama, T., Bawden, L., Granerød, C., Leandersson, M., Balasubramanian, T., Hoesch, M., Kim, T. K., Takagi, H., Meevasana, W., Hofmann, P., Bahramy, M. S., Wells, J. W. & King, P., Nov 2014, In: Nature Physics. 10, 11, p. 835–839 5 p.

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

 

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