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Alessandro Principi

Senior Researcher - Principal Investigator
Emergent Quantum Phenomena in Nanoscale
Alessandro Principi
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Biografia

Alessandro Principi è un fisico teorico specializzato in materia condensata, sistemi quantistici a molti corpi e materiali bidimensionali. Ha conseguito il dottorato in Fisica presso la Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa nel 2013 e, dopo esperienze di ricerca negli Stati Uniti e nei Paesi Bassi, è entrato all’Università di Manchester, dove è Reader in Fisica Teorica. La sua attività di ricerca riguarda in particolare il grafene e le eterostrutture di van der Waals, il trasporto elettronico idrodinamico, le interazioni a molti corpi e, più recentemente, i liquidi di spin quantistici e i sistemi moiré. È autore di oltre 80 pubblicazioni scientifiche e ha ricevuto importanti finanziamenti competitivi, tra cui due Standard Grant della Leverhulme Trust.


Alessandro Principi is a theoretical physicist specialising in condensed matter, quantum many-body systems, and two-dimensional materials. He obtained his PhD in Physics from the Scuola Normale Superiore in Pisa in 2013 and, after research appointments in the United States and the Netherlands, joined the University of Manchester, where he is a Reader in Theoretical Physics. His research focuses in particular on graphene and van der Waals heterostructures, hydrodynamic electron transport, many-body interactions, and, more recently, quantum spin liquids and moiré systems. He is the author of more than 80 scientific publications and has received major competitive research funding, including two Leverhulme Trust Standard Grants.

Top Publications
2024
Kazantsev A., Mills A., O'Neill E., Sun H., Vignale G., Principi A.
Nonconservation of the Valley Density and its Implications for the Observation of the Valley Hall Effect
Physical Review Letters, vol. 132, (no. 10)
2018
Tielrooij K.-J., Hesp N.C.H., Principi A., Lundeberg M.B., Pogna E.A.A., Banszerus L., Mics Z., Massicotte M., Schmidt P., Davydovskaya D., Purdie D.G., Goykhman I., Soavi G., Lombardo A., Watanabe K., Taniguchi T., Bonn M., Turchinovich D., Stampfer C., Ferrari A.C., Cerullo G., Polini M., Koppens F.H.L.
Out-of-plane heat transfer in van der Waals stacks through electron-hyperbolic phonon coupling
Nature Nanotechnology, vol. 13, (no. 1), pp. 41-46
2016
Bandurin D.A., Torre I., Krishna Kumar R., Ben Shalom M., Tomadin A., Principi A., Auton G.H., Khestanova E., Novoselov K.S., Grigorieva I.V., Ponomarenko L.A., Geim A.K., Polini M.
Negative local resistance caused by viscous electron backflow in graphene
Science, vol. 351, (no. 6277), pp. 1055-1058
2015
Principi A., Vignale G.
Violation of the Wiedemann-Franz Law in Hydrodynamic Electron Liquids
Physical Review Letters, vol. 115, (no. 5)
2010
Principi A., Polini M., Vignale G., Katsnelson M.I.
Many-body orbital paramagnetism in doped graphene sheets
Physical Review Letters, vol. 104, (no. 22)
All Publications
2026
Liu F., Dumitriu-I A.D., Principi A.
Broken Lorentz symmetry and violation of the Wiedemann-Franz law in topological insulators
Physical Review B, vol. 112, (no. 20), pp. 1-15
2026
Grace T., Principi A.
Constructing a variational ground state of matter fermions coupled to a vison pair in Kitaev’s honeycomb model
Physical Review B, vol. 113, (no. 11), pp. 1-9
2026
Elesin L., Shilov A.L., Kravtsov M., Zhou X., Lukianov M., Kuksov A., Jana S., Iorsh I., Izmaylov R., Shein K., Gayduchenko I., Taniguchi T., Watanabe K., Novoselov K.S., Goltsman G.N., Principi A., Bandurin D.A.
Correlated insulator Moiré bolometer
Nature Communications, vol. 17, (no. 1)
Article Journal
2026
Azadi S., Vinko S.M., Principi A., Kuhne T.D., Bahramy M.S.
Electronic-entropy-driven solid-solid phase transitions in elemental metals
Physical Review Materials, vol. 10, (no. 4)
2026
De Fazio D., Castilla S., Soundarapandian K.P., Slipchenko T., Vangelidis I., Marconi S., Bertini R., Petrica V., Hao Y., Principi A., Lidorikis E., Kumar R.K., Martin-Moreno L., Koppens F.H.L.
Enhanced Terahertz Photoresponse via Acoustic Plasmon Cavity Resonances in Scalable Graphene
ACS Photonics, vol. 13, (no. 16), pp. 4505-4517
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