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Research Interests

Emergent phenomena in correlated and low-dimensional quantum materials

Superconductivity, charge-density waves, quasiparticles, and collective excitations

Design of novel quantum materials and nanostructures

Moiré superlattices, one-dimensional single chains, molecular nanomachines, and two-dimensional heterostructures

  • Young Woo Choi and Marvin L. Cohen
    Resonantly Enhanced Electromigration Forces for Adsorbates on Graphene
  • Yangjin Lee, Young Woo Choi, Kihyun Lee, Chengyu Song, Peter Ercius, Marvin L. Cohen, Kwanpyo Kim, and Alex Zettl
    One-dimensional Magnetic MX3 Single-Chains (M=Cr, V and X=Cl, Br, I)
  • Young Woo Choi, Yangjin Lee, Kwanpyo Kim, Alex Zettl, and Marvin L. Cohen
    Atomic and Electronic Structures of 1D Phosphorus Nanoring and Nanohelix

Development of first-principles electronic-structure methods

Density functional theory, many-body perturbation theory, and machine-learning-based compression

  • Young Woo Choi and Hyoung Joon Choi
    Strong electron-phonon coupling, electron-hole asymmetry, and nonadiabaticity in magic-angle twisted bilayer graphene
  • Soo Yeon Lim, Han-gyu Kim, Young Woo Choi, Takashi Taniguchi, Kenji Watanabe, Hyoung Joon Choi, and Hyeonsik Cheong
    Modulation of phonons and excitons due to moiré potentials in twisted-bilayer of WSe2/MoSe2