Marcel Franz

Professor, Deputy Scientific Director

Department of Physics and Astronomy

Current Projects

  • Topological superconductivity in twisted double layer cuprates
  • Topological superconductivity in twisted double layer cuprates
  • Magic angle physics in dichalcogenides and nodal superconductors
  • Majorana fermions for topological quantum computation

Selected Publications

  1. D. Yang, J. Wu, B.T. Zhou, J. Liang, T. Ideue, T. Siu, K. Awan, K. Watanabe, T. Taniguchi, Y. Iwasa, M. Franz, Z. Ye. Spontaneous-polarization-induced photovoltaic effect in rhombohedrally stacked MoS2. Nat. Photon. 16, 469 (2022).
  2. T. Tummuru, S. Plugge, M. Franz. Josephson effects in twisted cuprate bilayers. Phys. Rev. B 105, 064501 (2022).
  3. A. Mercado, S. Sahoo, M. Franz. High-Temperature Majorana Zero Modes. Phys Rev Lett 128, 137002 (2022).