Home
Juan Felipe Mendez-Valderrama
Cancel

Home

Welcome

I am a theoretical condensed-matter physicist and Princeton Center for Complex Materials (PCCM) postdoctoral fellow at Princeton University.

My research focuses on strongly correlated quantum matter, especially unconventional superconductivity, transport, collective modes, and topological phases in moire and flat-band materials. I use a mix of analytical strong-coupling approaches, quantum Monte Carlo, and field-theoretic tools to understand regimes where weak-coupling descriptions are not enough.

Recent Work

  • Symmetric Mode Ansatz: Theory of Magnon Collective Modes in Chern Insulators. arXiv
  • Distinguishing Mott and strain-induced anisotropic semimetals in magic-angle twisted bilayer graphene using Landau level spectroscopy. arXiv
  • Resonant Far-Infrared Spectroscopy of Flat-Band Fermions in Magic Angle Graphene. arXiv
  • Spinless and spinful charge excitations in moire fractional Chern insulators. Physical Review Letters arXiv
  • Observation of dissipationless fractional Chern insulator. Nature Physics arXiv
  • Low-energy optical absorption in correlated insulators: Projected sum rules and the role of quantum geometry. Physical Review B arXiv

See my Publications for the complete list.

For a compact career summary, see my Short CV. For the full document, download the CV PDF.