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Publications and Preprints

  1. Miguel Goncalves, J. F. Mendez-Valderrama, Jonah Herzog-Arbeitman, Jiabin Yu, Xiaodong Xu, Di Xiao, B. Andrei Bernevig, and Nicolas Regnault, “Spinless and spinful charge excitations in moire Fractional Chern Insulators,” arXiv:2506.05330 (2025). arXiv
  2. Heonjoon Park, Weijie Li, Chaowei Hu, Christiano Beach, Miguel Goncalves, J. F. Mendez-Valderrama, Jonah Herzog-Arbeitman, Takashi Taniguchi, Kenji Watanabe, David Cobden, Liang Fu, B. Andrei Bernevig, Nicolas Regnault, Jiun-Haw Chu, Di Xiao, and Xiaodong Xu, “Observation of High-Temperature Dissipationless Fractional Chern Insulator,” arXiv:2503.10989 (2025). arXiv
  3. Sunghoon Kim, J. F. Mendez-Valderrama, Xuepeng Wang, and Debanjan Chowdhury, “Theory of correlated insulators and superconductor at nu = 1 in twisted WSe2,” Nature Communications 16, 1701 (2025). DOI arXiv
  4. Dan Mao, J. F. Mendez-Valderrama, and Debanjan Chowdhury, “Is the low-energy optical absorption in correlated insulators controlled by quantum geometry?,” arXiv:2410.16352 (2024). arXiv
  5. J. F. Mendez-Valderrama, Sunghoon Kim, and Debanjan Chowdhury, “Correlated topological mixed-valence insulators in moire heterobilayers,” Physical Review B 110, L201105 (2024). DOI arXiv
  6. J. F. Mendez-Valderrama, Dan Mao, and Debanjan Chowdhury, “Low-Energy Optical Sum Rule in Moire Graphene,” Physical Review Letters 133, 196501 (2024). DOI arXiv
  7. Xuepeng Wang, J. F. Mendez-Valderrama, Johannes S. Hofmann, and Debanjan Chowdhury, “Intertwined Magnetism and Superconductivity in Isolated Correlated Flat Bands,” Physical Review B 110, L041105 (2024). DOI arXiv
  8. Colin R. Bundschu, Mahdi Ahmadi, J. F. Mendez-Valderrama, Yao Yang, Hector D. Abruna, and Tomas A. Arias, “The Oxygen Reduction Pathway for Spinel Metal Oxides in Alkaline Media: An Experimentally Supported Ab Initio Study,” Journal of the American Chemical Society 146, 4680-4686 (2024). DOI arXiv
  9. J. F. Mendez-Valderrama, Evyatar Tulipman, Elina Zhakina, Andrew P. Mackenzie, Erez Berg, and Debanjan Chowdhury, “T-linear resistivity from magneto-elastic scattering: Application to PdCrO2,” Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 120, e2305609120 (2023). DOI arXiv
  10. Elina Zhakina, Ramzy Daou, Antoine Maignan, Philippa H. McGuinness, Markus Konig, Helge Rosner, Seo-Jin Kim, Seunghyun Khim, Romain Grasset, Marcin Konczykowski, Evyatar Tulipman, J. F. Mendez-Valderrama, Debanjan Chowdhury, Erez Berg, and Andrew P. Mackenzie, “Investigation of Planckian behavior in a high-conductivity oxide: PdCrO2,” Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 120, e2307334120 (2023). DOI arXiv
  11. Adam J. McRoberts, J. F. Mendez-Valderrama, Roderich Moessner, and Debanjan Chowdhury, “Intermediate-scale theory for electrons coupled to frustrated local moments,” Physical Review B 107, L020402 (2023). DOI arXiv
  12. J. F. Mendez-Valderrama and Debanjan Chowdhury, “Bad metallic transport in geometrically frustrated models,” Physical Review B 103, 195111 (2021). DOI arXiv
  13. J. F. Mendez-Valderrama, Yunus A. Kinkhabwala, Jeffrey Silver, Itai Cohen, and Tomas A. Arias, “Density-functional fluctuation theory of crowds,” Nature Communications 9, 3538 (2018). DOI
  14. Santiago Aguirre, Juan Diego Arango-Montoya, David Jaramillo-Duque, J. F. Mendez-Valderrama, Nicolas Morales-Duran, and Mateo Restrepo, “A quantum random number generator implementation with polarized photons,” Emergent Scientist 1, 2 (2017). DOI

Press

  1. Kate Blackwood, “Revealing the superconducting limit of twisted bilayer graphene,” Phys.org, November 4, 2024. Article
  2. Kate Blackwood, “Revealing the superconducting limit of ‘magic’ material,” Cornell Chronicle, November 4, 2024. Article
  3. Kate Blackwood, “Comparing ‘sister’ compounds may hold key to quantum puzzle,” Cornell Chronicle, August 30, 2023. Article
  4. Linda B. Glaser, “Fruit flies and electrons: Researchers use physics to predict crowd behavior,” Phys.org, August 30, 2018. Article
  5. Linda B. Glaser, “Physics theory used to predict crowd behavior,” Cornell Chronicle, August 30, 2018. Article