Prof. Oleg Yazyev was born in Simferopol, Crimean peninsula. He obtained his degree in chemistry from Moscow State University in 2003 and then joined Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL) completing his Ph.D. thesis in 2007. He spent the next two years as a postdoctoral fellow at the Institute of Theoretical Physics (ITP) and the Institute for Numerical Research in the Physics of Materials (IRRMA) of the same institution. In 2009-2011 he was a postdoctoral fellow at the Department of Physics of the University of California, Berkeley, and the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. In September 2011 he started an independent research group supported by the Swiss National Science Foundation professorship grant. In 2012 he was awarded an ERC Starting grant. His current research focuses on the theoretical and computational physics of two-dimensional and topological materials with a strong emphasis on their prospective technological applications.
Selected publications of Oleg Yazyev
- Moire Flat Bands in Twisted Double Bilayer Graphene, F. Haddadi, Q. Wu, A. J. Kruchkov, and O. V. Yazyev, Nano Lett. 20, 2410 (2020)
- Correlated states in twisted double bilayer graphene, C. Shen, Y. Chu, Q. Wu, N. Li, S. Wang, Y. Zhao, J. Tang, J. Liu, J. Tian, K. Watanabe, T. Taniguchi, R. Yang, Z. Y. Meng, D. Shi, O. V. Yazyev, and G. Zhang, Nature Physics 16, 520 (2020)
- Artificial Neural Network Approach to the Analytic Continuation Problem, R. Fournier, L. Wang, O. V. Yazyev, and Q. Wu, Phys. Rev. Lett. 124, 056401 (2020)
- Defect induced, layer-modulated magnetism in ultrathin metallic PtSe2, A. Avsar, A. Ciarrocchi, M. Pizzochero, D. Unuchek, O. V. Yazyev, and A. Kis, Nature Nanotechnology 14, 674 (2019)
- Structural and electronic transformation in low-angle twisted bilayer graphene, F. Gargiulo and O. V. Yazyev, 2D Mater. 5, 015019 (2018)
- 2D transition metal dichalcogenides, S. Manzeli, D. Ovchinnikov, D. Pasquier, O. V. Yazyev and A. Kis, Nature Reviews Materials 2, 17033 (2017)
- A novel quasi-one-dimensional topological insulator in bismuth iodide β-Bi4I4, G. Autès, A. Isaeva, L. Moreschini, J. C. Johannsen, A. Pisoni, R. Mori, W. Zhang, T. G. Filatova, A. N. Kuznetsov, L. Forró, W. Van den Broek, Y. Kim, K. S. Kim, A. Lanzara, J. D. Denlinger, E. Rotenberg, A. Bostwick, M. Grioni, and O. V. Yazyev, Nature Materials 15, 154 (2016)
- Robust Type-II Weyl Semimetal Phase in Transition Metal Diphosphides XP2 (X=Mo, W), G. Autès, D. Gresch, M. Troyer, A. A. Soluyanov and O. V. Yazyev, Phys. Rev. Lett. 117, 066402 (2016)
- Polycrystalline graphene and other two-dimensional materials, O. V. Yazyev and Y. P. Chen, Nature Nanotechnology 9, 755 (2014)
- Topological Aspects of Charge-Carrier Transmission across Grain Boundaries in Graphene, F. Gargiulo and O. V. Yazyev, Nano Lett. 14, 250 (2014)
- Spatially resolving edge states of chiral graphene nanoribbons, C. Tao, L. Jiao, O. V. Yazyev, Y.-C. Chen, J. Feng, X. Zhang, R. B. Capaz, J. M. Tour, A. Zettl, S. G. Louie, H. Dai, and M. F. Crommie, Nature Physics 7, 616 (2011)
- Spin Polarization and Transport of Surface States in the Topological Insulators Bi2Se3 and Bi2Te3 from First Principles, O. V. Yazyev, J. E. Moore, and S. G. Louie, Phys. Rev. Lett. 105, 266806 (2010)
- Electronic transport in polycrystalline graphene, O. V. Yazyev and S. G. Louie, Nature Materials 9, 806 (2010)
- Topological defects in graphene: Dislocations and grain boundaries, O. V. Yazyev and S. G. Louie, Phys. Rev. B 81, 195420 (2010)
- Emergence of magnetism in graphene materials and nanostructures, O. V. Yazyev, Rep. Prog. Phys. 73, 056501 (2010)
- Magnetism in Disordered Graphene and Irradiated Graphite, O. V. Yazyev, Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 037203 (2008)
- Magnetic Correlations at Graphene Edges: Basis for Novel Spintronics Devices, O. V. Yazyev and M. I. Katsnelson, Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 047209 (2008)
- Hyperfine Interactions in Graphene and Related Carbon Nanostructures, O. V. Yazyev, Nano Lett. 8, 1011 (2008)
- Defect-induced magnetism in graphene, O. V. Yazyev and L. Helm, Phys. Rev. B 75, 125408 (2007)