Samuel Bird

Some specifics:

Keywords that broadly describe my current interests: VMC, neural quantum states, Hubbard models, ultra-cold atomic simulators, TMDs, polaron physics, multi-orbital materials and spin-valley physics, light induced phenomena.

When I started at ETH, my research focused on non-interacting band topology, particularly fragile topology, and the inverse design of topological designer meta-materials. I also spent some time researching the effect of disorder on fragile topology. There are still a bunch of interesting questions to explore there, but my recent research has reoriented from the non-interacting to the strongly interacting.

Check out my research: ORCID or Google Scholar.

My departmental page.

Pedagogical Notes: I am constantly writing notes during research and teaching, so if and when they are clean enough and the time is right, they might end up here.

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