Research Scientist Turgut Yilmaz

• Email: turgut.yilmaz@xmu.edu.my
• Office: A5-320
• Research interests:
  • Condense matter physics
  • Quantum materials
  • Fault tolerant quantum computing

BIOGRAPHY

Dr. Turgut Yilmaz is currently a research scientist at the Department of Physics, Xiamen University Malaysia. He received his PhD in 2016 from the University of Connecticut. He specializes in angle-resolved photoemission spectroscopy and molecular beam epitaxial growth of thin films including topological insulators, transition metal dichalcogenides, and superconductors. His current research interest is band structure engineering in topological and 2D materials to achieve states of matter that can be used in fault tolerant quantum information technologies.

RESEARCH INTERESTS

• Electronic structure characterization and band structure engineering in quantum materials
• Molecular beam epitaxial growth of topological materials and transition metal dichalcogenides
• Topological phase transitions
• Charge density wave phase
• Superconductivity

EDUCATIONAL BACKGROUND

• Bachelor of physics: Ondokuz Mayıs University, Turkey, 2007
• Msc: Condensed matter physics, University of Connecticut, USA, 2013
• PhD: Condensed matter physics, University of Connecticut, USA, 2016

WORKING EXPERIENCE

• Xiamen University Malaysia (Research Scientist, since 2024)
• University of Connecticut (Gratis Appointment, 2020 – 2024)
• Brookhaven National Laboratory (Postdoctoral Researcher, 2019 – 2022)
• University of Connecticut (Postdoctoral Researcher, 2018 – 2019)
• Uludag University (Researcher, 2017 – 2018)

RESEARCH EXPERIENCE / GRANTS

• Periodic lattice distortions in transition metal dichalcogenides, Brookhaven National Laboratory, USA (2019-2022)
• Band structure engineering in topological insulator / transition metal dichalcogenides University of Connecticut, US (2018-2019)
• Magnetic topological insulators, University of Connecticut, US (2009-2016)

REPRESENTATIVE PUBLICATIONS

1. T. Yilmaz, X. Tong, Z. Dai, J. T. Sadowski, E. F. Schwier, K. Shimada, S. Hwang, K. Kisslinger, K. Kaznatcheev, E. Vescovo, and B. Sinkovic, Emergent flat band electronic structure in a VSe₂/Bi₂Se₃ heterostructure, Communications Materials, 2, 11 (2021).

• T. Yilmaz, E. Vescovo, J. T. Sadowski, and B. Sinkovic, Spectroscopic evidence of highly correlated electrons in VSe₂, Phys. Rev. B 105, 245114 (2022).

• Turgut Yilmaz, Elio Vescovo, and Boris Sinkovic, Multiband Fermi surface in 1T−VSe₂ and its implication for the charge density wave phase, Phys. Rev. B 107, 165109 (2023).

• I. Pletikosić, T. Yilmaz, B. Sinkovic, A. P. Weber, G. D. Gu, T. Valla, Possible topological superconductivity in the topological crystalline insulator (Pb_1−xSnx)_1−yInyTe, Physical Review B 108 (20), 205157 (2023).

• T. Yilmaz, E. Vescovo, Gapless surface electronic structure of 1T-TiSe₂ in the distorted phase, Physical Review B 108 (15), 155105 (2023).

• Turgut Yilmaz, Xuance Jiang, Deyu Lu, Polina M. Sheverdyaeva, Andrey V. Matetskiy, Paolo Moras, Federico Mazzola, Ivana Vobornik, Jun Fujii, Kenneth Evans-Lutterodt and Elio Vescovo, Dirac nodal arc in 1T-VSe₂, Communications Materials, 4, 47 (2023).

• Asish K Kundu, Xiong Huang, Eric Seewald, Ethan Ritz, Santanu Pakhira, Shuai Zhang, Dihao Sun, Simon Turkel, Sara Shabani, Turgut Yilmaz, Elio Vescovo, Cory R Dean, David C Johnston, Tonica Valla, Turan Birol, Dmitri N Basov, Rafael M Fernandes, Abhay N Pasupathy, Low-energy electronic structure in the unconventional charge-ordered state of ScV₆Sn₆, Nature Communications, 15, 5008 (2024).

• Turgut Yilmaz, Xiao Tong, Jerzy T Sadowski, Sooyeon Hwang, Kenneth Evans Lutterodt, Kim Kisslinger, Elio Vescovo, Evolution of the Fermi Surface of 1T-VSe₂ across a Structural Phase Transition, Materials 17 (18), 4498 (2024).