Left to right: Prof. Aviram Uri, Prof. Sergio C. de la Barrera, and Li-Qiao Xia.

MIT News article covering our discovery of Helical Trilayer Graphene.

University of Toronto’s The Varsity covering our discovery of superconductivity in a moire quasicrystal formed by two incommensurate moire lattices in twisted trilayer graphene.

Left to right: Prof. Aviram Uri and Prof. Sergio C. de la Barrera.

MIT News story covering our discovery of superconductivity in a moire quasicrystal formed by two incommensurate moire lattices in twisted trilayer graphene.

“Science unites humanity. But is that why we do it? No. We do it because it’s fun, because it intrigues us, and because it’s really, truly, fun. Except, of course, for when things don’t quite work out the way you hoped — which is 95% of the time,” joked Uri during his opening lines and later added on a more serious note: “…When I completed active duty in the Air Force and started studying – this was a very significant change for me. I remember thinking: one of two things must be true — either sane reality is very painful and academia is an insane bubble, or the opposite is true, and academia is an island of sanity in an ocean of madness. I’d like to believe it’s the latter.”

Prof. Uri presented the first measurements of equilibrium currents in quantum Hall edge states, revealing their unexpected nature, including currents that counterpropagate against the system’s chirality. He also introduced high-resolution imaging of twist-angle disorder in magic-angle twisted bilayer graphene, achieving the first device-scale mapping with high accuracy. These results carry significant implications for moiré physics.

MIT news piece describing our work on imaging the twist angle disorder in magic-angle twisted bilayer graphene using a scanning SQUID-on-tip. A collaboration between MIT and the Weizmann Institute of Science.