Welcome to the Allan Lab

News: Our group moved to the University of Munich (LMU)! Join us!

We are a dynamic research group at LMU physics and at the Leiden Institute of Physics.

We have two overarching goals: first, to understand quantum materials, including strange metals, high-temperature superconductors, and quantum critical electron matter. Second, to make novel and useful materials that never existed before, like possible room-temperature superconductors. To achieve these goals, we develop new quantum sensing and quantum imaging instrumentation to obtain the key quantum mechanical degrees of freedom. We want to build the perfect instruments to answer the scientific questions we deem most important.

We are currently building up our instruments right in the center of Munich, in the Sommerfeldkeller, where Sommerfeld and Röntgen worked. We will exchange ideas with world class groups working in quantum physics, cold-atom many-body physics, and 2d quantum materials. We are also a proud member of the SuperC consortium.

We are looking for passionate new PhD students, Postdocs, and Master students to join the team (more info) !

News

5. November 2026

Our paper on the pseudogap is out in Science! With our shot-noise STM we show that the pseudogap energy coincides with the onset of electron pairing in a cuprate superconductor. See the Ars Technica article by Jacek Krywko, the Perspective by Dirk Morr in Science, and coverage by LMU Physics, MCQST, Utrecht University, phys.org, and ingenieur.de (German).

1. August 2026

Welcome Christian!

1. October 2025

Welcome Yuval, Devidas, and Fabian!

15. July 2025

Welcome Apollon and Stefan!

3. March 2025

Welcome Premakumar!

12. February 2025

Our Amorphous Shiba State - paper is on the cover! Image

16. January 2025

Our paper on self-supervised learning is in PRB

3. March 2025

Our new BSCCO noise paper is on arXiv

1. November 2024

Welcome Jaroslav & Louw!

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