Lars Franke

Scientific Background

Postdoc

Karlsruhe, Germany

Institute for Theoretical Solid State Physics, KIT

since 2025

Ph.D. Physics, Supervisor: Markus Garst

Karlsruhe, Germany

Institute for Theoretical Solid State Physics, KIT

August 2025

Graduate school

Karlsruhe, Germany

Karlsruhe School of Quantum Matter

2022-2025

Research stay, Host: Indranil Paul

Paris, France

Laboratoire Matériaux et Phénomènes Quantiques

April-June 2023

M.Sc. Physics

Karlsruhe, Germany

Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT)

September 2020

B.Sc. Physics

Karlsruhe, Germany

Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT)

September 2017

Publications

Tim Thyzel, Lars Franke, Markus Garst, Harald Schubert, Michael Lang, Takahiko Sasaki, and Jens Müller

Absence of critical fluctuations at the bandwidth-controlled Mott transition in a molecular conductor

2025

  • Critical phenomena
  • Mott insulators
  • Noise measurements
  • Pressure techniques

Saheli Sarkar, Lars Franke, Nikolas Grivas, Markus Garst

Quantum Criticality on a Compressible Lattice

2023

  • Quantum phase transitions
  • Elasticity
  • Structural phase transitions
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Research Interests

  • Quantum Critical Phenomena
  • Topological spin textures
  • Magnetoelatic coupling
  • Surface effects in chiral magnets
  • Conformal symmetry