Cambridge supervisor: Robert-Jan Slager
Berkeley host: Joel Moore
Arthur undertook his undergraduate degree at the University of Oxford, where he studied Physics for three years before com pleting a Masters in Mathematical and Theoretical Physics in his final year. Arthur is now in the second year of his PhD with Dr Robert-Jan Slager in the Theory of Condensed Matter group at the Department of Physics at Cambridge. Arthur’s research is broadly concerned with topological phases of matter, an unusual class of quantum materials whose properties are, in a sense that can be made precise, related to shapes. In particular, Arthur’s PhD is focused on the Euler topology, a recently discovered to pological phase that is currently not fully understood. Arthur uses a combination of analytical tools (e.g. differential geometry and algebraic topology) and numerical computation to investigate how effects of the Euler topology manifest in superconduct ing materials to discover new and interesting effects in this setting, paving the way for these effects to be found in real materials.