Ion Garate

Prix et distinctions

• (2013) Prize postdoctoral fellowship. Yale University. (Prize / Award).
• (2011) Junior Fellow. Canadian Institute for Advanced Research. (Distinction).
• (2002) Tuition Waiver for Outstanding Academic Grades. (Distinction).
• Block Award. (Prize / Award).
• Robert Oppenheimer fellowship (declined). Los Alamos National Laboratory. (Prize / Award).
• Special Prize for an Outstanding Graduate. (Distinction).

Publications

Articles de revue

• N. Georgieva, D. Rybicki, R. Gühne, G. Williams, S. Chong, I. Garate, J. Haase. (2015). 77Se nuclear magnetic resonance of topological insulator Bi2Se3. Phys. Rev. Lett. (Submitted).
• K. Saha, K. Légaré, I. Garate. (2015). Detecting band inversions by measuring the environment: fingerprints of electronic band topology in bulk phonon linewidths. Phys. Rev. Lett. 115 (Published).
• L. Liu, A. Richardella, I. Garate, Y. Zhu, N. Samarth and C.-T. Chen. (2015). Spin-polarized tunneling study of spin-momentum locking in topological insulators. Phys. Rev. B 91 (Published).
• H. Li, H. Gao, L.P. Zarbo, K. Vyborny, X. Wang, I. Garate, F. Dogan, A. Cejchan, J. Sinova, T. Jungwirth and A. Manchon. (2015). Intraband and interband spin-orbit torques in noncentrosymmetric ferromagnets. Phys. Rev. B 91 (Published).
• Z. Li, Ion Garate, et al. (2015). Experimental evidence and control for bulk-surface coupling in topological insulator BiTeSe nanoribbons. Physical Review Letters (Published).
• Kush Saha and Ion Garate. (2014). Theory of bulk-surface coupling in topological insulator films. Physical Review B 90 (Published).
• Saha, K. and Garate, I. (2014). Phonon-induced topological insulation. Physical Review B - Condensed Matter and Materials Physics 89 (20), (Published).
• Garate, I. (2013). Possible charge analogs of spin-transfer torques in bulk superconductors. Physical Review B - Condensed Matter and Materials Physics 88 (9), (Published).
• Süsstrunk, R. and Garate, I. and Glazman, L.I. (2013). Aharonov-Casher effect for plasmons in a ring of Josephson junctions. Physical Review B - Condensed Matter and Materials Physics 88 (6), (Published).
• I. Garate. (2013). Phonon-induced topological transitions and crossovers in Dirac materials. Phys. Rev. Lett. 110 (Published).
• Garate, I. and Glazman, L. (2012). Erratum: Weak localization and antilocalization in topological insulator thin films with coherent bulk-surface coupling (Physical Review B - Condensed Matter and Materials Physics (2012) 86 (035422)). Physical Review B - Condensed Matter and Materials Physics 86 (3), (Published).
• Garate, Ion and Glazman, Leonid. (2012). Weak localization and antilocalization in topological insulator thin films with coherent bulk-surface coupling. Phys. Rev. B 86 035422. (Published).
• Garate, Ion and Le Hur, Karyn. (2012). Noninvasive probes of charge fractionalization in quantum spin Hall insulators. Phys. Rev. B 85 195465. (Published).
• Gilmore, K. and Garate, I. and MacDonald, A.H. and Stiles, M.D. (2011). First-principles calculation of the nonadiabatic spin transfer torque in Ni and Fe. Physical Review B - Condensed Matter and Materials Physics 84 (22), (Published).
• Garate, I. (2011). Charge-Kondo effect in mesoscopic superconductors coupled to normal metals. Physical Review B - Condensed Matter and Materials Physics 84 (8), (Published).
• Garate, Ion and Franz, M. (2011). Excitons and optical absorption on the surface of a strong topological insulator with a magnetic energy gap. Phys. Rev. B 84 045403. (Published).
• Garate, Ion and Affleck, Ian. (2011). Kondo Temperature in Multilevel Quantum Dots. Phys. Rev. Lett. 106 156803. (Published).
• Garate, Ion and Franz, M. (2010). Magnetoelectric response of the time-reversal invariant helical metal. Phys. Rev. B 81 172408. (Published).
• Garate, I. and Affleck, I. (2010). Interplay between symmetric exchange anisotropy, uniform Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya interaction, and magnetic fields in the phase diagram of quantum magnets and superconductors. Physical Review B - Condensed Matter and Materials Physics 81 (14), (Published).
• Garate, Ion and Franz, M. (2010). Inverse Spin-Galvanic Effect in the Interface between a Topological Insulator and a Ferromagnet. Phys. Rev. Lett. 104 146802. (Published).
• Garate, I. and MacDonald, A.H. (2009). Influence of a transport current on magnetic anisotropy in gyrotropic ferromagnets. Physical Review B - Condensed Matter and Materials Physics 80 (13), (Published).
• Garate, Ion and Sinova, Jairo and Jungwirth, T. and MacDonald, A. H. (2009). Theory of weak localization in ferromagnetic (Ga,Mn)As. Phys. Rev. B 79 155207. (Published).
• Garate, Ion and Gilmore, K. and Stiles, M. D. and MacDonald, A. H. (2009). Nonadiabatic spin-transfer torque in real materials. Phys. Rev. B 79 104416. (Published).
• Garate, Ion and MacDonald, Allan. (2009). Gilbert damping in conducting ferromagnets. I. Kohn-Sham theory and atomic-scale inhomogeneity. Phys. Rev. B 79 064403. (Published).
• Garate, Ion and MacDonald, Allan. (2009). Gilbert damping in conducting ferromagnets. II. Model tests of the torque-correlation formula. Phys. Rev. B 79 064404. (Published).

Autres contributions

Cours enseignés

• Physique Statistique II. PHQ 440. (2015-04-27).
• Électricité et Magnétisme. PHQ 220. (2015-01-05).
• Physique contemporaine. PHQ 171. (2013-12-03).
• Topological insulators and superconductors. (2013-08-26).

Activités de collaboration internationale

• Researcher. Research collaboration with Nanjing University.
• Researcher. Research collaboration with experimentalists at IBM - Yorktown.
• Researcher. Research collaboration with experimentalists at the University of Leipzig.

Présentations

• (2015). Interplay between band topology and phonons in Dirac materials. Condensed matter seminar. Montréal
• (2015). Interplay between band topology and phonons in Dirac materials. Young Research Leaders Workshop: Frontiers with Strongly Correlated and Topological Mesoscopic Systems. Mainz
• (2015). Introduction aux isolants topologiques et fermions de Majorana. Summer school on mesoscopic physics. Sherbrooke
• (2015). Interplay between electronic band topology and phonons in Dirac materials. Condensed matter seminar. State College
• (2015). Interplay between electronic band topology and phonons in Dirac materials. Physics colloquium. Winnipeg
• (2014). Phonon-induced topological transitions and crossovers in Dirac materials. Grand conference in topological quantum materials. Sherbrooke
• (2014). Phonon-induced topological insulation. Canadian Association of Physicists Meeting. Sudbury
• (2014). Introduction to topological insulators. International summer school in computational quantum materials. Orford
• (2014). Introduction to topological insulators. CIFAR summer school. Montreal
• (2014). Phonon-induced topological insulation. CIFAR Quantum Materials Meeting. Montréal
• (2014). Weak localization and anti localization in doped topological insulators. American Physical Society March Meeting. Denver
• (2014). Possible charge analogues of spin transfer torques in bulk superconductors. Condensed matter seminar at McGill University. Montréal
• (2013). Possible charge analogues of spin transfer torques in bulk superconductors. Condensed matter seminar at Université de Montréal. Montréal
• (2013). Possible charge analogues of spin transfer torques in bulk superconductors. Gordon Godfrey Workshop on Spins and Strong Electron Correlations. Sydney
• (2013). Some spintronics applications of topological insulators. RQMP summer school. Magog
• (2013). Weak localization and antilocalization in topological insulator thin films with coherent bulk-surface coupling. Canadian Association of Physicists Meeting. Montréal
• (2013). Phonon-induced topological transitions and crossovers in Dirac materials. Condensed matter seminar, University of Pennsylvania. Philadelphia
• (2013). Phonon-induced topological transitions and crossovers in Dirac materials. Conference on topological quantum dynamics. Banff
• (2012). Topological insulators for spintronics. Physics colloquium, Ohio University. Athens
• (2012). Topological insulators for spintronics. Materials science seminar, Argonne National Laboratory. Chicago
• (2012). Topological insulators for spintronics. Physics colloquium, Purdue-Indiana University. Indianapolis
• (2012). Topological insulators for spintronics. Physics colloquium, University of New South Wales. Sydney
• (2012). Topological insulators for spintronics. Physics colloquium, Université de Sherbrooke. Sherbrooke