Welcome to Daniel Kaplan’s page

Welcome to my page!

Since September 2023, I have been a postdoctoral fellow at the Center for Materials Theory, Rutgers University. Before that, I was a PhD student at the Weizmann Institute (CV).

I am working on engineering interactions in materials for exotic phenomena such as electronic topology, superconductivity, magnetism and charge instabilities. I use a combination of numerical tools (massively parallel calculations), analytics (diagrammatic perturbation theory), strong physical-chemistry insight (symmetry, atomic orbitals) and state-of-the-art quantum chemistry tools (density functional theory) for predicting materials and their properties. I have a vast record of publications in light-matter interaction, including ultrafast dynamics. I have recently succeeded in using AI for materials predictions, with particular emphasis on interpretability – with newly predicted de novo superconductors. My work has appeared in journals such as Nature, Nature Nanotechnology, Nature Communications, Physical Review Letters, PNAS (among others). Recently, I predicted superconductivity in twisted transition-metal dichalcogenides, and a new anomalous nonlinear Hall effect in a topological antiferromagnet and light-driven phase transitions stable against temperatures. I have collaborated extensively with experimental groups, notably, W Gao (NTU Singapore), W Wu (Rutgers), A. Pasupathy (Columbia University), A Kogar (UCLA) and CZ Chang (Penn State).

My Research is generously supported by the Zuckerman Foundation, The Center for Materials Theory at Rutgers University and the SAERI Intiative at the Weizmann Institute.