I am a Postdoc at Argonne National Laboratory studying condensed
matter physics. I am jointly supervised by Yue Cao and Charudatta
Phatak. I did my Ph.D. in Nuh Gedik’s group at MIT.
I am broadly interested in studying novel phases of matter with
time-resolved optical, x-ray, and electron scattering probes.
Fichera, B. T., A. Kumar, B. Lv, Z. Shen, K. Morey, Q. Song, B. Ilyas,
T. Luo, R. Comin, T. Senthil & N. Gedik, 2025a.
Higgs-mode electromagnon in the
spin-spiral multiferroic CuBr2
Fichera, B. T., B. Lv, K. Morey, Z. Shen, C. Lee, E. Donoway, A.
Liebman-Peláez, A. Kogar, T. Kurumaji, M. Rodriguez-Vega, R. H. A. del
Toro, M. Arruabarrena, B. Ilyas, T. Luo, P. Müller, A. Leonardo, A.
Ayuela, G. A. Fiete, J. G. Checkelsky, J. Orenstein & N. Gedik,
2025b. Light-induced reorientation transition in an antiferromagnetic
semiconductor. Phys. Rev. X,
15: 011044.
https://doi.org/
10.1103/PhysRevX.15.011044
Morey, K. A., B. T. Fichera, B. Lv, Z. Shen & N. Gedik, 2025.
Automated polarization rotation for multi-axis rotational-anisotropy
second harmonic generation experiments. Review of Scientific
Instruments,
96: 043002. https://doi.org/
10.1063/5.0233827
Lv, B. Q., A. Zong, D. Wu, Z. Nie, Y. Su, D. Choi, B. Ilyas, B. T.
Fichera, J. Li, E. Baldini, M. Mogi, Y.-B. Huang, H. C. Po, S. Meng, Y.
Wang, N. L. Wang & N. Gedik, 2024. Coexistence of interacting charge
density waves in a layered semiconductor. Phys. Rev. Lett.,
132: 206401. https://doi.org/
10.1103/PhysRevLett.132.206401
Hurtado Parra, S., D. B. Straus, B. T. Fichera, N. Iotov, C. R. Kagan
& J. M. Kikkawa, 2022. Large exciton polaron formation in 2D hybrid
perovskites via time-resolved photoluminescence. ACS Nano,
16: 21259–21265. https://doi.org/
10.1021/acsnano.2c09256
Fichera, B. T., A. Kogar, L. Ye, B. Gökce, A. Zong, J. G. Checkelsky
& N. Gedik, 2020. Second harmonic generation as a probe of broken
mirror symmetry. Phys. Rev. B,
101: 241106.
https://doi.org/
10.1103/PhysRevB.101.241106
