Assistant Professor of Physics
Higgins 330E
Email: hope.bretscher@bc.edu
ORCID
Experimental condensed matter, correlated and low-energy physics, on-chip terahertz and ultrafast optoelectronics, sub-wavelength cavities, terahertz and electrical characterization and control of devices, 2D materials and heterostructures, quantum metamaterials
Response regimes in on-chip THz spectroscopy
Gunda Kipp+, Marios H. Michael, Alexander M. Potts, Dorothee Herrmann, Toru Matsuyama, Guido Meier, Matthew W. Day, Hope M. Bretscher, and James W. McIver+
arXiv: 2511.23365
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Cavity electrodynamics of van der Waals heterostructures.
Gunda Kipp*, Hope M Bretscher*, Benedikt Schulte, Dorothee Herrmann, Kateryna Kusyak, Matthew W Day, Sivasruthi Kesavan, Toru Matsuyama, Xinyu Li, Sara Maria Langner, Jesse Hagelstein, Felix Sturm, Alexander M Potts, Christian J Eckhardt, Yunfei Huang, Kenji Watanabe, Takashi Taniguchi, Angel Rubio, Dante M Kennes, Michael A Sentef, Emmanuel Baudin, Guido Meier, Marios H Michael, James W McIver+
Nature Physics, (2025).
DOI: 10.1038/s41567-025-03064-8 | arXiv:2403.19745
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Purcell enhancement of photogalvanic currents in a van der Waals plasmonic self-cavity.
Xinyu Li, Jesse Hagelstein, Gunda Kipp, Felix Sturm, Kateryna Kusyak, Yunfei Huang, Benedikt F Schulte, Alexander M Potts, Jonathan Stensberg, Victoria Quirós-Cordero, Chiara Trovatello, Zhi Hao Peng, Chaowei Hu, Jonathan M DeStefano, Michael Fechner, Takashi Taniguchi, Kenji Watanabe, P James Schuck, Xiaodong Xu, Jiun-Haw Chu, Xiaoyang Zhu, Angel Rubio, Marios H Michael, Matthew W Day, Hope M Bretscher+, James W McIver+
arXiv:2507.07987
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Resolving self-cavity effects in two-dimensional quantum materials
Marios H Michael+, Gunda Kipp, Alexander M Potts, Matthew W Day, Toru Matsuyama, Guido Meier, Hope M Bretscher+, James W McIver+
arXiv: 2505.12799
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Monolithic optoelectronic circuit design for on-chip terahertz applications
Kateryna Kusyak, Benedikt Schulte, Toru Matsuyama, Gunda Kipp, Hope M Bretscher, Matthew W Day, Guido Meier, Alexander M Potts, James W McIver+
APL PhotonicsÌý10.7 (2025).
DOI: 10.1063/5.0278183 | arXiv:2507.21052
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Replicability and the evolution of scientific norms
Hope Bretscher+, Núria Muñoz Garganté
Nature Reviews PhysicsÌý(2025): 1-2.
DOI: 10.1038/s42254-025-00816-6 | arXiv:2501.05788
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Nonperturbative Nonlinear Transport in a Floquet-Weyl Semimetal
Matthew W Day, Kateryna Kusyak, Felix Sturm, Juan I Aranzadi, Hope M Bretscher, Michael Fechner, Toru Matsuyama, Marios H Michael, Benedikt F Schulte, Xinyu Li, Jesse Hagelstein, Dorothee Herrmann, Gunda Kipp, Alex M Potts, Jonathan M DeStefano, Chaowei Hu, Yunfei Huang, Takashi Taniguchi, Kenji Watanabe, Guido Meier, Dongbin Shin, Angel Rubio, Jiun-Haw Chu, Dante M Kennes, Michael A Sentef, James W McIver+
arXiv:2409.04531
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Ultrafast melting and recovery of collective order in the excitonic insulator Ta2NiSe5
Hope M Bretscher*, Paolo Andrich+*, Prachi Telang, Anupam Singh, Luminita Harnagea, Ajay K Sood, Akshay Rao+
Nature communicationsÌý12.1 (2021)
DOI: 10.1038/s41467-021-21929-3 | arXiv:2007.03368
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Imaging the coherent propagation of collective modes in the excitonic insulator Ta2NiSe5Ìýat room temperature
Hope M Bretscher*, Paolo Andrich+*, Yuta Murakami, Denis Golež, Benjamin Remez, Prachi Telang, Anupam Singh, Luminita Harnagea, Nigel R Cooper, Andrew J Millis, Philipp Werner, AK Sood, Akshay Rao+
Science advancesÌý7.28 (2021)
DOI: 10.1126/sciadv.abd6147 | arXiv:2003.10799
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Rational passivation of sulfur vacancy defects in two-dimensional transition metal dichalcogenides
Hope Bretscher, Zhaojun Li, James Xiao, Diana Yuan Qiu, Sivan Refaely-Abramson, Jack A Alexander-Webber, Arelo Tanoh, Ye Fan, Géraud Delport, Cyan A Williams, Samuel D Stranks, Stephan Hofmann, Jeffrey B Neaton, Steven G Louie, Akshay Rao+
ACS nanoÌý15.5 (2021)
DOI: 10.1021/acsnano.1c01220 |arXiv:2002.03956