Robert Hill
Biography
Dr. Hill's research is focused on the experimental study of materials whose exotic properties are dominated by the collective quantum mechanical nature of their electrons and defy explanation using current theoretical paradigms.
The difficult challenge of predicting emergent collective electronic properties means that such search and discovery is lead by experiment.
Dr. Hill's research provides the precise low temperature measurements of fundamental properties which form the benchmarks against which theoretical understanding is tested.
Research Interests
Unconventional superconductivity
Quantum phase transitions
Transport in low dimensional materials
Quantum Science
Scholarly Research
Education
1996, Doctorate Physics, University of Bristol, Bristol, United Kingdom
1991, Bachelor of Science (BSc) Physics, University of Bristol, Bristol, United Kingdom
Service
Associate Dean of Graduate Studies, Faculty of Science, University of Waterloo
Teaching*
- PHYS 111 - Physics 1
- Taught in 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024, 2025
- PHYS 233 - Introduction to Quantum Mechanics
- Taught in 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024
- SCI 300 - Special Topics in Science
- Taught in 2024, 2025
* Only courses taught in the past 5 years are displayed.
Selected/Recent Publications
WH Toews, RW Hill. "A robust and well shielded thermal conductivity device for low temperature measurements". Review of Scientific Instruments 85 (4), 043905 (2014)
WH Toews, SS Zhang, KA Ross, HA Dabkowska, BD Gaulin, RW Hill. "Thermal Conductivity of Ho2Ti2O7 along the [111] Direction". Physical review letters 110 (21), 217209 (2013)
Johnpierre Paglione, MA Tanatar, DG Hawthorn, Etienne Boaknin, RW Hill, F Ronning, M Sutherland, Louis Taillefer, C Petrovic, PC Canfield. "Field-Induced Quantum Critical Point in CeCoIn5. Physical review letters 91 (24), 246405 (2003)
R.W. Hill. "Superconducting Levitation". Physics in Canada 67, 136 (2011)