About

I work at the intersection of condensed-matter physics and materials science, focusing on emergent phenomena in solids, including:

• Unconventional superconductivity in ferroelectrics and flexoelectrics
• Competing magnetism and its use in tuning topology in magnetic topological materials

I use analytical, numerical, and first-principles approaches in my research.

Current position

2023 - now ∙ Postdoctoral Researcher at the University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, working with Prof. Turan Birol and Prof. Rafael M. Fernandes.

The focus of my research is the finite-momentum acoustic phonon condensation in incipient ferroelectrics - from candidate materials search to implications on superconductivity.

Education

2017 - 2023 ∙ Ph.D. in Condensed Matter Physics
Iowa State University ∙ Ames, IA
Thesis: Effects of phase competition and frustration in itinerant and local-moment magnetic materials, advised by Prof. Peter P. Orth

2016 - 2017 ∙ M.Sc. in Quantum Physics (ENS-ICFP master’s program)
École Normale Supérieure ∙ Paris, France
Internship advisor Prof. Pascal Simon

2012 - 2016  ∙  B.Sc. in Theoretical and Experimental Physics
University of Belgrade ∙ Belgrade, Serbia

List of publications

[6] S. X. M. Riberolles, AMN, B. Kuthanazhi, F. Ye, S. L. Bud’ko, P. C. Canfield, R. J. McQueeney, J. Ahn, V. L. Quito, T. V. Trevisan, L. L. Wang, P. P. Orth, B. G. Ueland, Symmetry tuning topological states of an axion insulator with noncollinear magnetic order, arXiv preprint arXiv:2505.22796 (2025).

[5] M. Terilli, X. Jia, X. Liu, P. Laurell, AMN, Y. Chang, T.-C. Wu, H. Chen, H. Li, M. H. Upton, J. Kim, J.-W. Kim, P. J. Ryan, C. Nelson, J. Zhou, M. Kareev, W. Hu, J. H. Pixley, G. A. Fiete, Y. Cao J. Chakhalian, Spectrally sharp magnetic excitations above the critical temperature in a frustrated Weyl semimetal, Nat. Commun. 16 (1), 6576 (2025).

[4] AMN, P. P. Orth, Intertwined vestigial orders in stacked magnetic flatlands, Nat. Phys. 20, 1694–1695 (2024).

[3] AMN, M. H. Christensen, Y. Lee, B. Li, B. G. Ueland, R. M. Fernandes, R. J. McQueeney, L. Ke, P. P. Orth, Competing magnetic fluctuations and orders in a multiorbital model of doped SrCo2As2, Phys. Rev. B 108, 245149 (2023). (repository).

[2] AMN, V. L. Quito, Y. Sizyuk, P. P. Orth, Three-state Potts nematic order in stacked frustrated spin models with SO(3) symmetry, Phys. Rev. B 107, 184401 (2023).

[1] Bing Li, J.-Q. Yan, D. M. Pajerowski, E. Gordon, AMN, Y. Sizyuk, L. Ke, P. P. Orth, D. Vaknin, and R. J. McQueeney, Competing magnetic interactions in the antiferromagnetic topological insulator MnBi2Te4, Phys. Rev. Lett. 124, 167204 (2020).