Name Hocine Bahlouli
Designation Professor
Brief research interests:
Develops analytical and computational methods for quantum materials, emphasizing graphene, topological systems, superconductivity, and quantum transport.
Research Areas: Theoretical Condensed Matter Physics
Office: 6/221
Tel: 966-13-860-2097
Email: bahlouli@kfupm.edu.sa
Website: http://faculty.kfupm.edu.sa/PHYS/bahlouli
Lab: Theoretical Physics Group
Affiliated Center: IRC-Advanced Materials
Research Interests:
Our theoretical research spans condensed matter physics, including analytical quantum methods, graphene and other low-dimensional materials, topological and Floquet phases, superconductivity, electronic transport and nonlinear physics.
Biographical Sketch
A graduate of the University of Urbana Champaign (Ph.D. 1988) under the supervision of the late Nobel prize Anthonny J. Leggett, Professor Bahlouli joined the KFUPM faculty in 1989, after serving as a postdoctoral member of the theoretical physics institute at the University of Minesota. He was promoted to Associate Professor in 1994 and full Professor in July 1999.
AWARDS & HONORS
His awards include the KFUPM best research award (1998-2013-2019), Associate Member of the International Center for Theoretical Physics (ICTP) , Italy (1997-2002),
Physics Editor for the AJSE (1999 – 2008).
KEY PUBLICATIONS
1. B. Arfi, H. Bahlouli, C.J. Pethick, and D. Pines, "Usual transport effects in anisotropic superconductors", Physical Review Letters Vol. 60, pp.2206-2209 (1988).
2. H. Bahlouli, "Ruderman-kittel-kasuya-yosida interaction in dirty superconductors", Physical Review B, Vol. 44, pp. 5328-5331 (1991).
3. H. Bahlouli, K.A. Matveev, D. Ephron and M.R. Beasley, "Coulomb coorelations in hopping through a thin layer", Phys. Review B, Vol. 49, pp. 14496-14503 (1994).
4. H. Bahlouli, "The nuclear spin-lattice relaxation time in d-wave superconductors”, Supercond. Sci. Technol. Vol. 9, pp. 145-148 (1996).
5. H. Bahlouli, “ The I-V Characteristic of Resonant tunneling Junctions”,
Phys. Stat. Sol. Vol. A179, 475-483 ( 2000 ).
6. A. D. Alhaidari, H. Bahlouli and A. Al-Hasan, „ The Dirac and Klein Gordon equations with equal scalar and vector potentials “, Physics Letters A Vol.349, 87 ( 2006 ).
7. A.D. Al-Haidari and H. Bahlouli,, “ Electron in the Field of a Molecule with an Electric Dipole Moment”, Physical Review Letters 100, 110401-1, (2008).
8. A.D. Al-Haidari, H. Bahlouli and S. Abdelmonem,” The oneDimensional J-Matrix of Scattering ”, Annals of Physics Vol.324, 2561(2009).
9. M.E.H. Ismail, A. D. Alhaidari and H. Bahlouli, “ Mathematical Revisit of the Dirac Coulomb Problem”, Journal of Physics A: Mathematical and Theoretical 45, 36520 (2012).
10. U. Al Khawaja, S. M. Al-Marzoug, H. Bahlouli, and Yuri S. Kivshar, “Unidirectional soliton flows in PT -symmetric potentials”, Physical Review A 88, 023830 (2013).
11. Berdiyorov, G.R., Bahlouli, H. and Peeters, F., “Effect of substitutional impurities on the electronic transport properties of graphene", Physica E: Low-dimensional Systems and Nanostructures 84, 22 (2016).
12. W. M. Moslem, A. S. El-Said, R. Sabry, A. Shalouf, S. K. El-Labany and H. Bahlouli, “ Nonlinear phenomenon in nanostructures creation by fast cluster ions”, Physics Letters A 381, 102 (2017).
13. Hasan. M. Abdullah, M. Van der Donck, H. Bahlouli, F. M. Peeters, and B. Van Duppen, ”Graphene quantum blisters: a tunable system to confine charge carriers”, Applied Physics Letters 112, (2018). This Article has been chosen as an
Editor's Pick.
14. Assi, I. A., LeBlanc, J. P. F., Rodriguez-Vega, M., Bahlouli, H., & Vogl, M. Floquet engineering and nonequilibrium topological maps in twisted trialayer graphene. Physical Review B, 104(19), 195429 (2021).
15. Jellal, A., Bahlouli, H., Vogl, M., Semiclassical perspective on Landau levels and Hall conductivity in an anisotropic cubic Dirac semimetal and the peculiar case of star-shaped classical orbits, Physical Review B, 109(23), 235434 (2024).
16. Miftah Hadi Syahputra Anfa, Sabri Elatresh, Hocine Bahlouli, Michael Vogl, Effective K valley Hamiltonian for TMD bilayers under pressure and application to twisted bilayers with pressure-induced topological phase transitions, Phys.
Rev. B, Physical Review B111(24) (2025).
17. S.M. Al-Marzoug, B.B. Baizakov, U. Al Khawaja and H. Bahlouli, Single impurity atom embedded in a dipolar two-soliton molecule as a qubit, Chaos, Solitons & Fractals Volume 206, 117941 (2026). s
