Brief Resume

2000    D.Sci., University of Tokyo    

2000    Research Associate, Department of Physics, University of Tokyo    

2004    Postdoctoral Researcher, Max Planck Institute for Solid State Research    

2006    Research Scientist/Senior Research Scientist, Condensed Matter Theory Laboratory, RIKEN    

2008    Associate Professor, Department of Applied Physics, University of Tokyo    

2011    PRESTO, Japan Science and Technology Agency    

2014    Team Leader, First-Principles Materials Science Research Team, RIKEN Center for Emergent Matter Science (-present)
Position name has been changed to Team Director as of April 1, 2025    

2018    Professor, Department of Applied Physics, University of Tokyo    

2022    Professor, Research Center for Advanced Science and Technology, University of Tokyo (-present)    

2024    Professor, Department of Physics, University of Tokyo (-present)    

Outline

By means of first-principles methods, our team studies non-trivial electronic properties of materials which lead to new ideas/notions in condensed matter physics or those which have potential possibilities as unique functional materials. Especially, we are currently interested in strongly correlated/topological materials such as high Tc cuprates, iron-based superconductors, organic superconductors, carbon-based superconductors, 5d transition metal compounds, heavy fermions, giant Rashba systems, topological insulators, zeolites, and so on. We aim at predicting unexpected phenomena originating from many-body correlations and establishing new guiding principles for materials design. We are also interested in the development of new methods for ab initio electronic structure calculation.

Research Fields

Physics, Materials Science

Keywords

First-principles calculations
Theoretical materials design
Strongly correlated electron systems

Research Interest

Synthesis of complex oxides of copper, nickel, bismuth, and cobalt to enable incisive new experiments aimed at understanding their exceptional properties, including high-temperature superconductivity, electronic nematicity, strange-metal transport, and scaling of superfluid density with the critical temperature. 

Stabilization of high-temperature superconducting phases in nickelates and hydrides, so far only observed in microscopic samples at extreme pressure, in large-area thin films at ambient pressure, to open a series of new basic physics experiments as well as electronics applications.

Discovery and study of novel states of condensed matter, including new type of charge-density waves, quantized electronic nematicity, and bosonic metals.

Fabrication and study of high-temperature superconducting (HTS) devices (Josephson junctions and nanowire single-photon detectors) as the basic building blocks for HTS neuromorphic computing for AI that can surpass human brain capacity in low-power, desktop-size units, promising enormous market and the potential to transform the world.

Research Scientific Topics:

Topological quantum materials. Interplay of superconductivity and 

magnetism. Superconducting orbitronics. Quantum materials with strong 

spin-orbit coupling. Topological Hall effects in oxides and oxide 

interfaces. Driven quantum systems with non-trivial topological phases. 

Spectroscopic modelling of correlated electron materials.

Multipolartronics and spin-optical helicity effects.

We are always open to welcoming graduate students and postdoctoral researchers who are interested in scientific research and willing to dedicate their time and enthusiasm to join our team. We strive to provide a supportive, open, and collaborative research environment. Our group focuses on developing new methods and techniques in scanning tunneling microscopy (STM) to investigate key scientific questions in high-temperature superconductors and topological superconductors. At present, the intersection of topology and superconductivity is driving new scientific breakthroughs. We sincerely invite motivated young researchers to join us in exploring these frontiers and contributing to the advancement of fundamental physics.

Overview

The destruction of particles has been long associated with high-energy physics and the construction of large-scale particle accelerators. It is perhaps less well-known that in solid state physics, the destruction of particles, or more precisely quasi-particles, takes place on a regular basis in a standard laboratory environment. Quasi-particles are the fundamental excitations of a metal. They are essentially electrons whose properties have been modified, typically through interactions with the atomic lattice and/or other electrons, leading to (amongst other things) larger effective masses. Simple changes in a sample's environment (eg through changes in its temperature, dimensionality or doping level) can alter the spectrum of quasi-particle excitations and thus lead to fundamentally new physics. In our research, we investigate ways in which the quasi-particle description breaks down in a host of exotic new materials known collectively as strongly correlated metals. This family of metals, that include the high-temperature superconductors and colossal magnetoresistance oxides, are not only interesting from a fundamental perspective; they also have huge technological potential.

Research

Anomalous transport in high temperature superconductors

Just as in conventional superconductors, where the scattering processes that dominate the electrical resistivity provide an important clue to the dominant pairing interaction (via the strength of the electron-phonon coupling), so an understanding of the normal state transport properties of high-temperature superconductors (HTS) is regarded as a key step towards the elucidation of the pairing mechanism for high temperature superconductivity. Whilst this remains the ultimate goal, normal state transport in HTS has emerged as a field in its own right and one of the most challenging (and controversial) topics in modern solid state physics. The ubiquitous linear-in-temperature resistivity at optimal doping, extending over a very wide temperature range, the strong temperature-dependence of the Hall coefficient, the violation of Kohler's rule and the divergence of the resistivity anisotropy are but some of the striking anomalies which have puzzled the community over the past two decades and inspired theorists to develop radical new concepts in many-body theory.

One of the goals of our research is to see how far the conventional picture of (quasi-particle) excitations above the Fermi surface, ie the velocity distribution of the most energetic electrons can explain these various anomalies. In order to do that however, we must first determine what that Fermi surface looks like. The schematic figure (which appeared in Nature in 2003) shows the first three-dimensional mapping of the Fermi surface of a high temperature superconductor. From this starting point, we have now been able to explain the temperature dependence of the resistivity and Hall effect for this compound by extracting further information on the anisotropy of the quasi-particle lifetime around the Fermi surface. The challenge now is to explain the evolution of the anomalous transport as we reduce the carrier concentration and increase the superconducting transition temperature. At some point, we expect the conventional picture to break down, but by studying in detail the way this occurs will, we believe, shed important light on the origin both of the anomalous transport and of the mechanism of high temperature superconductivity itself.

Low dimensional conductors

Landau's Fermi liquid theory has stood as the standard model for understanding metal physics for over 40 years. Indeed, it seemed for a long while that it was sufficient simply to ascribe a one-to-one correspondence between the low-energy excitations of a free Fermi gas and those of an interacting Fermi liquid, through a renormalisation process, to account for all the many-body interactions that exist inside a metallic system. This correspondence, however, is now thought to break down in spectacular fashion once the electrons inside the metal are confined to dimensions lower than three. Such materials, known collectively as low dimensional conductors, have exposed the limits of applicability of the Fermi liquid scenario and have opened up the possibility for an astonishing range of new exotic ground states, where magnetic, orbital, structural and electronic order all compete for the stable fixed point at zero temperature. We currently employ a range of magneto-transport techniques to study the charge dynamics of various low dimensional conductors, with the aim of following the evolution of their intrinsic behaviour as the dimensionality of the electronic ground state is changed through different control parameters, including disorder and the application of large magnetic fields.

Changqing JIN received Ph.D degree at Institute of Physics Chinese Academy of Sciences (IOPCAS) in 1991 followed with Post Doc or visiting research in Japan, HK & Europe. His research focuses on quantum emergent matters of new superconductors, diluted magnetic semiconductors & magnetoelectric coupled materials by design in combination with developing state of the art synergetic high pressures synthesis or detection techniques.

He got Matthias Prize for superconducting materials in 2026 for his sustained contributions to the discovery new superconductors ranging from cuprate, iron based, superhydrides, elements to topological materials. Changqing JIN is elected Member of European Academy of Sciences and Arts(2024), Fellow of European Academy of Sciences(2024), Fellow of American Association for the Advancement of Sciences (2021), Fellow of Institute of Physics of UK(2016), Fellow of American Physics Society (2014). He got Prize for Condensed Matter Physics of Chinese Physics Society in 2015, the National Award for Natural Science Excellence of China in 2016, the Awards for Discoveries of New Materials of Chinese Materials Research Society in 2018 & 2023. He was IUCr Commission Chair for Crystallography of Materials from 2017 to 2023, the LOC Chair of the 26th International Conference on High Pressure Science & Technology. He is serving as vice president of International Association for the Advancement of High Pressure Science & Technology since 2023.

 He jointly published 300+ papers in Nature & other peer reviewed journals. He is one of most cited Chinese researchers. He delivered 100+ Plenary/Keynote/Invited talks in the flagship conferences of physical sciences including International Conference on High Pressure Science & Technology (AIRAPT), Materials & Mechanism of Superconducting Materials(M2S), APS March Meeting, European High Pressure Research Conference(EHPRG), European Materials Research Society(EMRS), Gordon Research Conference(GRC),International Conference on Low Temperature (LT), Materials Research Society(MRS) etc..

Prof. Fedor Vasilievich Kusmartsev obtained his PhD at the Landau Institute for Theoretical Physics under supervision of Professor E I Rashba (Harvard University). He has given important contributions to Physics of semiconductors and especially to Topological Insulators publishing  in 1985 the first pioneering paper on the subject. He applied the theory of groups symmetry to polarons and self-trapping and found a series of new spontaneous symmetry breaking phenomena. He was the first who introduced the application of catastrophe theory and the theory of function singularities and applied them to study the stability of molecules, solitons, and stars.  Due to these achievements in 1989, he was awarded Humboldt Fellowship. Many Body Theory of Superconducting and Semiconductor Materials lead him to the discovery of the Paramagnetic Meisner effect. His research combines fundamental Mathematical Physics and experiments with applications to device development, with an impact on medicine and the environment.  He has also made an important contribution to acoustics, discovered a new type of acoustic metamaterials allowing to stop sound propagation while keep the light  and air go through. Based on this patent together with his PhD student, Dan Elford, in 2012 he founded a very successful company, Sonobex,  which is now with Merford ltd making a huge impact on people's life by building up noiseless houses.

He was elected as a Fellow of the American Physical Society in 2011 for his outstanding contributions to the Physics of Semiconductors and Superconductors. He was also elected as a Fellow of the British Institute of Physics in 1999 for the discovery of the Paramagnetic Meisner Effect. Finally, for his excellence in long-term pedagogical practice, he was elected as a Fellow of Higher Education of the Academy.  

He created the concept of Arrays of Josephson Junctions and Quantum Dots unifying these different areas of Physics. He was the Chair of the European  Network on the Physics of Superconductors and Semiconductors. (http://archives.esf.org/coordinating-research/research-networking-programmes/physical-and-engineering-sciences-pen/completed-esf-research-networking-programmes-in-pesc/arrays-of-quantum-dots-and-josephson-junctions-aqdjj.html).

He has been awarded the 1000 Talents Award in Physics Of Topological Materials (2017) for a broad range of contributions to science. He was a visiting  Professor at NORDITA and Tokyo University (1993-1995) and Head of the Physics Department at Loughborough University (1996-2020)

Graduated from MIT at top university of USSR  under the supervision of Professor  E I Rashba, Nobel Prize Winner.

PhD - Landau Institute  for Theoretical Physics, Landau Theoretical Curriculum, 

Leading Researcher at Landau Institute and Professor of Condensed Matter Theory Loughborough University.

Education

Lev Landau Institute for Theoretical Physics

MIT@ top USSR institution with Distinction

Hunboldt Fellow, University of Cologne, Germany

Research Interests

Physics of Condensed Matter

Astrophysics and Cosmology

Topology in Physics and Cosmology

Novel approaches to economics and social networks

Li’s expertise is in the nanofabrication and transport measurement of mesoscopic devices. She currently focuses on topological nanodevices for quantum computing. She observed the first Higher-order topological states in Bismuth nanowire-based Josephson devices and the topological superconductivity in 3D Dirac semimetals. Li is a recipient of an NWO Veni grant and an NWO Vidi grant. She was awarded the ‘prof. de Winter’ prize of the University of Twente.

Danfeng Li is an Associate Professor in the Department of Physics and currently serves as Associate Dean for Research and Postgraduate Education in the College of Science at City University of Hong Kong (CityUHK). Prof. Li has received several prestigious awards and recognitions, including the Asian Young Scientist Fellowship in 2025, AAPPS-APCTP Chen-Ning Yang Award in 2023, The Oxide Electronics Prize for Excellence in Research in 2024, the MIT Technology Review 35 Innovators Under 35 (China) in 2021, the Outstanding Alumni Award from Department of Applied Physics of The Hong Kong Polytechnic University in 2025, and the Stanford's List of World's Top 2% Scientists in 2023 and 2024.

Prof. Li obtained his B.Eng. from Zhejiang University and M.Phil. from The Hong Kong Polytechnic University (advisor: Prof. Ji-yan Dai). Shortly after earning his Ph.D. (2016) in the Department of Quantum Matter Physics at University of Geneva (advisor: Prof. Jean-Marc Triscone), he joined Stanford University as a Swiss National Science Foundation postdoctoral fellow, working with Prof. Harold Hwang. He joined CityUHK as an Assistant Professor in November 2020.

Prof. Li's main research interests span across condensed-matter physics and materials science, focusing on atomic-scale fabrication of oxide heterostructures and nanomembranes, kinetic based synthesis of unconventional quantum materials, low-dimensional superconductivity, oxide interfaces for emergent states, etc. In 2019, a team led by Prof. Li and Prof. Hwang discovered the first nickelate superconductor, which had been a target of continuous materials search for over three decades. This discovery has opened a new research area, which now marks nickelates as the new family of high-temperature superconductors.

Engaged in theoretical research on condensed matter physics. Received a Ph.D. from Wuhan University in 1993. From 1998 to 1999, was a visiting scholar at the Institute of Physics, Academia Sinica in Taiwan. From 2006 to 2007, was a visiting scholar at the University of California, Berkeley. Awarded the National Science Fund for Distinguished Young Scholars in 2005. Served as the team leader for an Innovative Research Team of the Ministry of Education in 2008. From 2009 to 2011, was appointed as a Distinguished Professor of the Chang Jiang Scholars Program of the Ministry of Education. Currently holds concurrent positions as a member of the Discipline Appraisal Group of the Academic Degrees Committee of the State Council, Associate Editor for Acta Physica Sinica and Chinese Physics B, and Deputy Director of the Professional Committee on Condensed Matter Theory and Statistical Physics of the Chinese Physical Society.

Associate Professor

Key Laboratory of Condensed Matter Theory and Computation,
Institute of Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences

Menghan Liao is an associate research scientist (PhD supervisor) in the Low-dimensional Quantum Materials Group at the Beijing Academy of Quantum Information Sciences. He obtained his B.S. degree from the School of the Gifted Young at the University of Science and Technology of China in 2015, and his Ph.D. degree from the Department of Physics at Tsinghua University in 2020 (Supervisors: Prof. Qi-kun Xue and Prof. Ding Zhang). From 2021 to 2023, he worked as a postdoctoral fellow in the group of Prof. Alberto Morpurgo at the Department of Quantum Matter Physics, the University of Geneva. In 2024, he was awarded the Ambizione Project from the Swiss National Science Foundation and was promoted to a Scientific Collaborator (Research Associate). In 2025, he joined the Beijing Academy of Quantum Information Sciences. Menghan Liao is dedicated to the experimental study of novel quantum phenomena in low-dimensional materials, including (1) The mechanism of high-temperature superconductivity and other novel superconducting states; (2) Two-dimensional magnetic semiconductors; (3) Novel physical phenomena arising from topological band structures. Dr. Liao employs modern nano-fabrication techniques (such as van der Waals stacking and electron beam lithography) to prepare high-quality electrical devices and carries out electrical transport studies at low temperatures and high magnetic fields. Currently, all device fabrication and measurement tasks can be carried out in the Low-dimensional Quantum Materials Group and the Beijing Academy of Quantum Information Sciences. Until February 2025, Menghan Liao has published 23 papers and has been cited over 2000 times, and his H-index is 13. 9 papers were published as the first author or co-first author, including 1 Nature Physics, 1 Nature Nanotechnology, 1 Physical Review X, 2 Nature Communications, 3 Nano Letters, and 1 Applied Physics Letters. 

Research team

Computational materials modeling for nanoscience and innovative technologies (COMMIT)

Expertise

High-performance computations for material physics problems (in the past applied to superconducting, magnetic, metal-semiconductor hybrid materials, as well as soft-hard matter hybrids, e.g. large biomolecules with metallic ions/atoms/nanoparticles). Description of quantum effects in atomically-engineered functional materials for specific electronic, magnetic, and/or optical performance. Design, engineering and characterization of electronic devices based on new functional materials.

Research Interests 5

光電子分光

電子状態

高温超伝導体

トポロジカル物質

低次元物質

Research Areas 1

Natural sciences / Magnetism, superconductivity, and strongly correlated systems /

Awards 5

APS Outstanding Referee

2020/03　American Physical Society

第28回山下太郎学術研究奨励賞

2017/06/09　一般財団法人山下太郎顕彰育英会

平成28年度科学技術分野の文部科学大臣表彰 若手科学者賞

2016/04/20　文部科学省

第10回日本物理学会若手奨励賞

2016/03/21　日本物理学会

井上研究奨励賞

2012/02/04　井上科学振興財団

Papers 154

Band structure of monolayer 1T−TiS2 and its implications for the phase diagrams of Ti-based transition metal dichalcogenides

Koki Yanagizawa, Katsuaki Sugawara, Tappei Kawakami, Kosuke Nakayama, Takashi Takahashi, Takafumi Sato

Physical Review B　111　205111　2025/05/08

DOI： 10.1103/PhysRevB.111.205111  　

Spin-valley coupling enhanced high-TC ferromagnetism in a non-van der Waals monolayer Cr2Se3 on graphene

C.-W. Chuang, T. Kawakami, K. Sugawara, K. Nakayama, S. Souma, M. Kitamura, K. Amemiya, K. Horiba, H. Kumigashira, G. Kremer, Y. Fagot-Revurat, D. Malterre, C. Bigi, F. Bertran, F. H. Chang, H. J. Lin, C. T. Chen, T. Takahashi, A. Chainani, T. Sato

Nature Communications　16　3448　2025/04/18

DOI： 10.1038/s41467-025-58643-3  　

(Review Article) Photoemission Insights to Electronic Orders in Kagome Superconductor AV3Sb5

Yigui Zhong, Jia-Xin Yin, Kosuke Nakayama

Journal of the Physical Society of Japan　93　111001　2024/11/15

DOI： 10.7566/JPSJ.93.111001  　

Ferromagnetism triggered by band tripling in ruthenate Sr4Ru3O10

N. Watanabe, S. Souma, K. Nakayama, K. Yamauchi, J. F. Ribeiro, Y. Wang, Miho Kitamura, Koji Horiba, Hiroshi Kumigashira, T. Oguchi, Z. Q. Mao, Y. P. Chen, T. Sato

Physical Review B　110　155134　2024/10/15

DOI： 10.1103/PhysRevB.110.155134  　

Evolution of band structure in the kagome superconductor Cs(V1−xCrx)3Sb5 : Toward universal understanding of charge density wave and superconducting phase diagrams

Shuto Suzuki, Takemi Kato, Yongkai Li, Kosuke Nakayama, Zhiwei Wang, Seigo Souma, Kenichi Ozawa, Miho Kitamura, Koji Horiba, Hiroshi Kumigashira, Takashi Takahashi, Yugui Yao, Takafumi Sato

Physical Review B　110　165104　2024/10/01

DOI： 10.1103/PhysRevB.110.165104  　

BenjaminSacépé, Institut Néel (Université Grenoble Alpes, CNRS, Grenoble INP) est à l’origine d’expériences uniques au monde et particulièrement ambitieuses et difficiles impliquant la combinaison de mesures de transport électronique avec des mesures locales de spectroscopie par effet tunnel. Physicien avec une compréhension très profonde de la physique, il se démarque par son ambition et sa capacité à aborder des questionnements aussi variés que centraux en physique de la matière condensée. Il s’est ainsi imposé comme un acteur majeur à l’international tant en apportant un éclairage nouveau sur des questionnements de longue date autour de la transition isolant / supraconducteur qu’en contribuant à des problématiques émergentes dans les matériaux topologiques. La diversité de ses approches et des thématiques abordées témoigne d’une culture scientifique exceptionnelle.
L’attribution du prix Ancel récompense ainsi un physicien particulièrement créatif et un expérimentateur hors pair aux approches originales et multifacettes en physique de la matière condensée.

Brief Summary of research: 

Electronic transport and tunneling in van-der-Waals devices. 

Specific research topics related to Nanoscience and Nanotechnology:

Two-dimensional materials, graphene, superconductivity.

Research Description

Nuclear Magnetic Resonance (NMR) studies on quantum phenomena, such as superconductivity, magnetism, multipole order, etc., at high-magnetic fields and low temperatures. Current and recent research subjects are

odd-parity superconducting state in heavy-Fermion superconductors

exotic superconducting state in low-dimensional systems

quantum critical phenomena in f electron systems

quantum phenomena in caged compounds

etc.

Main Publications

Hideki Tou, Norihiko Tsugawa, Masafumi Sera, Yoshinori Haga, Yoshichika Onuki,"Hyperfine interactions in the heavy fermion superconductor UBe13 : 9Be NMR studies", Journal of the Physical Society of Japan, Vol.76 No2 (2007) 024705/1-9.

Hideki Tou, Kenji Ishida, Yoshio Kitaoka,"Quasiparticle spin susceptibility in heavy-fermion superconductors: An NMR study compared with specific heat results"Journal of the Physical Society of Japan Vol.74, (2005) p.p.1245-1254.

H. Tou, Y. Maniwa, T. Koiwasaki, and S. Yamanaka: "Unconventional Superconductivity in Electron-doped Layered Li0.48(THF)yHfNCl,"Physical Review Letters, Vol.86,(2001), p.p.5775-5778.

H. Tou, Y. Maniwa, Y. Iwasa, H. Shimoda, T. Mitani: "NMR Evidence for Mott-Hubbard Localization in (NH3)K3C60,",Physical Review B, Vol.62, Rapid Communications (2000), p.p.R775-R778.

H. Tou, Y. Kitaoka, K. Ishida, K. Asayama, N. Kimura, Y. ?Onuki, E. Yamamoto, Y. Haga, K. Maezawa "Nonunitary Spin-Triplet Superconductivity in UPt3: Evidence from 195Pt Knight Shift Study,", Physical Review Letters, Vol.80,(1998), p.p.3129-3132.

H. Tou, Y. Kitaoka, K. Asayama, N. Kimura, Y. Onuki, E. Yamamoto, K. Maezawa: "Odd-Parity Superconductivity with Parallel Spin Paring in UPt3 -Evidence from 195Pt KnightShift Study-,"Physical Review Letters, Vol.77, (1996), p.p.1374-1377

Research focus

Experimental quantum matter, superconductivity, strongly correlated electron systems, topological states of matter, scanning tunneling microscopy, low-temperature physics.

Experience

Since 2024       Assistant Professor at University of Bristol
2019-2023       Postdoc at University of Oxford with Séamus Davis
2019-2023       Visiting scientist at Cornell University
2015-2019       PhD at University of Oxford with Martin Castell

Award

2025               Royal Academy of Engineering / Leverhulme Trust Research Fellow
2025               IUPAP Young Scientist Prize on Low Temperature Physics (C5)
2025               UKRI EPSRC New Investigator Award
2024               Nicholas Kurti Science Prize for Europe 
2023               Rising Star in Physics

Novel quantum states arise in correlated condensed matter systems due to strong interactions of spin, charge, orbital, and lattice degrees of freedom. The research topic of my group focuses on the study of quantum phenomena governed by many-body interactions in strongly correlated quantum materials. Various optical spectroscopies are used to study dynamical responses of equilibrium and optically driven non-equilibrium states in quantum materials, e.g. quantum magnets and superconductors, under tunable external conditions such as temperature and magnetic field. Our goal is to uncover and understand the characteristic dynamical properties for quantum states, and to coherently control these states.

Hai-Hu Wen, a senior professor of physics in School of Physics, Nanjing University, Director of Center for Superconducting Physics and Materials of Nanjing university, Winner of the Outstanding Youth Foundation of China (1998), Yangtze River Scholarship Professor (2012), American Physical Society Fellow (2013).

Scientific contributions: Interests cover exploration of new superconducting materials, unconventional pairing mechanism of cuprates and iron based superconductors, mixed state properties, correlation effect and non-Fermi liquid behavior, etc. Has made several important contributions in the field of superconductivity. Published more than 510 scientific papers in internationally recognized journals, received over 14000 citations, h-index 68. Delivered more than 100 speeches or invited talks at international conferences.

Working field: Exploration of new superconducting materials, investigation on non-Fermi liquid behavior, unconventional pairing mechanism of cuprates and iron pnictide superconductors, vortex dynamics, mixed state properties, critical fluctuation, etc.

Education background

B.S. 1982, University of Science and Technology, Hefei, China

Ph.D. 1987, University of Science and Technology, Hefei, China

Experience

1987-2001, postdoctoral fellow, research assistant professor, Texas Center for Superconductivity at University of Houston, USA

2001-present, professor, Institute for Advanced Study, Tsinghua University

Areas of Research Interests/ Research Projects

Theoretical Condensed Matter Physics

これまでの研究

　強相関電子系におけるエキゾチック超伝導を主たるテーマとし、多極子秩序、アンダーソン局在と超伝導絶縁体転移、冷却原子気体などを含めた研究を行ってきました。最近はスピン軌道相互作用と電子相関が引き起こす新奇量子現象の探索が研究の中心です。例として、スピン軌道相互作用による奇パリティ超伝導のメカニズムを解明し、トポロジカル超伝導体のデザインを行いました。また、パリティを自発的に破る奇パリティ多極子秩序を提案しました。

本領域での研究

　本領域での研究は、強相関電子系に特有の非従来型クーパー対に起因する多彩なトポロジカル超伝導を明らかにすることを目的とします。強相関電子系において発展した様々な超伝導理論とトポロジカル相の分類学を融合させ、強相関トポロジカル超伝導理論を開拓したいと思います。また、非共型な結晶構造に特有のトポロジカル相を同定することも重要な課題です。

略歴

1992年

鹿児島県私立ラ・サール高等学校卒業

1996年

京都大学理学部（物理学）卒業

2000年

東京大学理学系研究科物理学専攻　助手、2007年より助教

2001年

論文博士（理学）取得（京都大学）

2006年

-2007年　スイス連邦工科大学理論物理学研究所　客員研究員
（Manfred Sigrist 教授とパリティがない超伝導に関する共同研究を行った。）

2009年

新潟大学理学部 物理学科　准教授

2015年

京都大学 理学研究科　准教授

2020年

京都大学 理学研究科　教授、現在に至る

主な受賞

2011年

日本物理学会若手奨励賞（領域８）

2013年

重い電子系研究奨励賞

2019年

第24回(2019年) 論文賞 (日本物理学会)

代表論文

"Superconductivity in magnetic multipole states"
Shuntaro Sumita and Youichi Yanase
Physical Review B 93, 224507-1-12 (Jun. 2016).
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevB.93.224507

"Odd-parity superconductivity by competing spin-orbit coupling and orbital effect in artificial heterostructures"
T. Watanabe, T. Yoshida and Y. Yanase
Physical Review B 92, 174502-1-14 (Nov. 2015).
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevB.92.174502

"Topological Crystalline Superconductivity in Locally Non-centrosymmetric Multilayer Superconductors"
T. Yoshida, M. Sigrist and Y. Yanase
Physical Review Letters 115, 027001-1-5 (Jul. 2015).
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.115.027001

"Chiral superconductivity in nematic states"
S. Takamatsu and Y. Yanase
Physical Review B 91, 054504-1-11 (Feb. 2015).
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevB.91.054504

"Magneto-Electric Effect in Three-dimensional Coupled Zigzag Chains"
Y. Yanase
Journal of the Physical Society of Japan 83, 014703-1-8 (Dec. 2014).
DOI: 10.7566/JPSJ.83.014703

"Multi-orbital Superconductivity in SrTiO3/LaAlO3 interface and SrTiO3 surface"
Y. Nakamura and Y. Yanase
Journal of the Physical Society of Japan 82, 083705-1-5 (Jul. 2013).
DOI: 10.7566/JPSJ.82.083705

"Complex-stripe phases induced by staggered Rashba spin-orbit coupling"
T. Yoshida, M. Sigrist, and Y. Yanase (Papers of Editor's Choice)
Journal of the Physical Society of Japan 82, 074714-1-6 (Jun. 2013).
DOI: 10.7566/JPSJ.82.074714

"Spin-triplet pairing state of Sr2RuO4 in the c-axis magnetic field"
S. Takamatsu and Y. Yanase
Journal of the Physical Society of Japan 82, 063706-1-5 (May. 2013).
DOI: 10.7566/JPSJ.82.063706

"Locally Non-centrosymmetric Superconductivity in Multi-layer Systems"
D. Maruyama, M. Sigrist, and Y. Yanase
Journal of the Physical Society of Japan 81, 034702-1-11 (Feb. 2012).
DOI: 10.1143/JPSJ.81.034702

"Antiferromagnetic Order and π-Triplet Pairing in the Fulde-Ferrell-Larkin-Ovchinnikov State"
Y. Yanase and M. Sigrist
Journal of the Physical Society of Japan 78, 114715-1-6 (Nov. 2009).(Papers of Editor's Choice)
DOI: 10.1143/JPSJ.78.114715

"Localization and Superconductivity in Doped Semiconductors"
Y. Yanase and N. Yorozu
Journal of the Physical Society of Japan 78, 034715-1-10 (Mar. 2009).
DOI: 10.1143/JPSJ.78.034715

"Non-centrosymmetric Superconductivity and Antiferromagnetic Order: Microscopic discussion of CePt3Si"
Y. Yanase and M. Sigrist
Journal of the Physical Society of Japan 76, 043712-1-4 (Apr. 2007).
DOI: 10.1143/JPSJ.76.043712

"Microscopic Identification of the D-vector in Triplet Superconductor Sr2RuO4"
Y. Yanase and M. Ogata
Journal of the Physical Society of Japan 72, 673-687 (Aug. 2003).
DOI: 10.1143/JPSJ.72.673

"Theory of Superconductivity in Strongly Correlated Electron Systems"
Y. Yanase, T. Jujo, T. Nomura, H. Ikeda, T. Hotta and K. Yamada
Physics Reports 387, 1-149 (Nov. 2003).
DOI: 10.1016/j.physrep.2003.07.002

Bachelor's Degree

University of Science and Technology of China, 1989.

Doctoral Degree

University of Washington, 1997 (Theoretical Condensed Matter Physics)

Employment History

Professor, July, 2013 -now

 Associate Professor, UBC, July, 2006 - June, 2013

Assistant Professor, UBC, Aug, 2003 - June, 2006.

Assistant Professor, Utrecht University, Oct, 2000 - July, 2003

Awards

Alfred P. Sloan fellow (2005-2007)

Associate, Canadian Institute for Adavanced Research (2006-2008)

Scholar, Canadian Institute For Advanced Research (2008-2012)

Fellow, Canadian Institute For Advanced Research (2012-2018)

Foreign Associate, ICQS, IoP, Chinese Academy of Sciences (2007-2016)

Killam Research Fellowship, University of British Columbia (2011)

Hobbies and Interests

tennis, skiing, hiking and jogging

Research Area

Condensed Matter

Research Field

Quantum Magnetism/Quantum Many-body Physics/Applications of QFT/CFT

Research Topics

Ultra-Cold Quantum Matter, Strong-Coupling physics, Far Away From Equilibrium Quantum Dynamics, Quantum entanglement and quantum transport/dynamic phenomena, Emergent quantum symmetries and correlations.

Research Title

Strongly coupled quantum many-body systems and quantum dynamics

Zhou Rui is a Researcher and Ph.D. Supervisor at the Institute of Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences. He obtained his Ph.D. degree from the Institute of Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences in 2009 and pursued a three-and-a-half-year postdoctoral research at the High Magnetic Field Laboratory of the French National Center for Scientific Research. In January 2018, he joined the Institute of Physics and has been engaged in research on nuclear magnetic resonance of quantum materials under extreme conditions such as strong magnetic fields, high pressure, and ultra-low temperatures. He has collaborated with the National High Magnetic Field Laboratory in the United States and the High Magnetic Field Laboratory in France on several research projects. He has co-authored over 30 papers published in journals such as Nature, Nature Physics, Physical Review Letters, Nature Communications, and Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

RESEARCH PROFILE

Geert Brocks is Professor in the Center for Computational Energy Research (CCER) within the Department of Applied Physics of Eindhoven University of Technology (TU/e). His activities are centered around first-principles electronic structure calculations. His past activities have involved such diverse subjects as atomic-scale processes at semiconductor surfaces and interfaces, organic and molecular electronics and spintronics, solid hydrides for chemical hydrogen storage, and adsorption-induced electronic effects in graphene. His current interests include two-dimensional materials and photocatalysis for energy applications.

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ACADEMIC BACKGROUND

After obtaining his PhD degree, Geert Brocks worked at Philips Research Laboratories for nine years. In 1998, he moved to the University of Twente. In 2018, he joined the TU/e and CCER in 2018 as part-time professor.

Research Interests

1. Memory devices* PRAM : Modeling of PRAM resistance drift based on first principles
* ReRAM : Quantum simulations to enhance ReRAM reliability
* DRAM : Simulations on gate stacked structures for next generation DRAM2. Materials for display* Microscopic characterization of In-Ga-Zn-O using first principles calculations3. Energy materials for fuel cell* First principles study of catalytic materials (LaMnO3 , CeO2, etc) as cathode and electrolyte4. Industrial utilization of advanced materials* Computational simulations on the large scale atomic/molecular deposition of graphene
* Research on the correlation between mechanical stress and carrier transport in graphene surface layers

Dr. JI, Wei is a computational physicist, working in the field of surface and interface modeling of low-dimensional materials. His research interests include surface and interface modeling of emerging electronic materials and devices. Recently, he focuses on theoretical modeling of electronic, optical, and vibrational properties of two-dimensional materials. He has been also developing theoretical methods for describing beam effects in scanning transmission microscopy and understanding ultrahigh resolution in noncontact atomic force microscopy. He received his Ph.D in condensed matter physics from the Institute of Physics, Chinese Academy of Science in 2008. Prior to joining Renmin University of China, he spent four years in McGill University as a visiting scholar and then a postdoctoral fellow. He was originally appointed as an Associated Professor by Renmin University in 2010 and was early promoted to Full Professor in 2014. He was supported by the National Young Top-Notch Talent Program in 2014 and the National Science Fund for Excellent Young Scholars in 2016, and awarded Chang-Jiang Young Scholars in 2015.  He also serves as trustees in the youth committee and computational materials science division of the Chinese Materials Research Society.

Biography：

2008-2012: Tsinghua   University, B.S.

2012-2017:   Tsinghua University, Ph.D.

2017-2020:   SLAC and Stanford University, Postdoc

2021- now:   ShanghaiTech University, Assistant Professor

Education

o (1995) B.S., Department of Physics, Seoul National University
o (2000) Ph.D., Department of Physics, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC)

Professional Experience

o (2010~) Assistant/Associate/Full Professor, KAIST, Daejeon
o (2006~2010) Assistant Professor, University of Seoul, Seoul
o (2004~2006) Assistant Professor, Korea Institute for Advanced Study (KIAS), Seoul
o (2002~2004) Postdoctoral Fellow, Caltech, USA
o (2000~2002) Humboldt Fellow, TU Munich, Germany

Research interests

first-principles calculations
open quantum systems
non-equilibrium processes
nanomaterial/device simulations
high-performance/machine-learning computing

Major Research Achievements

o Establishment of the multi-space excitation viewpoint for quantum transport
o Development of multi-space constrained-search density functional theory (MS-DFT)
o Calculations of quasi-Fermi levels from first-principles
o Development of first-principles theory of the non-equilibrium adsorption energy 
o Development of the DeepSCF machine learning strategy for electronic structure calculations

Gordon McKay Professor of Materials Science and Mechanical Engineering and Professor of Chemistry and Chemical Biology

Primary Teaching Area

Materials Science & Mechanical Engineering

Education

2011 - Ph.D in Condensed Matter Physics, State Key Lab of Superhard Materials, Jilin University, Changchun, China. Supervisor: Prof. Yanming Ma.

Professional Employment

2020 - Professor, College of Physics, Jilin University, Changchun, China.

2015 - 2020 Professor, College of Materials Science and Engineering, Jilin University, Changchun, China.

2013 - 2015 Associate Professor, College of Materials Science and Engineering, Jilin University, Changchun, China.

2011 - 2013 Post-Doctoral Scholar, University of Nevada, Las Vegas, USA. Supervisor: Prof. Changfeng Chen.

2011 - 2013 Lecturer, College of Materials Science and Engineering, Jilin University, Changchun, China.

Research Interests

Structural design and mechanical properties of superhard materials.

Liu Qihang is a professor at Southern University of Science and Technology (SUSTech). He primarily conducts research in condensed matter physics and computational materials science. His research interests focus on new theories and effects of symmetry in quantum materials, as well as the design and screening of related new materials. He has published over 100 SCI papers, including corresponding author papers in Nature, Nat. Phys., Nat. Commun., PRX, PRL, etc. In 2025, he received a Category A project (formerly the Distinguished Young Scholars project) from the National Natural Science Foundation of China. In 2020, he was awarded a National Key Research and Development Program Young Scientist Project. In 2023, he received a Shenzhen Outstanding Young Scholar Project and the Guangdong Youth Science and Technology Innovation Award. From 2021 to 2024, he was consecutively named to Stanford University's list of the World's Top 2% Most Influential Scientists.

His major innovative work in recent years includes the development of the spin group theory, a symmetry description for magnetic quantum materials. He completed the first full classification of spin space groups and developed the representation theory of spin space groups. In terms of applications of spin group theory to materials, he has opened up a new direction of "unconventional magnets" distinct from traditional ferromagnets and antiferromagnets.

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Awards:
[1] Teaching Commendation Award (AY15/16; AY16/17)
[2] Lee Kuan Yew Postdoctoral Fellowship (Lee Kuan Yew Endowment Fund, 2014) (declined)

Qualification
Ph.D (Physics) National University of Singapore

Modules Taught
[1] PC1433 – Mechanics and Waves
[2] PC2130B – Applied Quantum Mechanics
[3] ESP2109 – Mechanical Properties of Materials and Structural Dynamics
[4] ESP3902 – Major Design Project
[3] ESP2106 – Principles of Continua

Research Interests
[1] Multiscale modeling and simulation – density functional theory (DFT), molecular dynamics (MD), and finite element method (FEM) – for understanding fundamental SCIENCE principles and solving multiphysical ENGINEERING problems.

[2] Materials Informatics – Machine-learning-aided and data-driven computational discovery & design for advanced materials.

Prof. Sanvito is the CRANN Research Institute Director and a Trinity Professor of Physics and Condensed Matter Theory. He leads a large research group in Computational Spintronics an international leading research group in the area of materials and device modeling. A Flagship project of the group activity is the development and the maintenance of the Smeagol code, today the world-leading software for nanoscale device modeling. Smeagol connects Prof. Sanvito’s activity to about 200 research teams distributed over five continents. He is currently involved in 3 large EU programs and a number of other international collaboration (KAUST, Saudi Arabia; QEERI, Qatar).

Prof. Sanvito leads the Modelling and Theory pillar, an area where we have critical mass across Density Function Theory through to molecular modelling, and have demonstrated that theory can lead to material discovery. He is a world-leading expert in materials modelling, in particular in high-throughput and machine learning materials discovery. His team provides theoretical support to the various experimental activity and to develop the materials genoma project. This is an advanced research protocol for the accelerated discovery of new materials, made it possible by the combination of state of the art electronic structure theory and data mining and artificial intelligence algorithms. Applications to two dimensional electronic materials and novel magnets are among those that will be pursued. Stefano was an ERC award holder and the recipient of the IUPAP 2007 Young Scientist Prize in Computational Physics. In 2017, he was appointed a Knight of the Star of Italy in recognition of his scientific achievements and is a member of the Royal Irish Academy.

Sun Jian is a Professor and Doctoral Supervisor in the School of Physics at Nanjing University, a member of the National Laboratory of Solid State Microstructures, and a recipient of the National Science Fund for Distinguished Young Scholars (2021) and a Major Project grant from the National Natural Science Foundation of China (2024). He received his Bachelor's degree from the Department of Physics at Nanjing University in 2002 and obtained his Ph.D. from the same university in 2007. He subsequently conducted postdoctoral research at the National Research Council of Canada, Ruhr University Bochum in Germany, and the Cavendish Laboratory at the University of Cambridge, before joining the School of Physics at Nanjing University as a faculty member in 2013.

He currently serves as a member of the High Pressure Physics Committee of the Chinese Physical Society and as Deputy Editor-in-Chief of Progress in Physics. He leads major national research projects, including a Major Project grant from the National Natural Science Foundation of China. He has developed the MAGUS crystal structure prediction method, the HotPP machine learning force field, and the GPUMD molecular dynamics engine (in collaboration with Fan Zheyong and others). These methods have been applied to research on planetary interior materials, superconducting materials, and other areas. In 2026, he co-discovered a novel phase transition pathway for hexagonal diamond, and has predicted and verified several new states of matter, including metallic aluminum oxides and quasi-two-dimensional spin-Peierls phase transition systems. He has published over 130 papers in journals such as Nature Physics and Physical Review Letters, with more than 100 of those as the first author or corresponding author. His research areas include high-pressure physics, computational condensed matter physics, and simulations of planetary interior materials.

RESEARCH PROFILE

Shuxia Tao is a Professor of Intelligent Materials Theory in the Advanced Nanomaterials & Devices (AND) group within the Department of Applied Physics at Eindhoven University of Technology (TU/e). Her research explores quantum phenomena in optoelectronic materials, with a particular focus on how engineered symmetry breaking gives rise to emergent electronic, optical, and spin-dependent functionality. By integrating first-principles electronic-structure theory with machine-learning approaches, she develops predictive frameworks that connect atomic-scale structure to macroscopic optoelectronic response. Her work advances the rational design of complex materials and uncovers new physical mechanisms across chiral, low-dimensional, and quantum materials platforms. Through close interaction with experiments, her research contributes to the development of materials concepts relevant to photonic, energy, and emerging quantum technologies.

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I use computer simulations to uncover how interactions between light, charge, spin, and atomic structure govern the fundamental processes of matter, shaping how energy and information are converted, stored, and transported.

Engaged in research in computational condensed matter physics and teaching in fundamental physics. Has published over 100 papers in SCI-indexed journals with more than 7,000 citations. Serves as a reviewer for academic journals including PRL.

Research Area:
Computational Condensed Matter Physics. The main research directions include:

Ferroic Systems: Ferroelectrics, antiferroelectrics, magnetism, magnetoelectric coupling, topological structures, energy storage, electrocaloric effect, etc.

Transport Properties: Boltzmann transport equation, electron-phonon coupling, anharmonic phonons, etc.

Computational Methods: Density functional theory, effective Hamiltonians, machine learning force fields, etc.

Research Interests:
Computational condensed matter physics; Density functional theory; first-principles-based effective Hamiltonian; Micromagnetic simulations; Terahertz fields; Topological defects; Spintronics; Multiferroics; Quantum spin liquids; 2D materials.

Gang Xu (Professor) , male, born in 1983 in Tancheng, Shandong Province, is a member of the China Zhi Gong Party. He is a Distinguished Professor and Doctoral Supervisor at Huazhong University of Science and Technology (HUST), and serves as the Deputy Director of the National High Magnetic Field Center. He has been selected for the Ministry of Education's "Changjiang Scholars" Distinguished Professorship and the National High-Level Overseas Young Talent Program. He received his Ph.D. from the Graduate University of Chinese Academy of Sciences in 2010. Subsequently, he worked as an Assistant Researcher at the Institute of Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, and as a Postdoctoral Fellow at Stanford University. He joined Huazhong University of Science and Technology in 2016 and has been there ever since.

He serves as a part-time researcher at the Wuhan Institute of Quantum Technology, a member of the Extreme Conditions Crystal Materials Committee of the Chinese Crystallographic Society, and a member of the Hubei Provincial Committee of Science and Technology of the China Zhi Gong Party.

Professor Xu has long been dedicated to developing and applying first-principles computational methods to study quantum states of matter, and has discovered several key quantum materials of significant international impact, which have stimulated extensive follow-up research. His major achievements include: 1. Expanding the concept and scope of topological semimetals, predicting high-quality magnetic topological semimetals such as HgCr₂Se₄ and EuCd₂As₂, which were subsequently confirmed experimentally. 2. Discovering topological properties, charge density wave phase transitions, and chiral charge in kagome compounds such as KV₃Sb₅, which were experimentally observed and sparked a surge of research in this direction. 3. Proposing new schemes for designing topological superconductors, predicting topological superconducting states and Majorana zero modes in Fe(Se,Te), which were subsequently realized experimentally. 4. Developing efficient computational methods for multipole order parameters and discovering the pure octupole ground state in RuI₃. 5. Successfully predicting the stripe-type antiferromagnetic ground state in parent compounds of iron-based superconductors, which is one of the representative works that led to the iron-based superconductors winning the "First Prize of the National Natural Science Award". He has published 83 academic papers with a total citation count exceeding 12,000 and an H-index of 40. Among these, 27 papers appear in top international journals such as Nature Physics and Physical Review Letters. He has 8 highly cited papers, 20 papers each with over 100 citations, and two papers were selected among the "100 Most Influential International Academic Papers in China in 2008".

Yang Jihui received his Bachelor's and Ph.D. degrees from Fudan University in 2008 and 2013, respectively. He conducted postdoctoral research at the National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) in the United States from 2013 to 2016, followed by further postdoctoral research at Rice University from 2016 to 2018. In 2018, he joined the Department of Physics at Fudan University as a Young Researcher and was appointed Professor in December 2023. His research focuses on computational condensed matter physics, primarily employing first-principles calculations and machine learning methods to investigate electron-structure-related properties of materials and to theoretically design novel functional materials. His project, "A unified model for magnetically induced multiferroicity and its algorithm," was awarded the First Prize of the Shanghai Natural Science Award in 2024.

Education and Academic Qualifications

PhD, The University of Texas at Austin
BSc, The University of Hong Kong

Research Areas:

The research focuses on the theory and design of solar cell materials as well as fundamental studies of defects in semiconductors. The researcher has published over 80 papers in SCI-indexed journals, including first-authored/corresponding-authored papers in JACS, Adv. Mater., PRL, etc. These works have been cited more than 7,000 times, with a single paper receiving over 1,000 citations. The research outcomes have been featured as highlights or reported extensively by Nature Physics, Physics Today, the APS website homepage, Materialsview, and Materialsview China. Invited talks have been delivered at multiple conferences, including the MRS Spring Meeting, the CECAM (Centre Européen de Calcul Atomique et Moléculaire) conference, and the Asia-Pacific Workshop on Electronic Structure.

Research Directions:

Theory and Computation of Solar Materials

High-Throughput Computation and Machine Learning

Defect Physics of Solar Materials

Peichen Zhong is an Assistant Professor of Materials Science and Engineering at the National University of Singapore. He received his B.S. in Physics from the University of Science and Technology of China (2018) and Ph.D. in Materials Science from UC Berkeley (2023) under the supervision of Gerbrand Ceder. He then completed the postdoctoral work at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL) and Bakar Institute of Digital Materials for the Planet (BIDMaP), co-advised by Profs. Kristin A. Persson, Bingqing Cheng, and Aditi Krishnapriyan. He is interested in the intersection between (1) computational modeling of complex materials for energy storage and sustainability applications, and (2) method development in atomistic and generative modeling.

Coupling of spin, valley, and electronic phenomena in low-dimensional materials; theoretical simulation of defects in low-dimensional materials; application of advanced computational and machine learning methods in energy storage and conversion, with particular emphasis on photoelectrocatalytic systems.

The researcher has long been engaged in cutting-edge fundamental research in computational condensed matter physics, particularly in the exploration of topological quantum materials and the study of topological properties, achieving original research results with international impact. Key contributions include discovering a series of highly influential topological quantum materials (such as Bi₂Se₃-family topological insulators); pioneering a computational theoretical paradigm for topological quantum materials (k·p model combined with first-principles calculations); and originally proposing a series of numerical methods for characterizing topological properties (based on maximally localized Wannier functions). For significant contributions to the research on three-dimensional topological insulators, the researcher shared the 2011 Qiushi Foundation "Outstanding Scientific and Technological Achievement Collective Award" (collective: Academician Qi Xuekun, Academician Fang Zhong, Academician Jia Jinfeng, Professor Chen Xi, Professor Dai Xi, Professor Ma Xucun, and the researcher). To date, the researcher has published over 80 SCI-indexed papers, including 3 in Science and 30 in Nature journals/Physical Review Letters, with a total citation count exceeding 17,300. The researcher serves as a Young Editorial Board Member for the joint four-journal group of CPL, CPB, Acta Physica Sinica, and Physics.

Work Experience:

2023 – pres. Professor, Global Institute of Future Technology, Shanghai Jiao Tong University

2022 – 2023 Associate Professor, Global Institute of Future Technology, Shanghai Jiao Tong University

2020 – 2022 Associate Professor of Materials Science and Engineering, UM-SJTU Joint Institute

2017 – 2020 Assistant Professor of Materials Science and Engineering, UM-SJTU Joint Institute

2015 – 2017 Postdoctoral Associate, Materials Sciences Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory

2014 – 2015 Postdoctor Associate, Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Excellent Youth Scholar Award from Natural Science Foundation of China (2022)

Early Career Advisory Board of Materials Today Energy (2021)

Next-Generation Battery Technology Award (2020)

Research Excellence Award of University of Michigan – Shanghai Jiao Tong University Joint Institute (2020)

Tang Lixin Distinguished Teacher Award of Shanghai Jiao Tong University (2020)

Shanghai Scientific Talent Yang Fan Program (2018)

World Technology Award Finalist (2017)

Research Interests

Quantum Materials and Topological Materials

Spintronics devices and materials for non-volatile memory and logics

Heterostructure ferroelectric/ferromagnetic multiferroics

Neuromorphic computing based on ferroelectric device, spintronic devices

Magnetic and electric properties of strong electron correlated oxide materials

Selected Recent Publications:

Bingjie Dang†, Kaixuan Sun†, Hanxin Su†, Jiaxin Chen, Pengyu Yao, Tao Zeng, Shu Shi, Guowei Zhou, Liang Liu, Xiaohong Xu*, Jingsheng Chen*, “HZO/HSO Superlattice ReFET Array Integrating Optical Sensing for Neuromorphic Vision Computing” Advanced Materials (2025)

Zhenyi Zheng, Lanxin Jia, Zhizhong Zhang, Qia Shen, Guowei Zhou, Zhiwei Cui, Lizhu Ren, Zhiteng Chen, Nur Fadilah Jamaludin, Tieyang Zhao, Rui Xiao, Qihan Zhang, Yi Du, Liang Liu, Silvija Gradečak, Kostya S. Novoselov, Weisheng Zhao, Xiaohong Xu, Yue Zhang,Jingsheng Chen*, “All-electrical perpendicular switching of chiral antiferromagnetic order” Nature Materials (2025)

Zhao Tieyang, Zhenyi Zheng, Jinkai Wang, Guowei Zhou, Liang Liu, Chenghang Zhou, Qidong Xie, Lanxin Jia, Rui Xiao, Qihan Zhang, Lizhu Ren, Shu Shi, Tao Zeng, Youdi Gu, Xiaohong Xu, Yue Zhang,Jingsheng Chen*, “Spin logic enabled by current vector adder” Nature Communications (2025)

Shu Shi, Tengfei Cao, Haolong Xi, Jiangzhen Niu, Xixiang Jing, Hanxin Su, Xiaojiang Yu, Ping Yang,Yichen Wu, Xiaobing Yan*, He Tian*, Evgeny Y. Tsymbal*, Jingsheng Chen*, “Stabilizing the Ferroelectric Phase of Hf0.5Zr0.5O Thin Films by Charge Transfer” Physical Review Letters (2024)

Tao Zeng, Shu Shi, kejun Hu, Lanxin Jia, Boyu Li, Kaixuan Sun, Hanxin Su, Youdi Gu, Xiaohong Xu*, Dongsheng Song*, Xiaobing Yan*, Jingsheng Chen*, “Approaching the Ideal Linearity in Epitaxial Crystalline-Type Memristor by Controlling Filament Growth” Advanced Materials (2024)

Zhenyi Zheng, Tao Zeng, Tieyang Zhao, Shu Shi, Lizhu Ren, Tongtong Zhang, Lanxin Jia, Youdi Gu, Rui Xiao, Hengan Zhou, Qihan Zhang, Jiaqi Lu, Guilei Wang, Chao Zhao, Huihui Li*, Beng Kang Tay*, Jingsheng Chen*, “Effective electrical manipulation of a topological antiferromagnet by orbital torques” Nature Communications (2024)

Focusing on the research areas of topological magnetic materials, physics, and devices, he/she has achieved a series of original experimental results. These include the construction of two novel topological magnetic structures, the magnetic bobber and the magnetic束子 (magnetic toron/vortex-like structure, pending precise terminology), as well as the controllable electrical generation, motion, deletion, and detection of individual magnetic skyrmions. This work has resolved key fundamental scientific issues for device construction and demonstrated the advantages of skyrmion-based spintronic devices. He/she has published numerous academic papers in journals such as Nature Nanotechnology and Physical Review Letters. He/she has received awards including the Asian Union of Magnetics (AUMS) Young Scientist Award, the Anhui Province Young Scientist Award, and recognition as an Outstanding Member of the Youth Innovation Promotion Association (YIPA), CAS. He/she has led multiple research projects, including those funded by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC) Young Scientist Fund and General Program, a National Key Research and Development Program of China, and an instrument development project at the Chinese Academy of Sciences.

National Distinguished Expert, Second-Class Professor at the School of Materials Science and Engineering, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Vice Chair of the Fifth Committee of the Jiusan Society, Huazhong University of Science and Technology Branch, Council Member of the Chinese Society for Solid State Ionics, Editorial Board Member of the international journal "Solid State Ionics", Editorial Board Member of the journal "National Science Open", and one of the five members of the Academic Award Selection Committee of the International Society for Solid State Ionics (alongside Prof. J. Kilner, UK; Prof. J. Maier, Germany; Prof. T. Ishihara, Japan; Prof. R. O'Hayre, USA). From 2002 to 2012, he served as a tenured senior researcher at the Research Center Juelich in Germany, a German national laboratory and one of the largest research institutions in Europe. From 1998 to 2002, he conducted research as a guest scientist at the Max Planck Institute for Solid State Research in Germany. In 2005, he received the Ross Coffin Purdy Award from the American Ceramic Society. He has delivered over 80 plenary and invited talks at major domestic and international academic conferences (such as MRS, E-MRS, ECS, MS&T, SSI, etc.) and at renowned universities, research institutions, and enterprises worldwide (including MIT, Stanford University, ETH Zurich, Max Planck Institute, Tsinghua University, Peking University, Institute of Physics, CAS, and Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd.). He has published over 160 papers in academic journals such as Science and Advanced Materials.

Career History：

He graduated from Lanzhou University in 1984 and obtained PhD from Jilin University in 1993 where he worked on the Rare-earth (R) - transition metal (T) compounds and rare-earth permanent magnets. He has worked at Institute of Physics, CAS, as post-doctor during 07/1994~10/1996 on the Novel R3(Fe,T)29 compounds and nitride hard magnets. As a visiting scholar during 01/1998--03/2002, he has worked at Tohoku University (Japan), University of New Orleans (USA), and Trinity College Dublin (Ireland) etc., on the Magneto-electronics and Spin-electronics. He obtained financial support of Outstanding Young Researcher Foundation from National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC) in 2003, and got Outstanding Innovation Team Foundation from NSFC twice in 2007 and 2010. He has successfully supervised 46 PhD students (including 8 foreign PhD students) and 4 post-doctors. At present, 2 PhD students from abroad, and 10 other PhD and Master students are working under his supervision. He strongly welcomes 1 or 2 foreign full-time PhD students on Spintronics, Magnetism and Magnetic Materials per year to join his group.

Several key projects from National Science Foundation (NSFC), 973 plan projects and international cooperation projects from Ministry of Science and Technology (MOST), etc., have been presented and completed. Designed and fabricated more than 10 types of novel magnetic tunnel junction (MTJ) structures. Fabricated more than 20 types of ferromagnetic and composite structure nanowires and nanotubes. Proposed and observed spin dependent Coulomb Blocking Magnetoresistance (CBMR) effect. Designed a new method to observe spin flip scattering with microsize spin-flip-length in the nanometer sized spacer layer near the ballistic limit mechanism based on MTJs. Theoretical predictions and experimental observations of spin dependent resonant tunneling magnetoresistance (QW-TMR) effect in Quantum Well states. Experimental observation of magnon mediated electric current drag effect in a new type of Pt/YIG/Pt (NM/FMI/NM) vertical magnon valve structures. Fabricated novel magnon valves (YIG/Au/YIG) and magnon junctions (YIG/NiO/YIG), observed the novel magnon valve effect and magnon junction effect. Proposed a new type of Nanoring Magnetic Random Access Memory (Nanoring STT-MRAM, 2006) devices [awarded the first prize for the 2013 Beijing Science and Technology] and SOT-MRAM devices (2009 Chinese patent). Proposed and demonstrated a new type of nonvolatile multifunctional programmable Spin Logic devices, spin resonant tunneling diode (Spin RTD), spin light-emitting diode (Spin LED), spin nano-oscillator & spin microwave detector & spin random number generator based on nanoring-shaped magnetic tunnel junctions (MTJs). Demonstration of high-sensitivity and low-noise TMR Magnetic Sensors. Granted the AUMS Award 2018 by Asian Union of Magnetic Societies. Co-published more than 300 SCI peer-reviewed papers and authorized more than 80 patents, and presented more than 70 invited talks at international conferences; edited book entitled 《Introduction to Spintronics》, and participated in 《Handbook of Spintronics》 and other 3 monographs; serve as the Associate Editor of J. Magn. Magn. Mater. and the Editorial Board Member of SPIN, Chinese Science Bulletin, Physics, and so on.

Research Interests：

His present main research field is Spintronics Materials, Physics, and Devices. His specialties and research content include: (1) Magnon Valve, Magnon Junction, Magnon Transistor and Magnonics; (2) Magnetic tunnel junction (MTJ) and tunneling magnetoresistance (TMR) materials, physics and devices; (3) Spin Hall effect, Spin Transfer Torque (STT) effect and Spin Orbital Torque (SOT) effect in magnetic heterostructures ; (4) Hybrid MTJs based on ferromagnetic, multiferroic, semiconductor and organic materials etc., and their spin transport properties; (5) New designed spintronic devices of Magnetic Random Access Memory (STT-MRAM, SOT-MRAM), TMR magnetic Sensors, Magnetic Logic & Spin Logic, Spin Nano-Oscillator, Spin Microwave Detector, Spin Random Number Generator, Spin Diode, Spin Light Emitting Diode, Spin Transistor and Spin Field Effect Transistor, etc.; (6) Fabrication of magnetic nanowires and nanotubes.

Dr. Xin Li received his bachelor’s degree in physics from Nanjing University, China, his doctor’s degree in materials science and engineering at Pennsylvania State University. He performed postdoctoral research at California Institute of Technology and Massachusetts Institute of Technology before joining Harvard University in 2015 as an assistant professor of materials science at the School of Engineering and Applied Sciences. He was promoted to associate professor at Harvard in 2019 and moved to the CAS Key Lab of Frontier Research & Renewable Energy at the Institute of Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences in July 2025.

His research group designs energy-related materials and devices through advanced synthesis, characterization, and simulation, with the current focus on the AI assisted design of Li and Na ion batteries, solid-state batteries, and unconventional superconductors. The group is particularly interested in obtaining a unified understanding regarding how microscopic interactions govern emergent and performance-relevant phenomena in energy storage and strongly correlated materials.

Dr. Xin Li is the Winner of Falling Walls Foundation Top 10 Breakthroughs Engineering and Technology in 2024, received LG Global Innovation Contest Awards in 2018 and 2019, MassCEC Catalyst Award, and Harvard President’s Climate Change Solutions Fund Award. He also founded Adden Energy, Inc., aiming at commercializing all-solid-state batteries for electrical vehicle applications.

Research Interests: Energy, Materials, AI

Li Runwei is a Chair Professor and Doctoral Supervisor at Eastern Institute of Technology, Ningbo. He is a recipient of the National Science Fund for Distinguished Young Scholars, a Distinguished Expert of Zhejiang Province, and enjoys the State Council Special Allowance. He received his Ph.D. in Science from the Institute of Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences in 2002. From 2002 to 2003, he worked as a JSPS Research Fellow at the Institute of Scientific and Industrial Research, Osaka University, Japan. From 2003 to 2005, he was an Alexander von Humboldt Fellow at the University of Kaiserslautern, Germany. From 2005 to 2008, he served as a Senior Researcher at the International Center for Young Scientists (ICYS), National Institute for Materials Science (NIMS), Japan. From 2008 to 2025, he worked as a Professor at the Ningbo Institute of Materials Technology and Engineering, Chinese Academy of Sciences. In 2025, he joined Eastern Institute of Technology, Ningbo as a Chair Professor and the Dean of the School of Materials Science and Engineering. His research focuses on information functional materials and devices. He has successively led major research projects including the National Key R&D Program International Cooperation Project, National Basic Research Program (973 Program) projects, National Science Fund for Distinguished Young Scholars project, Key Projects of the National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC), Major NSFC Scientific Instrument Development Projects, and the Regional Joint Fund Integration Project. He has published over 300 SCI-indexed papers in journals such as Science, Science Robotics, PNAS, and Advanced Materials, with over 16,000 citations. He has authored 2 monographs as lead editor and contributed to 3 others as a co-author. He holds over 300 patents, with more than 180 granted, and 10 of them have been successfully transferred or commercialized. As the leading recipient, he has won the First Prize of Zhejiang Provincial Natural Science Award, the First Prize of Zhejiang Provincial Science and Technology Progress Award, the Ningbo Special Award for Scientific and Technological Innovation, and two First Prizes of the Ningbo Science and Technology Progress Award.

Research Areas

Energy Storage & Environmental Materials

Research Interests

Our mission is to resolve energy- & environment-related problems for the realization of sustainable development and emerging markets. The underpinning strategy is to control the multiscale structure and chemistry of various nanomaterials such as carbon nanotube, graphene and 2D nano sheet for applications into energy conversion and storage devices (e.g. lithium ion battery, supercapacitor and fuel cell) and environmental systems (e.g. capture of greenhouse gases and water treatment). Moreover, we are pursuing a fundamental understanding of physical and/or chemical phenomenon occurring in chemical and/ or electrochemical devices or systems on a nanoscale for the design of advanced energy materials and the development of functional devices. We have been actively collaborating with prestigious and specialized research groups at MIT, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Brookhaven National Laboratory, University of Wollongong, Tsinghua University, and Pohang Accelerator Laboratory.

Chair Professor, Department of Materials Science and Engineering

Chair Professor, Department of Physics

Head (PHY), Department of Physics

Prof. Sergey V. Streltsov 

Corrsponding Member of Russian Academy of Sciences (RAS)

Chair of Theory of Low-dimensional Spin Systems

Institute of Metal Physics (IMP) of the Ural Branch of RAS

Research Interests 

Electronic and magnetic properties of transition metal oxides. Cluster Mott insulators, systems with strong interplay between orbital, charge, spin and lattice degrees of freedom, materials under extreme conditions. Our methods include first principles calculations using DFT and DMFT approaches, as well as a model treatment using various techniques.

Nian Sun is a College of Engineering Distinguished Professor in the Departments of Electrical and Computer Engineering and Physics at Northeastern University, where he also directs the W.M. Keck Laboratory for Integrated Ferroics. He is the founder and Chief Technology Advisor of Winchester Technologies, LLC. In 2025, he served as Head of the Corporate Research Center, Midea Group, overseeing the R&D of ~600 scientists. Dr. Sun earned his Ph.D. from Stanford University. Before joining Northeastern University, he worked as a Scientist at IBM and Hitachi Global Storage Technologies.

His achievements have been recognized with prestigious honors, including the W.M. Keck Foundation Award, Humboldt Research Award, Søren Buus Outstanding Research Award, Outstanding Translational Research Award, NSF CAREER Award, ONR Young Investigator Award, etc. His research focuses on novel magnetic, ferroelectric, and magnetoelectric materials, devices, and microsystems, as well as advanced gas sensors and sensing systems.

He has authored/coauthored over 400 peer-reviewed publications and holds 21 issued US patents. One of his papers was selected as one of the “Ten Most Outstanding Full Papers of the Decade (2001–2010)” by Advanced Functional Materials. Dr. Sun has delivered over 200 plenary, keynote, and invited presentations at international conferences and seminars. He is an elected Fellow of the National Academy of Inventors (NAI), the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), and the American Physical Society (APS).

Prof. Francesca M. Toma is the Director of the Institute of Functional Materials for Sustainability at Helmholtz Zentrum Hereon and a Distinguished Helmholtz Professor at Helmut Schmidt University. Her research centers on the synthesis and characterization of sustainable materials for renewable energy and biological applications. She also holds a position as a Visiting Professor at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory.

She earned her Ph.D. in Biophysics from the International School of Advanced Studies in Italy in 2009, and acquired postdoctoral experience at the University of Trieste, before moving to the University of California, Santa Barbara as a Marie Curie Researcher in 2011, and to the University of California, Berkeley in 2013. For nearly a decade, she was as a Staff Scientist at Lawrence Berkeley National Lab, where she served as the Program lead of the Liquid Sunlight Alliance and as the Photoelectrochemistry Technology Lead for HydroGEN. In 2022, she also served for a year as a Detailee in the Catalysis Science Program of the Basic Energy Science of the Department of Energy.

Prof. Toma's has co-authored 120 publications, focusing on (photo)electrocatalysis, drug delivery, and tissue engineering. Her work has garnered international recognition with several awards. She was honored as one of the "100 Women of Materials Science" by the Royal Society of Chemistry in 2018 and received the "Rising Star" Award from the American Chemical Society in 2021. She was also awarded the “Alfredo di Braccio Award” by the Italian Academy of Science. In 2022, she was selected as an Oppenheimer Fellow by the US National Laboratory Directors' Council in 2022, underscoring her contributions as a leader to advancing scientific research. The Division of Energy & Fuels of the American Chemical Society selected her as a finalist for the 2025 Energy Lectureship for the Mid-Career category.

A recipient of the National Science Fund for Distinguished Young Scholars, he is currently the director of the Academic Committee of the Institute of Semiconductors, Chinese Academy of Sciences, the director of the State Key Laboratory of Semiconductor Superlattices and Microstructures, a council member of the Chinese Physical Society, the director of the Professional Committee of Semiconductor Physics, and a member of several professional committees. He is also an editorial board member of multiple domestic and international journals and a fellow of the International Academy of Advanced Materials. In 2012, he was awarded the "National Science Fund for Distinguished Young Scholars". He obtained his Ph.D. in Astrophysics from the University of Nottingham, UK in 2005. He has visited or worked at the Institute of Physics, Polish Academy of Sciences, the University of Cambridge, UK, and the Niels Bohr Institute, Denmark. He joined the Institute of Semiconductors, Chinese Academy of Sciences in 2009 and has been engaged in research on spintronics and semiconductor nanodevices for a long time, achieving a series of influential research results. To date, he has published over 130 scientific papers in journals such as Nature Materials, Nature Physics, Nature Electronics, and Physical Review Letters, with over 7,000 citations. He has also been granted 16 domestic and international patents (including 5 US patents) and received numerous domestic and international awards.

Ilya Belopolski is Nanyang Assistant Professor in the School of Electrical & Electronic Engineering at Nanyang Technological University, Singapore. Ilya earned his undergraduate degree in physics from Columbia University, where he worked on gravitational wave astrophysics and the Laser Interferometer Gravitational Wave Observatory (LIGO). He earned his Ph.D. from Princeton University exploring topological quantum materials, where he was part of the team which used angle-resolved photoemission spectroscopy to discover Weyl fermions. He went on to discover many of our currently known Weyl fermion materials, including during his postdoctoral research using epitaxial synthesis at RIKEN in Tokyo. His research group continues to explore Weyl fermions, and further applies advanced spectroscopy & epitaxial synthesis to the study of fractional quantum phases of matter, skyrmions, qubits & photonics.

Bo Yang. (2018). Aspects of Three-body Interactions in Generic Fractional Quantum Hall Systems and Impact of Galilean Invariance Breaking. Physical Review B (Condensed Matter and Materials Physics), 98, 201101(R). Bo Yang*, Zixiang Hu, Ching Hua Lee and Zlatko Papic. (2017). Generalized Pseudopotentials for the Anisotropic Fractional Quantum Hall Effect. Physical Review Letters, 118, 146403. Bo Yang. (2015). Dirac Cone Metric and the Origin of the Spin Connections in Monolayer Graphene. Physical Review B (Condensed Matter and Materials Physics), 91, 241403(R). Bo Yang and F. D. M Haldane. (2014). Nature of Quasielectrons and the Continuum of Neutral Bulk Excitations in the Laughlin Quantum Hall Fluids. Physical Review Letters, 112, 026804. Bo Yang*, Zi-Xiang Hu, Z. Papic and F. D. M Haldane. (2012). Model Wavefunctions for the Collective Modes and the Magnetoroton Theory of the Fractional Quantum Hall Effect. Physical Review Letters, 108, 256807.

My research focuses on how strong electron-electron interactions and non-trivial band topology give rise to new phases of matter. As a condensed matter theorist, I use both analytical and numerical techniques to study these phenomena. I've worked on twisted bilayer graphene as a platform for correlated and topological effects, and explored other two-dimensional systems, including patterned and twisted heterostructures. Before joining Oxford, I studied Natural Sciences at Trinity College, Cambridge, and completed my PhD at Princeton University.

Peng Deng received his B.S. degree from the University of Science and Technology of China (USTC) and his Ph.D. degree from Tsinghua University. He worked as a postdoctoral researcher at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) from 2016 to 2021 before joining the Beijing Academy of Quantum Information Sciences as an associated research scientist. His research involves the use of molecular beam epitaxy (MBE), scanning tunneling microscopy, and transport measurement to construct, investigate, and manipulate exotic quantum states. He has published 27 papers in journals such as Nat. Phys., Phys. Rev. Lett., and Nat. Commun., with over 3000 total citations and an h-index of 17. His current research interests include quantum anomalous Hall insulators, magnetic topological insulators, and topological superconductors.

Postdoc, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (2023)

PhD, Princeton University, Physics (2021)

BSc, Northeastern University, Physics (2015)

I specialize in theoretical condensed matter physics. My research focuses on emergent quantum phases of matter, particularly those arising from the interplay of topology with electronic interactions and correlations in two-dimensional materials.

I am affiliated with the Donostia International Physics Center (DIPC), in San Sebastián, Spain where I hold an Ikerbasque Research Professorship, currently on leave from the Institute Néel of the CNRS, in Grenoble. You can find a summary of my interests here. I focus on the understanding topological phases of matter, with and without strong electron-electron correlations either metallic or insulating.

You can find an updated list of publications on arXiv or Google scholar.

Teaching

College Physics

Interests

Surface, Interface and Low-Dimensional Physics, Topological Quantum Material and Effect, Spintronics, Molecular Beam Epitaxy, Angle-Resolved Photoemission Spectroscopy

Awards and Membership

First Prize of State Natural Science Award, China (2018)

Special Prize of Natural Science Award of Ministry of Education, China (2018)

Yeh Chi-Sun Prize in Physics (2017)

Nishina Asia Award (2015)

National Award for Youth in Science and Technology (2013)

Sir Martin Wood China Prize (2013)

Outstanding Science and Technology Achievement Prize of Chinese Academy of Sciences (2012)

Lu Jia-Xi Prize of Chinese Academy of Sciences for Young Scientists (2011)

New Star Researcher of Institute of Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences (2010)

Kun Jiang is a theorist in hard condensed matter physics. His current research focuses on the theory of high-temperature superconductivity and their topological excitations.

Kun Jiang received both B.Sc. (2009) and M.Sc. (2012) from Nanjing University, and Ph.D. (2018) from Boston College. He joined the Institute of Physics in 2020. 

Research Interest：

Condensed matter physics

Electronic structure

Superconductors

Quantum states

Work Experience

       2025.8 - Now,     Associate Professor (With Tenure), School of Physics and Astronomy, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China

       2021.6 - 2025.7, Tenure-Track Associate Professor, School of Physics and Astronomy, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China

       2018.3 - 2021.5, Postdoctoral Associate, School of Applied & Engineering Physics, Cornell University, U.S. (Kin Fai Mak & Jie Shan Group)

       2016.9 - 2018.3, Smalley-Curl Postdoctoral Fellowship,Department of Physics and Astronomy, Rice University, U.S.

Education

       2011.9 - 2016.7, School of Physics, Peking University, Ph.D. (Advisor: Rui-Rui Du)

       2007.9 - 2011.7, Department of Physics, Northwest University, B.S.

Research Interests

My research interests focus on exploring and studying novel quantum phenomena in lowdimensional quantum materials, such as 2D van der Waals materials and their moiré superlattices. I have co-authored over 40 peer-reviewed scientific research papers. I am the first author or corresponding author for 15 papers, including 3 in Nature, 1 in Nature Physics, 3 in Nature Materials, 1 in Nature Nanotechnology, 2 in Physical Review X, and 2 in Physical Review Letters. 

PhD: Department of Physics, Tsinghua University (Supervisor: Prof. Wang Yayu), July 2019
PhD Dissertation: Transport studies of magnetic order and quantum phase transition in magnetic topological insulators
Joint PhD Training (State-Sponsored): Department of Physics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Supervisor: Prof. Joseph G. Checkelsky), November 2016–October 2017

Research Interests

Chalcogenides/Oxides/Field-effect device/Thin films and heterostructures 

The problem of strongly interacting gapless fermions above one dimension is one of the wildest open frontiers in quantum condensed matter where our understanding remains insular and embedded in vast oceans of mystery. In this talk, I will describe certain islands of this knowledge dealing with the collective behaviour of strongly interacting Fermi surfaces of electrons and of spinons and describe new experimental strategies to probe them.

For electrons, I will discuss the emergence of a bizarre collective shear wave that is absent in classical fluids and that resembles the transverse sound of crystalline solids in spite of the system remaining in a fluid state that lacks any proper form of static crystallinity or shear modulus. There is no conclusive detection of this shear sound wave to this date, however, I will show that this mode gives rise to sharp dips in the conductance of interacting clean metallic channels when driven at frequencies that resonantly excite its standing waves.

Prof. Son has contributed to developments of first-principles calculations methods and their applications to understand physical properties of solids. His works on various computational methods on interactions in solids and on theories of electronic, optical, structural and magnetic properties of solids have been cited about 25,000 times in 2024. For his achievements, he has received several important international and domestic awards such as the international Young Scientist Award by International Union of Pure and Applied Physics (IUPAP), the Knowledge Creation Award 2013 of Ministry of Science of Korea Government, Excellent Research Award by Korea Physical Society, Young Member of Korea Academy of Science and Technology and the POSCO TJ Park Science Award.

I work in the field of condensed matter theory, with research focusing on topological phases, moiré systems, and disordered systems. I am currently particularly interested in correlation and topology in flat bands. I have joined the ICQM since late 2021. In 2022, I was supported by the National Science Fund for Excellent Young Scientists (Overseas). As of June 2025, I have published over 70 papers, with an h-index of 45 and over 10,000 citations. Representative contributions include:

Complete classification of topological bands and the mapping from symmetry-based indicators to topological invariants, enabling high-throughput search for topological materials.

Development of a theoretical framework for topology, correlation, and superconductivity in magic-angle twisted bilayer graphene, introducing a topological heavy fermion model widely used in the field.

First complete mathematical classification of 3D spin-space groups for characterizing unconventional magnetism.

Wei Tsen's research focuses on the study of low-dimensional materials that exhibit exotic quantum phenomena, and their integration into novel electronic devices. After receiving a BS in Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences, as well as a BS in Engineering Physics at the University of California, Berkeley, he completed his PhD in Applied Physics at Cornell University under the guidance of Jiwoong Park. Tsen then joined the Department of Physics at Columbia University as a postdoctoral associate with Abhay Pasupathy and Philip Kim, where he studied atomically thin quantum materials and incorporated them in nanoscale electronic devices.

In 2016, he joined the University of Waterloo's Department of Chemistry and the Institute for Quantum Computing. He is continuing to explore these materials and develop novel quantum devices based on their exotic properties.

Research Areas

Natural sciences / Magnetism, superconductivity, and strongly correlated systems /  

Welcome to my personal website! I am an assistant professor in the International Center for Quantum Materials (ICQM) at Peking University (PKU).

Before joining PKU, I serve as assistant professor in the department of physics at Temple university. I was postdoc fellow at Harvard University (2022/09 - 2023/12), and research fellow at Center for Computational Quantum physics at Flatiron Institute (2019/09 - 2022/09). 

I have my doctoral degree from Princeton University from 2019, and bachelor’s degree from the University of Science and Technology of China from 2013.

I study theoretical aspects of quantum phases by using both analytical and numerical tools.

I work on condensed matter theory, with a focus on low-dimensional quantum physics. The main interest is to predict/explain novel quantum phenomena that arise from the interplay of symmetry, topology, and many-body interactions. I have been studying a variety of topics, including, single-particle as well as many-body physics in moiré superlattices, superconductivity, topological phases of matter, light-matter interactions, and quantum Hall effects. With my collaborators, I made a number of theoretical predictions that have far-reaching impacts on the field, as many of them have been experimentally realized/verified.

Research Interests  

Electronic and spin transport at artificial interfaces and in two-dimensional electron systems 

Electrical induced interface superconductivity and ferromagnetism with Liquid-Gating technique 

Spin/valley polarization and spin current generation under an electric field 

Research Interests：
Low-dimensional nanostructures are of both fundamental and technological interests due to their extraordinary physical properties. Nanodevices built up by these nanostructures have intrinsic advantages as they behave differently with bulk materials. N07 group is focused on the synthesis of the nanostructures, design of nanodevices, and elucidation of their fundamental electronic, optical and other physical properties. We are interested in fabrication of nanoscale devices and study their functions.

Research Interest:

Research focuses on light–matter interactions and the use of light to engineer quantum materials. The approach emphasizes the development of multi-physics control strategies and ultrahigh spatiotemporal resolution infrared and terahertz spectroscopic techniques, enabling precise probing and manipulation of light–matter interactions at the nanoscale. Centered on magnetic and superconducting systems, the research investigates polaritons, many-body effects, topology, and cavity quantum electrodynamics in solids, aiming to uncover light-induced novel quantum phases.

Education

(PhD) 2010 Department of Physics, Seoul National University

(PhD) 2010 서울대학교 물리학과

Professional Experience

2017- Associate Professor, Department of Physics, Sungkyunkwan University
2013-2017 Assistant Professor, Department of Physics, Sungkyunkwan University
2010-2013 Postdoctoral Research Associate, Oak Ridge National Laboratory

Awards

LG Yonam International Joint Research Professor by LG Yonam Foundation (2018)
TJ Park Science Fellowship by POSCO TJ Park Foundation (2015)
Bombi Award by The Korean Physical Society (2014)
2012 ORNL Award for Outstanding Accomplishment in Scientific Research by UT-Battelle at 2012 Awards Night Achievement (2012)

Liang Yan is an Associate Researcher in the J. D. Zhang Group at the State Key Laboratory of Surface Physics, Institute of Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences. Prior to joining the Institute of Physics, she conducted postdoctoral research in Professor Peng Hailin's group at Peking University. Her research focuses on the preparation and physical property studies of low-dimensional oxide thin films, employing methods such as molecular beam epitaxy, scanning tunneling microscopy, and transport measurements. She has published over 20 SCI papers in related fields. As first author or co-first author, she has published 7 SCI papers, including two in Adv. Mater., as well as Matter, Appl. Phys. Lett., APL Mater., JPCM, and Sci. Rep. Her collaborative papers have appeared in journals such as Nat. Electron., JACS, Angew., and Nano Lett. She is the principal investigator of a project funded by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC) and serves as a key member of a State Key Research and Development Program on "Manipulation of States of Matter" funded by the Ministry of Science and Technology and an NSFC project.

Main Research Directions:

Molecular beam epitaxy growth and physical property measurements of high-mobility two-dimensional semiconductors

Interfacial magnetoelectric coupling in correlated compounds

Nianpeng Lu obtained his PhD in condensed matter physics at 2014 from the Institute of Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences (IOP-CAS) at Beijing, China. Afterward, he moved to the Department of Physics of Tsinghua University as a postdoctoral researcher to conduct oxide material research. During his postdoctoral period, he received the rewards of "Peng Huan-Wu Postdoctoral Fellow" and "Distinguished Postdoctoral of Tsinghua University". In the summer of 2018, he returned to IOP-CAS and joined the State Key Laboratory of Surface Physics. Currently, his research mainly focuses on the exotic physical and functional properties exploration of oxide thin film materials by electric-field controlled ionic modulation, meanwhile combining with other methods. Besides, he also carries out thin film growth of newly designed complex transition metal oxides by cutting-edge pulsed laser deposition and off-axis oxide sputtering methods. Based on these, his research interest also includes the model device fabrications being related to the research fields of information storage, energy storage, and energy conversion, etc.

Research Interests:

Our research focuses on emergent phenomena in quantum materials driven by many-body interactions, aiming to understand and control novel properties such as superconductivity, magnetism, and topological phases. By combining ARPES with oxide thin-film growth techniques including MBE and PLD, we synthesize and investigate the electronic structure of artificial heterostructures, where new quantum states can emerge at interfaces.

Research Directions

Functional oxide thin film materials; characterization and manipulation of physical properties of ferrous materials and multiferroic materials; magnetotransport measurements of quantum materials.

Professor at the University of Science and Technology of China (USTC) and doctoral supervisor at the Hefei National Research Center for Physical Sciences at the Microscale. He received his Bachelor of Science in Applied Physics from Hefei University of Technology in 2008 and his Ph.D. in Condensed Matter Physics from the University of Science and Technology of China in 2013. He subsequently conducted postdoctoral research at King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST) and Seoul National University (SNU). In 2018, he became a Research Assistant Professor at Seoul National University. He returned to China in 2020 as a Researcher at USTC and was promoted to Professor in 2021. He was selected for the Chinese Academy of Sciences "Hundred Talents Program" (Class B) in 2019. His research focuses on the quantum phenomena and functional properties of perovskite transition metal oxide thin films and heterointerfaces, encompassing controlled thin-film growth, interfacial effect modulation, and electronic device design. He developed a novel water-soluble sacrificial layer material, Sr₄Al₂O₇, enabling the fabrication of centimeter-scale crack-free freestanding oxide thin films, with related results published in Science. He has authored over 30 papers in journals such as Science and Nature Materials, with a total citation count exceeding 4,000 (Google Scholar), an H-index of 24, and five papers recognized as ESI Highly Cited Papers. He serves as a reviewer for journals including Advanced Materials, Nature Materials, Nature Nanotechnology, and Physical Review Letters.

Focused on the fundamental and applied aspects of surface and interface physics in spin–orbit electronics, including:
1. Electronic structure characterization and engineering of oxide thin films and heterostructures — Fabrication of high-quality heterostructures via MBE and PLD, and precise interpretation of their band structures and interfacial effects using ARPES.
2. Charge–spin–orbit conversion mechanisms — Systematic investigation of spin–orbit coupling interactions among charge, spin, and orbital degrees of freedom, and their influence on the performance of novel magnetic memory and logic devices.
3. Spintronic device design based on spin–orbit torque effects — Development of efficient and stable spintronic device platforms, enabling advances in next-generation memory and logic.

Biography

Dr. Wu received his B.S. and M.S. from Fudan University and received his Ph.D. in experimental condensed matter physics from the University of California at Berkeley. He did his Postdoctoral research at the National High Magnetic Field Laboratory of the USA. Since 2012, he became an Assistant Physicist at the oxide-MBE group at Brookhaven National Laboratory of USA. Then he was promoted to be an Associate Physicist and later a Physicist. He joined the Westlake University in September 2019, and he now serves as a professor and chair of the Physics Department.

Professional Experience

o (2022~Present) Head, Department of Physics, KAIST
o (2022~Present) Head, Graduate School of Nanoscience and technology, KAIST
o (2019~Present) Professor, Department of Physics, KAIST
o (2017~Present) Director, Creative Research Initiative Center for Lattice Defectronics
o 2013~2019) Associate Professor, Department of Physics, KAIST
o(2010~2013) Assistant Professor, Department of Physics, KAIST
o(2006~2009) Post-doctoral Researcher,
Department of Physics, University of California, Berkeley
o(2005~2006) Post-doctoral Researcher, Electron Spin Science Center, POSTECH

Research interests

Growth and Characterization of Epitaxial Transition Metal Oxide Thin Films,
Strongly Correlated Phenomena in Complex Oxide Thin Films and Interfaces,
Orbital Physics and Magnetism,
Multiferroics and Magnetoelectric Phenomena,
Nanoscale Characterization of Ferroelectric and Multiferroic Materials,
Resonant X-ray Scattering to Probe Orbital/Magnetic Ordering,
Oxide Electronics and Defectronics,
Topological Structures in Ferroic Materials,

Major Research Achievements

o Discovery of a critical ionic transport phenomenon across an oxygen-vacancy ordering transition
o Observation of orbital order melting at reduced dimensions
o Harnessing the topotactic transition in oxide heterostructures for fast and high-efficiency electrochromic applications
o Discovery of flexopiezoelectricity at ferroelastic domain walls
o Detection of configurable topological textures in strain graded ferroelectric nanoplates for topological defects memory
o Demonstration of electric-field-induced spin disorder to order transition near a multiferroic triple phase point
o Observation of flexoelectrical enhancement of anisotropic photocurrent in ferroelectric oxides by strain gradients
o Discovery of the concurrent transition of ferroelectric and magnetic ordering in a multiferroic