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Dr. Su-Yang XU

EDUCATION

  • Princeton University Ph.D. in Physics (08/2008 － 01/2015) Thesis advisor: Prof. M. Zahid Hasan
  • Peking University B.S. in Physics (09/2004 － 07/2008)

 

APPOINTMENTS

  • Assistant Professor, Chemistry Dept., Harvard (01/2020 － )
  • Postdoctoral Scholar, Physics Dept., MIT (04/2016 － Present)
  • Postdoctoral Scholar, Physics Dept., Princeton (01/2015 － 04/2016)
  • Graduate Student Researcher, Zahid Hasan group, Physics Dept., Princeton (06/2009 － 01/2015)

 

SELECTED HONORS

  • Global “Highly Cited Scholar” by Clarivate Analytics (2016-2020)
  • Top 10 Breakthrough from Physics World Magazine for Weyl fermion discovery (2015)
  • Advanced Light Source Doctoral Fellowship, LBNL (2011-2013)

 

PUBLICATIONS (SUMMARY)

More than 100 journal papers, including 5 in Science, 3 in Nature, 10 in Nature Physics, 3 in Nature Materials, 1 in Nature Nanotechnology, 12 in Nature Communications, 4 in Science Advances and 8 in Physical Review Letters.

Google Scholar website: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=c4AG250AAAAJ&hl=en

Total citations: 18825; h-index: 59; i-index: 117 (Google Scholar)

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS

*equal contribution,†corresponding author

  • Q. Ma*, S.-Y. Xu*, H. Shen, D. MacNeill, V. Fatemi, T. Chang, A. Valdivia, S. Wu, Z. Du, C. Hsu, S. Fang, Q. Gibson, K. Watanabe, T. Taniguchi, R. Cava, E. Kaxiras, H. Lu, H. Lin, L. Fu, N. Gedik & P. Jarillo-Herrero, “Observation of the nonlinear Hall effect under time reversal symmetric conditions”, Nature in press arXiv:1809.09279 (Link).
  • G. Chang, B. J. Wieder, Frank Schindler, D. Sanchez, I. Belopolski, S. Huang, B. Singh, D. Wu, T. Chang, T. Neupert, S.-Y. Xu†, H. Lin† & M. Z. Hasan†, “Universal topological properties of chiral crystals”, Nature Materials 17, 978 (2018) (Link) This work was featured in Nature Materials News and Views (Link)
  • S.-Y. Xu*, Q. Ma*, H. Shen, V. Fatemi, S. Wu, T. Chang, G. Chang, A. Valdivia, C. Chan, Q. Gibson, K. Watanabe, T. Taniguchi, H. Lin, R. Cava, L. Fu, N. Gedik & P. Jarillo-Herrero, “Electrically switchable Berry curvature dipole in the monolayer topological insulator WTe2”, Nature Phys. 14, 900 (2018) (Link) This work was featured in Nature Physics News and Views (Link)
  • Q. Ma*, S.-Y. Xu*, C. Chan, C. Zhang, G. Chang, Y. Lin, W. Xie, T. Palacios, H. Lin, S. Jia, P. Lee, P. Jarillo-Herrero & N. Gedik, “Direct optical detection of Weyl fermion chirality in a topological semimetal”, Nature Phys. 13, 842 (2017) (Link) This work was featured in MIT news (Link) and highlighted on DOE website (Link)
  • S.-Y. Xu, I. Belopolski, N. Alidoust, M. Neupane, G. Bian, C. Zhang, R. Sankar, G. Chang, Z. Yuan, C. Lee, S. Huang, H. Zheng, J. Ma, D. Sanchez, B. Wang, A. Bansil, F. Chou, P. Shibayev, H. Lin, S. Jia & M. Z. Hasan, “Discovery of a Weyl fermion semimetal and topological Fermi arcs”, Science 349, 613 (2015) (Link) Top 10 Breakthrough from Physics World Magazine (Link) and cited in the scientific background on the Nobel Prize in Physics 2016 (Link)
  • S.-Y. Xu, C. Liu, S. Kushwaha, R. Sankar, J. Krizan, I. Belopolski, M. Neupane, G. Bian, N. Alidoust, T. Chang, H. Jeng, C. Huang W. Tsai, H. Lin, P. Shibayev, F. Chou, R. Cava & M. Z. Hasan, “Observation of Fermi arc surface states in a topological metal”, Science 347, 294-298 (2015) (Link)
  • S.-Y. Xu, Y. Xia, L. Wray, S. Jia, F. Meier, J. Dil, J. Osterwalder, B. Slomski, A. Bansil, H. Lin, R. Cava & M. Z. Hasan, “Topological phase transition and texture inversion in a tunable topological insulator”, Science 332, 560 (2011) (Link) This work was featured in Science Perspective (Link)
  • I. Belopolski, D. Sanchez, G. Chang, K. Manna, B. Ernst, S.-Y. Xu, et al., “A three-dimensional magnetic topological phase”, arXiv: 1712.09992 (2017) Science (in press)
  • D. Sanchez, I. Belopolski, T. A. Cochran, X. Xu , J. Yin, G. Chang, W. Xie, K. Manna, V. Süβ, C.-Y. Huang, N. Alidoust, D. Multer, S. S. Zhang, N. Shumiya, X. Wang, G.-Q. Wang, T.-R. Chang, H. Lin, S.-Y. Xu, et al., under review in Nature.
  • J. Yin, S. Zhang, H. Li, K. Jiang, G. Chang, B. Zhang, B. Lian, C. Xiang, I. Belopolski, H. Zheng, T. Cochran, S.-Y. Xu, et al., Nature 562, 91 (2018)
  • S.-Y. Xu, N. Alidoust, I. Belopolski, Z. Yuan, G. Bian, T. Chang, H. Zheng, V. Strocov, D. Sanchez, G. Chang, C. Zhang, D. Mou, Y. Wu, L. Huang, C. Kee, S. Huang B. Wang, A. Bansil, H. Jeng, T. Neupert, A. Kaminski, H. Lin, S. Jia & M. Z. Hasan, “Discovery of Weyl fermion state with Fermi arcs in niobium arsenide”, Nature Phys. 11, 748 (2015) (Link) This work was featured in Nature Physics News and Views (Link)
  • S.-Y. Xu, N. Alidoust, I. Belopolski, A. Richardella, C. Liu, M. Neupane, G. Bian, S. Huang, R. Sankar, C. Fang, B. Dellabetta, W. Dai, Q. Li, M. Gilbert, F. Chou, N. Samarth & M. Z. Hasan, “Momentum space imaging of Cooper pairing in a half-Dirac-gas topological superconductor”, Nature Phys. 10, 943 (2014) (Link)
  • S.-Y. Xu, M. Neupane, C. Liu, D. Zhang, A. Richardella, L. Wray, N. Alidoust, M. Leandersson, T. Balasubramanian, J. Sánchez-Barriga, O. Rader, G. Landolt, B. Slomski, J. Dil, J. Osterwalder, T. Chang, H. Jeng, H. Lin, A. Bansil, N. Samarth & M. Z. Hasan, “Hedgehog spin texture and Berry’s phase tuning in a magnetic topological insulator”, Nature Phys. 8, 616 (2012) (Link)
  • L. A. Wray, S.-Y. Xu, Y. Xia, D. Hsieh, A. V. Fedorov, Y. S. Hor, R. J. Cava, A. Bansil, H. Lin & M. Z. Hasan, “A topological insulator surface under strong Coulomb, magnetic and disorder perturbations”, Nature Phys. 7, 32 (2011). (Link)
  • L. A. Wray, S.-Y. Xu, Y. Xia, Y. S. Hor, D. Qian, A. V. Fedorov, H. Lin, A. Bansil, H. Lin, R. J. Cava, & M. Z. Hasan, “Observation of topological order in a superconducting doped topological insulator”, Nature Phys. 6, 855 (2011). (Link)
  • M. Neupane*, S.-Y. Xu*, R. Sankar, N. Alidoust, G. Bian, C. Liu, I. Belopolski, T. Chang, H. Jeng, H. Lin, A. Bansil, F. Chou & M. Z. Hasan, “Observation of a topological 3D Dirac semimetal phase in high-mobility Cd3As2”, Nature Comm. 5, 3786 (2014) (Link)
  • S. Huang*, S.-Y. Xu*†, I. Belopolski*, C. Lee, G. Chang, B. Wang, N. Alidoust, G. Bian, M. Neupane, C. Zhang, S. Jia, A. Bansil, H. Lin & M. Z. Hasan, “A Weyl fermion semimetal with surface Fermi arcs in the transition metal monopnictide TaAs class”, Nature Comm. 6, 7373 (2015) (Link)
  • S.-Y. Xu, C. Liu, N. Alidoust, M. Neupane, D. Qian, I. Belopolski, J. Denlinger, Y. Wang, H. Lin, L. Wray, G. Landolt, B. Slomski, J. Dil, A. Marcinkova, E. Morosan, Q. Gibson, R. Sankar, F. Chou, R. Cava, A. Bansil & M. Z. Hasan, “Observation of a topological crystalline insulator phase and topological phase transition in Pb1-xSnxTe”, Nature Comm. 3, 1192 (2012) (Link)
  • S.-Y. Xu, M. Neupane, I. Belopolski, C. Liu, N. Alidoust, G. Bian, S. Jia, G. Landolt, B. Slomski, J. Dil, P. Shibayev, S. Basak, T. Chang, H. Jeng, R. Cava, H. Lin, A. Bansil & M. Z. Hasan, “Unconventional transformation of spin-Dirac phase across a topological quantum phase transition”, Nature Comm. 6, 6870 (2015) (Link)
  • S.-Y. Xu, N. Alidoust, G. Chang, H. Lu, B. Singh, I. Belopolski, D. S. Sanchez, X. Zhang, G. Bian, H. Zheng, M.-A. Husanu, Y. Bian, S.-M. Huang, C.-H. Hsu, T.-R. Chang, H.-T. Jeng, A. Bansil, T. Neupert, V. N. Strocov, H. Lin, S. Jia, & M. Zahid Hasan, “Discovery of Lorentz-violating type II Weyl fermions in LaAlGe”, Science Adv. 3, e1603266 (2017) (Link)
  • S.-Y. Xu, I. Belopolski, D. S. Sanchez, C. Zhang, G. Chang, C. Guo, G. Bian, Z. Yuan, H. Lu, T.-R. Chang, P. P. Shibayev, M. L. Prokopovych, N. Alidoust, H. Zheng, C.-C. Lee, S.-M. Huang, R. Sankar, F.-C. Chou, C.-H. Hsu, H.-T. Jeng, A. Bansil, T. Neupert, V. N. Strocov, H. Lin, S. Jia, & M. Zahid Hasan, “Experimental discovery of a topological Weyl semimetal state in TaP”, Science Adv. 1, e1501092 (2015). (Link)
  • S.-Y. Xu, I. Belopolski, D. Sanchez, M. Neupane, G. Chang, K. Yaji, Z. Yuan, C. Zhang, K. Kuroda, G. Bian, C. Guo, H. Lu, T. Chang, N. Alidoust, H. Zheng, C. Lee, S. Huang, C. Hsu, H. Jeng, A. Bansil, T. Neupert, F. Komori, T. Kondo, S. Shin, H. Lin. S. Jia & M. Z. Hasan, “Spin polarization and texture of the Fermi arcs in the Weyl Fermion semimetal TaAs”, Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 096801 (2016) (Link)

 

SELECTED INVITED TALKS

  • “Probing quantum geometry and topology by low energy, nonlinear optoelectronic measurements”, APS March Meeting, Boston (2019)
  • “Topology and Geometry in Quantum Materials”, Condensed Matter Seminar, New York University (2019)
  • “Topology and Geometry in Quantum Materials”, Condensed Matter Seminar, UCLA (2019)
  • “Topology and Geometry in Quantum Materials”, Condensed Matter Seminar, UC Berkeley (2019)
  • “Topology and Geometry in Quantum Materials”, Condensed Matter Seminar, UCSB (2019)
  • “Topology and Geometry in Quantum Materials”, Condensed Matter Seminar, Caltech (2019)
  • “Topology and Geometry in Quantum Materials”, Condensed Matter Seminar, Penn State University (2019)
  • “Topology and Geometry in Quantum Materials”, Condensed Matter Seminar, UW Seattle (2019)
  • “Topological Quantum Materials from physics to chemistry”, Special seminar, Harvard (2019)
  • “Topology and Geometry in Quantum Materials”, Condensed Matter Seminar, University of Chicago (2019)
  • “Probing quantum geometry and topology by low energy, nonlinear optoelectronic measurements”, Colloquium, University of Central Florida (2018)
  • “Probing quantum geometry and topology by low energy, nonlinear optoelectronic measurements”, “Chez Pierre” Seminar, MIT (2018)
  • “Direct optical detection of Weyl fermion chirality”, Seminar, Howard University (2017)
  • “Observation of Weyl fermions, Fermi arcs and chirality in Weyl semimetals”, APS March Meeting, New Orleans (2017)
  • “Exploring fundamental physics by discovering new topological phases of matter”, Condensed Matter Seminar, UC Irvine (2016)
  • “Discovery of Weyl fermions and Fermi arcs”, New Trends in Topological Insulators, San Sebastian, Spain (2015)
  • “New forms of matter: Weyl fermions, Fermi arcs, and topological nodal metals”, IAS Program and Croucher Conference on Topological Phases in Condensed matter and Cold Atoms, Hong Kong, China (2015)
  • “Discovery of Weyl fermions semimetals”, Quantum Materials and Devices Seminar, Harvard University (2015)
  • “Magnetic topological insulators and topological crystalline insulators, a photoemission view”, APS March Meeting, Baltimore (2013)