Yichen and Ziqin are invited to go to the 2024 Lindau Nobel Laureate Meeting in Physics! Congrats and enjoy your meetings with the Nobel Laureates!
https://naturalsciences.rice.edu/news/three-physics-graduate-students-invited-lindau-meeting
Quantum Materials Spectroscopy Lab
https://naturalsciences.rice.edu/news/three-physics-graduate-students-invited-lindau-meeting
Congrats to Han for his newest paper published in Nat. Comm.: Reversible non-volatile electronic switching in a near-room-temperature van der Waals ferromagnet, where he discovered a tunable vacancy order that can be switched on and off to change the electronic
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41567-024-02397-0
In this work, we combine the ARPES evidence and the STM evidence (in collaboration with Ilija Zeljkovic’s group at Boston College) for charge order in the kagome system ScV6Sn6. Congrats to Zheng and Jiseop who led the ARPES work: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41535-024-00623-9
In this study, we unveil the mechanism of producing a flat electronic band at the Fermi level in a quantum material: geometric frustration in 3D pyrochlore lattice first produces a flat band, then orbital-selective electron correlations push it to the
The data in this paper took a long time to see light, but we are proud to present our newest publication to start year 2024. By a very detailed temperature-dependent measurement of ARPES, we are able to identify effects of
Yichen received an ICAM-sponsored Accelnet Quantum Materials Science Exchange Award to travel to the group of Jan Minar at the University of West Bohemia. Congratulations and we look forward to this wonderful collaboration!
At the latest RCQM workshop, Ziqin won a poster award sponsored by Nat. Mat. Congratulations and keep up the good work!
From Nov 3rd to Nov 4th 2023, we successfully hosted our annual “Designing Materials to Revolutionize and Engineer our Future (DMREF)” team meeting at Rice University. Dr. Ji Seop Oh jointly from Prof. Robert Birgeneau’s group at UC Berkeley, the
Among the numerous topological insulating materials predicted, ideal topological materials with well separated Dirac crossings located near EF only take a limited fraction and are advantageous for spintronic applications. Bismuth halide system is such an ideal candidate as a weak