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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

Crystalline symmetries are known for enforcing topological crossings in electronic band structure. In our research article, “Charge order induced Dirac pockets in the nonsymmorphic crstal TaTe4“, published today in Phys. Rev. B., we directly visualize the near-EF Dirac pockets through

In the 2023 Smalley-Curl Institute (SCI) Summer reserach Colloquium, Alex, Lulu, and Ziqin all presented their research posters. Yichen gave an oral presentation and won the Gold Award (2nd place) in the oral presentation category.

Our paper titled, “Spectral evidence for unidirectional charge density wave in detwinned BaNi2As2“, appeared in PRB today. Here, through a systematic angle-resolved photoemission spectroscopy study on strain-detwinned BaNi2As2, we point out that the CDW order of BaNi2As2 is likely to

Our paper on BaPt4Se6, a new layered ternary compound with sesqui-selenide layered feature and mix-valence Pt oxidation states, is published on npj Quantum Materials. ARPES measurements further support the weak localization origin proposed to account for the observed transport anomalies.

Heaps prize is an undergraduate award for students who show excellence in a recent research project, often one leading to the senior thesis, and Chuoke award is for graduate students who show the greatest promise in physics as evidenced by

We are excited to begin a new collaboration with Prof. Natelson’s group and Prof. Mohite’s group funded by Rice Inter Disciplinary Excellence Awards (IDEA). More on what IDEA is.

Rice professor attracts grant to study magnetism

Thank you Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation for generously supporting our research on quantum materials with the Emergent Phenomena in Quantum Systems (EPiQS) grant! Throwback to our group photo shoot for the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation awards.