Hasan lab is focused (funded to work) on the conceptualization, design, search and discover, theoretical prediction, experimental discovery and development of new physics of quantum matter. The Lab research is focused on exploring novel physics of quantum-many-body emergence, condensates, quantum coherence, and topological (weakly or strongly interacting, entangled) emergence by combining novel spectroscopy, microscopy and transport methods including ARPES, STM/STS, Ultrafast/THz Optics (on topological and correlated quantum materials).
Research Summary:
The terms "Topological Quantum Matter" & "Topological Dirac Insulator" were coined in 2007
https://phy.princeton.edu/people/m-zahid-hasan
Substantially responsible (90,000+ citations) for opening 5 major research fronts in modern condensed matter physics over last two decades:
Topological Surface States and Topo Insulators: Discovery & Fundamental Properties
Experiments started in 2004, completed in 2007, paper submitted in 2007 KITP proceeding: https://www.on.kitp.ucsb.edu/online/motterials07/hasan/ KITP’2007, Nature’08 (submitted in 2007), Nature’09a, Nature’09b, Science’09, NaturePhys’09, PRL’09, PRL’10, NatureMat’10, NaturePhys’11a, NaturePhysics’11b, NaturePhys’12, Science’13, NatureCom’13, NaturePhys’14a, NaturePhys’14b, NatureCom’14, PRL’15, ScienceAdv’17, NatureMat’22, NaturePhys 20, 1253 (2024). NaturePhys 20, 776 (2024), Nature 628, 527 (2024).
News on the discovery of topological surface states: https://newscenter.lbl.gov/2017/04/14/how-x-rays-pushed-topological-mat…
Topological Magnets including Chern magnets: Discovery & Fundamental Properties
Experiments started in 2008, completed in 2011, arXiv(2008), NatPhys’11, NaturePhys’12 (Chern gap in 2012), Nature’18, Science’19, Nature’20, PRL’21, Nature’22a, Nature’22b, NaturePhys’23, NatureCom’24
APS invited talk on the discovery : https://absuploads.aps.org/presentation.cfm?pid=14503
Topological Weyl/Dirac semimetals: Discovery & Fundamental Properties
Experiments started in 2011, completed in 2014. APS invited talk on the Discovery: https://absuploads.aps.org/presentation.cfm?pid=14503 Science’11, PRB’12, NatureCom’15 (submitted in 2014), Science’15a (submitted in 2014), Science’15b, NaturePhys’15, PRL’16, NatureCom’16a, NatureCom’16b, PRL’17a, PRL’17b, PRL’17c, NaturePhys’17, NatureCom’17, NatureMat’18, Science’19, Nature’18, Nature’19, PRl’20, NatureCom’20, PRL’23a, PRL’23b, NatureCom’23, NaturePhys’23, Nature’24
Topological Phase Transitions
Experiments started in 2009, completed in 2010, Science’11, PRL’12, NatureCom’12, NaturePhys’12, NatureCom’15, NaturePhys’15, Nature’18, Science’19, Nature’19, PRL’19
Topological Phase Transition & Texture Inversion: https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.1201607#:~:text=In%20the%20….
Unexpected and unpredicted novel (many-body, correlated) quantum phenomena in Topological Kagome Magnets & Superconductors:
Experiments started in 2017, completed in 2017, Nature’18, NaturePhys’19, PRL’19, PRL’20, NatureCom’20a, NatureCom’20b, NatureCom’20c, Nature’20, NatureMat’21, PRL’21, Science’19, Nature’19, Nature’22a, Nature’22b, PRL’22, NaturePhys’22, NatureCom’22, NatureCom’23a, NatureCom’23b, NaturePhys’23, NatureCom’24a, NatureCom’24b, NatureCom’24c, NatureMat’24
Discovery of novel quantum phenomena in Topological kagome magnets and superconductors : https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-022-05516-0
Key Inventions & patents related to the research fronts :
First example of Weyl semimetals and the methods for its discovery US Patent#10214797 “Method for production and identification of Weyl semimetal” (2016)
First example of room-temperature topological quantum edge state
“Identification Procedure of Room-Temp. Quantum Spin Hall Topological Edge State”
PATENT FILING Ref#: 24-4088-1 (2024)
Fabrication of Quantum Devices using intrinsic insulating topological materials
“Quantum device using insulating topo. material” PATENT FILING Ref#: 24-4093-1 (2024)
Research works have been featured in Physics Today, Physics World, Scientific American, Nature News, Science News, Discover magazine, New Scientist and similar media including Physics Today’s “Search & Discovery News” multiple times over the last two decades. According to U.S. Department of Energy, these “experiments led to seminal discoveries of new phases of matter and new fermionic quasiparticles.” The research work “opened new areas in condensed matter physics and holds promise for future transformative applications in materials sciences” Source: https://www.energy.gov/science/articles/energy-secretary-brouillette-announces-2020-ernest-orlando-lawrence-award-winners
According to the American Academy, these “results have extended our old textbook level understanding of quantum matter and are now being featured in many standard textbooks of condensed matter physics used in universities world-wide.”
Strongly correlated electron physics:
Quantum many-body physics in doped Mott insulators, Charge-order and Superconductivity competition, Nematic order & fluctuations etc.
Hasan et.al., Phys. Rev. Lett. 92, 246402 (2004); Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 046407 (2006); Phys. Rev. Lett. 97, 186405 (2006); Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 216405 (2006). Phys. Rev. Lett. 98, 117007 (2007) and Phys. Rev. Lett. 99, 167002 (2007). Phys. Rev. B 78, 184508 (2008); Phys. Rev. Lett. 103, 037002 (2009). Nature’18, NaturePhys’19, PRL’19, PRL’20, NatureCom’20a, NatureCom’20b, NatureCom’20c, Nature’20, NatureMat’21, PRL’21, Science’19, Nature’19, Nature’22a, Nature’22b, PRL’22, NaturePhys’22, NatureCom’22, NatureCom’23a, NatureCom’23b, NaturePhys’23, NatureCom’24a, NatureCom’24b, NatureCom’24c, NatureMat’24
Topological Quantum Matter
We are exploring 2D and 3D quantum materials that feature a combination of strong correlation and topological phenomena.
This includes 2D materials that exhibit unconventional magnetism, topology, superconductivity and quantum Hall phenomena.
Topological superconductor platforms
Room Temperature topological materials
Artificial Condensed Matter Lattice, Artificial Topological Lattice
Topological kagome magnets and superconductors
Quantum spin-liquid candidates
Quantum Transport & Topology
Recent Invited Reviews:
M. Z. Hasan et al., Discovery of Topological Magnets: New Developments."https://absuploads.aps.org/presentation.cfm?pid=14503(Link is external)
- M. Z. Hasan, S.-Y. Xu, I. Belopolski, S.-M. Huang, "Discovery of Weyl Fermion Semimetals and Topological Fermi Arc States" Ann. Rev. Cond. Mat. Phys. 8, 289-309 (2017).
M. Z. Hasan et.al., "Weyl Semimetal Discovery Methods" United States Patent #10214797,
Nature Rev. Mater. 6, 784-803 (2021), Nature 612, 647-657 (2022).
S. Jia, S. Xu, M. Z. Hasan, "Weyl Semimetals, Fermi Arcs and Chiral Quantum Anomalies"
Nature Mater. 15, 1140-1144 (2016), Science 349, 613-617 (2015).
T. Neupert, M. Denner, J.-X. Yin, R. Thomale, M. Z. Hasan, "Kagome Lattice: Charge Order and Superconductivity in Kagome Materials"
Nature Physics 18, 137-143 (2022).
J. Yin, S. Pan, M. Z. Hasan, "Probing topological matter with scanning tunnelling microscopy (STM/STS),"
Nature Physics 3, 249-263 (2021)
J. Yin, B. Lian, M. Z. Hasan, "Topological Kagome Magnets & Superconductors"
Nature 612, 647-657 (2022).
Lecture Video:
“Topological Quantum Matter”
Topological Quantum Matter
Research Front-1
Topological Insulators: Discovery & Fundamental Properties
Experiments started in 2004, completed in 2007, paper submitted in 2007
2007 KITP invited talk: https://www.on.kitp.ucsb.edu/online/motterials07/hasan/(Link is external)
A topological Dirac insulator in a quantum spin Hall phase. [submitted in 2007]
D. Hsieh, D. Qian, L. Wray, et al.; (PI: M. Z. Hasan)
NATURE 452, 970 (2008). [submitted in 2007]
Electrons on the surface of Bi2Se3 form a topologically-ordered two dimensional gas with a non-trivial Berry's phase (Discovery of topological-insulator class with a single Dirac cone in 2008)
Preprint at arXiv:0812.2078 (2008)
Observation of Unconventional Quantum Spin Textures in Topological Insulators.
D. Hsieh, Y. Xia, L. Wray, et al.; (PI: M. Z. Hasan)
SCIENCE 323, 5916 (2009).
A tunable topological insulator in the spin helical Dirac transport regime.
D. Hsieh, Y. Xia, D. Qian, et al.; (PI: M. Z. Hasan)
NATURE 460, 1101 (2009).
Observation of a large-gap topological-insulator class with a single Dirac cone on the surface
Y Xia, D Qian, D Hsieh, L Wray, A Pal, H Lin et., al.
Nature Physics 5, 398-402 (2009)
Observation of Time-Reversal-Protected Single-Dirac-Cone Topological-Insulator States in Bi2X3 family
D Hsieh, Y Xia, D Qian, L Wray et., al.
Physical Review Letters 103, 146401 (2009)
Topological surface states protected from backscattering by chiral spin texture
P Roushan, J Seo, CV Parker, YS Hor, D Hsieh, D Qian et., al.
NATURE 460, 1106-1109 (2009)
Half-Heusler ternary compounds as new multifunctional experimental platforms for topological quantum phenomena
H Lin, LA Wray, Y Xia, S Xu, S Jia, RJ Cava, A Bansil, MZ Hasan
Nature Materials 9, 546-549 (2010)
Single-Dirac-Cone Topological Surface States in the TlBiSe2 Class of Topological Semiconductors
H Lin, RS Markiewicz, LA Wray, L Fu, MZ Hasan, A Bansil
Physical Review Letters 105, 036404 (2010)
A topological insulator surface under strong Coulomb, magnetic and disorder perturbations
LA Wray, SY Xu, Y Xia, D Hsieh, AV Fedorov, YS Hor, RJ Cava, A Bansil, M. Z. Hasan
Nature Physics 7, 32-37 (2011)
Topological phase transition and texture inversion in a tunable topological insulator.
S.-Y. Xu, Y. Xia, L.A. Wray, et al.; (PI: M. Z. Hasan)
SCIENCE 332, 560 (2011).
Hedgehog spin texture and Berry's phase tuning in a magnetic topological insulator.
S.-Y. Xu, M. Neupane, C. Liu, et al.; (PI: M. Z. Hasan)
Nature Physics 8, 616 (2012).
“Momentum-space imaging of Cooper pairing in a half-Dirac-gas topological
Superconductor (based on a topological insulator)”
Su-Yang Xu, N. Alidoust, I. Belopolski et.al., (PI: M. Z. Hasan)
Nature Physics 10, 943 (2014)
Observation of topological surface state quantum Hall effect in an intrinsic three-dimensional topological insulator (quantum transport in bulk insulating topological insulators)
Y Xu, I Miotkowski, C Liu, J Tian, H Nam, N Alidoust, J Hu, CK Shih, M. Z. Hasan, Y. Chen
Nature Physics 10, 956-963 (2014)
Room-temperature quantum spin Hall edge state in a higher-order topological insulator Bi4Br4
Nana Shumiya, Md Shafayat Hossain, Jia-Xin Yin et.al., (PI: M. Z. Hasan)
Nature Materials 21, 1111–1115 (2022)
A hybrid topological quantum state in an elemental solid
Md Shafayat Hossain, Frank Schindler et.al., (PI: M. Z. Hasan)
NATURE 628, 527–533 (2024).
Boundary modes of a charge density wave state in a topological material
Maksim Litskevich, Md Shafayat Hossain, S-B. Zhang, Zi-Jia Cheng et.al., (PI: M. Z. Hasan)
Nature Physics 20, 1253–1261 (2024).
Quantum transport response of topological hinge modes in a topological insulator
Md Shafayat Hossain, Qi Zhang, Zhiwei Wang, (PI: M. Z. Hasan)
Nature Physics 20, 776–782 (2024)
Research Front- 2
Topological Magnets: Discovery & Fundamental Properties
Experiments started in 2008, completed in 2008, paper submitted in 2008
Original preprint at arXiv:0812.2078(Link is external) (2008) (First Observation of Chern gap in 2012)
APS invited talk on the Discovery: https://absuploads.aps.org/presentation.cfm?pid=14503(Link is external)
A topological insulator surface under strong Coulomb, magnetic and disorder perturbations
LA Wray, SY Xu, Y Xia, D Hsieh, AV Fedorov et.al., (PI: M. Z. Hasan)
Nature Physics 7, 32-37 (2011)
(First Observation of Chern gap in 2012)
Hedgehog spin texture and Berry's phase tuning in a magnetic topological insulator.
S.-Y. Xu, M. Neupane, C. Liu, et al.; (PI: M. Z. Hasan)
Nature Physics 8, 616 (2012).
Giant and anisotropic many-body spin–orbit tunability in a correlated topo. kagome magnet
Jia-Xin Yin, Songtian S. Zhang, Hang Li et.al.; (PI: M. Z. Hasan)
NATURE 562, 91–95 (2018).
(Topological Magnetic Semimetals) Discovery of Weyl fermion lines and drumhead surface states in a room temp. topological magnet
Ilya Belopolski, K. Manna, Daniel Sanchez et.al., (PI: M. Z. Hasan)
SCIENCE 365, 1278 (2019).
Topological Chiral Crystals with Helicoid Arc Quantum States
Daniel Sanchez, Ilya Belopolski, Tyler Cochran et.al., (PI: M. Z. Hasan)
NATURE 567, 500-504 (2019).
Quantum-limit Chern topological magnet
J-X. Yin, S.S. Zhang et.al., (PI: M. Z. Hasan)
NATURE 583, 533–536 (2020).
Rare Earth Engineering in RMn6Sn6 (R=Gd−Tm, Lu) Topological Kagome Magnets.
Wenlong Ma, Xitong Xu, Jia-Xin Yin et.al.,
Phys. Rev. Lett. 126, 246602 (2021).
“Observation of a linked loop quantum state in a topological magnet”
I. Belopolski, G. Chang, T. Cochran etal., (PI: M. Z. Hasan)
NATURE 604, 647-652 (2022)
A topological Hund nodal line antiferromagnet
Xian P. Yang, Yueh-Ting Yao, Pengyu Zheng et.al., (PI: M. Z. Hasan)
Nature Commun. 15, 7052 (2024)
Research Front- 3
Topological Weyl/Dirac semimetals: Discovery & Fundamental Properties
Experiments started in 2011, completed in 2014
APS invited talk on the Discovery: https://absuploads.aps.org/presentation.cfm?pid=14503(Link is external)
Topological phase transition and texture inversion (at 3D bulk Dirac point) in a tunable topological insulator.
S.-Y. Xu, Y. Xia, L.A. Wray, et al.; (PI: M. Z. Hasan)
SCIENCE 332, 560 (2011).
Observation of Fermi Arc Surface States in a Topological Metal.
S.-Y. Xu, C. Liu, S K. Kushwaha et.al., (PI: M. Z. Hasan)
SCIENCE 347, 294 (2015). (paper submitted in 2014)
Discovery of a Weyl Fermion semimetal and topological Fermi arcs.
S.-Y. Xu, I. Belopolski, N. Alidoust et.al., (PI: M. Z. Hasan)
SCIENCE 349, 613 (2015).
Discovery of topo. Weyl fermion lines and drumhead surface states in a room temp. magnet
Ilya Belopolski, K. Manna, Daniel Sanchez et.al., (PI: M. Z. Hasan)
SCIENCE 365, 1278 (2019).
Giant and anisotropic many-body spin–orbit tunability in a correlated kagome magnet
Jia-Xin Yin, Songtian S. Zhang, Hang Li et.al.; (PI: M. Z. Hasan)
NATURE 562, 91–95 (2018).
Topological Chiral Crystals with Helicoid Arc Quantum States (Topological Semimetals)
Daniel Sanchez, Ilya Belopolski, Tyler Cochran et.al., (PI: M. Z. Hasan)
NATURE 567, 500-504 (2019).
Coexistence of Bulk-Nodal and Surface-Nodeless Cooper Pairings in a Superconducting Dirac Semimetal.
Yang, X.P., Zhong, Y., Mardanya, S., Cochran, T.A., Chapai, R., Mine, A., Zhang, J., Sánchez-Barriga, J., Cheng, Z-J., Clark, O.J., Yin, J-X., Blawat, J., Cheng, G., Belopolski, I., Nagashima, T., Najafzadeh, S., Gao, S., Yao, N., Bansil, A., Jin, R., Chang, T-R., Shin, S., Okazaki, K. & Hasan, M.Z.
Phys. Rev. Lett. 130, 046402 (2023).
Tunable topologically driven Fermi arc van Hove singularities.
Sanchez, D.S., Cochran, T.A., Belopolski, I., Cheng, Z-J., Yang, X.P., Liu, Y., Hou, T., Xu, X., Manna, K., Shekhar, C., Yin, J-X., Borrmann, H., Chikina, A., Denlinger, J.D., Stro cov, V.N., Xie, W., Felser, C., Jia, S., Chang, G. & Hasan, M.Z.
Nature Physics 19, 682 (2023).
Causal structure of interacting Weyl fermions in condensed matter systems.
Chiu, W-C., Chang, G., Macam, G., Belopolski, I., Huang, S-M., Markiewicz, R., Yin, J-X., Cheng, Z-J., Lee, C-C., Chang, T-R., Chuang, F-C., Xu, S-Y., Lin, H., Hasan, M.Z.& Bansil, A.
Nature Commun. 14, 2228 (2023).
Visualizing Higher-Fold Topology in Chiral Crystals.
Cochran, T.A., Belopolski, I., Manna, et.al., (PI: M. Z. Hasan)
Phys. Rev. Lett. 130, 066402 (2023)
A hybrid topological quantum state in an elemental solid
Md Shafayat Hossain, Frank Schindler et.al., (PI: M. Z. Hasan)
NATURE 628, 527–533 (2024).
Research Front-4
Topological Kagome Magnets & Superconductors
Opened several new unexpected research fronts in topological kagome research ..
Giant and anisotropic many-body spin–orbit tunability in a correlated kagome magnet
Jia-Xin Yin, Songtian S. Zhang, Hang Li et.al.; (PI: M. Z. Hasan)
NATURE 562, 91–95 (2018).
Quantum-limit Chern topological magnet (kagome magnet)
J-X. Yin, S.S. Zhang et.al., (PI: M. Z. Hasan)
NATURE 583, 533–536 (2020).
Unconventional chiral charge order in kagome superconductor KV3Sb5.
Yu-Xiao Jiang, Jia-Xin Yin, M. Michael Denner, Nana Shumiya, Brenden R. Ortiz, Gang Xu, Zurab Guguchia, Junyi He, Md Shafayat Hossain, Xiaoxiong Liu, Jacob Ruff, Linus Kautzsch, Songtian S. Zhang, Guoqing Chang, Ilya Belopolski, Qi Zhang, Tyler A. Cochran, Daniel Multer, Maksim Litskevich, Zi-Jia Cheng, Xian P. Yang, Ziqiang Wang, Ronny Thomale, Titus Neupert, Stephen D. Wilson, M. Zahid Hasan.
Nature Materials 20, 1353–1357 (2021).
Rare Earth Engineering in RMn6Sn6 (R=Gd−Tm, Lu) Topological Kagome Magnets.
Wenlong Ma, Xitong Xu, Jia-Xin Yin et.al.,
Phys. Rev. Lett. 126, 246602 (2021).
Time-reversal symmetry-breaking charge order in a kagome superconductor
C. Mielke, D. Das, Jia-Xin Yin et.al., (Co-PI: M. Z. Hasan)
NATURE 602, 245 (2022)
Topological Kagome Magnets and Superconductors
J. Yin, B. Lian, M. Z. Hasan
NATURE 612, 647-657 (2022)
“Discovery of charge order and corresponding edge state in kagome magnet FeGe”
Jia-Xin Yin, Yu-Xiao Jiang, Xiaokun Teng, Md. Shafayat Hossain et.al., (PI: M. Z. Hasan)
Phys. Rev. Lett. 129, 166401 (2022)
“Charge order and superconductivity in kagome materials”
T. Neupert, M. Denner, J.-X. Yin, R. Thomale & M. Z. Hasan
Nature Physics 18, 137 (2022)
Discovery of conjoined charge density waves in the kagome superconductor CsV3Sb5
H Li, G Fabbris, AH Said, JP Sun, YX Jiang, JX Yin, et.al.,
Nature Commun. 13, 6348 (2022)
Discovery of charge density wave in a correlated kagome lattice antiferromagnet
X. Teng, L. Chen, F. Ye et.al.,
NATURE 609, 490-495 (2022)
Tunable unconventional kagome superconductivity in charge ordered RbV3Sb5 and KV3Sb5.
Guguchia, Z., Mielke III, C., Das, D., Gupta, R., Yin, J-X., et.al.,
Nature Commun. 14, 153 (2023).
Hidden magnetism uncovered in charge ordered bilayer kagome material
Z. Guguchia, D. J. Gawryluk, Soohyeon Shin, Z. Hao, et.al.,
Nature Commun. 14, 7796 (2023)
Tunable topologically driven Fermi arc van Hove singularities.
Sanchez, D.S., Cochran, T.A., Belopolski, I., et.al., (PI: M. Z. Hasan)
Nature Physics 19, 682 (2023).
Visualizing Higher-Fold Topology in Chiral Crystals.
Cochran, T.A., Belopolski, I., Manna, K., Yahyavi, M., Liu, Y., Sanchez, D.S., Yang, X.P., Multer, D., Yin, J-X., Borrmann, H., Chikina, A., Krieger, J.A., Sánchez-Barriga, J., Le Fèvre, P., Bertran, F., Strocov, V.N., Denlinger, J.D., Chang, T-R., Jia, S., Felser, C., Lin, H., Chang, G. & Hasan, M.Z.
Phys. Rev. Lett. 130, 066402 (2023)
Tunable topologically driven Fermi arc van Hove singularities.
Sanchez, D.S., Cochran, T.A., Belopolski, I., Cheng, Z-J., Yang, X.P., Liu, Y., Hou, T., Xu, X., Manna, K., Shekhar, C., Yin, J-X., Borrmann, H., Chikina, A., Denlinger, J.D., Stro cov, V.N., Xie, W., Felser, C., Jia, S., Chang, G. & Hasan, M.Z.
Nature Physics 19, 682 (2023).
Charge density wave in topological kagome metal ScV6Sn6
Yong Hu, Junzhang Ma, Yinxiang Li et.al.,
Nature Commun 15, 1658 (2024)
Depth-dependent study of time-reversal symmetry-breaking in the kagome superconductor AV3Sb5
J. N. Graham, C. Mielke III, D. Das et.al.,
Nature Commun 15, 8978 (2024).
A topological Hund nodal line antiferromagnet
Xian P. Yang, Yueh-Ting Yao, Pengyu Zheng et.al., (PI: M. Z. Hasan)
Nature Commun. 15, 7052 (2024)
Van Hove annihilation and nematic instability on a kagome lattice
Yu-Xiao Jiang, Sen Shao, Wei Xia, M. Michael Denner et.al., (PI: M. Z. Hasan)
Nature Materials (2024). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41563-024-01914-z
Advanced Spectroscopy
We utilize advanced state-of-the-art spectroscopic and microscopic techniques such as low temperature ARPES, spin-ARPES, STM, STS and ultrafast optical & THz, MBE-STM techniques to explore charge, spin, orbital and lattice degrees of freedom in novel quantum topological and strongly correlated matter.
We are currently developing new experimental methods.
Please visit the lab to learn more about experimental details and instrumental capabilities.
ARPES End-Station/BL: "MERLIN - A meV Resolution Beamline at the Advanced Light Source (Berkeley Lab)," AIP Conf. Proc. 879, 509 (2007). With MERLIN collaboration, M. Z. Hasan et al., "Design of an elliptically bent refocus mirror for the MERLIN beamline at the Advanced Light Source (Berkeley Lab)," Nucl. Instrum. Methods Phys. Res. A 582, 135 (2007).
Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research Section A Accelerators, Spectrometers, Detectors and Associated Equipment 582(1): 135-137 (2007)
Berkeley Lab: https://newscenter.lbl.gov/2017/04/14/how-x-rays-pushed-topological-mat…(Link is external)
STM/STS technique Review:
"Probing topological matter with scanning tunnelling microscopy (STM/STS)"
J. Yin, S. Pan and M.Z. Hasan
Nature Reviews Physics 3, 249-263 (2021)
Bose-Einstein centenary lectures
Theory & Modelling
Topological Quantum Science and Engineering: Hasan lab helped launch the field of Topological Insulators by directly detecting the novel surface states and thoroughly demonstrating their unusual topological properties using advanced spin-sensitive spectroscopic techniques (50,000+ citations). Subsequently, Hasan group has theoretically and experimentally discovered many novel classes of topological matter and topological phase transitions including Topological Magnets (via the demonstration of Chern gap in 2012) using novel instrumentations and innovative methods and introduced designed discovery methods. The field expanded to include topological semimetals, notably Weyl Semimetals, whose states mimic massless fermions considered in quantum field theory. In 2015 Hasan group observed the emergent Weyl fermions and novel topological Fermi arc surface states in several topological semimetals he and his team theoretically predicted in arsenide and other materials. His Weyl fermion work is based on his and his team's theoretical predictions in several spin-orbit materials. Subsequently, he has theoretically and experimentally discovered many novel classes of magnetic topological semimetals. He has also made groundbreaking contributions (theoretical and experimental) in the subfields of topological phase transitions, topological magnets in 2D and 3D, topological nodal-line and drumhead metals, topological magnetic semimetals, topological chiral crystals, topological Hopf link semimetals, topological superconductors, Helicoid-arc quantum states and Kagome magnets and materials, Chern magnets and charge-ordered Kagome superconductors enabled by innovative applications and development of experimental methods. He identified room temperature topological materials. A vast majority of his experimental discoveries are based on his and his team's theoretical predictions of topological materials. These materials are broadly important for future device applications with higher energy efficiency, as quantum information science platforms, and for exploring new emergent or many-body quantum physics. He has also contributed to the conceptual design and theoretical development of some of these topics and written several comprehensive review articles by invitation. The methodologies introduced by him to explore and discover topological materials and phenomena are being used by others world-wide to further advance the field and led to new discoveries. His experiments and methods have been seminal in giving rise to the field of "Topological Quantum Matter" with more than 90,000 citations (over 250 publications with h-factor 105+), which is now growing vigorously at the nexus of condensed matter physics, materials engineering, nano-science, device physics & quantum engineering, chemistry and relativistic quantum field theory as evidenced in all citation tracks.
Research Highlights
Discovery of Topological surface states
https://newscenter.lbl.gov/2017/04/14/how-x-rays-pushed-topological-matter-research-over-the-top/(Link is external) (Link opens in new window)https://absuploads.aps.org/presentation.cfm?pid=14503(Link is external) (Link opens in new window)
Discovery of Topological Weyl phenomena
https://www.amacad.org/person/m-zahid-hasan(Link is external) (Link opens in new window)
Discovery of Topological magnets and topological chiral phenomena
https://arxiv.org/abs/1812.04466(Link is external) (Link opens in new window)
https://absuploads.aps.org/presentation.cfm?pid=14503(Link is external) (Link opens in new window)
Discovery of novel quantum phenomena in Topological kagome magnets and superconductors
https://research.princeton.edu/news/princeton-led-team-discovers-unexpe…(Link is external)
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-022-05516-0(Link is external) (Link opens in new window)
Theoretical Prediction and experimental discovery of novel topological materials and quantum phenomena
https://www.amacad.org/person/m-zahid-hasan(Link is external) (Link opens in new window)
Recent Research
Topological Magnets & Superconductors
J. Yin, B. Lian, M. Z. Hasan, "Topological Kagome Magnets and Superconductors,"
Nature 612, 647-657 (2022).
Nature 602, 245-250 (2022).
Weyl & Chiral phenomena
S. Jia, S.-Y. Xu, and M. Z. Hasan, "Weyl Semimetals, Fermi Arcs and Chiral Anomalies,"
Nature Mater. 15, 1140–1144 (2016).
Nature Reviews Materials 6, 784–803 (2021)
Nature 604, 647-652 (2022).
ARPES & STM/STS Reviews
"Probing topological matter with scanning tunnelling microscopy (STM)," Nat. Rev. Phys. 3, 249-263 (2021).
"Topological Insulators, Topological Superconductors and Weyl Semimetals," Phys. Scr. T164, 014001 (2015).
Nature Reviews Physics 3, 249–263 (2021)
Charge-order & Superconductivity
T. Neupert, M. Denner, J. Yin, R. Thomale, M. Z. Hasan, "Charge-order and Superconductivity in Kagome Lattice Materials," Nature Phys. (2021).
K. Jiang et al., "Kagome Superconductors AV3Sb5," https://arxiv.org/abs/2109.10809.
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