Quantum Materials Theory and Mesoscopics  

Most of the group's research articles can be found on the arXiv pre-print server, which hosts a self-updating arXiv list. Justin Song can also be found on google scholar.



2024


Kramers Nonlinearity in PT Symmetric Magnets

  Oles Matsyshyn, Ying Xiong, Justin CW Song*,

  Preprint: arXiv: 2406.19444


Terahertz photocurrent probe of quantum geometry and interactions in magic-angle twisted bilayer graphene

  Roshan Krishna Kumar, Geng Li, Riccardo Bertini, Swati Chaudhary, Krystian Nowakowski, Jeong Min Park, Sebastian Castilla, Zhen Zhan, Pierre A. Pantaleón, Hitesh Agarwal, Sergi Battle-Porro, Eike Icking, Matteo Ceccanti, Antoine Reserbat-Plantey, Giulia Piccinini, Julien Barrier, Ekaterina Khestanova, Takashi Taniguchi, Kenji Watanabe, Christoph Stampfer, Gil Refael, Francisco Guinea, Pablo Jarillo-Herrero, Justin C.W. Song, Petr Stepanov, Cyprian Lewandowski, Frank H. L. Koppens

  Preprint: arXiv: 2406.16532


Nonlinear Superconducting Magnetoelectric Effect

  Jinxin Hu, Oles Matsyshyn, Justin CW Song*,

  Preprint: arXiv: 2404.18616


Anti-screening and nonequilibrium layer electric phases in graphene multilayers

    Ying Xiong, Mark S Rudner, Justin CW Song*,

  Preprint: arXiv:2402.14918 (2024) 


Floquet Fermi Liquid
                    Li-kun Shi, Oles Matsyshyn, Justin CW Song, Inti Sodemann Villadiego

     Physical Review Letters, 132, 146402 (2024) 


A moiré proximity effect

    Arpit Arora, Justin CW Song*,

  Nature Materials 23, 165–166 (2024)


2023


      Gate-tunable anomalous Hall effect in Bernal tetralayer graphene

    Hao Chen, Arpit Arora, Justin CW Song*, Kian Ping Loh*

  Nature Communications, 14, 7925 (2023) 

      

Mapping the intrinsic photocurrent streamlines through micromagnetic heterostructure devices

                    David Mayes, Farima Farahmand, Maxwel Grossnickle, Mark Lohmann, Mohammed Aldosary, Junxue Li, Vivek Aji, Jing Shi, Justin CW Song, Nathan M. Gabor 

                Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 120 (39) e2221815120 (2023) 


                 Anomalous skew-scattering nonlinear Hall effect and chiral photocurrents in PT-symmetric antiferromagnets
  Da Ma, Arpit Arora, Giovanni Vignale, Justin CW Song

Physical Review Letters 131, 076601 (2023)  


Layer photovoltaic effect in van der Waals heterostructures

                   Oles Matsyshyn, Ying Xiong, Arpit Arora, Justin CW Song

                   Physical Review B 107, 205306 (2023) 


   The Fermi-Dirac staircase occupation of Floquet bands and current rectification inside the optical gap of metals: an exact approach

                  Oles Matsyshyn, Justin CW Song, Inti Sodemann Villadiego, Li-kun Shi

                  Physical Review B 107, 195135 (2023) 


  The Berry dipole photovoltaic demon and the thermodynamics of photo-current generation within the optical gap of     metals
  Li-kun Shi, Oles Matsyshyn, Justin CW Song, Inti Sodemann Villadiego

Physical Review B 107, 125151 (2023) 


      Photocurrent as a multi-physics diagnostic of quantum materials

   Qiong Ma, Roshan Krishna Kumar, Su-Yang Xu, Frank HL Koppens, Justin CW Song*

   Nature Reviews Physics 5, 170-184 (2023) 


                  Giant photon momentum locked THz emission in a centrosymmetric Dirac semimetal

                  Liang Cheng, Ying Xiong, Lixing Kang, Yu Gao, Qing Chang, Mengji Chen, Jingbo Qi, Hyunsoo Yang, Zheng Liu, Justin CW Song*, Elbert EM Chia* 

                 Science Advances 9, eadd7856 (2023)


2022


Polariton drag enabled quantum geometric photocurrents in high-symmetry materials

                   Ying Xiong, Li-kun Sh, Justin C. W. Song

                   Physical Review B 106, 205423 (2022)


 Quantum plasmonic nonreciprocity in parity violating magnets

                   Arpit Arora, Mark S. Rudner, Justin CW Song

                  Nano Letters 22, 9351-9357 (2022)


Vibronic Exciton–Phonon States in Stack-Engineered van der Waals Heterojunction Photodiodes

                   Fatemah Berati, Trevor B. Arp, Shanshan Su, Roger K. Lake, Vivek Aji, Rienk van Grondelle, Mark S. Rudner, Justin C.W. Song, Nathaniel M. Gabor

   Nano Letters 22, 5751-5758 (2022) 


Multistable excitonic Stark effect

   Ying Xiong, Mark S Rudner, Justin CW Song

   Physical Review Research 4, 023168 (2022)   


   A photodetector that can learn the fingerprint of light

   Justin CW Song, Yidong Chong

   Nature 604, 252-253 (2022)

    Tunable and giant valley selective Hall effect in gapped bilayer graphene

    Jianbo Yin, Cheng Tan, David Barcons-Ruiz, Iacopo Torre, Kenji Watanabe, Takashi Taniguchi, Justin CW Song, James Hone, Frank H.L. Koppens,   

    Science 375, pp 1398-1402 (2022)


2021

    Strain-induced large injection current in twisted bilayer graphene

                   Arpit Arora, Jian Feng Kong, Justin C. W. Song

                   Physical Review B 104, L241404 (2021) 

    Preprint: arXiv: 2107.07526 


                    Quenched topological boundary modes can persist in a trivial system

                   Ching Hua Lee Justin C. W. Song 

                   Communications Physics 4, 145 (2021) [Open Access]


                   Geometric photon-drag effect and nonlinear shift current in centrosymmetric crystals

                    Li-kun Shi, Dong Zhang, Kai Chang, Justin C. W. Song 

                   Physical Review Letters 126, 197402 (2021) [Open Access] 

  --> Featured as an "Editor's Suggestion" 


                    Atomic configuration photocurrents in van der Waals homostructures

                    Ying Xiong, Li-kun Shi, Justin C. W. Song 

        2D Materials 8, 035008 (2021) [Open Access] 


                   Quantum nanophotonics in two-dimensional materials

                   Antoine Reserbat-Plantey, Itai Epstein, Iacopo Torre, Antonio T. Costa, P. A. D. Gonçalves, N. Asger Mortensen, Marco Polini, Justin C.W. Song, Nuno M. R. Peres, Frank H. L. Koppens

               ACS Photonics, 8, 85-101 (2021)



2020

                    Cooperative orbital moments and edge magnetoresistance in monolayer WTe2

                    Arpit Arora, Li-kun Shi, Justin C. W. Song 

        Physical Review B 102, 161402 (R) (2020)

                    Pre-print: arXiv: 2005.08986


                    Hall diffusion anomaly and transverse Einstein relation

                    Justin C. W. Song, Giovanni Vignale

                    Pre-print: arXiv:2007:10373


                    Transient wavefunction twist

                    Justin C. W. Song 

                    Nature Physics 16, 6-7 (2020)



2019

   

                    Gate-tunable flat bands in vdW patterned dielectric superlattices

                    Li-kun Shi, Jing Ma, Justin C. W. Song 

                2D Materials 7, 015028 (2019) [open access]

                    Pre-print: arXiv:1904.07877


                    Shift vector as geometric origin of beam shifts

                Li-kun Shi, Justin C. W. Song 

                Physical Review B 100, 201405(R) (2019) 

                    Pre-print: arXiv:1907.12569 (2019)


                   Non-trivial quantum oscillation geometric phase shift in a trivial band 

                   Biswajit Datta, Pratap Chandra Adak, Li-kun Shi, Kenji Watanabe, Takashi Taniguchi, Justin C. W. Song*, Mandar M. Deshmukh* 

                   [Corresponding authors: *]

                   Science Advances 5, eaax6550 (2019) [open-access]

                   Pre-print: arXiv:1902.04264


                   Cyclotron motion without magnetic field

                   Eddwi H. Hasdeo, Alex J. Frenzel, Justin C. W. Song

              New Journal of Physics 21, 083026 (2019).  [open-access] 

              Pre-print: arXiv: 1807.00014 


                    Self-induced Berry flux and spontaneous non-equilibrium magnetism

                    Mark S. Rudner, Justin C. W. Song, 

                    Nature Physics s41567-019-0578-5 (2019).   

                [read it on "read-cube" for a view-only version for free] 

                    Pre-print: arXiv: 1807.01708

                    --> featured in Nature Physics "News and Views", Phys.org, NTU Media Release, Asian Scientist, SPMS Research Highlights, Niels Bohr Institute News


                    Low-dissipation edge current without edge states

                    Justin C. W. Song, Giovanni Vignale

                Phys. Rev. B 99, 235405 (2019) 

                    Pre-print: arXiv:1805.05955


                    Polarity is a matter of perspective

                    Brian Skinner, Justin C. W. Song 

                    Nature Materials 18, 532-533 (2019)

                    [read it on "read-cube" for a view-only version for free


            Far out-of-equilibrium spin populations trigger giant spin injection into atomically thin MoS2

                   Liang Cheng, Xinbo Wang, Jianwei Chai, Weifeng Yang, Ming Yang, Mengji Chen, Yang Wu, Xiaoxuan Chen, Dongzhi Chi, Johnson K.E. Goh, Jian-Xin Zhu, Handong Sun, Shijie Wang, Justin C. W. Song*, Marco Battiato*, Hyunsoo Yang*, Elbert E.M. Chia*

                    [Corresponding authors: *]. 

                    Nature Physics 15, 347-351 (2019)

                  --> featured in Asian Scientist Magazine, SPMS Research Highlights 


                   Fermi arc induced vortex structure in Weyl beam shifts

                   Udvas Chattopadhyay, Li-Kun Shi, Balie Zhang, Justin C.W. Song, Yidong Chong

                   Physical Review Letters 122, 066602 (2019).

                    --> Editor's suggestion

                    Pre-print: arXiv: 1809.03159


                   Symmetry, spin-texture, and tunable quantum geometry in a WTe2 monolayer

                   Li-kun Shi, Justin C. W. Song, 

                   Phys. Rev. B 99, 035403 (2019)  [submitted in 2018]

                   Pre-print: arXiv:1805.00939


2018


                 Giant intrinsic photoresponse in pristine graphene

                   Qiong Ma, Chun Hung Lui, Justin C. W. Song, Yuxuan Lin, Jian Feng Kong, Yuan Cao, Thao H. Dinh, Nityan L. Nair, Wenjing Fang, Kenji Watanabe,Takashi Taniguchi, Su-Yang Xu, Jing Kong, Tomás Palacios, Nuh Gedik, Nathaniel M. Gabor, Pablo Jarillo-Herrero 

                   Nature Nanotechnology 4, 145-150 (2019) [published online in 2018]

                     ---> featured in Physics World, Phys.org


                    Electron quantum metamaterials in van der Waals heterostructures

                   Justin C. W. Song, Nathan M. Gabor

                   Nature Nanotechnology 13, 986–993 (2018) 

              [read it on "read-cube" for a view-only version for free]

                   ---> featured in Phys.org, SPMS Research Highlights

                    

                   Ultrafast Spin-To-Charge Conversion at the Surface of Topological Insulator Thin Films

                   Xinbo Wang, Liang Cheng, Dapeng Zhu, Yang Wu, Mengji Chen, Yi Wang, Daming Zhao, Chris B. Boothroyd, Yeng Ming Lam, Jian-Xin Zhu, Marco Battiato, Justin C. W. Song, Hyunsoo Yang, Elbert E. M. Chia

                   Advanced Materials (2018), doi.org/10.1002/adma.201802356

                   Pre-print: arXiv: 1810.02253


                  Plasmon propagation pushed to the limit

              Justin C. W. Song

                  Nature 557, 501 (2018)

                

                  Non-saturating large magnetoresistance in semimetals

                  Ian A. Leahy, Yu-Ping Lin, Peter E. Siegfried, Andrew C. Treglia, Justin C. W. Song, Rahul M. Nandkishore, Minhyea Lee

                  Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. 115, 10570 (2018)

                  Pre-print: arXiv:1805.08797


                  Plasmon geometric phase and plasmon Hall shift

                   Li-kun Shi, Justin C. W. Song, 

                   Physical Review X, 8, 021020 (2018)

                Pre-print: arXiv:1710.07292

                    ---> featured in Physics News and Commentary

             

2017


                   Large optical conductivity of Dirac semimetal Fermi arc surface states

                   Li-kun Shi, Justin C. W. Song, 

      Phys. Rev. B 96, 081410(R) (2017)

              Pre-print: arXiv:1705.01566


                   Long-lived domain wall plasmons in gapped bilayer graphene

                   Eddwi H. Hasdeo, Justin C. W. Song, 

              Nano Letters, 17, 7252 (2017)

              Pre-print: arXiv:1706.00790


                  Fermi arc plasmons in Weyl semimetals

                  Justin C. W. Song, Mark S. Rudner

                  Phys. Rev. B, 96, 205443 (2017)

              Pre-print: arXiv:1702.00022



2016


               Giant Hall photoconductivity in narrow-gapped Dirac materials, 

                Justin C. W. Song, Mikhail A. Kats

                  Nano Letters 16, 7346 (2016)

                Pre-print version: arXiv:1612.05269 


                Enhanced thermionic dominated response in Graphene Schottky Junctions, 

    Joaquin F. Rodriguez-Nieva, Mildred S. Dresselhaus, Justin C. W. Song

                  Nano Letters, 16, 6036 (2016)

                 Pre-print version: arXiv:1504.07210 (2015).


      Remnant geometrical Hall effect in a Quantum Quench, 

                  Justin H. Wilson, Justin C. W. Song, Gil Refael

              Phys. Rev. Lett. 117, 235302 (2016)

      Pre-print version: arXiv:1603.1621 (2016).


                    Chiral Plasmons without Magnetic Field, 

        Justin C. W. Song, Mark S. Rudner

                    PNAS, 113, 4658 (2016)

                    Pre-print version: arXiv:1506.04743 (2015). 


2015 


                    Linear magnetoresistance in metals: Guiding center diffusion in a smooth random potential,

                Justin C. W. Song, Gil Refael, Patrick A. Lee

                    Phys. Rev. B 92 180204(R) (2015) 

                     ---> Featured as an Editor's Suggestion


                    Accessing Phonon Polaritons in Hyperbolic Crystals by ARPES

                    Andrea Tomadin, Alessandro Principi, Justin C.W. Song, Leonid S. Levitov, Marco Polini

                  Phys. Rev. Lett. 115, 087401 (2015). 


                    Topological Valley Currents in Gapped Dirac Materials

                    Yuri L. Lensky, Justin C. W. Song, Polnop Samutpraphoot, Leonid S. Levitov

                     Phys. Rev. Lett. 114, 256601 (2015).


                    Topological Bloch Bands in Graphene Superlattices

        Justin C. W. Song, Polnop Samutpraphoot, Leonid S. Levitov

                     PNAS 112, 10879 (2015).


                    Energy Flows in Graphene: Hot Carrier Dynamics and Cooling,

                Justin C. W. Song, Leonid S. Levitov

                     Journal of Physics: Condensed Matter, 27 164201 (2015). 

                     ---> Invited Review for special edition of IOP JPCM "Hot Carriers in Graphene"


2014


                    Detecting Topological Currents in Graphene Superlattices

                    Roman V. Gorbachev†, Justin C.W. Song†, Ge Liang Yu, A. V. Kretinin, F. Withers, Y. Cao, A. Mishchenko, K. S. Novoselov, K. Watanabe, T. Taniguchi, L. Levitov, A. K. Geim († equal contribution)

                  Science 346, 448 (2014). 

                   ---> Featured in Science magazine perspective, MIT News, Condensed Matter Journal Club, IEEE Spectrum


                    Shockley-Ramo theorem and long-range photocurrent response in gapless materials 

                Justin C. W. Song, Leonid S. Levitov

                    Phys. Rev. B 90, 075415 (2014)


2013


                    Electron Interactions and Gap Opening in Graphene Superlattices

        Justin C. W. Song, Andrey V. Shytov, Leonid S. Levitov

                    Phys. Rev. Lett. 111 266801 (2013).


                    Ballistic Heat Transfer and Energy Waves in an Electron system

                    Trung V. Phan, Justin C. W. Song, Leonid S. Levitov

                    arXiv:1306.4972 (2013).


                    Coulomb Drag Mechanisms in Graphene

                     Justin C. W. Song, Dimtry A. Abanin, Leonid S. Levitov

                    Nano Letters 13 3631 (2013).


                    Hall Drag and Magnetodrag in Graphene

                Justin C. W. Song, Leonid S. Levitov

                    Phys. Rev. Lett. 111, 126601 (2013)


                    Photo-excitation Cascade and Multiple Carrier Generation in Graphene

                    Klaas J. Tielrooij, Justin C. W. Song, S. A. Jensen, A. Centeno, A. Pesquera, A. Zurutuza Elorza, M. Bonn, Leonid S. Levitov, Frank H. Koppens,

                Nature Physics 9, 248-252 (2013).

                    ---> Featured in the Technology Review 


                    Photo-excited Carrier Dynamics and Impact Excitation Cascade in Graphene,

        Justin C. W. Song, Klaas J. Tielrooij, Frank H. Koppens, Leonid S. Levitov,

                Phys. Rev. B 87, 155429 (2013).



2012

                    Energy-driven Drag at Charge Neutrality in Graphene

        Justin C. W. Song, Leonid S. Levitov, 

                    Phys. Rev. Lett. 109, 236602 (2012).


                    Disorder-Assisted Electron-Phonon Scattering and Cooling Pathways in Graphene,

        Justin C.W. Song, Michael Y. Reizer, Leonid S. Levitov, 

                Phys. Rev. Lett. 109, 106602 (2012).


 - 2011


                    Hot Carrier Assisted Intrinsic Photoresponse in Graphene,

                    Nathan M. Gabor, Justin C. W. Song, Qiong Ma, Nityan. L. Nair, Thiti Taychatahapat, Kenji Wantanabe, Takashi Taniguchi, Leonid S. Levitov, Pablo Jarillo-Herrero

                    Science 224, 648 (2011).

                    ---> Featured in Science magazine perspective, MIT news, Physics World


                    Hot Carrier Transport and Photoresponse in Graphene

        Justin C. W. Song, Mark S. Rudner, Charles M. Marcus, Leonid S. Levitov

                    Nano Letters 11, 4688 (2011).


                    Electrostatic effects of Nano-scale Dielectric patches in the modification of Schottky Contacts,

                Justin C. W. Song, Kuan-Eng J. Goh, Cedric Troadec, Chandrasekhar Natarajan

                    Phys. Rev. B 79, 165313 (2009).


                    Critical Size for Phase Separation in Binary Alloys : Role of Elastic interactions and Mechanical Constraints

        Justin C. W. Song, Rajeev Ahluwalia, 

                    Phys. Rev. B, 78, 064204 (2008).