Center for Quantum Matter — School of Physics — Zhejiang University
likun.shi [at] zju [dot] edu [dot] cn
likun.shi [at] gmail [dot] com
(Photo was taken in 2018 and is not an accurate representation of the current product)
research interests:
main theme - measurable effects in open, non-equilibrium systems, and / or related to geometric phases
side dishes - popular topics; investigating puzzling experiments
research articles (also see Google scholar or arXiv list):
[21] Algebraic Exact Solution for Driven Landau Levels in Two-dimensional Electron Gases
Li-kun Shi
Pre-print: arXiv:2502.18010
[20] Ultracritical Floquet Non-Fermi Liquid
Li-kun Shi, Oles Matsyshyn, Justin C. W. Song, Inti Sodemann Villadiego
Phys. Rev. Lett. 134, 196401 (2025) [Open Access]
Pre-print: arXiv:2410.09145
[19] Floquet Fermi Liquid
Li-kun Shi, Oles Matsyshyn, Justin C. W. Song, Inti Sodemann Villadiego
Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 146402 (2024) [featured in Phys.org; reported by Leipzig University's News portal]
Pre-print: arXiv:2309.03268
[18] Fermi-Dirac staircase occupation of Floquet bands and current rectification inside the optical gap of metals: An exact approach
Oles Matsyshyn, Justin C. W. Song, Inti Sodemann Villadiego, Li-kun Shi*
Phys. Rev. B 107, 195135 (2023) [Editors' suggestion (5/100), Open Access]
Pre-print: arXiv:2301.00811
[17] Berry dipole photovoltaic demon and the thermodynamics of photo-current generation within the optical gap of metals
Li-kun Shi, Oles Matsyshyn, Justin C. W. Song, Inti Sodemann Villadiego
Phys. Rev. B 107, 125151 (2023) [Editors' suggestion (5/100), Open Access]
Pre-print: arXiv:2207.03496
[16] Polariton drag enabled quantum geometric photocurrents in high-symmetry materials
Ying Xiong, Li-kun Shi, Justin C. W. Song
Phys. Rev. B 106, 205423 (2022)
Pre-print: arXiv:2108.07823
[15] Geometric photon-drag effect and nonlinear shift current in centrosymmetric crystals
Li-kun Shi*, Dong Zhang, Kai Chang, Justin C. W. Song
Phys. Rev. Lett. 126, 197402 (2021) [Editors' suggestion (1/7), Open Access]
Pre-print: arXiv:2006.08358
[14] Atomic configuration controlled photocurrent in van der Waals heterostructures
Ying Xiong, Li-kun Shi, Justin C. W. Song
Pre-print: arXiv:2011.08864
[13] Cooperative orbital moments and edge magnetoresistance in monolayer WTe2
Arpit Arora, Li-kun Shi, Justin C. W. Song
Phys. Rev. B 102, 161402(R) (2020)
Pre-print: arXiv:2005.08986
[12] Shift vector as the geometric origin of beam shifts
Li-kun Shi, Justin C. W. Song
Phys. Rev. B 100, 201405(R) (2019)
Pre-print: arXiv:1907.12569
[11] Gate-tunable flat bands in van der Waals patterned dielectric superlattices
Li-kun Shi, Jing Ma, Justin C. W. Song
Pre-print: arXiv:1904.07877
[10] 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
[proposed the theory that explains the experimental data]
Pre-print: arXiv:1902.04264
[9] Fermi arc induced vortex structure in Weyl beam shifts
Udvas Chattopadhyay, Li-kun Shi, Balie Zhang, Justin C. W. Song, Yidong Chong
Phys. Rev. Lett. 122, 066602 (2019) [Editors' suggestion (1/7)]
Pre-print: arXiv:1809.03159
[8] Symmetry, spin-texture, and tunable quantum geometry in a WTe2 monolayer
Li-kun Shi, Justin C. W. Song
Phys. Rev. B 99, 035403 (2019)
Pre-print: arXiv:1805.00939
[7] Plasmon geometric phase and plasmon Hall shift
Li-kun Shi, Justin C. W. Song
Physical Review X 8, 021020 (2018) [featured in Physics News and Commentary]
Pre-print: arXiv:1710.07292
[6] 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
[5] Entangled Terahertz Photon Emission from Topological Insulator Quantum Dots
Li-kun Shi, Kai Chang, Chang-Pu Sun
Pre-print: arXiv:1601.04722
[4] Artificial Gauge Field and Topological Phase in a Conventional Two-dimensional Electron Gas with Antidot Lattices
Li-kun Shi, W. K. Lou, F. Cheng, Y. L. Zou, Wen Yang, Kai Chang
Scientific Reports 5, 15266 (2015)
[3] Light-induced exciton spin Hall effect in van der Waals heterostructures
Yun-Mei Li, Jian Li, Li-kun Shi, Dong Zhang, Wen Yang, Kai Chang
Phys. Rev. Lett. 115, 166804 (2015)
[2] Surface States of Bi2Se3 Nanowires in the Presence of Perpendicular Magnetic Fields
Li-kun Shi, W. K. Lou
Chinese Physics Letters 31, 067304 (2014) [public access]
[1] Anomalous electron trajectory in topological insulators
Li-kun Shi, Shou-cheng Zhang, Kai Chang