Li-kun Shi (施李坤)

Li-kun Shi (施李坤)

Center for Quantum Matter — School of Physics — Zhejiang University

University Homepage CN / EN

likun.shi [at] zju [dot] edu [dot] cn

likun.shi [at] gmail [dot] com

(Photo from 2018; entropy has since increased.)

research interests:

main theme - measurable effects in open, non-equilibrium systems, and / or related to geometric phases

side dishes - popular topics; investigating puzzles

research articles (also see Google scholar or arXiv list):

[23] High-Temperature Quantum Oscillations of a Non-equilibrium Non-Fermi Liquid

Oles Matsyshyn, Li-kun Shi, Inti Sodemann Villadiego

Pre-print: arXiv:2512.21763

[22] Dissipation-Shaped Quantum Geometry in Nonlinear Transport

Zhichao Guo, Xing-Yuan Liu, Hua Wang, Li-kun Shi*, Kai Chang*

Pre-print: arXiv:2511.16422

[21] Algebraic Exact Solution for Driven Landau Levels in Two-dimensional Electron Gases

Li-kun Shi

Phys. Rev. B 112, 165108 (2025) [Open Access]

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

2D Mater. 8 035008 (2021)

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

2D Mater. 7, 015028 (2020).

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]

Sci. Adv. 5, eaax6550 (2019).

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

Phys. Rev. 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

Phys. Rev. B 87,161115(R) (2013)

Previous experience:
Postdoc in Inti Sodemann's group, MPIPKS Dresden & Institut für Theoretische Physik, Universität Leipzig (2020.10-2025.05)Postdoc in Justin Song's group, IHPC A*STAR & NTU (2016.09-2020.07)Postdoc in Prof. Chang-Pu Sun's group, Beijing Computational Science Research Center (2014.07-2016.07)Ph.D. supervised by Prof. Kai Chang, Institute of Semiconductors, CAS (2008.09-2014.07)B.Sc. Beijing Normal University (2004.09-2008.07)

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