Publications

Selected Publications:

Book:


Tongcang Li,  Fundamental tests of physics with optically trapped microspheres (Springer Theses), Springer, New York (2013) (link; old version: pdf)

Preprints: 

79. Peng Ju, Stefan Püschel, Kunhong Shen, Yuanbin Jin, Hiroki Tanaka, Tongcang Li. "Purcell enhanced optical refrigeration." in preparation (2024)

78. Zhujing Xu, Peng Ju, Kunhong Shen, Yuanbin Jin, Zubin Jacob, Tongcang Li. "Observation of non-contact Casimir friction." arXiv:2403.06051 (2024)

77. Xingyu Gao, Sumukh Vaidya, Saakshi Dikshit, Peng Ju, Kunhong Shen, Yuanbin Jin, Shixiong Zhang, Tongcang Li. "Nanotube spin defects for omnidirectional magnetic field sensing." arXiv:2310.02709 (2023)

76. Yuanbin Jin, Kunhong Shen, Peng Ju, Xingyu Gao, Chong Zu, Alejandro J. Grine, Tongcang Li. "Quantum control and Berry phase of electron spins in rotating levitated diamonds in high vacuum." arXiv:2309.05821 (2023)

75. George Winstone, Mishkat Bhattacharya, Andrew A. Geraci, Tongcang Li, Peter J. Pauzauskie, Nick Vamivakas. "Levitated optomechanics: A tutorial and perspective." arXiv:2307.11858 (2023)

Journal Publications:

2024

74. Farhad Khosravi, Wenbo Sun, Chinmay Khandekar, Tongcang Li, Zubin Jacob. "Giant Enhancement of Vacuum Friction in Spinning YIG Nanospheres." New Journal of Physics, (2024). preprint: arXiv:2401.09563 

73. Ruotian Gong, Xinyi Du, Eli Janzen, Vincent Liu, Zhongyuan Liu, Guanghui He, Bingtian Ye, Tongcang Li, Norman Y Yao, James H Edgar, Erik A Henriksen, Chong Zu. "Isotope engineering for spin defects in van der Waals materials." Nature Communications 15, 104 (2024). preprint: arXiv:2307.06441

2023

72. Peng Ju, Yuanbin Jin, Kunhong Shen, Yao Duan, Zhujing Xu, Xingyu Gao, Xinjie Ni, Tongcang Li. "Near-field GHz rotation and sensing with an optically levitated nanodumbbell." Nano Letters 23, 10157 (2023). preprint: arXiv:2301.10868 

71. Xingyu Gao, Sumukh Vaidya, Peng Ju, Saakshi Dikshit, Kunhong Shen, Yong P. Chen, Tongcang Li. "Quantum sensing of paramagnetic spins in liquids with spin qubits in hexagonal boron nitride." ACS Photonics, 10, 2894 (2023). preprint: arXiv:2303.02326 (2023)

70. Ruotian Gong, Guanghui He, Xingyu Gao, Peng Ju, Zhongyuan Liu, Bingtian Ye, Erik A. Henriksen, Tongcang Li, Chong Zu. "Coherent dynamics of strongly interacting electronic spin defects in hexagonal boron nitride." Nature Communications 14, 3299 (2023). preprint: arXiv:2210.11485

69. Sumukh Vaidya, Xingyu Gao, Saakshi Dikshit, Igor Aharonovich, Tongcang Li. "Quantum sensing and imaging with spin defects in hexagonal boron nitride." Advances in Physics: X, 8, 2206049 (2023). preprint: arXiv:2302.11169

68. G. Volpe, O. M. Maragò, H. Rubinzstein-Dunlop, G. Pesce, A. B. Stilgoe, G. Volpe, G. Tkachenko, V. G. Truong, S. N. Chormaic, F. Kalantarifard, P. Elahi, M. Käll, A. Callegari, M. I. Marqués, A. A. R. Neves, W. L. Moreira, A. Fontes, C. L. Cesar, R. Saija, A. Saidi, P. Beck, J. S. Eismann, P. Banzer, T. F.D. Fernandes, F. Pedaci, W. P Bowen, R. Vaippully, M. Lokesh, B. Roy, G. Thalhammer, M. Ritsch-Marte, L. P. García, A. V. Arzola, I. P. Castillo, A. Argun, T. M. Muenker, B. E. Vos, T. Betz, I. Cristiani, P. Minzioni, P. J. Reece, F. Wang, D. McGloin, J. C. Ndukaife, R. Quidant, R. P. Roberts, C. Laplane, T. Volz, R. Gordon, D. Hanstorp, J. T. Marmolejo, G. D. Bruce, K. Dholakia, T. Li, O. Brzobohatý, S. H. Simpson, P. Zemánek, F. Ritort, Y. Roichman, V. Bobkova, R. Wittkowski, C. Denz, G.V. P. Kumar, A. Foti, M. G. Donato, P. G. Gucciardi, L. Gardini, G. Bianchi, A. Kashchuk, M. Capitanio, L. Paterson, P. H. Jones, K. Berg-Sørensen, Y. F. Barooji, L. B. Oddershede, P. Pouladian, D. Preece, C. B. Adiels, A. C. De Luca, A. Magazzù, D. B. Ciriza, M. A. Iatì, G. A. Swartzlander. "Roadmap for Optical Tweezers," J. Phys. Photonics 5, 022501 (2023).

67. Jiangwei Yan, Xudong Yu, Zheng V. Han, Tongcang Li, Jing Zhang. "On-demand assembly of optically-levitated nanoparticle arrays in vacuum," Photonics Research, 11, 600 (2023). preprint: arXiv:2207.03641

66. X. Xu, A. B. Solanki, D. Sychev, X. Gao, S. Peana, A. S. Baburin, K. Pagadala, Z. O. Martin, S. N. Chowdhury, Y. P. Chen, T. Taniguchi, K. Watanabe, I. A. Rodionov, A. Kildishev, Tongcang Li, P. Upadhyaya, A. Boltasseva, V. M. Shalaev. "Greatly Enhanced Emission from Spin Defects in Hexagonal Boron Nitride Enabled by A Low-Loss Plasmonic Nano-Cavity." Nano Letters 23, 25 (2023). preprint: arXiv:2207.08357 

2022

65. Kunhong Shen, Peng Ju, Zhujing Xu, Jonghoon Ahn, Tongcang Li, Yao Duan, Xi Chen, Lidan Zhang, and Xingjie Ni. "Optical Levitation with a Metalens." Optics & Photonics News. Special issue: Optics in 2022. Page 43 (December 2022) 

64. Zhujing Xu, Peng Ju, Xingyu Gao, Kunhong Shen, Zubin Jacob, Tongcang Li. "Observation and control of Casimir effects in a sphere-plate-sphere system." Nature Communications 13, 6148 (2022). preprint: arXiv:2202.12484

63. D. Curie, J. T. Krogel, L. Cavar, A. Solanki, P. Upadhyaya, Tongcang Li, Y.-Y. Pai, M. Chilcote, V. Iyer, A. Puretzky, I. Ivanov, M.-H. Du, F. Reboredo, Benjamin Lawrie. "Correlative nanoscale imaging of strained hBN spin defects." ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces, 14, 41361 (2022), arXiv:2203.10075

62. Xingyu Gao, Sumukh Vaidya, Kejun Li, Peng Ju, Boyang Jiang, Zhujing Xu, Andres E. Llacsahuanga Allcca, Kunhong Shen, Takashi Taniguchi, Kenji Watanabe, Sunil A. Bhave, Yong P. Chen, Yuan Ping, Tongcang Li. "Nuclear spin polarization and control in hexagonal boron nitride." Nature Materials 21, 1024 (2022), preprint: arXiv:2203.13184

61. Nikhil Mathur, Arunabh Mukherjee, Xingyu Gao, Jialun Luo, Brendan A. McCullian, Tongcang Li, A. Nick Vamivakas, Gregory D. Fuchs. "Excited-state spin-resonance spectroscopy of VB- defect centers in hexagonal boron nitride,"  Nature Communications, 13, 3233 (2022). preprint: arXiv:2111.10855

60. Zhengda Hu, Xingyu Gao, Tongcang Li. "Stability of the discrete time-crystalline order in spin-optomechanical and open cavity QED systems." Photonics, 9, 61 (2022) arXiv:2201.01568

59. Zhujing Xu, Xingyu Gao, Jaehoon Bang, Zubin Jacob, and Tongcang Li. "Non-reciprocal energy transfer through the Casimir effect," Nature Nanotechnology, 17, 148 (2022) arXiv:2102.12857.

2021

58. Yifan Wang, Chinmay Khandekar, Xingyu Gao, Tongcang Li, Dan Jiao, Zubin Jacob. "Broadband circularly polarized thermal radiation from magnetic Weyl semimetals," Optical Materials Express, 11, 3880 (2021) arXiv:2107.09185

57. Kunhong Shen, Yao Duan, Peng Ju, Zhujing Xu, Xi Chen, Lidan Zhang, Jonghoon Ahn, Xingjie Ni, Tongcang Li. "On-chip optical levitation with a metalens in vacuum," Optica, 8, 1359 (2021) arXiv:2107.09659

56. Xingyu Gao, Boyang Jiang, Andres E. Llacsahuanga Allcca, Kunhong Shen, Mohammad A. Sadi, Abhishek B. Solanki, Peng Ju, Zhujing Xu, Pramey Upadhyaya, Yong P. Chen, Sunil A. Bhave, Tongcang Li. "High-contrast plasmonic-enhanced shallow spin defects in hexagonal boron nitride for quantum sensing," Nano Letters, 21, 7708 (2021) arXiv:2106.13915.

55. Xingyu Gao, Siddhant Pandey, Mehran Kianinia, Jonghoon Ahn, Peng Ju, Igor Aharonovich, Niranjan Shivaram, Tongcang Li. "Femtosecond Laser Writing of Spin Defects in Hexagonal Boron Nitride," ACS Photonics, 8, 994 (2021). arXiv:2012.03207


54. Xingyu Gao, Chinmay Khandekar, Zubin Jacob, Tongcang Li. "Thermal equilibrium spin torque: Near-field radiative angular momentum transfer in magneto-optical media", Physical Review B, 103, 125424 (2021). arXiv:2012.03193


53. D. Carney, G. Krnjaic, D. C. Moore, C. A. Regal, G. Afek, S. Bhave, B. Brubaker, T. Corbitt, J. Cripe, N. Crisosto, A. Geraci, S. Ghosh, J. G. E. Harris, A. Hook, E. W. Kolb, J. Kunjummen, R. F. Lang, T. Li, T. Lin, Z. Liu, J. Lykken, L. Magrini, J. Manley, N. Matsumoto, A. Monte, F. Monteiro, T. Purdy, C. J. Riedel, R. Singh, S. Singh, K. Sinha, J. M. Taylor, J. Qin, D. J. Wilson, Y. Zhao. "Mechanical Quantum Sensing in the Search for Dark Matter". Quantum Science and Technology, 6, 024002 (2021). arXiv:2008.06074 


52. Zhujing Xu, Zubin Jacob, Tongcang Li. "Enhancement of rotational vacuum friction by surface photon tunneling," Nanophotonics, 10, 537-543 (2021)

2020


51. T. Seberson, Peng Ju, Jonghoon Ahn, Jaehoon Bang, Tongcang Li, F. Robicheaux. "Simulation of sympathetic cooling an optically levitated magnetic nanoparticle via coupling to a cold atomic gas," J. Opt. Soc. Am. B, 37, 3714-3720 (2020). arXiv:1910.05371


50. Jaehoon Bang, Troy Seberson, Peng Ju, Jonghoon Ahn, Zhujing Xu, Xingyu Gao, Francis Robicheaux, and Tongcang Li. "Five-dimensional cooling and nonlinear dynamics of an optically levitated nanodumbbell," Phys. Rev. Research, 2, 043054 (2020)  arXiv:2004.02384


49. Xingyu Gao, Zhang-qi Yin, Tongcang Li. "High-speed quantum transducer with a single-photon emitter in a 2D resonator," Annalen der Physik, 532, 2000233, (2020). arXiv:1712.09245 


48. Yi Huang, Qihao Guo, Anda Xiong, Tongcang Li, Zhang-qi Yin. "Classical and quantum time crystals in a levitated nanoparticle without drive," Phys. Rev. A. 102, 023113 (2020). arXiv:2001.10187


47. Bo Li, Xiaoxiao Li, Pengbo Li, Tongcang Li. "Preparing squeezed spin states in a spin-mechanical hybrid system with silicon-vacancy centers," Advanced Quantum Technologies, 3, 2000034 (2020). arXiv:1910.05507


46. Li-Ping Yang, Chinmay Khandekar, Tongcang Li, and Zubin Jacob. "Single-Photon Pulse Induced Transient Entanglement Force." New Journal of Physics, 22, 023037 (2020). arXiv:1904.02796


45. Jonghoon Ahn, Zhujing Xu, Jaehoon Bang, Peng Ju, Xingyu Gao, Tongcang Li. "Ultrasensitive torque detection with an optically levitated nanorotor." Nature Nanotechnology, 15, 89 (2020)  arXiv:1908.03453 


44. Shengyan Liu, Zhang-qi Yin, and Tongcang Li. "Prethermalization and nonreciprocal phonon transport in a levitated optomechanical array," Advanced Quantum Technologies, 3, 1900099 (2020) arXiv:1810.00163 


43. S. An, K. F. Ziegler, P. Zhang, Y. Wang, T. Kwok, F. Xu, C. Bi, S. Matosevic, P. Yin, Tongcang Li, Fang Huang. "Axial plane single-molecule super-resolution microscopy of whole cells," Biomedical Optics Express, 11, 461 (2020)

2019

42. Zhujing Xu, Zhang-qi Yin, Qinkai Han, Tongcang Li. "Quantum information processing with closely-spaced diamond color centers in strain and magnetic fields [Invited]." Optical Materials Express, 9, 4654 (2019). arXiv:1909.11775

41. Ryan Starko-Bowes, Xueji Wang, Zhujing Xu, Sandipan Pramanik, Na Lu, Tongcang Li, Zubin Jacob. "High Temperature Polaritons in Ceramic Nanotube Antennas." Nano Letters, 19, 8565 (2019) (Supplementary Cover Story)

40. Tongcang Li. "Nanoparticles Get Cool by Light Scattering," Physics 12, 34 (2019)

39. Xing-Yan Chen, Tongcang Li, Zhang-qi Yin. "Nonadiabatic dynamics and geometric phase of an ultrafast rotating electron spin," Science Bulletin, 64, 380 (2019). arXiv:1811.01641

2018

38. Rui Pan, Thai M. Hoang, Zhaoyu Fei, Tian Qiu, Jonghoon Ahn, Tongcang Li, H. T. Quan. "Quantifying the validity and breakdown of the overdamped approximation in stochastic thermodynamics: Theory and experiment," Phys. Rev. E. 98, 052105 (2018). arXiv:1805.09080 

37. Jaehoon Bang, Rui Pan, Thai M. Hoang, Jonghoon Ahn, Christopher Jarzynski, H. T. Quan, Tongcang Li. "Experimental realization of Feynman’s ratchet," New Journal of Physics 20, 103032 (2018) . Preprint: arXiv:1711.04968. (highlighted by Physics World.)

36. Jonghoon Ahn, Zhujing Xu, Jaehoon Bang, Andres E. Llacsahuanga Allcca, Yong P. Chen, and Tongcang Li. "Stable emission and fast optical modulation of quantum emitters in boron nitride nanotubes," Optics Letters, 43, 3778 (2018). Preprint: arXiv:1806.06146 

35. Jonghoon Ahn, Zhujing Xu, Jaehoon Bang, Yu-Hao Deng, Thai M. Hoang, Qinkai Han, Ren-Min Ma, Tongcang Li. "Optically Levitated Nanodumbbell Torsion Balance and GHz Nanomechanical Rotor," Phys. Rev. Lett., 121, 033603 (2018). (Widely reported by Nature magazine, APS website Physics, NBC News, Fox News, Yahoo! News, and many other major media.). Preprint: arXiv:1804.06570 

34. Thai M. Hoang, Rui Pan, Jonghoon Ahn, Jaehoon Bang, H. T. Quan, Tongcang Li. "Experimental test of the differential fluctuation theorem and a generalized Jarzynski equality for arbitrary initial states," Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 080602 (2018) (Featured in APS website Physics; PRL Editors' Suggestion). Preprint: arXiv:1706.09587 

33. Yi Huang, Tongcang Li, Zhang-qi Yin. "Symmetry-breaking dynamics of the finite-size Lipkin-Meshkov-Glick model near ground state," Phys. Rev. A, 97, 012115 (2018). Preprint: arXiv:1709.07657 

2017

32. Zhujing Xu, Tongcang Li. "Detecting Casimir torque with an optically levitated nanorod," Phys. Rev. A, 96, 033843 (2017) Preprint: arXiv:1704.08770 (2017)

31. Yue Ma, Thai M. Hoang, Ming Gong, Tongcang Li, and Zhang-qi Yin. “Proposal for quantum many-body simulation and torsional matter-wave interferometry with a levitated nanodiamond,” Phys. Rev. A, 96, 023827 (2017) Preprint: arXiv:1611.05599 

30. Shengyan Liu, Tongcang Li, and Zhang-qi Yin. "Coupling librational and translational motion of a levitated nanoparticle in an optical cavity," J. Opt. Soc. Am. B 34, C8-C13 (2017), Preprint: arXiv:1703.08645

29. Peng Zhang, Daniel Gallardo, Sheng Liu, Yuanmei Gao, Tongcang Li, Yuan Wang, Zhigang Chen, and Xiang Zhang. "Vortex degeneracy lifting and Aharonov-Bohm-like interference in deformed photonic graphene," Optics Letters 42, 915-918 (2017)  

28. Hao-Kun Li, Erik Urban, Crystal Noel, Alexander Chuang, Yang Xia, Anthony Ransford, Boerge Hemmerling, Yuan Wang, Tongcang Li, Hartmut Häffner, and Xiang Zhang. "Realization of Translational Symmetry in Trapped Cold Ion Rings," Phys. Rev. Lett. 118, 053001 (2017).  (PRL Editors' Suggestion)   Preprint: arXiv:1605.02143 

27. Zhang-qi Yin, Tongcang Li. "Bringing quantum mechanics to life: from Schrödinger's cat to Schrödinger's microbe," Contemporary Physics, 58, 119–139 (2017)  (invited review article) DOI:10.1080/00107514.2016.1261860 Preprint: arXiv:1608.05322

2016

26. Thai M. Hoang, Yue Ma, Jonghoon Ahn, Jaehoon Bang, F. Robicheaux, Zhang-Qi Yin, Tongcang Li. "Torsional optomechanics of a levitated nonspherical nanoparticle," Phys. Rev. Lett. 117, 123604 (2016) (Featured in APS website Physics, PRL Editors' Suggestion) Preprint: arXiv:1605.03990

25. Thai M. Hoang, Jonghoon Ahn, Jaehoon Bang, Tongcang Li. "Electron spin control of optically levitated nanodiamonds in vacuum," Nature Communications 7, 12550 (2016) Preprint: arXiv:1510.06715

24. Tongcang Li, Zhang-Qi Yin. "Quantum superposition, entanglement, and state teleportation of a microorganism on an electromechanical oscillator," Science Bulletin, 61:163–171 (2016). (pdf) Preprint: arXiv:1509.03763 (This paper was also widely reported by Physics World, The Guardian, Phys.org, Daily Mail, Popular Science, International Business Times, etc.)

2015

23. Po-Jen Wang, Tongcang Li, Crystal Noel, Xiang Zhang, and Hartmut Häffner. "Surface traps for freely rotating ion ring crystals," J. Phys. B: At. Mol. Opt. Phys. 48,205002 (2015).   arXiv:1412.3551

22. Zhangqi Yin, Nan Zhao, Tongcang Li. "Hybrid opto-mechanical systems with nitrogen-vacancy centers," (invited review paper) , Sci. China-Phys. Mech. Astron., 58, 050303 (2015), arXiv:1501.00636

21. Mark G. Raizen, Tongcang Li. "The measurement Einstein deemed impossible," Physics Today, 68(1), 56 (2015). (pdf) (link)  

2014

20. Tongcang Li*, Sadao Ota*, Jeongmin Kim, Zi Jing Wong, Yuan Wang, Xiaobo Yin, and Xiang Zhang. "Axial Plane Optical Microscopy," Scientific Reports, 4, 7253 (2014)  (* coleading authors)

19. Peng Zhang*, Tongcang Li*, Jie Zhu*, Xuefeng Zhu, Sui Yang, Yuan Wang, Xiaobo Yin, and Xiang Zhang. "Generation of acoustic self-bending and bottle beams by phase engineering," Nature Communications, 5, 4316 (2014) (* coleading authors) 

18. Sadao Ota, Tongcang Li, Yimin Li, Ziliang Ye, Anna Labno, Xiaobo Yin, Mohammad-Reza Alam, and Xiang Zhang, "Brownian motion of tethered nanowires," Phys. Rev. E, 89, 053010 (2014) 

17. Jeongmin Kim, Tongcang Li, Yuan Wang, and Xiang Zhang, "Vectorial point spread function and optical transfer function in oblique plane imaging," Optics Express, 22, 11140 (2014)

16. Simon Kheifets, Akarsh Simha, Kevin Melin, Tongcang Li, Mark G. Raizen. "Observation of Brownian motion in liquids at short times: instantaneous velocity and memory loss," Science, 343, 1493 (2014)  

Before 2014

15. Zhang-qi Yin, Andrew A. Geraci, Tongcang Li. "Optomechanics of Levitated Dielectric Particles," (invited review paper) Int. J. Mod. Phys. B,  27, 1330018 (2013)  arXiv:1308.4503 

14. Zhang-qi Yin, Tongcang Li, Xiang Zhang, and L. M. Duan, "Large quantum superpositions of a levitated nanodiamond through spin-optomechanical coupling," Phys. Rev. A,  88, 033614 (2013) (arXiv:1305.1701)  

13. Tongcang Li, and Mark G. Raizen, "Brownian motion at short time scales," (invited review paper) Ann. Phys. (Berlin), 525, 281 (2013). 

12. Jérôme Duplat, Simon Kheifets, Tongcang Li, Mark G. Raizen, and Emmanuel Villermaux, "Superdiffusive trajectories in Brownian motion," Phys. Rev. E, 87, 020105 (Rapid Com.) (2013)

11. Peng Zhang, Yi Hu, Tongcang Li, Drake Cannan, Xiaobo Yin, Roberto Morandotti, Zhigang Chen, Xiang Zhang. "Nonparaxial Mathieu and Weber accelerating beams." Phys. Rev. Lett. 109, 193901 (2012) (pdf) (arXiv:1210.6302) (Cover of PRL, Editors' suggestion)  This paper was selected as a Research highlight by Nature Photonics

10. Tongcang Li, Zhe-Xuan Gong, Zhang-Qi Yin, H. T. Quan, Xiaobo Yin, Peng Zhang, L.-M. Duan, Xiang Zhang, "Space-time crystals of trapped ions," Phys. Rev. Lett., 109, 163001 (2012) (pdf) (arXiv:1206.4772) (Reply to comment) (Cover of PRL, Editors' suggestion, selected for a Viewpoint in Physics) This paper was reported as "Research Highlights" in the 1 Nov. 2012 issue of Nature: "Building a space-time crystal", Nature, 491, 11 (2012) 

9. Peng Zhang, Yi Hu, Drake Cannan, Alessandro Salandrino, Tongcang Li, Roberto Morandotti, Xiang Zhang, and Zhigang Chen, "Generation of linear and nonlinear nonparaxial accelerating beams," Optics Letters, 37, 2820 (2012) (link)

8. Tongcang Li, Simon Kheifets, Mark G. Raizen. "Millikelvin cooling of an optically trapped microsphere in vacuum," Nature Phys. 7, 527 (2011) (pdf)  (link) (arXiv) 

7. Zhang-qi Yin, Tongcang Li, M. Feng. "Three dimensional cooling and detection of a nanosphere with a single cavity," Phys. Rev. A, 83, 013816 (2011) (link) 

6. Tongcang Li, Simon Kheifets, David Medellin, Mark G. Raizen. "Measurement of the instantaneous velocity of a Brownian particle." Science, 328, 1673 (2010) (pdf) (link) (citations) (This paper was reported as "Research Highlights" in the 27 May 2010 issue of Nature: "Double checking Einstein", Nature, 465, 401 (2010))

5. T. C. Li, H. Kelkar, D. Medellin, and M. G. Raizen. "Real-time control of the periodicity of a standing wave: an optical accordion." Opt. Express, 16, 5465-5470 (2008) (This paper was reported as "Research Highlights" in the June 2008 issue of Nature Photonics: "Optical lattices: squeezed light", Nature photon., 2, 330 (2008))

4.T. C. Li, and Shao-Ping Lu. "Quantum conductance of graphene nanoribbons with edge defects." Phys. Rev. B, 77, 085408 (2008) (citations)  

3. K. Henderson, H. Kelkar, T. C. Li, B. Gutierrez-Medina, and M. G. Raizen. "A Bose-Einstein condensate driven by a kicked rotor in a finite box." Europhys. Lett. 75, 392 (2006) 

2. K. Henderson, H. Kelkar, B. Gutierrez-Medina, T. C. Li, and M. G. Raizen. "Experimental Study of the Role of Atomic Interactions on Quantum Transport." Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 150401 (2006) 

1.  Tongcang Li, Zhijing Liu, and Keyi Wang, "Calculations of the spin-polarization of the electronic current injected from a ferromagnetic metal into a semiconductor," Acta Physica Sinica, 52(11), 2912 (2003) 

Patents:

1. "Multiplane optical microscope."  Tongcang Li, Sadao Ota,  Jeongmin Kim, Yuan Wang, Xiang Zhang. U.S. Patent No. 9823457 (Issue Date: 21-Nov-2017).

2. "Sensors and methods of identifying a gas, and levitated spin-optomechanical systems." Tongcang Li, Thai Hoang, Jonghoon Ahn, Jaehoon Bang. U.S.  Patent number: 10690604 (Issue Date: June 23, 2020)

Dissertations: 

Zhujing Xu, "Optomechanics with quantum vacuum fluctuations", Purdue University, 08/2022

Jonghoon Ahn, "Spin Optomechanics of Levitated Nanoparticles", Purdue University, 08/2020

Jaehoon Bang, "Feedback Control of Optically Trapped Nanoparticles and its Applications", Purdue University, 05/2020