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Ruixing Zhang

Principle Investigator

Ruixing is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Physics & Astronomy at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville. He is also a joint faculty in the Department of Materials Science & Engineering and an affiliated member of the Center for Advanced Materials and Manufacturing at UTK.

Before joining UTK on 08/2021, Ruixing was a Joint Quantum Institute Postdoctoral Fellow and a member of the Condensed Matter Theory Center at the University of Maryland since 09/2018. His postdoc advisor is Dr. Sankar Das Sarma. Ruixing obtained his Ph.D. in 2018 from the Department of Physics of Penn State, under the supervision of Dr. Chaoxing Liu.

Find more about Ruixing HERE.

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Songyang Pu

Postdoctoral Researcher (2023.10 - )

Songyang obtained his Ph.D. in theoretical condensed matter physics under the supervision of Prof. J. K. Jain from Pennsylvania State University in 2021 and worked with Prof. Zlatko Papic as a postdoc at the University of Leeds from 2021 to 2023. His past works were mainly in the field of fractional quantum Hall effect, while his research interest is broadly in understanding quantum matter with novel characters of topology, correlation, and geometry.

Find more about Songyang and his research HERE.

Yechen Xun

Graduate Student (2023 - )

Yechen received his bachelor's degree in physics at Jiangsu Normal University. After graduation, he studied for a Ph.D. degree at Westlake University and served as a research assistant at ShanghaiTech University before coming to UTK in 2023. His previous research focused on first-principle calculations and low-dimensional magnetic systems, and now he is interested in topological physics and correlated systems.

Zhuo Chen

Graduate Student (2023 - )

Zhuo Chen got his bachelor's degree in physics from Chongqing University. During his undergraduate studies, Zhuo was advised by Prof. Rui Wang on first-principles calculations of topological materials and conducted investigations into topological superconductors under the supervision of Prof. Donghui Xu. His current research interests lie in the realm of condensed matter, with a primary focus on exploring vortex Majorana physics in superconductors.

Yuchang Cai

Graduate Student (2023 - )

Yuchang graduated from the Southern University of Science and Technology in physics. Yuchang has done research in topological order as an undergraduate under the supervision of Prof. Weiqiang Chen. He is now interested in theoretical condensed matter with a focus on topological superconductivity.

Xiaoming Wang

Graduate Student (2024 - )

Xiaoming earned his bachelor's degree in materials science from Wuhan Institute of Technology and his master's degree in condensed matter physics from South China Normal University. His master's thesis focused on the topological phase of matter under the supervision of Prof. Tao Zhou. After graduation, he worked as a research assistant at Hong Kong Baptist University, where he began exploring topological phases in acoustic metamaterials under the supervision of Prof. Guancong Ma. He joined UTK in the Fall of 2024. His research interests primarily focus on the topological phase of matter, algebraic topology, and acoustic topological phase(Experiment).

Alumni

Lunhui Hu

Postdoctoral Associate (2022.01 - 2023.03)

Current Position: Assistant Professor @ Zhejiang University

Selected Publication @ UTK:

[1] L.-H. Hu, X. Wu, C.-X. Liu, R.-X. Zhang, “Competing Vortex Topologies in Iron-based Superconductors”, Phys. Rev. Lett. 129, 277001 (2022)

[2] L.-H. Hu, R.-X. Zhang, “Topological Superconducting Vortex From Trivial Electronic Bands”, Nature Communications 14, 640 (2023)

[3] L.-H. Hu, R.-X. Zhang, "Dislocation Majorana bound states in iron-based superconductors ", Nature Communications 15, 2337 (2024)

Aidan Burleson

Physics Master Student (2021 - 2023)

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