Publications

Quantum Matter and Devices

2025 - 2026

Shuai Zhang, Yanyu Jia, Atanu Samanta, Yutian Bao, Haosen Guan, Zhaoyi Joy Zheng, Guangming Cheng, Ting Liu, Cangyu Qu, Kenji Watanabe, Takashi Taniguchi, Nan Yao, Ashlie Martini, Leslie Schoop, Andrew M. Rappe, Sanfeng Wu#, Robert W. Carpick#, Mechanochemical Nano-Writing of an Atomically Thin Metal arXiv:2606.03710 (2026)

Ayelet J. Uzan-Narovlansky, Ipsita Das, Juan F. Mendez Valderrama, Yue Tang, Jonah Herzog-Arbeitman, Haoyu Hu, Pengjie Wang, Zhaoyi Joy Zheng, Haosen Guan, Kenji Watanabe, Takashi Taniguchi, B. Andrei Bernevig, Sanfeng Wu, Resonant Far-Infrared Spectroscopy of Flat-Band Fermions in Magic Angle Graphene, arXiv:2608.12553 (2026)

Lihan Shi, Zhaoyi Joy Zheng, Xinzhe Juan, Yimin Wang, Ming Yin, Mayank Sengupta, Kristina Wolinski, Yanyu Jia, Jingzhi Shi, Derek Saucedo, Neill Saggi, Haosen Guan, Kenji Watanabe, Takashi Taniguchi, Ali Yazdani, Mengdi Wang, Sanfeng Wu, Qumus: Realization of An Embodied AI Quantum Material Experimentalist, arXiv:2605.18407 (2026) Qumus.ai

Kelsey Fu, Luna Lyu, Shuzhen Li, Suozhi Huang, Suheng Xu, Joy Zheng, Xuefeng Liu, Shilong Liu, Greg Barbone, Ying Liu, Linxi Jim Fan, Yuke Zhu, Matthew Davis, Kaiyi Jiang, Sherry Yang, Xu Kuang,..., Zhenan Bao, Pietro Perona, Sanfeng Wu, Clifford Brangwynne, Le Cong, Mengdi Wang, Agentic Laboratories of the Future: Towards World Models for Scientific Discovery, preprints202608.0213.v1 (2026) Preprints.org Link

Le Cong, David Smerkous, Xiaotong Wang, Di Yin, Zaixi Zhang, Ruofan Jin, Yinkai Wang, Michal Gerasimiuk, Ravi K. Dinesh, Alex Smerkous, Lihan Shi, Joy Zheng, Ian Lam, Xuekun Wu, Shilong Liu, Peishan Li, Yi Zhu, Ning Zhao, Meenal Parakh, Simran Serrao, Imran A. Mohammad, Chao-Yeh Chen, Xiufeng Xie, Tiffany Chen, David Weinstein, Greg Barbone, Belgin Caglar, John B. Sunwoo, Fuxin Li, Jia Deng, Joseph C. Wu, Sanfeng Wu, Mengdi Wang, LabOS: The AI-XR Co-Scientist That Sees and Works With Humans arXiv:2510.14861v2 (2025)

Jiahao Qiu, Jingzhe Shi, Xinzhe Juan, Zelin Zhao, Jiayi Geng, Shilong Liu, Hongru Wang, Sanfeng Wu, Mengdi Wang, Physics Supernova: AI Agent Matches Elite Gold Medalists at IPhO 2025, arXiv:2509.01659, NeurIPS 2025

Danrui Ni, Xianghan Xu, Stephen Zhang, N.P. Ong, Sanfeng Wu, R. J. Cava, Crystal structure and basic properties of dirhenate quantum materials arXiv:2607.02848 (2026)

Zhaoyi Joy Zheng, Haosen Guan, Danrui Ni, Guangming Cheng, Yanyu Jia, Ipsita Das, Yue Tang, Ayelet July Uzan-Narovlansky, Lihan Shi, Kenji Watanabe, Takashi Taniguchi, Nan Yao, Robert J Cava, Sanfeng Wu, van der Waals Nanoreactors, arXiv:2512.11991 (2025) Nano Lett.26 (5): 1920–1926 (2026) Link

Yue Tang, Tiancheng Song, Haosen Guan, Yanyu Jia, Guo Yu, Zhaoyi Joy Zheng, Ayelet J. Uzan, Michael Onyszczak, Ratnadwip Singha, Xin Gui, Kenji Watanabe, Takashi Taniguchi, Robert J. Cava, Leslie M. Schoop, N. P. Ong, Sanfeng Wu, Large Thermopower with Sign-Alternating Quantum Oscillations in Insulating Monolayer WTe2 arXiv:2405.09665 (2024)

Tiancheng Song, Yanyu Jia, Guo Yu, Yue Tang, Ayelet J. Uzan, Zhaoyi Joy Zheng, Haosen Guan, Michael Onyszczak, Ratnadwip Singha, Xin Gui, Kenji Watanabe, Takashi Taniguchi, Robert J. Cava, Leslie M. Schoop, N. P. Ong, Sanfeng Wu, Unconventional Superconducting Phase Diagram of Monolayer WTe2 arXiv:2501.16699 (2025) Phys. Rev. Research 7, 013224 (2025) Link

2024

Sanfeng Wu, Leslie M. Schoop, Inti Sodemann, Roderich Moessner, Robert J. Cava & N. P. Ong, Charge-neutral electronic excitations in quantum insulators Nature 635, 301–310 (2024) Link

Yanyu Jia, Tiancheng Song, Zhaoyi Joy Zheng, Guangming Cheng, Ayelet J Uzan, Guo Yu, Yue Tang, Connor J. Pollak, Fang Yuan, Michael Onyszczak, Kenji Watanabe, Takashi Taniguchi, Shiming Lei, Nan Yao, Leslie M Schoop, N. P. Ong, Sanfeng Wu, Anomalous Superconductivity in Twisted MoTe2 Nanojunctions arXiv:2409.04594 (2024) Science Advances 11, eadq5712 (2025) Link

Sanfeng Wu, The Detection of Unconventional Quantum Oscillations in Insulating 2D Materials arXiv:2405.09666 2D Materials 11 033004 (2024) Link

Yanyu Jia, Guo Yu, Tiancheng Song, Fang Yuan, Ayelet J Uzan, Yue Tang, Pengjie Wang, Ratnadwip Singha, Michael Onyszczak, Zhaoyi Joy Zheng, Kenji Watanabe, Takashi Taniguchi, Leslie M Schoop, Sanfeng Wu Superconductivity from On-Chip Metallization on 2D Topological Chalcogenides arXiv:2403.19877 (2024) Phys. Rev. X 14, 021051 (2024) Link

Tiancheng Song, Yanyu Jia, Guo Yu, Yue Tang, Pengjie Wang, Ratnadwip Singha, Xin Gui, Ayelet J. Uzan, Michael Onyszczak, Kenji Watanabe, Takashi Taniguchi, Robert J. Cava, Leslie M. Schoop, N. P. Ong, Sanfeng Wu Unconventional Superconducting Quantum Criticality in Monolayer WTe2 arXiv:2303.06540 (2023) Nature Physics 20, 269–274 (2024) Link

2023

Yanyu Jia*, Fang Yuan*, Guangming Cheng, Yue Tang, Guo Yu, Tiancheng Song, Pengjie Wang, Ratnadwip Singha, Ayelet July Uzan, Michael Onyszczak, Kenji Watanabe, Takashi Taniguchi, Nan Yao, Leslie M Schoop, Sanfeng Wu Surface-Confined Two-Dimensional Mass Transport and Crystal Growth on Monolayer Materials arXiv:2307.06477 (2023) Nature Synthesis 3, 386–393 (2023) Link

Guo Yu*, Pengjie Wang*, Ayelet J. Uzan, Yanyu Jia, Michael Onyszczak, Ratnadwip Singha, Xin Gui, Tiancheng Song, Yue Tang, Kenji Watanabe, Takashi Taniguchi, Robert J. Cava, Leslie M. Schoop, Sanfeng Wu Evidence for Two Dimensional Anisotropic Luttinger Liquids at Millikelvin Temperatures arXiv:2307.15881 Nature Communications 14, 7025 (2023) Link

Michael Onyszczak*, Ayelet J. Uzan*, Yue Tang*, Pengjie Wang*, Yanyu Jia, Guo Yu, Tiancheng Song, Ratnadwip Singha, Jason F. Khoury, Leslie M. Schoop, Sanfeng Wu A Platform for Far-Infrared Spectroscopy of Quantum Materials at Millikelvin Temperatures arXiv:2308.00610 Review of Scientific Instruments 94, 103903 (2023) Link

Fang Yuan*, Yanyu Jia*, Guangming Cheng, Ratnadwip Singha, Shiming Lei, Nan Yao, Sanfeng Wu, and Leslie M. Schoop Atomic Resolution Imaging of Highly Air-Sensitive Monolayer and Twisted-Bilayer WTe2 Nano Lett. 23, 6868−6874 (2023) Link

Xiaoyu Song*, Brianna Hoff*, Ratnadwip Singha, Joseph W. Stiles, Grigorii Skorupskii, Jason F. Khoury, Guangming Cheng, Franziska Kamm, Ayelet J. Uzan, Stephanie Dulovic, Sanfeng Wu, Florian Pielnhofer, Nan Yao, and Leslie M. Schoop, Acid-Assisted Soft Chemical Route for Preparing High-Quality Superconducting 2M-WS2 Chem. Mater. 35, 5487−5496 (2023) Link

Yu-Chuan Lin, Riccardo Torsi, Rehan Younas, Christopher L. Hinkle, Albert F. Rigosi, ..., Jiang-Xiazi Lin, Mathias S. Scheurer, Jia Li, Pengjie Wang, Guo Yu, Sanfeng Wu, Deji Akinwande, Joan M. Redwing, Mauricio Terrones, and Joshua A. Robinson Recent Advances in 2D Material Theory, Synthesis, Properties, and Applications ACS Nano 17, 9694–9747 (2023) Link

2022

Pengjie Wang*, Guo Yu*, Yves H. Kwan*, Yanyu Jia, Shiming Lei, Sebastian Klemenz, F. Alexandre Cevallos, Ratnadwip Singha, Trithep Devakul, Kenji Watanabe, Takashi Taniguchi, Shivaji L. Sondhi, Robert J. Cava, Leslie M. Schoop, Siddharth A. Parameswaran, Sanfeng Wu One-Dimensional Luttinger Liquids in a Two-Dimensional Moiré Lattice arXiv:2109.04637 Nature 605, 57–62 (2022) Link

Yanyu Jia*, Pengjie Wang*, Cheng-Li Chiu*, Zhida Song, Guo Yu, Berthold Jäck, Shiming Lei, Sebastian Klemenz, F. Alexandre Cevallos, Michael Onyszczak, Nadezhda Fishchenko, Xiaomeng Liu, Gelareh Farahi, Fang Xie, Yuanfeng Xu, Kenji Watanabe, Takashi Taniguchi, B. Andrei Bernevig, Robert J. Cava, Leslie M. Schoop, Ali Yazdani, Sanfeng Wu Evidence for a Monolayer Excitonic Insulator arXiv:2010.05390 Nature Physics 18, 87–93 (2022) Link

2021

Pengjie Wang*, Guo Yu*, Yanyu Jia*, Michael Onyszczak, F. Alexandre Cevallos, Shiming Lei, Sebastian Klemenz, Kenji Watanabe, Takashi Taniguchi, Robert J. Cava, Leslie M. Schoop, Sanfeng Wu Landau Quantization and Highly Mobile Fermions in an Insulator arXiv:2010.05383 Nature 589, 225–229 (2021) Link

2019 - 2020

S. Lei, J. Lin, Y. Jia, M. Gray, A. Topp, G. Farahi, S. Klemenz, F. Rodolakis, J. L. McChesney, C. R. Ast, A. Yazdani, K. S. Burch, S. Wu, N. P. Ong, L. M. Schoop, High mobility in a van der Waals layered antiferromagnetic metal, Science Advances. 6, eaay6407 (2020)

Bingnan Han, Yuxuan Lin, Yafang Yang, Nannan Mao, Wenyue Li, Haozhe Wang, Valla Fatemi, Lin Zhou, Joel I-Jan Wang, Qiong Ma, Yuan Cao, Daniel Rodan-Legrain, Ya-Qing Bie, Efrén Navarro-Moratalla, Dahlia Klein, David MacNeill, Sanfeng Wu, Wei Sun Leong, Hikari Kitadai, Xi Ling, Pablo Jarillo-Herrero, Tomás Palacios, Jihao Yin, Jing Kong, Deep-Learning-Enabled Fast Optical Identification and Characterization of 2D Materials Advanced Materials 2000953 (2020)

Q Ma*, S-Y Xu*, H Shen*, D Macneill, V Fatemi, T-R Chang, A M. M Valdivia, S Wu, Z Du, C-H Hsu, S Fang, Q D Gibson, K Watanabe, T Taniguchi, R J Cava, E Kaxiras, H-Z Lu, H Lin, L Fu , N Gedik and P Jarillo-Herrero Observation of the nonlinear Hall effect under time reversal symmetric conditions, Nature 565, 337–342 (2019)

Junchao Ma, Ke Deng, Lu Zheng, Sanfeng Wu, Zheng Liu, Shuyun Zhou, Dong Sun, Experimental progress on layered topological semimetals, 2D Materials 6, 032001 (2019)

Before 2019

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Valla Fatemi*, Sanfeng Wu*,#, Yuan Cao, L. Bretheau, Q. Gibson, K. Watanabe, T. Taniguchi, R. Cava, and Pablo Jarillo-Herrero#, Electrically Tunable Low Density Superconductivity in a Monolayer Topological Insulator, Science 362, 926–929 (2018)

Su-Yang Xu*, Qiong Ma*, Huitao Shen, Valla Fatemi, Sanfeng Wu, T.-R. Chang, G. Chang, A. Mier Valdivia, C.-K. Chan, Q. Gibson, K. Watanabe, T. Taniguchi, H. Lin, R. Cava, L. Fu, N. Gedik and P. Jarillo-Herrero, Electrically switchable Berry curvature dipole in the monolayer topological insulator WTe2, Nature Physics 14, pages 900–906 (2018)

Sanfeng Wu*,#, Valla Fatemi*,#, Quinn Gibson, Kenji Watanabe, Takashi Taniguchi, Robert Cava, and Pablo Jarillo-Herrero#, Observation of the Quantum Spin Hall Effect up to 100 Kelvin in a Monolayer Crystal, Science 359 (6371),76-79 (2018)

Zaiyao Fei, Tauno Palomaki, Sanfeng Wu, Wenjin Zhao, Xinghan Cai, Bosong Sun, Paul Nguyen, Joseph Finney, Xiaodong Xu, David H Cobden, Edge Conduction in Monolayer WTe2, Nature Physics doi:10.1038/nphys4091 (2017)

Chang-Hua Liu, Genevieve Clark, Taylor Fryett, Sanfeng Wu, Jiajiu Zheng, Fariba Hatami, Xiaodong Xu, Arka Majumdar Nanocavity Integrated van der Waals Heterostructure Light-Emitting Tunneling Diode Nano Letters, 17 (1), pp 200–205 (2017)

G. Aivazian, H. Yu, S. Wu, J. Yan, D. Mandrus, D. Cobden, W. Yao, X. Xu, Many-body effects in nonlinear optical responses of 2D layered semiconductors 2D Materials 4, 025024 (2017)

H. Yuan, Z. Liu, G. Xu, B. Zhou, Sanfeng Wu, D. Dumcenco, K. Yan, Y. Zhang, S. Mo, P. Dudin, V. Kandyba, M. Yablonskikh, A. Barinov, Z. Shen, S. Zhang, Y. Huang, X. Xu, Z. Hussain, H. Hwang, Y. Cui, Y. Chen, Evolution of the Valley Position in Bulk Transition-Metal Chalcogenides and Their Monolayer Limit, Nano Letters 16 (8), 4738-4745 (2016)

Ana M Sanchez, Jonathan JP Peters, Sanfeng Wu, Chunming Huang, David Cobden, Xiaodong Xu, Richard Bean, On the vertical stacking in semiconducting WSe2 bilayers, Materials Science and Technology, 32 (3), 226-231 (2016)

Sanfeng Wu#, Lei Wang, You Lai, Wen-Yu Shan, Grant Aivazian, Xian Zhang, Takashi Taniguchi, Kenji Watanabe, Di Xiao, Cory Dean, James Hone, Zhiqiang Li#, Xiaodong Xu#, Multiple hot-carrier collection in photo-excited graphene Moiré superlattices, Science Advances 2, e1600002 (2016)

Sanfeng Wu, Sonia Buckley, John R Schaibley, Liefeng Feng, Jiaqiang Yan, David G Mandrus, Fariba Hatami, Wang Yao, Jelena Vučković, Arka Majumdar, Xiaodong Xu, Monolayer semiconductor nanocavity lasers with ultralow thresholds Nature 520 (7545), 69-72 (2015)

Kyle Seyler, John Schaibley, Pu Gong, Pasqual Rivera, Aaron Jones, Sanfeng Wu, Jiaqiang Yan, David Mandrus, Wang Yao, Xiaodong Xu, Electrical control of second-harmonic generation in a WSe2 monolayer transistor, Nature Nanotechnology 10, 407-411, (2015)

P Rivera, J R Schaibley, A M Jones, J S Ross, S Wu, G Aivazian, P Klement, N J Ghimire, J Yan, D G Mandrus, W Yao, X Xu Observation of long-lived interlayer excitons in monolayer MoSe2–WSe2 heterostructures Nature Communications 6, 6242 (2015)

A Singh, G Moody, S Wu, Y Wu, N Ghimire, J Yan, D Mandrus, X Xu, X Li, Coherent Electronic Coupling in Atomically Thin MoSe2, Physical Review Letters 112, 216804 (2014)

R. Chu, X. Li, Sanfeng Wu, Q. Niu, X. Xu, C. Zhang, Valley Contrasting Magnetoluminescence in Monolayer MoS2 Quantum Hall Systems, PRB 90 (4), 045427 (2014)

N Cernetic, S Wu, D. O. Hutchins, X Xu, H Ma, A. Jen, Systematic Doping Control of CVD Graphene Transistors with Functionalized Aromatic Self-Assembled Monolayers, Advanced Functional Materials 24 (22), 3464-3470 (2014)

G. Clark, S Wu, P. Rivera, J. Finney, P. Nguyen, D. Cobden, X. Xu, Vapor-transport growth of high optical quality WSe2 monolayer, APL Materials 2 (10), 101101 (2014)

C. Huang*, S Wu*,#, A. Sanchez*,#, J. J.P. Peters, R. Beanland, J. S. Ross, P. Rivera, W. Yao, D. Cobden, X. Xu, Lateral heterojunctions within monolayer MoSe2-WSe2 semiconductors, Nature Materials 13 (12), 1096-1101 (2014)

S Wu, S. Buckley, A. Jones, J. Ross, N. Ghimire, J. Yan, D. Mandrus, W. Yao, F. Hatami, J. Vučković, A. Majumdar, X. Xu, Control of Two-Dimensional Excitonic Light Emission via Photonic Crystal, 2D Materials 1 011001 (2014)

Sanfeng Wu*, Chunming Huang*, Grant Aivazian, Jason S Ross, David H Cobden, Xiaodong Xu, Vapor-Solid Growth of High Quality MoS2 Monolayers with Near-Unity Valley Polarization, ACS Nano 7, 2768 (2013)

J. Ross*, S Wu*, H. Yu, A. Jones, G. Aivazian, J. Morasch, J. Ghimire, J. Yan, D. Mandrus, D. Xiao, W. Yao, X. Xu, Electrical Control of Neutral and Charged Excitons in a Monolayer Semiconductor, Nature Communication 4, 1474 (2013)

Aaron Jones, Hongyi Yu, Nirmal Ghimire, Sanfeng Wu, Grant Aivazian, Jason Ross, Bo Zhao, Jiaqiang Yan, David Mandrus, Di Xiao, Wang Yao, Xiaodong Xu, Optical Generation of Excitonic Valley Coherence in Monolayer WSe2, Nature Nanotechnology 8, 634–638 (2013)

H. Yuan, M. S. Bahramy, K. Morimoto, Sanfeng Wu, K. Nomura, B.Yang, H. Shimotani, R. Suzuki, M. Toh, C. Kloc, X. Xu, R. Arita, N. Nagaosa, and Y. Iwasa, Zeeman-type Spin Splitting Controlled by an Electric Field, Nature Physics 9, 563–569 (2013)

S Wu, J S Ross, C Huang, N J Ghimire, J Yan, D G Mandrus, D Xiao, W Yao, D H Cobden, X Xu, Optical manipulation and electrical control of valley pseudo-spins in atomically thin semiconductors Proc. SPIE 8813, Spintronics VI, 88132I (2013)

S Wu, J. Ross, G. Aivazian, A. Jones, Z. Fei, G. Liu, W. Zhu, D. Xiao, W. Yao, D. Cobden, X. Xu, Electrical Tuning of Valley Magnetic Moment via Symmetry Control in Bilayer MoS2, Nature Physics 9, 149-153 (2013)

Sanfeng Wu, Li Mao, Aaron M. Jones, Wang Yao, Chuanwei Zhang, and Xiaodong Xu, Quantum-Enhanced Tunable Second-Order Optical Nonlinearity in Bilayer Graphene, Nano Letters. 12 (4), pp 2032–2036 (2012)

Xinhua Peng, Sanfeng Wu, Jun Li, Dieter Suter, and Jiangfeng Du, Observation of the ground-state geometric phase in a Heisenberg XY model, PRL. 105, 240405 (2010)

Jiangfeng Du, Nanyang Xu, Xinhua Peng, Pengfei Wang, Sanfeng Wu, and Dawei Lu Implementation of Hydrogen Molecular Quantum Simulation with Adiabatic State Preparation on an NMR Quantum Processor, Physical Review Letters 104, 030502 (2010).

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