Publications

Preprints

Kaifei Kang, Yichen Qiu, Bowen Shen, Kihong Lee, Zhengchao Xia, Yihang Zeng, Kenji Watanabe, Takashi Taniguchi, Jie Shan, Kin Fai Mak. Time-reversal symmetry breaking fractional quantum spin Hall insulator in moiré MoTe2. arXiv:2501.02525

Yihang Zeng*, Dihao Sun*, Q. Shi, A. Okounkova, K. Watanabe, T. Taniguchi, J. Hone, C.R. Dean, and J.I.A. Li. Evidence for a Superfluid-to-solid Transition of Bilayer Excitons.  arXiv:2306.16995

Yihang Zeng, Haoyu Guo, Olivia M. Ghosh, Kenji Watanabe, Takashi Taniguchi, Leonid S. Levitov, Cory R. Dean. Quantitative measurement of viscosity in two-dimensional electron fluids.  arXiv:2407.05026

2025

Patrick Knüppel, Jiacheng Zhu, Yiyu Xia, Zhengchao Xia, Zhongdong Han, Yihang Zeng, Kenji Watanabe, Takashi Taniguchi, Jie Shan, Kin Fai Mak. Correlated states controlled by tunable van Hove singularity in moiré WSe2 bilayer. Nature Communications 16, 1959 (2025). 

2024

Kaifei Kang, Bowen Shen, Yichen Qiu, Yihang Zeng, Zhengchao Xia, Kenji Watanabe, Takashi Taniguchi, Jie Shan, Kin Fai Mak. Evidence of the fractional quantum spin Hall effect in moiré MoTe2. Nature 628, 522–526 (2024)

Mirza M. Elahi, Hamed Vakili, Yihang Zeng, Cory R. Dean, Avik W. Ghosh. Direct evidence of Klein-antiKlein tunneling of graphitic electrons in a Corbino geometry. Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 146302 (2024).

Zhengchao Xia*, Yihang Zeng*, Bowen Shen, Roei Dery, Kenji Watanabe, Takashi Taniguchi, Jie Shan, Kin Fai Mak. Optical readout of the chemical potential of two-dimensional electrons. Nature photonics 18, 344–349 (2024)

2023

Yihang Zeng*, Zhengchao Xia*, Kaifei Kang, Jiacheng Zhu, Patrick Knüppel, Chirag Vaswani, Kenji Watanabe, Takashi Taniguchi, Kin Fai Mak & Jie Shan. Thermodynamic evidence of fractional Chern insulator in moiré MoTe2. Nature 622, 69-73 (2023)

Yihang Zeng*, Zhengchao Xia*, Roei Dery, Kenji Watanabe, Takashi Taniguchi, Jie Shan, Kin Fai Mak. Exciton density waves in Coulomb-coupled dual moiré lattices. Nature Materials, 22, 175–179 (2023).

Kaifei Kang, Wenjin Zhao, Yihang Zeng, Kenji Watanabe, Takashi Taniguchi, Jie Shan, Kin Fai Mak. Switchable moiré potentials in ferroelectric WTe2/WSe2 superlattices. Nature nanotechnology (2023).

2021

Sungmin Kim*, Johannes Schwenk*, Daniel Walkup*, Yihang Zeng*, Fereshte Ghahari, Son T. Le, Marlou R. Slot, Julian Berwanger, Steven R. Blankenship, Kenji Watanabe, Takashi Taniguchi, Franz J. Giessibl, Nikolai B. Zhitenev, Cory R. Dean, Joseph A. Stroscio. Edge Channels of Broken-Symmetry Quantum Hall States in Graphene probed by Atomic Force Microscopy. Nature Communications 12, 2852 (2021)

2020

Leo J. McGilly, Alexander Kerelsky, Nathan R. Finney, Konstantin Shapovalov, En-Min Shih, Augusto Ghiotto, Yihang Zeng, Samuel L. Moore, Wenjing Wu, Yusong Bai, Kenji Watanabe, Takashi Taniguchi, Massimiliano Stengel, Lin Zhou, James Hone, Xiaoyang Zhu, Dmitri N. Basov, Cory Dean, Cyrus E. Dreyer and Abhay N. Pasupathy. Visualization of moiré superlattices. Nature Nanotechnology 15, 580-584 (2020)

2019

Y. Zeng*, J. I. A. Li*, S. A. Dietrich, O. M. Ghosh, K. Watanabe, T. Taniguchi, J. Hone, C. R. Dean. High-Quality Magnetotransport in Graphene Using the Edge-Free Corbino Geometry.  Phys. Rev. Lett. 122, 137701 (2019)

J. I. A. Li*, Q. Shi*, Y. Zeng, K. Watanabe, T. Taniguchi, J. Hone, C. R. Dean. Pairing states of composite fermions in double-layer graphene. Nature Physics 15, 898–903 (2019)

Rebeca Ribeiro-Palau*, Shaowen Chen*, Yihang Zeng, Kenji Watanabe, Takashi Taniguchi, James Hone, Cory R. Dean. High-Quality Electrostatically Defined Hall Bars in Monolayer Graphene. Nano Letters 2583-2587 (2019).

Prior to 2019

J. I. A. Li, C. Tan, S. Chen, Y. Zeng, T. Taniguchi, K. Watanabe, J. Hone, C. R. Dean. Even-denominator fractional quantum Hall states in bilayer graphene. Science 358, 648-652 (2017)

Qing-Yuan Lin*, Yi-Hang Zeng*, Dameng Liu, Guang Yin Jing, Zhi-Min Liao, Dapeng Yu. Step-by-step fracture of two-layer stacked graphene membranes. ACS nano 8, 10 10246-10251 (2014)