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Symmetry organizes the quantum ground state. Its breaking produces magnetic, structural, and electronic order. We work with van der Waals crystals in the few-layer limit, where reduced dimensionality changes the landscape of possible orders. Through tailored heterostructures, altered symmetries and competing interactions give rise to new ground states. Polarization optics reveals their order parameters and the elementary excitations that follow from symmetry breaking. Linear dichroism senses rotational symmetry breaking. Circular dichroism detects the loss of time-reversal symmetry. Raman spectroscopy resolves crystallographic point groups and the collective modes governed by interactions. Together these measurements clarify how symmetry and interactions determine the Hamiltonian.
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03/2026 Zhong Lin will deliver an invited presentation at the 2026 International Workshop on Automated 2D Materials and Quantum Devices (A2DMQD), an event organized by the NSF-funded MonArk Quantum Foundry and part of the broader NSF Quantum Materials and QIST infrastructure effort. His talk, titled “Symmetry, Collective Order, and Emergent Responses in Layered Quantum Materials,” will highlight how symmetry-resolved optical probes uncover hidden magnetic textures and emergent excitations in 2D layered magnets.
12/2025 Zhong Lin delivered an invited Condensed Matter Physics Seminar at University of Delaware, titled “Probing Emergent Phenomena in Layered Magnets.”
11/2025 Zhong Lin delivered an invited Physics Colloquium at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, titled “Probing Emergent Phenomena in Layered Magnets.”
11/2025 Zhong Lin delivered an invited talk at the NYSS-APS Topical Symposium on Frontiers in Quantum Materials and Phenomena, titled “Spin–lattice coupling in layered antiferromagnets.”
09/2024–10/2025 Zhong Lin served as Co-Lead of the Quantum-Enabling Materials Working Group for the SUNY STRIVE QIST Strategic Plan, contributing to a year-long system-wide effort to define SUNY’s roadmap for quantum materials, devices, and infrastructure.
06/2025 New publication in Nature Materials! Y.-X. Wang, T. K. M. Graham, R. Rama-Eiroa, M. A. Islam, M. H. Badarneh, R. Nunes Gontijo, G. P. Tiwari, T. Adhikari, X.-Y. Zhang, K. Watanabe, T. Taniguchi, C. Besson, E. J. G. Santos, Z. Lin, and B. B. Zhou, Configurable antiferromagnetic domains and lateral exchange bias in atomically thin CrPS4, Nature Materials (2025). Link News & Views News
05/2025 Our graduate students, Ganesh Tiwari and Tibendra Adhikari, have become members of Sigma Pi Sigma National Physics and Astronomy Honor Society. Congratulations, Ganesh and Tibendra!
05/2025 Our undergraduate student, Jeff Lam, has received the Brownridge Award for outstanding research. Congratulations, Jeff!
01/2025 Our undergraduate student, Sophia Sabelja, has been admitted to a graduate program at the University of Tennessee. She will be conducting research at Oak Ridge National Laboratory. Congratulations, Sophia!
01/2025 Our undergraduate student, Jeff Lam, has been awarded a prestigious $10,000 SCALE fellowship to support his project within our group. This fellowship provides funding for his salary, as well as for research-related expenses, including equipment, materials, and supplies. Congratulations, Jeff!
12/2023 Rafael Nunes Gontijo joined the group. Welcome, Rafael!
12/2023 Jeff Lam joined the group. Welcome, Jeff!
10/2023 Zhong Lin co-organized the "low-dimensional magnetic quantum materials" symposium for the 2024 Materials Research Society Spring meeting.
09/2023 Tibendra Adhikari joined the group. Welcome, Tibendra!
09/2023 Ganesh Tiwari joined the group. Welcome, Ganesh!
05/2023 Paul DePola received the Brownridge's Award for Outstanding Research! Congratulations!
01/2023 Gabriel Blodgett joined the group. Welcome, Gabriel!
01/2023 Adam Islam joined the group. Welcome, Adam!
12/2022 Zhong Lin joined Materials Science and Engineering as an associated faculty.
12/2022 Zhong Lin's group received a grant from the Small Scale Systems Integration and Packaging (S3IP) Center of Excellence, funded by New York Empire State Development's Division of Science, Technology and Innovation.
09/2022 Sophia Sabelja joined the group. Welcome, Sophia!
08/2022 Clayton Greene joined the group. Welcome, Clayton!
08/2022 Aya Labnine joined the group. Welcome, Aya!
08/2022 Paul DePola joined the group. Welcome, Paul!
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