The list of publications can also be found on Google Scholar or arXiv. ( *: co-first author; †: corresponding author)
Reviews
"Non-Hermitian Topological Magnonics"
Tao Yu, Ji Zou, Bowen Zeng, J. W. Rao, Ke Xia; Physics Reports 1062, 1-86 (2024)
Brief summary: We review how engineered dissipation enables non-Hermitian topological phases in magnonics, highlighting key phenomena and their potential applications in amplification, sensing, and spin-based technologies.
Experimental collaborations
"Three-dimensional topological magnetic monopoles and their interactions in a ferromagnetic meta-lattice"
[Highlighted in Nature Physics News & Views, and ALS Science Highlight]
A. Rana*, C. T. Liao*, E. Iacocca, Ji Zou, M. Pham, X. Y. Lu, Emma-Elizabeth Cating Subramanian, Yuan Hung Lo, Sinéad A. Ryan, Charles S. Bevis, Robert M. Karl Jr, Andrew J. Glaid, Jeffrey Rable, Pratibha Mahale, Joel Hirst, Thomas Ostler, William Liu, Colum M. O’Leary, Young-Sang Yu, Karen Bustillo, Hendrik Ohldag, David A. Shapiro, Sadegh Yazdi, Thomas E. Mallouk, Stanley J. Osher, Henry C. Kapteyn, Vincent H. Crespi, John V. Badding, Yaroslav Tserkovnyak, Margaret M. Murnane & Jianwei Miao; Nature Nanotechnology 18 (3), 227-232 (2023)
"Pinpointing single light atoms in quantum materials with ptychographic electron tomography"
N. Kim*, H. Zhong*, J. Zhang*, C. O'Leary*, Y. Liao, Ji Zou, Haozhi Sha, Minh Pham, Weiyi Li, Yakun Yuan, Ji-Hoon Park, Dennis Kim, Huaidong Jiang, Jing Kong, Miaofang Chi, and Jianwei Miao; arXiv:2504.08228; Under review in Nature (second round)
"Tracing Dirac points of topological surface states by ferromagnetic resonance"
L. Pietanesi, M. Marganska, T. Mayer, M. Barth, L. Chen, Ji Zou, Adrian Weindl, Alexander Liebig, Rebeca Díaz-Pardo, Dhavala Suri, Florian Schmid, Franz J. Gießibl, Klaus Richter, Yaroslav Tserkovnyak, Matthias Kronseder, and Christian H. Back; Phys. Rev. B 109, 064424 (2024)
[Selected as Front Cover] "Visualizing Magnetic Order in Self-Assembly of Superparamagnetic Nanoparticles"
Xingyuan Lu*, Ji Zou*, Minh Pham, Arjun Rana, Chen-Ting Liao, Emma Cating Subramanian, Xuefei Wu, Yuan Hung Lo, Charles S Bevis, Robert M Karl Jr, Serban Lepadatu, Young-Sang Yu, Yaroslav Tserkovnyak, Thomas P Russell, David A Shapiro, Henry C Kapteyn, Margaret M Murnane, Robert Streubel, Jianwei Miao; ACS Applied Nano Materials 8 (13), 6643-6650 (2025)
Recent theory paper
"Emergent ac Effect in Nonreciprocal Coupled Condensates"
Ji Zou†, Valerii K. Kozin, Daniel Loss, Jelena Klinovaja; arXiv:2512.23595
"Heisenberg-limited metrology from the quantum-quench dynamics of an anisotropic ferromagnet"
Z. M. McIntyre†, Ji Zou†, Jelena Klinovaja, Daniel Loss; arXiv:2512.23606
"Robust Tripartite Entanglement Generation via Correlated Noise in Spin Qubits" (Sander's Master Thesis Project!)
Sander Driessen, Ji Zou†, Even Thingstad, Jelena Klinovaja, Daniel Loss; arXiv:2506.20466
"Topological Spin Textures Enabling Quantum Transmission"
Ji Zou†, Stefano Bosco, Jelena Klinovaja, Daniel Loss; arXiv:2409.14373
"Tunable Ultrafast Dynamics of Antiferromagnetic Vortices in Nanoscale Dots
Ji Zou, Even Thingstad, Se Kwon Kim, Jelena Klinovaja, Daniel Loss; arXiv:2404.18306
"Dissipative Spin-wave Diode and Nonreciprocal Magnonic Amplifier"
Ji Zou†, Stefano Bosco, Even Thingstad, Jelena Klinovaja, Daniel Loss; Phys. Rev. Lett. 132 (3), 036701(2024)
[Editors’ Suggestion, Highlighted in Phys.org] "Topological transport of deconfined hedgehogs in magnets"
Ji Zou, S. Zhang, Y. Tserkovnyak; Phys. Rev. Lett. 125, 267201 (2020)
"Spatially correlated classical and quantum noise in driven qubits"
Ji Zou†, Stefano Bosco, Daniel Loss; npj Quantum Information 10 (1), 46 (2024)
"Quantum computing on magnetic racetracks with flying domain wall qubits"
Ji Zou†, S. Bosco, B. Pal, S. Parkin, J. Klinovaja, D. Loss, Phys. Rev. Research 5 (3), 033166 (2023)
[Letter and Editors' Suggestion] "Bell-state generation for spin qubits via dissipative coupling"
Ji Zou, S. Zhang, Y. Tserkovnyak, Phys. Rev. B. 106, L180406 (2022)
"Zeeman term for the Néel vector in a two sublattice antiferromagnet"
S. Dasgupta, Ji Zou, Phys. Rev. B 104, 064415 (2021)
[Editors’ Suggestion] "Tuning entanglement by squeezing magnons in anisotropic magnets"
Ji Zou, S. K. Kim, Y. Tserkovnyak, Phys. Rev. B 101, 014416 (2020)
[Rapid Communication] "Topological Transport of Vorticity in Heisenberg Magnets"
Ji Zou, S. K. Kim, Y. Tserkovnyak, Phys. Rev. B 99, 180402(R) (2019)
"Directional entanglement of spin-orbit locked nitrogen-vacancy centers by magnons"
Zhiping Xue, Ji Zou, Chengyuan Cai, Gerrit E. W. Bauer, Tao Yu; arXiv:2505.07325
"High-fidelity spin qubit shuttling via large spin-orbit interaction"
S. Bosco, Ji Zou, Daniel Loss; PRX Quantum 5 (2), 020353 (2024)
"Magnonic Phi Josephson Junctions and Synchronized Precession"
K. Nakata, Ji Zou, Jelena Klinovaja, Daniel Loss; Phys. Rev. Research 6, 033207 (2024)
"Density Matrix Renormalization Group Study of Domain Wall Qubits"
G. Qu, Ji Zou, Daniel Loss, Tomoki Hirosawa; arXiv:2412.11585
"Spin-Orbit Locked Coupling of Localized Microwaves to Magnons"
C. Cai*, Z. Zhang*, Ji Zou, Gerrit E. W. Bauer, Tao Yu; Phys. Rev. Applied 22 (3), 034042 (2024)
"Topological transport of vorticity on curved magnetic membranes"
Chau Dao, Ji Zou, Eric Kleinherbers, Yaroslav Tserkovnyak; arXiv:2311.00323
[Letter] "Biasing topological charge injection in topological matter"
M. T. Ahari*, S. Zhang*, Ji Zou, Y. Tserkovnyak, Phys. Rev. B 104, L201401 (2021)
[Rapid Communication] "Energy storage in magnetic textures driven by vorticity flow"
D. Jones, Ji Zou, S. Zhang, Y. Tserkovnyak, Phys. Rev. B 102, 140411(R) (2020)
"Quantum hydrodynamics of spin winding"
Y. Tserkovnyak, Ji Zou, S. K. Kim, S. Takei, Phys. Rev. B 102, 224433 (2020)
[Editors’ Suggestion] "Quantum hydrodynamics of vorticity"
Y. Tserkovnyak, Ji Zou, Phys. Rev. Research 1, 033071 (2019)
Acknowledged contributions (mentioned in Acknowledgments of publications)
"Band Topology and Dynamic Multiferroicity Induced from Dynamical Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya Interactions in Centrosymmetric Lattices"
Bowen Ma and Z. D. Wang, Phys. Rev. Lett. 135, 266702 (2025)
"Breaking conservation law enables steady-state entanglement out of equilibrium"
Vince Hou, Eric Kleinherbers, Shane P. Kelly, and Yaroslav Tserkovnyak, arXiv:2508.18131
"Non-Gaussian Noise Magnetometry Using Local Spin Qubits"
Jonathan B. Curtis, Amir Yacoby, and Eugene Demler, arXiv:2505.03877