Binghai Yan

Professor of Physics
Binghai Yan.
Binghai
Yan
Professor of Physics
Interests
Condensed matter theory
Quantum materials
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Mailing Address:

104 Davey Lab, Box #231, University Park, Pa 16802

Education

1999-2003 B.S. Physics, Xi’an Jiaotong University, Xi’an, China

2003-2008 PhD. in Physics Tsinghua University, Beijing China

Working Experience 

2008 - 2010, Humboldt postdoc Postdoc, University of Bremen, Germany

2010 - 2011, Postdoc, Stanford University, US

2011 - 2012, Humboldt postdoc Postdoc, University of Bremen, Germany

2012 - 2016, Group leader, Max Planck Institute in Dresden, Germany

2017 - 2019, Assistant Professor, Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel

2020 - 2024, Associate Professor, Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel

2025 - present, Professor, Penn State University

Research Interests

Quantum materials, Topological materials, and 2D Materials

Chirality-driven transport and optical effects

Computational materials theory

Honors and Awards

2008 Humboldt Fellowship by Humboldt Foundation in Germany

2013 ARCHES Prize by BMBF and Minerva Foundation, Germany

2017 IPS Prize for Young Scientist by the Israel Physics Society (IPS), Israel

2019 Morris L. Levinson Prize in Physics by the Weizmann Institute of Science

2019 ERC consolidator grant

2019-2024 Highly cited researcher by Web of Science

Selected Publications

  1. Zhao, Y, K. Zhang, J. Xiao, K. Sun and B. Yan* 

    Magnetochiral charge pumping due to charge trapping and skin effect in chirality-induced spin selectivity 

    Nature Communications 16, 37 (2025).

  2. Wang, J., J. Huang, D. Kaplan, X. Zhou, C. Tan, J. Zhang, G. Jin, X. Cong, Y. Zhu, X. Gao, et al. B. Yan*, H. Yuan* and H. Peng*,

    Even-integer quantum Hall effect in an oxide caused by a hidden Rashba effect.

    Nature Nanotechnology 19, pages1452–1459 (2024).

  3. Kaplan, D, T. Holder and B. Yan*

    Unification of nonlinear anomalous hall effect and nonreciprocal magnetoresistance in metals by the quantum geometry 

    Physical Review Letters 132 (2), 026301 (2024).

  4. Wang, N., D. Kaplan, Z. Zhang, T. Holder, N. Cao, A. Wang, X. Zhou, F. Zhou, Z. Jiang, C. Zhang, S. Ru, H. Cai, K. Watanabe, T. Taniguchi, B. Yan*, and W. Gao*.

    Quantum metric-induced nonlinear transport in a topological antiferromagnet.

    Nature 621, 487–492 (2023).

  5. Liu, Y., J. Xiao, J. Koo, and B. Yan*.

    Chirality-driven topological electronic structure of DNA-like materials.

    Nature Materials 20 , 638–644 (2021).

  6. Tan, H., Y. Liu, Z. Wang, and B. Yan*.

    Charge density waves and electronic properties of superconducting kagome metals.

    Physical Review Letters 127(4) , 046401(2021).

  7. Holder, T., D. Kaplan, and B. Yan*.

    Consequences of time-reversal-symmetry breaking in the light-matter interaction: Berry curvature, quantum metric, and diabatic motion.

    Physical Review Research 2(3) , 033100 (2020).

  8. Zhang, Y., Y. Sun, and B. Yan*.

    Berry curvature dipole in Weyl semimetal materials: An ab initio study.

    Physical Review B 97(4), 041101 (2018).

  9. Yan, B*. and C. Felser*.

    Topological Materials: Weyl Semimetals.

    Annual Review of Condensed Matter Physics 8(1) , 337–354(2017).

  10. Shekhar, C., A. K. Nayak, Y. Sun, M. Schmidt, M. Nicklas, I. Leermakers, U. Zeitler, Y. Skourski, J. Wosnitza, Z. Liu, Y. Chen, W. Schnelle, H. Borrmann, Y. Grin, C. Felser, and B. Yan*.

    Extremely large magnetoresistance and ultrahigh mobility in the topological Weyl semimetal candidate NbP.

    Nature Physics 11, 645–649 (2015).