Yinming Shao

Education

Columbia University (Ph.D., Physics, 2020).

University of California, San Diego, (Ph.D. student in Physics, 2013-2016)

Zhejiang University, (B.S., Physics, 2013).

Research Interests

Topological and Correlated Materials

Discovery, understanding and control of quasiparticles in layered quantum materials

Optical and magneto-optical spectroscopy

Near-field nano-imaging and spectroscopy

Selected Publications

(*corresponding author, †equal contribution)

1. Y. Shao*†, F. Dirnberger†, Siyuan Qiu†, Swagata Acharya†, S. Terres, E. J. Telford, D. Pashov, B. S. Y. Kim, F. L. Ruta, D. G. Chica, A. H. Dismukes, M. E. Ziebel, Y. Wang, J. Choe, Y. J. Bae, A. J. Millis, M. I. Katsnelson, K. Mosina, Z. Sofer, R. Huber, X. Zhu, X. Roy, M. van Schilfgaarde, A. Chernikov, and D. N. Basov*, "Magnetically confined surface and bulk excitons in a layered antiferromagnet",  Nature Materials, 24, 391–398 (2025).

2. F. L. Ruta*, Y. Shao, S. Acharya, A. Mu, N. H. Jo, S. H. Ryu, D. Balatsky, Y. Su, D. Pashov, B. S. Y. Kim, M. I. Katsnelson, J. G. Analytis, E. Rotenberg, A. J. Millis, M. van Schilfgaarde, and D. N. Basov*, “Good plasmons in a bad metal”, Science 387, 786 (2025)

3. Y. Shao*, Seongphill Moon, A. N. Rudenko, Jie Wang, Jonah Herzog-Arbeitman, Mykhaylo Ozerov, David Graf, Zhiyuan Sun, Raquel Queiroz, Seng Huat Lee, Yanglin Zhu, Zhiqiang Mao, M. I. Katsnelson, B. Andrei Bernevig, Dmitry Smirnov, Andrew. J. Millis and D. N. Basov*, “Semi-Dirac Fermions in a Topological Metal”, Phys. Rev. X 14, 041057 (2024)

4. Francesco Ruta†*, Shuai Zhang†*, Y. Shao†, S. L. Moore, S. Acharya, Z. Sun, S. Qiu, J. Geurs, B. S. Y. Kim, M. Fu, D. G. Chica, D. Pashov, X. Xu, D. Xiao, M. Delor, X.-Y. Zhu, A. J. Millis, X. Roy, J. C. Hone, C. R. Dean, M. I. Katsnelson, M. van Schilfgaarde, D. N. Basov*, “Hyperbolic exciton polaritons in a van der Waals magnet”, Nat. Comm. 14, 8261 (2023)

5. Y. Shao*, A. J. Sternbach, B. S. Y. Kim, A. A. Rikhter, X. Xu, U. De Giovannini, R. Jing, S. H. Chae, Z. Sun, S. H. Lee, Y. Zhu, Z. Mao, J. Hone, R. Queiroz, A. J. Millis, P. J. Schuck, A. Rubio, M. M. Fogler, D. N. Basov*, “Infrared Plasmons Propagate through a Hyperbolic Nodal Metal”, Science Advances 8, eadd6169 (2022).

6. Y. Shao*, Ran Jing, Sang Hoon Chae, Chong Wang, Zhiyuan Sun, Eve Emmanouilidou, Suheng Xu, Dorri Halbertal, Baichang Li, Anjaly Rajendran, Francesco L. Ruta, Lin Xiong, Yinan Dong, Alexander S. McLeod, Sai S. Sunku, James C. Hone, Joel Moore, Joe Orenstein, James G. Analytis, Andrew J. Millis, Ni Ni, Di Xiao, D. N. Basov*, "Nonlinear nanoelectrodynamics of a Weyl metal", Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 118, e2116366118 (2021).

7. Y. Shao*, A. N. Rudenko, Jin Hu, Zhiyuan Sun, Yanglin Zhu, Seongphill Moon, A. J. Millis, Shengjun Yuan, A. I. Lichtenstein, Dmitry Smirnov, Z. Q. Mao, M. I. Katsnelson, D. N. Basov*, "Electronic correlations in nodal-line semimetals", Nat. Phys. 16, 636–641 (2020). 

8. Y. Shao*, Zhiyuan Sun, Ying Wang, Chenchao Xu, Raman Sankar, Alexander J. Breindel, Chao Cao, Michael M. Fogler, Andrew J. Millis, Fangcheng Chou, Zhiqiang Li, Thomas Timusk, M. Brian Maple, D. N. Basov, "Optical signatures of Dirac nodal lines in NbAs2", Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 116,1168, (2019).