Zhiqiang Mao

Professor of Physics, Material Science and Engineering, and Chemistry
Dr. Zhiqiang Mao

Education

Ph.D. University of Science and Technology, China
B.S. Nanjing Normal University

Honors and Awards

  • Fellow of the American Physical Society, 2015
  • Nicholas J. Altiero Professor in Physics, Tulane University, 2011-2018
  • Changjiang Lectureship Chair Professor at Nanjing University, 2009-2012.
  • NSF CAREER award, 2007
  • Cottrell Scholar Award, Research Corporation, 2005.

Selected Publications

Discovery of a layered multiferroic compound Cu1-xMn1+ySiTe3 with strong magnetoelectric coupling 

Chandan De, Yu Liu, Sai Venkata Gayathri Ayyagari, Boyang Zheng, Kyle P. Kelley, Sankalpa Hzra, Jingyang He, Sylwia Pawledzio, Subin Mali, Samaresh Guchaait, Suguru Yoshida, Yingdong Guan, Seng Huat Lee, Milos Sretenovic, Xianglin Ke, Le Wang, Mark H. Engelhard, Yingge Du, Weiwei Xie, Xiaoping Wang, Vincent H. Crespi, Nasim Alem, Venkatraman Gopalan*, Qiang Zhang*, Zhiqiang Mao*, Science Advances 2024 (in press)

Colossal Room Temperature Nonreciprocal Hall Effect,

Lujin Min, Yang Zhang, Zhijian Xie, Sai Venkata Gayathri Ayyagari, Leixin Miao, Yugo Onishi, Seng Huat Lee, Yu Wang, Nasim Alem, Liang Fu*, Zhiqiang Mao*, Nature Materials 23, 1671 (2024).

High Entropy Protected Sharp Magnetic Transitions in Highly Disordered Spinel Ferrites

Lujin Min, John P Barber, Yu Wang, Sai Venkata Gayathri Ayyagari, Gabriela E Niculescu, Evan Krysko, Gerald R Bejger, Leixin Miao, Seng Huat Lee, Qiang Zhang, Nasim Alem, Christina M Rost*, Zhiqiang Mao*, Journal of the American Chemical Society 146, 24320 (2024)

High-entropy engineering of the crystal and electronic structures in a Dirac material,

Antu Laha, Suguru Yoshida*, Francisco Marques dos Santos Vieira, Hemian Yi, Seng Huat Lee, Sai Venkata Gayathri Ayyagari, Yingdong Guan, Lujin Min, Jose Gonzalez Jimenez, Leixin Miao, David Graf, Saugata Sarker, Weiwei Xie, Nasim Alem, Venkatraman Gopalan, Cui-Zu Chang, Ismaila Dabo*, Zhiqiang Mao*, 

Nature Communications 15, 3532(2024).

Novel layered semiconductor Cr0.32Ga0.68Te2.33 with concurrent broken inversion symmetry and ferromagnetism: a bulk ferrovalley material candidate

Yingdong Guan, Leixin Miao, Jingyang He, Jingliang Ning, Yangyang Chen, Weiwei Xie, Jianwei Sun, Venkat Gopalan, Jun Zhu, Xiaoping Wang, Nasim Alem*, Qiang Zhang*, and Zhiqiang Mao*, Journal of the American Chemical Society 145, 4683 (2023)

Layer-by-layer   of Bloch states via frequency-domain photoemission

Woojoo Lee, Sebastian Fernandez-Mulligan, Hengxin Tan, Chenhui Yan, Yingdong Guan,  Seng Huat Lee, Ruobing Mei, Chaoxing Liu, Binghai Yan, Zhiqiang Mao, Shuolong Yang*, Nature Physics 19, 950 (2023).

Strong room-temperature bulk nonlinear Hall effect in a spin-valley locked Dirac material

Lujin Min, Hengxin Tan, Zhijian Xie, Leixin Miao, Ruoxi Zhang, Seng Huat Lee, Venkatraman Gopalan, Chao-Xing Liu, Nasim Alem, Binghai Yan* & Zhiqiang Mao*, Nature Communications 14, 364 (2023).

Evidence for a Magnetic-Field-Induced Ideal Type-II Weyl State in Antiferromagnetic Topological Insulator Mn(Bi1−xSbx)2Te4

Seng Huat Lee, Yanglin Zhu, Hemian Yi, David Graf, Rabindra Basnet, Arash Fereidouni, Aaron Wegner, Yi-Fan Zhao, Lujin Min, Katrina Verlinde, Jingyang He, Ronald Redwing, Hugh OH Churchill, Nitin Samarth, Cui-Zu Chang, Jin Hu, and Z.Q. Mao*
 Phys. Rev. X 11, 031032 (2021).

Spin-valley locking and bulk quantum Hall effect in a no ncentrosymmetric Dirac semimetal BaMnSb2
 J.Y. Liu, J. Yu, J.L. Ning, H.M. Yi, L. Miao, L.J. Min, Y.F. Zhao, W. Ning, K.A. Lopez, Y.L. Zhu, T. Pillsbury, Y. B. Zhang, Y. Wang, J. Hu, H.B. Cao, B. C. Chakoumakos, F. Balakirev, F. Weickert, M. Jaime, Y. Lai, Kun Yang, J.W. Sun, N. Alem, V. Gopalan, C.Z. Chang, N. Samarth, C.X. Liu*, R.D. McDonald*, Z.Q. Mao*,
Nature Communications 12, 4062 (2021).

Giant room temperature anomalous Hall effect and tunable topology in a ferromagnetic topological semimetal Co2MnAl,
Peigang Li, Jahyun Koo, Wei Ning, Jinguo Li, Leixin Miao, Lujin Min, Yanglin Zhu, Yu Wang, Nasim Alem, Chao-Xing Liu, Z.Q. Mao*, Binghai Yan*,
Nature Communications 11, 3476 (2020).

 Electronic correlations in nodal-line semimetals,
Yinming Shao, AN Rudenko, Jin Hu, Zhiyuan Sun, Yanglin Zhu, Seongphill Moon, AJ  Millis, Shengjun Yuan, AI Lichtenstein, Dmitry Smirnov, Z.Q. Mao, MI Katsnelson, D.N. Basov*,
Nature Physics 16, 636 (2020).

 Spin scattering and noncollinear spin structure-induced intrinsic anomalous Hall effect in antiferromagnetic topological insulator MnBi2Te4
Seng Huat Lee, Yanglin Zhu, Yu Wang, Leixin Miao, Timothy Pillsbury, Hemian Yi, Susan Kempinger, Jin Hu, Colin A. Heikes, P. Quarterman, William Ratcliff, Julie A. Borchers, Heda Zhang, Xianglin Ke, David Graf, Nasim Alem, Cui-Zu Chang, Nitin Samarth, and Z.Q. Mao*
Phys. Rev. Research 1, 012011(R) (2019).

 Discovery of a magnetic topological semimetal Sr1-yMn1-zSb2 (y, z < 0.10),
J.Y. Liu, J. Hu, S.M.A. Radmanesh, D.J. Adams, Y.L. Zhu, G.F. Chen, X. Liu, J. Wei, I. Chiorescu L. Spinu and Z.Q. Mao*,

Nature Materials 16, 905 (2017).

 Unusual interlayer quantum transport behavior caused by the zeroth Landau level in YbMnBi2
J.Y. Liu, J. Hu*, D. Graf, T. Zou, M. Zhu, Y. Shi, S. Che, S.M.A. Radmanesh, C.N. Lau, L. Spinu, H.B. Cao, X. Ke and Z.Q. Mao*
Nature Communications 8, 646 (2017).

Evidence of Topological Nodal-Line Fermions in ZrSiSe and ZrSiTe,
Jin Hu, Zhijie Tang, Jinyu Liu, Xue Liu, Yanglin Zhu, David Graf, Kevin Myhro, Son Tran, Chun Ning Lau, Jiang Wei, and Z.Q. Mao*
Phys. Rev. Lett. 117, 016602 (2016).

 Enhancing Electron Coherence via Quantum Phonon Confinement in Atomically Thin Nb3SiTe6,
J. Hu, X. Liu, C.L. Yue, J.Y. Liu, H.W. Zhu, J. B. He, J. Wei*, Z.Q. Mao*,  L.Yu. Antipina, Z.I. Popov, P.B. Sorokin, T.J. Liu, P.W. Adams, S.M.A Radmanesh, L. Spinu, H. Ji and D. Natelson,
 Nature Physics 11, 471 (2015).

From (pi, 0) magnetic order to superconductivity with (pi, pi) magnetic resonance in Fe1.02(Te1-xSex)
T.J. Liu, J. Hu, B. Qian, D. Fobes, Z.Q. Mao*, W. Bao*, M. Reehuis, S.A.J. Kimber, K. Prokes, S. Matas, D.N. Argyriou, A. Hiess, A. Rotaru, H. Pham, L. Spinu, Y. Qiu, V.Thampy, A.T. Savici, J. A. Rodriguez, and C. Broholm
Nature materials 9, 716 (2010).
 

Research Interests

Synthesis and study of quantum materials, including unconventional superconductors, strongly correlated electron systems, low-dimensional materials, Weyl and Dirac semimetals, magnetic topological insulators and high-entropy materials