M. Zahid Hasan

M. Zahid Hasan

M. Zahid Hasan

Professor of Physics
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609-258-3044
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[email protected]
Assistant
Susan Sabatura
Office
321 Jadwin Hall
Website
https://zahidhasangroup.scholar.princeton.edu/
https://www.amacad.org/person/m-zahid-hasan
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M. Zahid Hasan is the Eugene Higgins Professor of Physics at Princeton University. He received his Ph.D. from Stanford University in 2002 and, since that time, has been a major researcher in the field of Topological Quantum Matter. He has written over 280 peer-reviewed journal articles and is the most cited experimenter in the field. His funded research areas include search and discovery of novel phases of matter, emergent new particles, novel quantum effects, exotic superconductivity, quantum magnetism, spin liquids, Weyl magnets and superconductors, chiral materials, topological insulators, Higgs phenomena, kagome magnets and superconductors, anyon superconductivity, fractionalization and Kitaev materials, Ultrafast & Nanoscale quantum phenomena in novel 2D materials among others. He has led collaborative projects at both Stanford’s SLAC National Accelerator and at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory and held visiting professorships at Caltech and MIT. He is the recipient of numerous awards and honors, including the 2020 Ernest Orlando Lawrence Award for groundbreaking discoveries in topological insulators, topological magnets and Weyl conductors, establishing them as new phases of quantum matter. He is the recipient of American Competitiveness & Innovation Fellowship “for leadership in the field of physics” by the U.S. National Science Foundation and has been listed in the “World's Most Influential Scientific Minds List” since 2014 onward. He and his students have theoretically predicted and experimentally discovered several novel classes of topological quantum matter over the last two decades. His research works have been featured in Physics Today, Physics World, Scientific American, Nature News, Science News, Discover magazine, New Scientist and similar media including Physics Today’s “Search & Discovery News” multiple times over the last two decades. He has delivered many plenary, endowed, named and honorific lectures around the world including the Bose-Einstein centenary lectures in quantum physics. He is an elected fellow to many professional societies including the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and is the principal investigator of the Laboratory for Topological Quantum Matter and Advanced Spectroscopy at Princeton University since 2008 (coining the term “Topological Quantum Matter” and “Topological Dirac Insulator” in 2007).

 

Topological Quantum Matter

Discovery of Topological surface states

https://newscenter.lbl.gov/2017/04/14/how-x-rays-pushed-topological-matter-research-over-the-top/

https://absuploads.aps.org/presentation.cfm?pid=14503

Exotic spin textures show up in diverse materials

 

Discovery of Topological Weyl phenomena

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Discovery of Topological magnets and topological chiral phenomena

https://arxiv.org/abs/1812.04466

https://absuploads.aps.org/presentation.cfm?pid=14503

 

Discovery of novel quantum phenomena in Topological kagome magnets and superconductors 

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-022-05516-0

 

Theoretical Prediction and experimental discovery of novel topological materials and quantum phenomena

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https://zahidhasangroup.scholar.princeton.edu/

 

Selected Publications
  1. M. Z. Hasan et al., "Discovery of Topological Magnets: New Developments."https://absuploads.aps.org/presentation.cfm?pid=14503
  2. M. Z. Hasan, S.-Y. Xu, I. Belopolski, S.-M. Huang, "Discovery of Weyl Fermion Semimetals and Topological Fermi Arc States," Ann. Rev. Cond. Mat. Phys. 8, 289-309 (2017).
  3. M. Z. Hasan, "Weyl Semimetal," United States Patent #10214797, Nature Rev. Mater. 6, 784-803 (2021), Nature 612, 647-657 (2022).
  4. S. Jia, S.-Y. Xu, M. Z. Hasan, "Weyl Semimetals, Fermi Arcs and Chiral Quantum Anomalies," Nature Mater. 15, 1140-1144 (2016), Science 349, 613-617 (2015).
  5. M. Z. Hasan et al., "Topological Magnets: Discovery and Development."
  6. D. Sanchez, T. Cochran, I. Belopolski et al., "Discovery of Topological Chiral Crystals and Helicoid Arc Quantum States," Nature Mater. 17, 978 (2018), Nature 567, 500-505 (2019), https://arxiv.org/abs/1812.04466.
  7. J. Yin, B. Lian, M. Z. Hasan, "Topological Kagome Magnets and Superconductors," Nature 612, 647-657 (2022).
  8. T. Neupert, M. Denner, J.-X. Yin, R. Thomale, M. Z. Hasan, "Kagome Lattice: Charge Order and Superconductivity in Kagome Materials," Nature Phys. 18, 137-143 (2022).
  9. S.-M. Huang, S.-Y. Xu, I. Belopolski et al., "New Type of Weyl Semimetal with Quadratic Double Weyl Fermions," Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. 113, 1180 (2015).
  10. I. Belopolski, D. Sanchez, G. Chang et al., "Discovery of Topological Weyl Fermion Lines and Drumhead Surface States in a Room Temperature Magnet," Science 365, 1278-1281 (2019).
  11. S.-Y. Xu, N. Alidoust, G. Chang et al., "Discovery of Lorentz-violating Weyl Fermion Semimetal State in LaAlGe Materials," Sci. Adv. 3, e1603266 (2017).
  12. D. Sanchez, T. Cochran, I. Belopolski et al., "Discovery of Topological Chiral Crystals with Helicoid Arc Quantum States," Nature 567, 500-505 (2019), https://arxiv.org/abs/1812.04466.
  13. G. Chang, B. Wieder et al., "Topological Quantum Properties of Weyl Chiral Crystals," Nature Mater. 17, 978-985 (2018).
  14. J.-X. Yin, Y.-X. Jiang, X. Teng et al., "Discovery of Charge Order and Corresponding Edge State in a Kagome Magnet," Phys. Rev. Lett. 129, 166401 (2022).
  15. H. Li, G. Fabbris, A. Said et al., "Discovery of Conjoined Charge Density Waves in the Kagome Superconductor CsV3Sb5," Nat. Commun. (2022).
  16. G. Chang, B. Singh, S.-Y. Xu, G. Bian et al., "Theoretical Prediction of Magnetic Weyl Semimetal States in the R-Al-X Family of Compounds (R=rare earth, Al, X=Si, Ge)," https://arxiv.org/abs/1604.02124 (2016).
  17. G. Chang, S.-Y. Xu, H. Zheng et al., "Room-temperature Magnetic Weyl Semimetal and Nodal Line Semimetal States in Co2TiX (X=Si, Ge, or Sn)," https://arxiv.org/abs/1603.01255 (2016).
  18. X. Teng, L. Chen, F. Ye et al., "Discovery of Charge Density Wave in a Correlated Kagome Lattice Antiferromagnet," Nature 609, 490-495 (2022).
  19. C. Mielke, D. Das, Jia-Xin Yin et al., "Time-reversal Symmetry-breaking Charge Order in a Kagome Superconductor," Nature 602, 245 (2022).
  20. N. Shumiya, M. Shafayat Hossain, Jia-Xin Yin et al., "Evidence of a Room-temperature Quantum Spin Hall Edge State in a Higher-order Topological Insulator," Nature Mater. (2022).
  21. I. Belopolski, D. Sanchez, G. Chang et al., "A Three-dimensional Magnetic Topological Phase (the First “Topological Magnet” in Three Dimensions Co2MnGa)," https://arxiv.org/abs/1712.09992 (2017).
  22. S.-Y. Xu, C. Liu et al., "Observation of Fermi Arc Surface States in a Topological Metal," Science 347, 294-298 (2015).
  23. S.-Y. Xu, N. Alidoust et al., "Discovery of a Weyl Semimetal State with Fermi Arcs in Niobium Arsenide," Nature Phys. 11, 748-754 (2015).
  24. I. Belopolski, S.-Y. Xu, D. S. Sanchez et al., "Criteria for Directly Detecting (Proving) Topological Fermi Arcs in Weyl Semimetals," Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 066802 (2016).
  25. I. Belopolski, D. Sanchez, Y. Ishida et al., "Discovery of a New Type of Topological Weyl Fermion Semimetal State in MoxWTe2 Materials," Nat. Commun. 7, 13643 (2016).
  26. S.-Y. Xu, I. Belopolski, N. Alidoust et al., "Discovery of a Weyl Fermion Semimetal and Topological Fermi Arcs," Science 349, 613-617 (2015).
  27. S.-Y. Xu, Y. Xia, L.A. Wray et al., "Topological Phase Transition and Texture Inversion in a Tunable Insulator," Science 332, 560 (2011).
  28. S.-M. Huang, S.-Y. Xu, I. Belopolski et al., "A Weyl Fermion Semimetal with Surface Fermi Arcs in the Transition Metal Mono-pnictide TaAs Class," Nat. Commun. 6:7373 (2015).
  29. B. Singh, A. Sharma, H. Lin, M. Z. Hasan et al., "Topological Electronic Structure and Weyl Semimetal in the TlBiSe Class," Phys. Rev. B 86, 115208 (2012).
  30. M. Z. Hasan et al., "Discovery of Topological Magnets in 2D and 3D," https://absuploads.aps.org/presentation.cfm?pid=14503.
  31. "Sir Nevill Mott (Nobel Laureate ’77) Lecture Series."
  32. I. Belopolski, G. Chang, T. Cochran et al., "Observation of a Linked Loop Quantum State in a Topological Magnet," Nature 604, 647-652 (2022).
  33. K. Jiang et al., "Kagome Superconductors AV3Sb5," https://arxiv.org/abs/2109.10809 (2021).
  34. T. Neupert, M. Denner, J. Yin, R. Thomale, M. Z. Hasan, "Charge-order and Superconductivity in Kagome Lattice Materials," Nature Phys. (2021).
  35. Y.-X. Jiang, J.-X. Yin, M. Denner et al., "Discovery of Unconventional Chiral Charge Order in Kagome Superconductor KV3Sb5," https://arxiv.org/abs/2012.15709 (2020).
  36. C. Mielke III, D. Das, Jia-Xin Yin et al., "Time-reversal Symmetry-breaking Charge Order in a Kagome Superconductor," Nature 602, 245-250 (2022).
  37. J.-X. Yin, W. Ma, T. A. Cochran et al., "Discovery of a Quantum Limit Chern Magnet TbMn6Sn6," Nature 583, 533-536 (2020).
  38. D. Sanchez, T. Cochran, I. Belopolski, X. Xu et al., "Topological Chiral Crystals with Helicoid Arc Quantum States," Nature 567, 500-505 (2019).
  39. I. Belopolski, G. Chang, T. Cochran et al., "Observation of a Linked Loop Quantum State in a Topological Magnet," Nature 604, 647-652 (2022).
  40. M. Z. Hasan, G. Chang, G. Bian, S.Y. Xu, J.X. Yin, "Weyl, Dirac and High-fold Chiral Fermions in Topological Quantum Matter."
  41. J. X. Yin, S. Pan, and M. Z. Hasan, "Probing topological matter with scanning tunnelling microscopy (STM)," Nat. Rev. Phys. 3, 249-263 (2021).
  42. S. Jia, S.-Y. Xu, and M. Z. Hasan, "Weyl Semimetals, Fermi Arcs and Chiral Anomalies," Nat. Mater. 15, 1140–1144 (2016).
  43. G. Chang, M. Z. Hasan et al., "Topological Quantum Properties of Chiral Crystals," Nat. Mater. 17, 978-985 (2018).
  44. M. Z. Hasan, S.-Y. Xu, and G. Bian, "Topological Insulators, Topological Superconductors and Weyl Semimetals," Phys. Scr. T164, 014001 (2015).
  45. M. Z. Hasan, S.-Y. Xu, and M. Neupane, "Topological Insulators, Topological Dirac Semimetals, Topological Crystalline Insulators, and Topological Kondo Insulators," in Topological Insulators: Fundamentals and Perspectives, edited by F. Ortmann, S. Roche, and S. Valenzuela (John Wiley & Sons, 2015).
  46. M. Z. Hasan, D. Hsieh, S.-Y. Xu, L. Wray, and Y. Xia, "Topological Surface States - A New Type of 2D Electrons Systems," in Topological Insulators (Elsevier, 2013).
  47. M. Z. Hasan and J. E. Moore, "Three-Dimensional Topological Insulators," Ann. Rev. Condens. Matter Phys. 2, 55 (2011).
  48. M. Z. Hasan, "Topological Quantization in Topological Insulators," Physics 3, 62 (2010).
  49. M. Z. Hasan and C. L. Kane, "Topological Insulators," Rev. Mod. Phys. 82, 3045 (2010).
  50. M. Z. Hasan et al., "MERLIN - A meV Resolution Beamline at the Advanced Light Source (Berkeley Lab)," AIP Conf. Proc. 879, 509 (2007).
  51. M. Z. Hasan et al., "Design of an elliptically bent refocus mirror for the MERLIN beamline at the Advanced Light Source (Berkeley Lab)," Nucl. Instrum. Methods Phys. Res. A 582, 135 (2007).
  52. L. A. Wray, Y. Xia et al., "Superconductivity and Magnetism in Topological or Dirac Matter Observation of topological order in a superconducting doped topological insulator," Nat. Phys. 6, 855 (2010).
  53. L. A. Wray, S.-Y. Xu, Y. Xia et al., "A topological insulator surface under strong Coulomb, magnetic and disorder perturbations," Nat. Phys. 7, 32 (2011).
  54. S.-Y. Xu, M. Neupane et al., "Hedgehog spin texture and Berry's phase tuning in a magnetic topological insulator," Nat. Phys. 8, 616 (2012).
  55. S.-Y. Xu, N. Alidoust, I. Belopolski et al., "Momentum-space imaging of Cooper pairing in a half-Dirac-gas topological superconductor," Nat. Phys. 10, 943 (2014).
  56. T.-R. Chang, P.-J. Chen, G. Bian et al., "Topological Dirac surface states and superconducting pairing correlations in PbTaSe2," Phys. Rev. B 93, 245130 (2016).
  57. S.-Y. Xu, N. Alidoust, I. Belopolski et al., "Discovery of Lorentz-violating Weyl fermions," Sci. Adv. 3, e1603266 (2017).
  58. J.-X. Yin, S. S. Zhang et al., "Giant and anisotropic many-body spin–orbit tunability in a correlated kagome magnet," Nature 562, 91–95 (2018).
  59. C.-K. Chiu, G. Bian et al., "Chiral Majorana Fermion Modes on the surface of superconducting topological Insulators," Europhys. Lett. 123, 47005 (2018).
  60. I. Belopolski, K. Manna et al., "Discovery of Weyl lines and drumhead surface states in a room temperature magnet," Science 365, 1278-1281 (2019).
  61. S. S. Zhang, J.-X. Yin et al., "Field-free platform for Majorana-like zero mode in superconductors with a topological surface state," Phys. Rev. B 101, 100507(R) (2020).
  62. M. Z. Hasan, S.-Y. Xu, I. Belopolski, S.-M. Huang, "Discovery of Weyl Fermion Semimetals and Topological Fermi Arc States," Ann. Rev. Condens. Matter Phys. 8, 289-309 (2017).
  63. S.-M. Huang et al., "Weyl Semimetal patent: United States Patent # 10214797. Theoretical Prediction of TaAs family," Nat. Commun. 6, 7373 (2014).
  64. M. Z. Hasan and C. L. Kane, "Topological Insulators (and Superconductors)," Rev. Mod. Phys. 82, 3045 (2010).
  65. Y. Xia et al., "Theoretical Prediction of Bi2Se3 family of Topological Insulators," arXiv:0908.3513 (2009).

Recent Research Projects:

Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation

Topological Superconductors and Majorana platforms

Exotic (strongly correlated) superconductivity and the fate of P.W. Anderson theorem 

Topological Magnets

Topological Kagome Magnets and Superconductors

Exotic Superconductors

 

 

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