Zhiqiang Mao
Professor of Physics, Material Science, and Chemistry
ABOUT:
Dr. Mao received his B.S. in Physics from Nanjing Normal University in China, and his Ph. D degree in Physics from University of Science and Technology of China in 1992. After his postdoc training at Kyoto University in Japan and Pennsylvania State University, he was recruited as an assistant professor in 2002 to Tulane University, where he rose to the rank of full professor in physics in 2009 and held an endowed professorship from 2011-2018. He served as the chair of the Department of Physics and Engineering Physics from 2011-2014. He joined Pennsylvania State University as a full professor in July 2018.
He has been awarded the Tulane University School of Science and Engineering Outstanding Researcher Award in 2017, the NSF Career Award in 2007, the Cottrell Scholar Award in 2005, and the Tulane President Early Career Development Award in 2005. He is a Fellow of the American Physical Society since 2015. Currently he is the bulk growth lead of the 2D Crystal Consortium (2DCC)-Materials Innovation Platform funded by the NSF. Dr. Mao has published 380 peer-reviewed papers, including 57 papers in high impact journals such as Nature, Science, Nature Materials, Nature Nanotechnology, Nature Physics, Nature Communications, Physical Review X, Physical Review Letters, etc. His published papers have been widely cited, with the citation h-index of 58.
PUBLICATIONS:
Total publications in peer-reviewed journals: 380. The total citation count exceeds 15,320 with H-index = 58 (Google Scholar https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=gf-h3EUAAAAJ&hl=en ); 32 in PRLs, 1 in PRX, 4 in Nature, 5 in Nature Materials, 3 in Nature Physics, 1 in Nature Nanotechnology, 10 in Nature Communications, 1 in Science)
Selected publications (*corresponding authors):
- Transport evidence for a magnetic-field induced Weyl state in antiferromagnetic topological insulator
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, 2021 (accepted), arXiv:2002.10683 [2002.10683] Evidence for a magnetic-field induced ideal type-II Weyl state in antiferromagnetic topological insulator Mn(Bi1-xSbx)2Te4 (arxiv.org)
- 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, 2021 (accepted).
- 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). https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-020-17174-9
- 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, DN Basov
Nature Physics 16, 636 (2020). https://www.nature.com/articles/s41567-020-0859-z
- Ultrasound evidence for a two-component superconducting order parameter in Sr2RuO4,
S. Benhabib, C. Lupien, I. Paul, L. Berges, M. Dion, M. Nardone, A Zitouni,
Z.Q. Mao, Y Maeno, A Georges, L Taillefer, C Proust,
Nature Physics 17, 194 (2020). https://www.nature.com/articles/s41567-020-1033-3
- 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). https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevResearch.1.012011
- 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). https://www.nature.com/articles/nmat4953
- 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). https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-017-00673-7
- 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). https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.117.016602
- Colossal Magnetoresistance in a Mott Insulator via magnetic field-driven insulator-metal transition,
M. Zhu, J. Peng, T. Zou, K. Prokes, S.D. Mahanti, T. Hong, Z.Q. Mao,
G.Q. Liu and X. Ke.
Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 216401 (2016). https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.116.216401
- Drastic pressure effect on the extremely large magnetoresistance in WTe2,
P. L. Cai, J. Hu, L. P. He, J. Pan, X. C. Hong, Z. Zhang, J. Zhang, J. Wei, Z. Q. Mao, S. Y. Li,
Phys. Rev. Lett. 115, 057202 (2015). https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.115.057202
- 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). https://www.nature.com/articles/nphys3321
- 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). https://www.nature.com/articles/nmat2800
- Tunable (dp;dp)-type antiferromagnetic order in a-Fe(Te,Se) superconductor
W. Bao, Y. Qiu, Q. Huang, M.A. Green, P. Zajdel, M.R. Fitzsimmons,
M. Zhernenkov, M.H. fang, B. Qian, E.K. Vehstedt, J.H. Yang,
H,M. Pham, L. Spinu, and Z.Q. Mao
Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 247001 (2009). https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.102.247001
- Phase separation in the itinerant metamagnetic transition of Sr4Ru3O10,
Z.Q. Mao*, M. Zhou, J. Hooper, V. Golub, and C. J. O’Connor,
Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 077205 (2006). https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.96.077205
AWARDS:
- · Tulane University School of Science and Engineering Outstanding Researcher Award in 2017
- · 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.