Haidan Wen

Reveal nature’s secrets via peeking at the right space and time.

Biography

Dr. Haidan Wen is a physicist in the Materials Science Division and X-ray Science Division at Argonne National Laboratory. Prior to his current position, he was a research associate at SLAC National Laboratory and Stanford University. He received his Ph.D. in physics from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, in 2006 and B.S. from the University of Science and Technology of China in 2001.

Dr. Wen’s research focuses on investigating ultrafast dynamics of multiple degrees of freedom such as lattice, charge, and magnetic orders in quantum materials, using a wide range of electromagnetic radiation including THz, optical, and X-ray pulses. He is interested in the phenomena that occur on nanometer to micrometer length scales where the energy conversion and transport are influenced by novel boundary conditions, collective dynamics, and mesoscale effects. He is developing advanced spatiotemporally resolved characterization techniques by integrating various x-ray microscopy and optical microscopy to tackle challenges of measuring and understanding nanoscale energy transport and conversion in the dynamical processes of phase transition, nanoscale thermal transport, and nanoscale structure-property correlation.

Recent Publications:

• Zhaodong Chu, Junyi Yang, Yan Li, Kyle Hwangbo, Jianguo Wen, Ashley R Bielinski, Qi Zhang, Alex BF Martinson, Stephan Hruszkewycz, Dillon D Fong, Xiaodong Xu, Michael R Norman, Anand Bhattacharya, Haidan Wen, “Revealing subterahertz atomic vibrations in quantum paraelectrics by surface-sensitive spintronic terahertz spectroscopy”, Science Advances, 10, eads8601 (2024)

• Marc Zajac, Tao Zhou, Tiannan Yang, Sujit Das, Yue Cao, Burak Guzelturk, Vladimir Stoica, Mathew J Cherukara, John W Freeland, Venkatraman Gopalan, Ramamoorthy Ramesh, Lane W Martin, Long-Qing Chen, Martin V Holt, Stephan O Hruszkewycz, Haidan Wen, “Optical Control of Adaptive Nanoscale Domain Networks”, Adv. Mater. 2405294 (2024)

• Alfred Zong, Qi Zhang, Faran Zhou, Yifan Su, Kyle Hwangbo, Xiaozhe Shen, Qianni Jiang, Haihua Liu, Thomas E. Gage, Donald A. Walko, Michael E. Kozina, Duan Luo, Alexander H. Reid, Jie Yang, Suji Park, Saul H. Lapidus, Jiun-Haw Chu, Ilke Arslan, Xijie Wang, Di Xiao, Xiaodong Xuc, Nuh Gedik, and Haidan Wen, “Spin-mediated shear oscillators in a van der Waals antiferromagnet”, Nature, 620, 988 (2023)

• Faran Zhou, Kyle Hwangbo, Qi Zhang, Chong Wang, Lingnan Shen, Jiawei Zhang, Qianni Jiang, Alfred Zong, Yifan Su, Marc Zajac, Youngjun Ahn, Donald Walko, Richard Schaller, Jiun-Haw Chu, Nuh Gedik, Xiaodong Xu, Di Xiao, and Haidan Wen, “Dynamical criticality of spin-shear coupling in van der Waals antiferromagnets”, Nature Communications 13, 6598 (2022)

• Qian Li, Vladimir A. Stoica, Marek PaÅ›ciak, Yi Zhu, Yakun Yuan, Tiannan Yang, Margaret R. McCarter, Sujit Das, Ajay K. Yadav, Suji Park, Cheng Dai, Hyeon Jun Lee, Youngjun Ahn, Samuel D. Marks, Shukai Yu, Christelle Kadlec, Takahiro Sato, Matthias C. Hoffmann, Matthieu Chollet, Michael E. Kozina, Silke Nelson, Diling Zhu, Donald A. Walko, Aaron M. Lindenberg, Paul G. Evans, Long-Qing Chen, Ramamoorthy Ramesh, Lane W. Martin, Venkatraman Gopalan, John W. Freeland, Jirka Hlinka, Haidan Wen, “Subterahertz collective dynamics of polar vortices”, Nature, 592, 376-380 (2021) (Cover Article)