Education

• Ph.D. in condensed matter physics, Northern Illinois University.
• B.S. in physics, Sichuan University

Research focuses

Experimental measurements on quantum materials and hybrid systems involving magnonics, topological quantum materials, magnetic quantum materials, and superconductors.

Pubilcations

• Negative longitudinal magnetoresistance in GaAs quantum wells

Jing Xu, Meng K. Ma, Maksim Sultanov, Zhi-Li Xiao, Yong-Lei Wang, Dafei Jin, Yang-Yang Lyu, Wei Zhang, Loren N. Pfeiffer, Ken W. West, Kirk W. Baldwin, Mansour Shayegan, Wai-Kwong Kwok, Nature Communications 10 (1), 287 (2019)

• Switchable geometric frustration in an artificial-spin-ice/superconductor hetero-system

Yong-Lei Wang, Xiaoyu Ma, Jing Xu, Zhi-Li Xiao, Alexey Snezhko, Ralu Divan, Leonidas E. Ocola, John E. Pearson, Boldizsar Janko, Wai-Kwong Kwok, Nature nanotechnology 13 (7), 560-565 (2018).   

• Electronic and structural response to pressure in the hyperkagome-lattice Na₃Ir₃O₈

F. Sun, H. Zheng, Y. Liu, E. D. Sandoval, C. Xu, J. Xu, C. Q. Jin, C. J. Sun, W. G. Yang, H. K. Mao, J. F. Mitchell, A. N. Kolmogorov, and D. Haskel, Physical Review B 98 (8), 085131 (2018)

• Origin of the extremely large magnetoresistance in the semimetal YSb

J. Xu, N. J. Ghimire, J. S. Jiang, ZL Xiao, A. S. Botana, Y. L. Wang, Y. Hao, J. E. Pearson, W. K. Kwok, Physical Review B 96 (7), 075159 (2017)

• Reentrant metallic behavior in the Weyl semimetal NbP

J. Xu, D. E. Bugaris, Z. L. Xiao, Y. L. Wang, D. Y. Chung, M. G. Kanatzidis, W. K. Kwok, Physical Review B 96 (11), 115152 (2017)

• Separation of electron and hole dynamics in the semimetal LaSb

F. Han, J. Xu, A. S. Botana, Z. L. Xiao, Y. L. Wang, W. G. Yang, D. Y. Chung, M G Kanatzidis, M. R. Norman, G. W. Crabtree, W. K. Kwok, Physical Review B 96 (12), 125112 (2017)

• Rewritable artificial magnetic charge ice

Yong-Lei Wang, Zhi-Li Xiao, Alexey Snezhko, Jing Xu, Leonidas E. Ocola, Ralu Divan, John E. Pearson, George W. Crabtree, Wai-Kwong Kwok, Science 352 (6288), 962-966 (2016)