Yu Li
Assistant Physicist
Biography
Research Interests
My research focuses on understanding entropy-driven phenomena and fundamental interactions in emerging quantum materials, including compositionally complex materials, topological materials, frustrated magnets, and unconventional superconductors. I employ a comprehensive suite of techniques—neutron and X-ray scattering, single crystal synthesis, physical property characterization, and computational modeling—to probe the intriguing and often complex nature of these systems. More recently, my interests have expanded to include the application of information theory to the sensing and detection of physical orders, as well as Bayesian inference and AI-assisted discovery of hidden states.
Education
Ph.D. in Physics Rice University, Houston, TX 2018
M.S. in Physics Renmin University of China, Beijing 2012
B.S. in Applied Physics Shandong University, Jinan, China 2009
Professional Experiences
Assistant Scientist Argonne National Laboratory (Feb 2024 - Pres.)
Postdoctoral Appointee Argonne National Laboratory (May 2021 - Feb 2024)
Postdoctoral Researcher Louisiana State University (Nov 2018 - May 2021)
Selected Talks
The Mirror Maze: Exploring Intriguing Chiral Symmetry in Crystalline Materials, Colloquium, Argonne National Laboratory, May 2025
The Fifth Element – From Platonic Solids to Geometrically Frustrated Materials, Seminar, Argonne National Laboratory, December 2023
A Conspiracy Theory: A Flat World Of Electrons, Seminar, Argonne National Laboratory, virtual. October 2020
Selected Publications
- Structural and magnetic properties of CoTeMoO6, Yu Li, Jared Coles, Xin Gui, Hyowon Park, Yan Wu, Xinglong Chen, Jing-han Chen, Xiaoping Wang, Huibo Cao, Shane Stadler, Omar Chmaissem, David P. Young, Stephan Rosenkranz, and John F. DiTusa, Physical Review B, 111, 104434. (Editors’ Suggestion) (Link)
- Topological Hall effect and magnetic states in the Nowotny chimney ladder compound Cr11Ge19, Yu Li, Xin Gui, Mojammel A Khan, Weiwei Xie, David P Young, JF DiTusa, Physical Review B, 103 (2), 024445.(Link)
- Flat-band magnetism and helical magnetic order in Ni-doped SrCo2As2, Yu Li, Zhonghao Liu, Zhuang Xu, Yu Song, Yaobo Huang, Dawei Shen, Ni Ma, Ang Li, Songxue Chi, Matthias Frontzek, Huibo Cao, Qingzhen Huang, Weiyi Wang, Yaofeng Xie, Rui Zhang, Yan Rong, William A Shelton, David P Young, JF DiTusa, Pengcheng Dai, Physical Review B, 100 (9), 094446.(Link)
- Coexistence of Ferromagnetic and Stripe Antiferromagnetic Spin Fluctuations in SrCo2As2, Yu Li, Zhiping Yin, Zhonghao Liu, Weiyi Wang, Zhuang Xu, Yu Song, Long Tian, Yaobo Huang, Dawei Shen, Douglas L Abernathy, Jennifer L Niedziela, Russell A Ewings, TG Perring, Daniel M Pajerowski, Masaaki Matsuda, Philippe Bourges, Enderle Mechthild, Yixi Su, Pengcheng Dai, Physical review letters 122 (11), 117204.(Link)
- Dynamic spin-lattice coupling and nematic fluctuations in NaFeAs, Yu Li, Zahra Yamani, Yu Song, Weiyi Wang, Chenglin Zhang, David W Tam, Tong Chen, Ding Hu, Zhuang Xu, Songxue Chi, Ke Xia, Li Zhang, Shifeng Cui, Wenan Guo, Ziming Fang, Yi Liu, Pengcheng Dai, Physical Review X 8 (2), 021056.(Link)
- Orbital selective spin excitations and their impact on superconductivity of LiFe1-xCoxAs, Yu Li, Zhiping Yin, Xiancheng Wang, David W Tam, DL Abernathy, A Podlesnyak, Chenglin Zhang, Meng Wang, Lingyi Xing, Changqing Jin, Kristjan Haule, Gabriel Kotliar, Thomas A Maier, Pengcheng Dai, Physical review letters 116 (24), 247001.(Link)