Curriculum Vitae: Yayu Wang

Curriculum Vitae: Yayu Wang
Email: [email protected]
Room C409, Department of Physics
Phone: 86-10-62789309
Tsinghua University
Group homepage:
Haidian, Beijing 100084
http://info.phys.tsinghua.edu.cn/wang/
P. R. China
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Education:
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Ph.D. in Physics, Princeton University, 06/2004
Thesis: “The Nernst Effect in High Temperature Superconductors”,
Advisor: Nai-Phuan Ong
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B.S. in Physics, University of Science and Technology of China (USTC), Hefei, 07/1998
Professional experience:
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Professor, Department of Physics, Tsinghua University, 12/2007 – present
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Visiting scholar, Department of Physics, MIT, 09/2007 – 12/2007
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Miller Research Fellow, Department of Physics, UC Berkeley, 09/2004 – 08/2007
Honors and Awards:
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Sir Martin Wood China Prize for Low Temperature Physics, 2013
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Science and Technology Award for Chinese Young Researchers, 2013
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Outstanding Young Researcher award, NSF of China, 2009.
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Li Foundation Heritage Prize, 2008.
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Changjiang Professorship, the Ministry of Education of China, 2006.
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The William L. McMillan Award in Condensed Matter Physics, 2006.
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Miller Research Fellowship Award, University of California at Berkeley, 2004-2007.
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Charlotte Elizabeth Procter Honorific Fellowship, Princeton University, 2002-2003.
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Selected publications:
1.
Wei Ruan, Cun Ye, Minghua Guo, Fei Chen, Xianhui Chen, Guangming Zhang and Yayu
Wang*, “Emergence of a coherent in-gap state in SmB6 Kondo insulator revealed by
scanning tunneling spectroscopy”, Phys. Rev. Lett. 112, 136401 (2014).
2.
Peng Cai, Wei Ruan, Xiaodong Zhou, Cun Ye, Aifeng Wang, Xianhui Chen, Dung-Hai Lee
and Yayu Wang*, “Doping dependence of the anisotropic quasiparticle interference in
NaFe1-xCoxAs iron-based superconductors”, Phys. Rev. Lett. 112, 127001 (2014).
3.
Cuizu Chang, Jinsong Zhang, Xiao Feng, Jie Shen, Zuocheng Zhang, Minghua Guo, Kang
Li, Yunbo Ou, Pang Wei, Lili Wang, Zhongqing Ji, Yang Feng, Shuaihua Ji, Xi Chen,
Jinfeng Jia, Xi Dai, Zhong Fang, Shoucheng Zhang, Ke He*, Yayu Wang*, Li Lu, Xucun
Ma and Qikun Xue*, “Experimental observation of the quantum anomalous Hall effect in a
magnetic topological insulator”, Science 340, 167 (2013).
4.
Peng Cai, Xiaodong Zhou, Wei Ruan, Aifeng Wang, Xianhui Chen, Dung-Hai Lee and
Yayu Wang*, “Visualizing the microscopic coexistence of spin density wave and
superconductivity in underdoped NaFe1-xCoxAs”, Nature Comm. 4, 1596 (2013).
5.
Jinsong Zhang, Cuizu Chang, Peizhe Tang, Zuocheng Zhang, Xiao Feng, Kang Li, Lili
Wang, Xi Chen, Chaoxing Liu, Wenhui Duan, Ke He*, Qikun Xue, Xucun Ma and Yayu
Wang*, “Topology-driven magnetic quantum phase transition in topological insulators”,
Science 339, 1582 (2013).
6.
Cun Ye, Peng Cai, Runze Yu, Xiaodong Zhou, Wei Ruan, Qingqing Liu, Changqing Jin,
and Yayu Wang*, “Visualizing the atomic-scale electronic structure of the Ca2CuO2Cl2
Mott insulator”, Nature Comm. 4, 1365 (2013).
7.
Xiaodong Zhou, Peng Cai, Aifeng Wang, Wei Ruan, Cun, Ye, Xianhui Chen, Yizhuang You,
Zheng-Yu Weng, and Yayu Wang*, “Evolution from Unconventional Spin Density Wave
to Superconductivity and a Pseudogaplike Phase in NaFe1-xCoxAs”, Phys. Rev. Lett. 109,
037002 (2012).
8.
Minhao Liu, Jinsong Zhang, Cui-Zu Chang, Zuocheng Zhang, Xiao Feng, Kang Li, Ke He*,
Li-li Wang, Xi Chen, Xi Dai, Zhong Fang, Qi-Kun Xue, Xucun Ma, and Yayu Wang*,
“Crossover between Weak Antilocalization and Weak Localization in a Magnetically Doped
Topological Insulator”, Phys. Rev. Lett. 108, 036805 (2012).
9.
Jinsong Zhang, Cuizu Chang, Zuocheng Zhang, Jing Wen, Xiao Feng, Kang Li, Minhao Liu,
Ke He*, Lili Wang, Xi Chen, Qikun Xue, Xucun Ma and Yayu Wang*, “Band structure
engineering in (Bi1-xSbx)2Te3 topological insulators”, Nature Comm. 2, 574 (2011).
10. Minhao Liu, Cuizu Chang, Zuocheng Zhang, Yi Zhang, Wei Ruan, Ke He*, Lili Wang, Xi
Chen, Jinfeng Jia, Shoucheng Zhang, Qikun Xue, Xucun Ma, and Yayu Wang*, “Electron-
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interaction driven insulating ground state in Bi2Se3 topological insulators in the twodimensional limit”, Phys. Rev. B 83, 165440 (2011).
11. Xiaodong Zhou, Cun Ye, Peng Cai, Xiangfeng Wang, Xianhui Chen, and Yayu Wang*,
“Quasiparticle interference of C2-symmetric surface sates in the LaOFeAs parent
compound”, Phys. Rev. Lett. 106, 087001 (2011).
12. Yayu Wang, Ryan Yamachika, Andre Wachowiak, Michael Grobis, and Michael F.
Crommie, “Tuning fulleride electronic structure and molecular ordering via variable layer
index”, Nature Materials 7, 194-197 (2008).
13. Yayu Wang, E. Kioupakis, X.H. Lu, D. Wegner, R. Yamachika, J.E. Dahl, R.M.K. Carlson,
S.G. Louie, and M.F. Crommie, “Spatially-resolved electronic and vibronic properties of
single diamondoid molecules”, Nature Materials 7, 38-42 (2008).
14. Yayu Wang, Lu Li and N.P. Ong, “Nernst effect in high-Tc superconductors”, Physical
Review B 73, 024510 (2006).
15. Yayu Wang, Lu Li, M.J. Naughton, G.D. Gu, S. Uchida and N.P. Ong, “Field-enhanced
diamagnetism in intense magnetic field in the pseudogap state of the cuprate
Bi2Sr2CaCu2O8+”, Physical Review Letters 95, 247002 (2005).
16. M.L. Foo, Yayu Wang, S. Watawuchi, H.W. Zandbergen, T. He, R.J. Cava and N.P. Ong,
“Charge-ordering, commensurability and metallicity in the phase diagram of layered
NaxCoO2”. Physical Review Letters 92, 247001 (2004).
17. Yayu Wang, N.S. Rogado, R.J. Cava and N.P. Ong, “Spin entropy as the likely source of
enhanced thermopower in NaxCoO2”, Nature 423, 425-428 (2003).
18. Yayu Wang, S. Ono, Y. Onose, G. Gu, Y. Ando, Y. Tokura, S. Uchida and N.P. Ong,
“Dependence of upper critical field and pairing strength on doping in cuprates”, Science 299,
86-89 (2003).
19. Yayu Wang, N.P. Ong, Z.A. Xu, T. Kakeshita, S. Uchida, D.A. Bonn, R.X. Liang and W.N.
Hardy, “High field phase diagram of cuprates derived from the Nernst effect”, Physical
Review Letters 88, 257003 (2002).
20. Yayu Wang, Z.A. Xu, T. Kakeshita, S. Uchida, S. Ono, Y. Ando and N.P. Ong, “Onset of
the vortexlike Nernst signal above Tc In La2-xSrxCuO4 and Bi2Sr2-yLayCuO6”, Physical
Review B 64, 224519 (2001).
21. Yayu Wang and N.P. Ong, “Partical-hole symmetry in the antiferromagnetic state of the
cuprates”, Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci, USA 98, 11091-11096 (2001).
22. Z.A. Xu, N.P. Ong, Y. Wang, T. Kakeshita and S. Uchida, “Vortex-like excitations and the
onset of superconducting phase fluctuation in underdoped La2-xSrxCuO4”, Nature 406, 486488 (2000).
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