Tulane Quantum Materials Lab

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Congratulations to Jin Hu for being Assistant Professor at University of Arkansas!

Congratulations to Prof. Mao for winning the Outstanding Researcher Award!!!

At the 11th annual School of Science and Engineering (SSE) Research Day on Thursday (April 6), the college presented its Outstanding Researcher Award to Zhiqiang Mao, the Nicholas J. Altiero Professor in the Department of Physics and Engineering Physics.

Mao’s research focuses on quantum materials such as superconductors, magnetic materials and topological materials. He joined Tulane University in 2002.

The Outstanding Researcher Award recognizes achievement in the quality and quantity of publications, research funding, and contributions to graduate education, among other criteria. During the ceremony, Mao outlined his research efforts and discussed the relevance of quantum materials to the development of future information and other technologies. SSE dean Nicholas J. Altiero presented the award.

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“Nearly Massless Dirac fermions hosted by Sb square net in BaMnSb₂“,

Jinyu Liu, Jin Hu, Huibo Cao, Yanglin Zhu, Alyssa Chuang, D. Graf, D.J. Adams, S.M.A. Radmanesh, L. Spinu, I. Chiorescu, and Zhiqiang Mao, Scientific Report 6, 30525 (2016).

www.nature.com/articles/srep30525

“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 Zhiqiang Mao
Phys. Rev. Lett. 117, 016602 (2016)

This work was selected as Editors’ suggestions

http://dx.doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.117.016602

Scientific Reports Paper published!

“π Berry phase and Zeeman splitting of Weyl semimetal TaP”. J. Hu; J. Y. Liu; D. Graf; S. M. A. Radmanesh; D. J. Adams; A. Chuang; Y. Wang; I. Chiorescu; J. Wei; L. Spinu; Z. Q. Mao, Scientific Reports 6, 18674 (2016).

http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/srep18674

Our recent work, “π Berry phase and Zeeman splitting of Weyl semimetal TaP”, is accepted by Scientific Reports!

Our latest work, “Enhanced electron coherence in atomically thin Nb3SiTe6“, has been published in Nature Physics!

The effect of phonon dimensionality on electron-phonon interaction has been predicted for long time. However, the experimental efforts results in controversial conclusions. Such confliction may caused by the fact that the previous investigations are all preformed on polycrystalline materials, in which the grain boundary scattering may affect the electron-phonon interaction. In this work, through the magnetoresistance measurements on single crystalline nano flakes, we show that the electron-phonon interaction can be modified by phonon dimensionality. Our work provide strong evidence for the long-predictions and highlight the importance to use single crystalline material to investigate the low dimensional physics.