Liang Fu

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Liang Fu is a Chinese solid state theoretical physicist.

Liang Fu received his bachelor's degree in physics from the Chinese University of Science and Technology in 2004 and received his PhD from the University of Pennsylvania in 2009 with Charles L. Kane . As a post-doctoral student , he was a Junior Fellow at Harvard University . He is an Assistant Professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology .

He deals with the application of topology in solid-state physics to predict new phases of matter and topological materials ( topological insulators , topological superconductors). Among other things, he proposed crystalline topological insulators in IV-VI semiconductors. He deals with the theory of topological phase transitions in the presence of disorder and taking into account the interaction of electrons with one another, and with applications of topological materials, for example in quantum optics.

In 2008 he and Kane proposed the realization of Majorana fermion states in mixtures of topological insulators and s-wave superconductors. In 2007 he and Kane proposed the first three-dimensional topological insulator, which was soon found experimentally.

For 2016 he received the New Horizons in Physics Prize . In 2014 he received the Sackler Prize .

Fonts

  • Topological Crystalline Insulators, Phys. Rev. Lett. 106, 2011, p. 106802
  • with Erez Berg: Odd-Parity Topological Superconductors: Theory and Application to CuxBi2Se3, Phys. Rev. Lett. 105, 2010, p. 097001
  • Electron Teleportation via Majorana Bound States in a Mesoscopic Superconductor, Phys. Rev. Lett. 104, 2010, p. 056402
  • with Charles L. Kane: Superconducting Proximity Effect and Majorana Fermions at the Surface of a Topological Insulator, Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 2008, p. 096407
  • with CL Kane: Topological Insulators with Inversion Symmetry, Phys. Rev. B 76, 2007, p. 045302

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Fu, Kane, Superconducting Proximity Effect and Majorana Fermions at the Surface of a Topological Insulator, Phys. Rev. Lett., Volume 100, 2008, p. 096407, abstract
  2. ^ Winner of the New Horizons in Physics Prize 2016
personal data
SURNAME Fu, Liang
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Chinese theoretical solid-state physicist
DATE OF BIRTH 20th century