Shoucheng Zhang

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Shoucheng Zhang, Stanford, 2011

Shoucheng Zhang ( Chinese  张 首 晟 , Pinyin Zhāng Shǒuchéng , also: Shou-Cheng Zhang ; born February 15, 1963 in Shanghai , People's Republic of China ; † December 1, 2018 ) was an American theoretical solid-state physicist of Chinese origin. His family was from Gaoyou City, Jiangsu Province, China . Zhang attended Fudan University in Shanghai from 1978 and went to Germany to study further in 1980.

Zhang graduated from the Free University of Berlin in 1983 and received his doctorate in 1987 from the State University of New York at Stony Brook . Until 1989 he was a post-doctoral student at the Institute for Theoretical Physics (ITP) at the University of California, Santa Barbara . From 1989 to 1993 he was at the IBM Almaden Research Center and from 1993 he was Professor of Physics at Stanford University . Since 2003 he has been co-director of the IBM-Stanford Center for Spintronics Science and Application Center .

He dealt with spintronics and the quantum spin Hall effect (which he proposed in 2006 independently of Charles L. Kane with B. Andrei Bernevig ) as a prototype of topological insulators , i.e. insulators with topological conduction states on the surface. Together with Andrei Bernevig, he also proposed a realization of the quantum spin Hall effect in quantum wells (sandwich structures of mercury-tellurium layers between cadmium-tellurium layers), where they were also demonstrated experimentally in 2007. He also deals with high-temperature superconductors , where he developed an SO (5) theory that describes both their antiferromagnetic and their superconductor properties in a unified way.

With Shuichi Murakami and Naoto Nagaosa , he proposed an intrinsic spin Hall effect in 2003 , independently of a group led by Allan H. MacDonald and Jairo Sinova .

In 1993 he received the Outstanding Innovation Award from IBM. In 2012 he received the Dirac Medal (ICTP) (with F. Duncan M. Haldane and Charles L. Kane, in particular for their pioneering work on two- and three-dimensional topological insulators) and the Oliver E. Buckley Condensed Matter Prize . In 2010 he received the Europhysics Prize. He has been a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences since 2011 and is a member of the American Association for the Advancement of Science . In 2007 he was a Guggenheim Fellow and in 2006 he became a Fellow of the American Physical Society . In 2013 he received the Physics Frontiers Prize . For 2015 he was awarded the Benjamin Franklin Medal by the Franklin Institute . Also in 2015 he was elected to the National Academy of Sciences . In 2016 he received an honorary doctorate from the Julius Maximilians University of Würzburg .

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  • with Xiao-Liang Qi : The Quantum Spin Hall Effect and Topological Insulators , Physics Today, January 2010, Arxiv

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  1. ↑ Stanford University: Stanford theoretical physicist Shoucheng Zhang dies at December 55th , 2018, accessed on December 9th, 2018 .
  2. ↑ According to his curriculum vitae, incorrectly stated as a bachelor's degree on his website
  3. ↑ BA Bernevig, SC Zhang, Quantum Spin Hall Effect , Physical Review Letters, Volume 96, 2006, p. 106802
  4. ↑ BA Bernevig, Taylor L. Hughes, SC Zhang Quantum Spin Hall Effect and Topological Phase Transition in HgTe Quantum Wells , Science, Volume 314, 2006, p. 1757
  5. ↑ Markus König, Steffen Wiedmann, Christoph Brüne, Andreas Roth, Hartmut Buhmann, Laurens W. Molenkamp, ​​Xiao-Liang Qi, Shou-Cheng Zhang Quantum Spin Hall Insulator State in HgTe Quantum Wells , Science, Volume 318, 2007, p. 766
  6. ↑ Zhang, Demler, Hanke The SO (5) Theory of Antiferromagnetism and Superconductivity , Reviews of Modern Physics, Volume 76, 2004, p. 909, Zhang A unified theory based on SO (5) symmetry of superconductivity and antiferromagnetism , Science, Volume 275, 1997, p. 1089, The SO (5) theory of High Tc Superconductivity , Physica C, Vol. 282-287, 1997, p. 265
  7. ↑ Murakami, Nagaosa, Zhang, Dissipationless Quantum Spin Current at Room Temperature, Science, Volume 301, 2003, p. 1348
  8. ↑ Dimitrie Culcer, Q. Niu, NA Sinitsyn, T. Jungwirth, AH MacDonald, J. Sinova: Universal Intrinsic Spin-Hall Effect, Phys. Rev. Lett., Vol. 92, 2004, p. 126603
  9. ↑ Physics World 2012 for receiving the award
  10. ↑ Laudation Oliver Buckley Prize
personal data
SURNAME Zhang, Shoucheng
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Zhang, Shou-cheng; 张 首 晟 (Chinese)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American theoretical solid-state physicist of Chinese origin
DATE OF BIRTH February 15, 1963
PLACE OF BIRTH Shanghai , People's Republic of China
DATE OF DEATH 1st December 2018