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University of Michigan: Ann Arbor, MI, US

2024-06-10 to present | Fellow (Quantum Research Institute)
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Liuyan Zhao

University of Michigan: Ann Arbor, MI, US

2022-09-01 to present | Associate Professor (Physics)
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Liuyan Zhao

University of Michigan: Ann Arbor, MI, US

2017-01-01 to 2022-08-31 | Assistant Professor (Physics)
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Liuyan Zhao

California Institute of Technology: Pasadena, CA, US

2013-09-01 to 2016-11-30 | Postdoctoral fellow (Physics)
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Education and qualifications (2)

Columbia University: New York, NY, US

2008-09-01 to 2013-10-16 | Ph.D. (Physics)
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Liuyan Zhao

University of Science and Technology of China: Hefei, Anhui, CN

2004-09-01 to 2008-06-30 | B.S. (Physics)
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Liuyan Zhao

Professional activities (16)

Optical Society of America: Washington, DC, US

2016-10-23 to present
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Liuyan Zhao

American Physical Society: College Park, MD, US

2010-10-23 to present
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Liuyan Zhao

American Physical Society: College Park, Maryland, US

2023-09 to 2026-08 | Editorial Board Member (Physical Review X)
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Liuyan Zhao

Elsevier: Amsterdam, NL

2023-08 to 2026-07 | Editor Member (Progress in Quantum Electronics)
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Liuyan Zhao

United States Air Force Office of Scientific Research: Arlington, US

2025-01-15 | Presidential Early Career Awards for Scientists and Engineers
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Liuyan Zhao

University of Michigan: Ann Arbor, US

2025-01-06 | Elizabeth Caroline Crosby award
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Liuyan Zhao

University of Michigan: Ann Arbor, MI, US

2024-09-01 | Inaugural LSA-LEAD (Leading for Equity and Advancing Diversity) Fellow (College of Literature, Science, and the Arts)
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University of Hamburg: Hamburg, DE

2023-11-10 | Mildred Dresselhaus Guest Professorship (The Cluster of Excellence)
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Liuyan Zhao

Elsevier: Amsterdam, NL

2022-01 to 2023-06 | Editor Member (Solid State Communications)
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Liuyan Zhao

University of Michigan: Ann Arbor, MI, US

2022-07-22 | Henry Russel Award
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Liuyan Zhao

International Organization of Chinese Physicists and Astronomers: Columbus , OH, US

2022-03-11 | Outstanding Young Research Award
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Liuyan Zhao

Alfred P. Sloan Foundation: NY, NY, US

2021-03-09 | Alfred. P. Sloan Research Fellowship
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Liuyan Zhao

International Conference on Strongly Correlated Electron System: Okayama, JP

2019-09-27 | Bryan R. Coles Prize
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Liuyan Zhao

National Academy of Sciences: Washington, DC, US

2016-11-12 | Kavli Fellowship
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Liuyan Zhao

California Institute of Technology: Pasadena, US

2013-10-01 | Richard Chase Tolman Prize Fellowship
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Liuyan Zhao

Columbia University: New York, US

2013-02-01 | Charles Townes Fellowship
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Liuyan Zhao

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La2O3Mn2Se2 : A correlated insulating layered d -wave altermagnet

Physical Review Materials
2025-02-11 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevMaterials.9.024402
Contributors: Chao-Chun Wei; Xiaoyin Li; Sabrina Hatt; Xudong Huai; Jue Liu; Birender Singh; Kyung-Mo Kim; Rafael M. Fernandes; Paul Cardon; Liuyan Zhao et al.
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(Colloquium) Exploring and exploiting enhanced fluctuations in the two-dimensional limit

Department of Chemistry, Columbia University
2024-10-03 | Lecture
Contributors: Liuyan Zhao
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Liuyan Zhao

(Invited) Magnetism and Magnetic Phase Transitions in CrSBr

The XII Ultrafast Dynamics and Metastability and Ultrafast Bandgap Photonics Conference, Tucson, AZ
2024-09-26 | Lecture
Contributors: Liuyan Zhao
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Liuyan Zhao

(Invited) Revealing Two Magnetic Phase Transitions in Cr1/3NbS2

The 2024 Frontiers in Optics + Laser Science Conference, Denver, CO
2024-09-24 | Lecture
Contributors: Liuyan Zhao
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Liuyan Zhao

(Invited) Revealing Two Magnetic Phase Transitions in Cr1/3NbS2

Magneto-Optics in Quantum Materials Conference, Chicago, IL
2024-09-10 | Lecture
Contributors: Liuyan Zhao
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Liuyan Zhao

Multimodal approach steps up the search for axion insulators

Nature
2024-08-29 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1038/d41586-024-02524-0
Part of ISSN: 0028-0836
Part of ISSN: 1476-4687
Contributors: Youngjun Ahn; Liuyan Zhao
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Liuyan Zhao

Dimensionality crossover to a two-dimensional vestigial nematic state from a three-dimensional antiferromagnet in a honeycomb van der Waals magnet

Nature Physics
2024-08-26 | Journal article | Author
DOI: 10.1038/s41567-024-02618-6
Part of ISSN: 1745-2473
Part of ISSN: 1745-2481
Contributors: Zeliang Sun; Gaihua Ye; Chengkang Zhou; Mengqi Huang; Nan Huang; Xilong Xu; Qiuyang Li; Guoxin Zheng; Zhipeng Ye; Cynthia Nnokwe et al.
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Liuyan Zhao

(Invited) Exploring Moiré Magnons in Twisted Two-Dimensional Magnets

KITP conference "Moiré materials: A New Paradigm in Tunable" Quantum Matter", Santa Barbara, CA
2024-08-22 | Lecture
Contributors: Liuyan Zhao
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Liuyan Zhao

Extraordinary phase transition revealed in a van der Waals antiferromagnet

Nature Communications
2024-07-31 | Journal article | Author
DOI: 10.1038/s41467-024-50900-1
Part of ISSN: 2041-1723
Contributors: Xiaoyu Guo; Wenhao Liu; Jonathan Schwartz; Suk Hyun Sung; Dechen Zhang; Makoto Shimizu; Aswin L. N. Kondusamy; Lu Li; Kai Sun; Hui Deng et al.
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Liuyan Zhao

(Invited) Dimensionality crossover to a 2D vestigial nematic state from a 3D antiferromagnet in a honeycomb van der Waals magnet

ICTS Bangalore Workshop: 2D Quantum Materials, Bangalore, India
2024-07-16 | Lecture
Contributors: Liuyan Zhao
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Liuyan Zhao

(Seminar) Detect, Image, and Control Ferro-Rotational Orders with Nonlinear Optics

Institute seminar, Max Plank Institute at Stuttgart, Stuttgart, Germany
2024-07-08 | Lecture
Contributors: Liuyan Zhao
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Liuyan Zhao

Observation of stacking engineered magnetic phase transitions within moiré supercells of twisted van der Waals magnets

Nature Communications
2024-07-08 | Journal article | Author
DOI: 10.1038/s41467-024-49942-2
Part of ISSN: 2041-1723
Contributors: Senlei Li; Zeliang Sun; Nathan J. McLaughlin; Afsana Sharmin; Nishkarsh Agarwal; Mengqi Huang; Suk Hyun Sung; Hanyi Lu; Shaohua Yan; Hechang LEI et al.
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Liuyan Zhao

Electric‐Field Manipulation of Magnetic Chirality in a Homo‐Ferro‐Rotational Helimagnet

Advanced Science
2024-07-03 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1002/advs.202402048
Part of ISSN: 2198-3844
Part of ISSN: 2198-3844
Contributors: Junjie Yang; Masaaki Matsuda; Trevor Tyson; Joshua Young; William Ratcliff; Yunpeng Gao; Dimuthu Obeysekera; Xiaoyu Guo; Rachel Owen; Liuyan Zhao et al.
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Liuyan Zhao

(Invited) Revealing Two Magnetic Phase Transitions in Cr1/3NbS2

Workshop on Enhanced Functionalities in 4d- and 5d-Containing Materials from Large Spin-Orbit Coupling, Telluride, CO
2024-06-27 | Lecture
Contributors: Liuyan Zhao
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Liuyan Zhao

(Invited) Exploring Moiré Magnons in Twisted Two-Dimensional Magnets

Gordon Research Conference on 2D Electronics Beyond Graphene, Manchester, NH
2024-06-18 | Lecture
Contributors: Liuyan Zhao
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Liuyan Zhao

(Colloquium) “Seeing” multipolar orders with nonlinear optics

The Hamburg Photon Science Colloquium, University of Hamburg, CFEL, DESSY, and MPSD, Hamburg
2024-05-30 | Lecture
Contributors: Liuyan Zhao
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Liuyan Zhao

(Seminar) Moiré Magnetism in Twisted Two-Dimensional Magnets

Condensed Matter Seminar, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD
2024-04-24 | Lecture
Contributors: Liuyan Zhao
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Liuyan Zhao

(Colloquium) “Seeing” multipolar orders with nonlinear optics

Physics Colloquium, School of Physics, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA
2024-04-15 | Lecture
Contributors: Liuyan Zhao
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Liuyan Zhao

(Colloquium) Probing extraordinary phase transitions with nonlinear optics

Physics Colloquium, Department of Physics and Astronomy, George Mason University, Fairfax, VA
2024-03-29 | Lecture
Contributors: Liuyan Zhao
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Liuyan Zhao

(Invited) Probing and Designing Multipole Orders in Quantum Materials

Mildred Dresselhaus Jubilee, the Cluster of Excellence, CUI, Hamburg
2024-03-14 | Lecture
Contributors: Liuyan Zhao
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Liuyan Zhao

Editorial: PRX Embraces the Vibrant Field of 2D Materials

Physical Review X
2024-03-05 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1103/physrevx.14.010001
Part of ISSN: 2160-3308
Contributors: Liuyan Zhao; Xavier Marie
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Liuyan Zhao

(Seminar) “Seeing” multipolar orders with nonlinear optics

Condensed Matter Seminar, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, TN
2024-02-28 | Lecture
Contributors: Liuyan Zhao
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Liuyan Zhao

(Seminar) “Seeing” multipolar orders with nonlinear optics

Condensed Matter Seminar, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, NM
2024-02-23 | Lecture
Contributors: Liuyan Zhao
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Liuyan Zhao

Electric quadrupole second-harmonic generation revealing dual magnetic orders in a magnetic Weyl semimetal

Nature Photonics
2024-01 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1038/s41566-023-01300-2
Contributors: Youngjun Ahn; Xiaoyu Guo; Rui Xue; Kejian Qu; Kai Sun; David Mandrus; Liuyan Zhao
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Progress and prospects in two-dimensional magnetism of van der Waals materials

Progress in Quantum Electronics
2024-01 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1016/j.pquantelec.2024.100498
Contributors: Youngjun Ahn; Xiaoyu Guo; Suhan Son; Zeliang Sun; Liuyan Zhao
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(Invited) Surface – Bulk Difference in van der Waals Magnets

The 49th Conference on the Physics and Chemistry of Surfaces and Interfaces, Santa Fe, NM
2024-01-16 | Lecture
Contributors: Liuyan Zhao
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Liuyan Zhao

(Invited) Moiré magnetism in twisted two-dimensional magnets

Workshop on “Flat Bands, Strong Correlations and Topology”
2023-11 | Lecture
Contributors: Liuyan Zhao
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Liuyan Zhao

(Invited) “Seeing” multipolar orders with nonlinear optics

Physics Colloquium, Arizona State University
2023-10 | Lecture
Contributors: Liuyan Zhao
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Liuyan Zhao

(Invited) “Seeing” multipolar orders with nonlinear optics

Wyant College of Optical Sciences Colloquium, the University of Arizona
2023-10 | Lecture
Contributors: Liuyan Zhao
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Liuyan Zhao

(Invited) Moiré magnetism in twisted two-dimensional magnets

Physics Colloquium, Temple University
2023-09 | Lecture
Contributors: Liuyan Zhao
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Liuyan Zhao

(Invited) Revealing two magnetic orders and phase transitions in Co3Sn2S2 with nonlinear optics

Condensed Matter Seminar, University of Illinois Urbana Champaign
2023-08 | Lecture
Contributors: Liuyan Zhao
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Liuyan Zhao

Evidence of non-collinear spin texture in magnetic moiré superlattices

Nature Physics
2023-08 | Journal article | Author
DOI: 10.1038/s41567-023-02061-z
Part of ISSN: 1745-2473
Part of ISSN: 1745-2481
Contributors: Hongchao Xie; Xiangpeng Luo; Zhipeng Ye; Zeliang Sun; Gaihua Ye; Suk Hyun Sung; Hai-Wen Ge; Shaohua Yan; Yang Fu; 0000-0002-3412-4656 et al.
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Liuyan Zhao

Revealing intrinsic domains and fluctuations of moiré magnetism by a wide-field quantum microscope

Nature Communications
2023-08-29 | Journal article | Author
DOI: 10.1038/s41467-023-40543-z
Part of ISSN: 2041-1723
Contributors: Mengqi Huang; Zeliang Sun; Gerald Yan; Hongchao Xie; Nishkarsh Agarwal; Gaihua Ye; Suk Hyun Sung; Hanyi Lu; Jingcheng Zhou; Shaohua Yan et al.
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Liuyan Zhao

(Invited) Moiré magnetism in twisted two-dimensional magnets

LANL-PSI Workshop on Correlated and Topological Quantum Materials
2023-07 | Lecture
Contributors: Liuyan Zhao
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Liuyan Zhao

(Invited) Extraordinary and Surface Phase Transitions in a van der Waals Layered Antiferromagnet

Conference on "Topology and Fractionalization in Magnetic Materials"
2023-06 | Lecture
Contributors: Liuyan Zhao
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Liuyan Zhao

(Invited) Extraordinary and Surface Phase Transitions in a van der Waals Layered Antiferromagnet

SPICE workshop: Non-equilibrium Quantum Materials Design
2023-06 | Lecture
Contributors: Liuyan Zhao
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Liuyan Zhao

(Invited) Revealing two magnetic orders and phase transitions in Co3Sn2S2 with nonlinear optics

Ohio State Materials & Manufacture Conference
2023-05 | Lecture
Contributors: Liuyan Zhao
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Liuyan Zhao

Flipping antiferromagnetism by light

Nature Materials
2023-05 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1038/s41563-023-01536-x
Contributors: Youngjun Ahn; Liuyan Zhao
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Ferrorotational domain walls revealed by electric quadrupole second harmonic generation microscopy

Physical Review B
2023-05-24 | Journal article | Author
DOI: 10.1103/physrevb.107.l180102
Part of ISSN: 2469-9950
Part of ISSN: 2469-9969
Contributors: Xiaoyu Guo; Rachel Owen; Austin Kaczmarek; Xiaochen Fang; Chandan De; Youngjun Ahn; Wei Hu; Nishkarsh Agarwal; Suk Hyun Sung; Robert Hovden et al.
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Liuyan Zhao

(Invited) Dual magnetism and magnetic fluctuations in a magnetic Weyl semimetal Co3Sn2S2

2023 Nebraska Research and Innovation Conference
2023-04 | Lecture
Contributors: Liuyan Zhao
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Liuyan Zhao

Physically informed machine-learning algorithms for the identification of two-dimensional atomic crystals

Scientific Reports
2023-04-15 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1038/s41598-023-33298-6
Part of ISSN: 2045-2322
Contributors: Laura Zichi; Tianci Liu; Elizabeth Drueke; Liuyan Zhao; Gongjun Xu
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Liuyan Zhao

(Invited) Moiré magnetism in twisted two-dimensional magnets

APS 2023 March Meeting, Symposium
2023-03 | Lecture
Contributors: Liuyan Zhao
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Liuyan Zhao

(Invited) Probing multipolar orders in quantum materials using nonlinear optics

Condensed Matter Seminar, Department of Physics, Boston University
2023-03 | Lecture
Contributors: Liuyan Zhao
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Liuyan Zhao

(Invited) Probing multipolar orders in quantum materials using nonlinear optics

Condensed Matter Seminar, Department of Physics and Astronomy, Rice University
2023-02 | Lecture
Contributors: Liuyan Zhao
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Liuyan Zhao

(Invited) Engineering two-dimensional magnetism using moiré superlattices

University of California, San Diego
2023-01-24 | Lecture
Contributors: Liuyan Zhao
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Liuyan Zhao

Torsional periodic lattice distortions and diffraction of twisted 2D materials

Nature Communications
2022-12-19 | Journal article | Author
DOI: 10.1038/s41467-022-35477-x
Part of ISSN: 2041-1723
Contributors: Suk Hyun Sung; Yin Min Goh; Hyobin Yoo; Rebecca Engelke; Hongchao Xie; Kuan Zhang; Zidong Li; Andrew Ye; Parag Deotare; Ellad B. Tadmor et al.
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Liuyan Zhao

Revisiting the structure of (±)-[Co(en)3]I3·H2O – X-ray crystallographic and second-Harmonic results

Zeitschrift für Kristallographie - Crystalline Materials
2022-11-25 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1515/zkri-2022-0044
Contributors: Khurshid Sohail; Roger A. Lalancette; Ivan Bernal; Xiaoyu Guo; Liuyan Zhao
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A Three-Stage Magnetic Phase Transition Revealed in Ultrahigh-Quality van der Waals Bulk Magnet CrSBr

ACS Nano
2022-10-25 | Journal article | Author
DOI: 10.1021/acsnano.2c02896
Part of ISSN: 1936-0851
Part of ISSN: 1936-086X
Contributors: Wenhao Liu; Xiaoyu Guo; Jonathan Schwartz; Hongchao Xie; Nikhil Uday Dhale; Suk Hyun Sung; Aswin Lakshmi Narayanan Kondusamy; Xiqu Wang; Haonan Zhao; Diana Berman et al.
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Liuyan Zhao

(Invited) Moiré Engineering of Two-Dimensional Magnetism in Twisted Layered Antiferromagnets

Gordon Research Conference on Ultrafast Phenomena in Cooperative Systems
2022-10-11 | Lecture
Contributors: Liuyan Zhao
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Liuyan Zhao

(Invited) Detection and Manipulation of a Ferro-Rotational Charge Density Wave

Gordon Research Seminar on Ultrafast Phenomena in Cooperative System
2022-10-09 | Lecture
Contributors: Liuyan Zhao
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Liuyan Zhao
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