Faculty

CHEN Xi Assistant Professor

Department of Physics, Tsinghua University

School of Sciences Building

Beijing 100084, China

Phone:8610-62795618

Fax:8610-62781604

xc@tsinghua.edu.cn

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Education and Employment

Education: B.S., 1993, Tsinghua University;

M. S., 1996, Tsinghua University;

Ph.D., 2004, Cornell University;

Employment:

Postdoctoral associate (2004-2006), University of California, Irvine;

Assistant professor (2006-present), Department of Physics, Tsinghua University.

Teaching


Interests

Low temperature scanning tunneling microscopy

Awards and Membership


Selected Publications

C. H. Yan, J. W. Liu, Y. Y. Zhang, J. F. Wang, Z. Y. Wang, P. Wang, Z. D. Zhang, L. L. Wang, X. C. Ma, S. H. Ji, K. He, L. Fu, W. H. Duan, Q. K. Xue, and X. Chen,“Experimental observation of Dirac-like surface states and topological phase transition in Pb1xSnxTe(111) films",Phys. Rev. Lett. 112, 186801 (2014).

E. Y. Wang, H. Ding, A. V. Fedorov, W. Yao, Z. Li, Y. F. Lv, K. Zhao, L. G. Zhang, Z. J. Xu, J. Schneeloch, R. D. Zhong, S. H. Ji, L. L. Wang, K. He, X. C. Ma, G. D. Gu, H. Yao, Q. K. Xue, X. Chen, and S. Y. Zhou, "Fully gapped topological surface states in Bi2Se3 films induced by a d-wave high-temperature superconductor",Nat. Phys.9, 621 (2013).

W. Li, H. Ding, Z. Li, P. Deng, K. Chang, K. He, S. H. Ji, L. L. Wang, X. C. Ma, J. P. Hu, X. Chen, and Q. K. Xue, "KFe2Se2 is the parent compound of K-doped iron selenide superconductors",Phys. Rev. Lett.109, 057003 (2012).

W. Li, H. Ding, P. Deng, K. Chang, C. L. Song, K. He, L. L. Wang, X. C. Ma, J. P. Hu, X. Chen, and Q. K. Xue, “Phase separation and magnetic order in K-doped iron selenide superconductor”,Nat. Phys.8, 126 (2012).

C. L. Song, Y. L. Wang, P. Cheng, Y. P. Jiang, W. Li, T. Zhang, Z. Li, K. He, L. L. Wang, J. F. Jia, H. H. Hung, C. J. Wu, X. C. Ma, X. Chen, and Q. K. Xue, “Direct observation of nodes and twofold symmetry in FeSe superconductor”,Science332, 1410 (2011).

P. Cheng, C. L. Song, T. Zhang, Y. Y. Zhang, Y. L. Wang, J. F. Jia, J. Wang, Y. Y. Wang, B. F. Zhu, X. Chen, X. C. Ma, K. He, L. L. Wang, X. Dai, Z. Fang, X. C. Xie, X. L. Qi, C. X. Liu, S. C. Zhang, and Q. K. Xue, “Landau quantization of topological surface states in Bi2Se3”,Phys. Rev. Lett.105, 076801 (2010).

T. Zhang, P. Cheng, W. J. Li, Y. J. Sun, G. Wang, X. G. Zhu, K. He, L. L. Wang, X. C. Ma, X. Chen, Y. Y. Wang, Y. Liu, H. Q. Lin, J. F. Jia, and Q. K. Xue, “Superconductivity in one-atomic-layer metal films grown on Si(111)”,Nat. Phys.6, 104 (2010).

T. Zhang, P. Cheng, X. Chen, J. F. Jia, X. C. Ma, K. He, L. L. Wang, H. J. Zhang, X. Dai, Z. Fang, X. C. Xie, and Q. K. Xue, “Experimental demonstration of topological surface states protected by time-reversal symmetry”,Phys. Rev. Lett.103, 266803 (2009).

Y. S. Fu, T. Zhang, S. H. Ji, X. Chen, X. C. Ma, J. F. Jia, and Q. K. Xue, “Identifying charge states of molecules with spin-flip Spectroscopy”,Phys. Rev. Lett.103, 257202 (2009).

X. Chen, Y. S. Fu, S. H. Ji, T. Zhang, P. Cheng, X. C. Ma, X. L. Zou, W. H. Duan, J. F. Jia, and Q. K. Xue, “Probing superexchange interaction in molecular magnets by spin-flip spectroscopy and microscopy”,Phys. Rev. Lett.101, 197208 (2008).

S. H. Ji, T. Zhang, Y. S. Fu, X. Chen, X. C. Ma, J. Li, W. H. Duan, J. F. Jia, and Q. K. Xue, “High-resolution tunneling spectroscopy of magnetic impurity induced bound states in the superconducting gap of Pb thin films”,Phys. Rev. Lett.100, 226801 (2008).

Y. S. Fu, S. H. Ji, X. Chen, X. C. Ma, R. Wu, C. C. Wang, W. H. Duan, X. H. Qiu, B. Sun, P. Zhang, J. F. Jia, and Q. K. Xue, “Manipulating the Kondo resonance through quantum size effects”,Phys. Rev. Lett.99, 256601 (2007).