Xue Qikun

Xue Qikun (Chinese: 薛其坤) is a Chinese physicist. He is a professor of Tsinghua University, Beijing. He has done much work in Condensed Matter Physics, especially on superconductors and topological insulators.[1][2] In 2013, Xue was the first to achieve the quantum anomalous Hall effect (QAHE), an unusual orderly motion of electrons in a conductor, in his laboratory at Tsinghua University. Xue is a member of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, vice president for research of Tsinghua University, and director of State Key Lab of Quantum Physics.[3] In 2016 he was one of the first recipients of the new Chinese Future Science Award for experimental discovery of high-temperature superconductivity at material interfaces and the QAHE. This award has been described as "China's Nobel Prize".[4][5]

In this Chinese name, the family name is Xue.
Xue Qikun
Alma materChinese Academy of Sciences
Shandong University
Scientific career
FieldsQuantum physics
Topological insulators
InstitutionsTsinghua University
Websiteinfo.phys.tsinghua.edu.cn/xuegroup/

Career

Xue earned his PhD from the Institute of Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences in 1994.[6] From 1994 to 2000, he worked as a research associate at Institute for Materials Research, Tohoku University, Japan, and as a visiting assistant professor at the Physics Department of North Carolina State University, US. He became a professor at the Institute of Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, in 1999, and since 2005 has worked as a professor in the Physics Department of Tsinghua University. He is a partner investigator in Australia's ARC Centre of Excellence in Future Low-Energy Electronics Technologies.[7] In 2020, he became the president of Southern University of Science and Technology (SUSTech).[8]

Research and achievements

Xue pioneered high quality thin films of topological insulators and, in 2013, first achieved the quantum anomalous Hall effect (QAHE), at Tsinghua University. Nobel Laureate Chen-Ning Yang called this discovery "worthy of a Nobel Prize".[9] Xue's current research aims at preparation of low-dimensional structures exhibiting pronounced quantum phenomena, and understanding of growth dynamics and quantum mechanical effects on solid surfaces and in thin films,[10] including:

Honors

Selected papers
  1. Experimental Observation of the Quantum Anomalous Hall Effect in a Magnetic Topological Insulator[16]
  2. Superconductivity in One-Atomic-Layer Metal Films Grown on Si(111)[17]
  3. Superconductivity Modulated by Quantum Size Effects[18]

References
  1. NTU-CTS (2013-09-26), Qikun Xue, Experiments on Topological Insulator and Quantum Anomalous Hall effect Part I, retrieved 2016-02-04
  2. "IAS Channel". video.ust.hk. Retrieved 2016-02-05.
  3. "清华大学 - Tsinghua University". www.tsinghua.edu.cn. Retrieved 2016-02-01.
  4. http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/china/2016-09/19/content_26831838.htm
  5. https://www.nature.com/news/china-only-science-prize-honours-pathologist-and-experimental-physicist-1.20644
  6. "Qi-Kun Xue". Physics. Retrieved 26 April 2020.
  7. "Qikun Xue". FLEET. Retrieved 26 April 2020.
  8. https://www.sustech.edu.cn/en/xueqikun.html?lang=en
  9. https://www.tsinghua.edu.cn/publish/thu2018en/11491/2018/20180606142103665544278/20180606142103665544278_.html
  10. http://info.phys.tsinghua.edu.cn/xuegroup/
  11. "TWAS Announces 2010 Prize Winners". TWAS. Retrieved 2016-02-05.
  12. "Outstanding Scientific Research Team Award - Qiu Shi Science and Technologies Foundation". en.qiushi.org. Retrieved 2016-02-05.
  13. "Outstanding Scientist Award - Qiu Shi Science and Technologies Foundation". www.qiushi.org. Retrieved 2016-02-05.
  14. "QikunXue and Yuk-MingDennis Lo awarded the first Future Science Prize". www.futureprize.org/eng.
  15. "Chinese scientist wins int'l award for quantum discovery". zinhua.net.com.
  16. Chang, Cui-Zu; Zhang, Jinsong; Feng, Xiao; Shen, Jie; Zhang, Zuocheng; Guo, Minghua; Li, Kang; Ou, Yunbo; Wei, Pang (2013-04-12). "Experimental Observation of the Quantum Anomalous Hall Effect in a Magnetic Topological Insulator". Science. 340 (6129): 167–170. arXiv:1605.08829. Bibcode:2013Sci...340..167C. doi:10.1126/science.1234414. ISSN 0036-8075. PMID 23493424.
  17. Zhang, Tong; Cheng, Peng; Li, Wen-Juan; Sun, Yu-Jie; Wang, Guang; Zhu, Xie-Gang; He, Ke; Wang, Lili; Ma, Xucun (2010-02-01). "Superconductivity in one-atomic-layer metal films grown on Si(111)". Nature Physics. 6 (2): 104–108. Bibcode:2010NatPh...6..104Z. doi:10.1038/nphys1499. ISSN 1745-2473.
  18. Guo, Yang; Zhang, Yan-Feng; Bao, Xin-Yu; Han, Tie-Zhu; Tang, Zhe; Zhang, Li-Xin; Zhu, Wen-Guang; Wang, E. G.; Niu, Qian (2004-12-10). "Superconductivity Modulated by Quantum Size Effects". Science. 306 (5703): 1915–1917. Bibcode:2004Sci...306.1915G. doi:10.1126/science.1105130. ISSN 0036-8075. PMID 15591197.
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