Publications

A full list of our publications is available on Google Scholar.

2025

Visualizing the finite-momentum pairing state in EuRbFe₄As₄ by quasiparticle interference

He Zhao, Raymond Blackwell, Shigeyuki Ishida, Akira Iyo, Hiroshi Eisaki, Roland Willa, Yue Yu, Daniel F. Agterberg, Rafael M. Fernandes, Jörg Schmalian, Abhay N. Pasupathy, and Kazuhiro Fujita

Under review (2025)

2023

Smectic pair density wave order in EuRbFe₄As₄

He Zhao, Raymond Blackwell, Morgan Thinel, Taketo Handa, Shigeyuki Ishida, Xiaoyang Zhu, Akira Iyo, Hiroshi Eisaki, Abhay N. Pasupathy & Kazuhiro Fujita

Nature 618, 940–945 (2023)

Unidirectional coherent quasiparticles from high-temperature rotational symmetry broken phase of AV₃Sb₅ kagome superconductors

Hong Li, He Zhao, Brenden R. Ortiz, Yuzki Oey, Ziqiang Wang, Stephen D. Wilson & Ilija Zeljkovic

Nature Physics 19, 637–643 (2023)

2022

Rotation symmetry breaking in the normal state of a kagome superconductor KV₃Sb₅

Hong Li*, He Zhao*, Brenden R. Ortiz, Takamori Park, Mengxing Ye, Leon Balents, Ziqiang Wang, Stephen D. Wilson & Ilija Zeljkovic

Nature Physics 18, 265 (2022)

Manipulation of Dirac band curvature and momentum-dependent g-factor in a Kagome magnet

Hong Li, He Zhao, Kun Jiang, Qi Wang, Qiangwei Yin, Ning-Ning Zhao, Kai Liu, Ziqiang Wang, Hechang Lei & Ilija Zeljkovic

Nature Physics 18, 644–649 (2022)

2021

Cascade of correlated electron states in the kagome superconductor CsV₃Sb₅

He Zhao, Hong Li, Brenden R. Ortiz, Samuel M. L. Teicher, Takamori Park, Mengxing Ye, Ziqiang Wang, Leon Balents, Stephen D. Wilson & Ilija Zeljkovic

Nature 599, 216–221 (2021)

Nematic transition and nanoscale suppression of superconductivity in Fe(Te, Se)

He Zhao, Hong Li, Lianyang Dong, Binjie Xu, John Schneeloch, Ruidan Zhong, Minghu Fang, Genda Gu, John Harter, Stephen D. Wilson, Ziqiang Wang & Ilija Zeljkovic

Nature Physics 17, 903–908 (2021)

Imaging antiferromagnetic domain fluctuations and the effect of atomic scale disorder in a doped spin-orbit Mott insulator

He Zhao, Zach Porter, Xiang Chen, Stephen D. Wilson, Ziqiang Wang, Ilija Zeljkovic

Science Advances 7, eabi6468 (2021)

Nanoscale decoupling of structural anisotropy and electronic nematicity in FeSe thin films

Zheng Ren, Hong Li, He Zhao, Shrinkhala Sharma, Ziqiang Wang & Ilija Zeljkovic

Nature Communications 12, 10 (2021)

Before 2021

Coulomb Blockade Effects in a Topological Insulator Grown on a High-Tc Cuprate Superconductor

Bryan Rachmilowitz, He Zhao, Zheng Ren, Hong Li, Konrad H. Thomas, John Marangola, Shang Gao, John Schneeloch, Ruidan Zhong, Genda Gu, Christian Flindt & Ilija Zeljkovic

npj Quantum Materials 5, 72 (2020)

Atomic-scale fragmentation and collapse of antiferromagnetic order in a doped Mott insulator

He Zhao, Sujit Manna, Zach Porter, Xiang Chen, Andrew Uzdejczyk, Jagadeesh Moodera, Ziqiang Wang, Stephen D. Wilson & Ilija Zeljkovic

Nature Physics 15, 1267–1272 (2019)

Charge-Stripe Crystal Phase in an Insulating Cuprate

He Zhao, Zheng Ren, Bryan Rachmilowitz, John Schneeloch, Ruidan Zhong, Genda Gu, Ziqiang Wang & Ilija Zeljkovic

Nature Materials 18, 103-107 (2019)

Bulk superconductivity via physicochemical pumping of excess iron

Lianyang Dong, He Zhao, Ilija Zeljkovic, Stephen D. Wilson, and John W. Harter

Physical Review Materials 3, 114801 (2019)

Proximity-Induced Superconductivity in a Topological Crystalline Insulator

Bryan Rachmilowitz*, He Zhao*, Hong Li, Alex LaFleur, J. Schneeloch, Ruidan Zhong, Genda Gu, and Ilija Zeljkovic

Physical Review B 100, 241402(R) (2019)

Superconducting Proximity Effect in a Topological Insulator using Fe(Te, Se)

He Zhao, Bryan Rachmilowitz, Zheng Ren, Ruobin Han, J. Schneeloch, Ruidan Zhong, Genda Gu, Ziqiang Wang and Ilija Zeljkovic

Physical Review B 97, 224504 (2018)

Atomic-Scale Strain Manipulation of a Charge Density Wave

Shang Gao, Felix Flicker, Raman Sankar, He Zhao, Zheng Ren, Bryan Rachmilowitz, Sidhika Balachandar, Fangcheng Chou, Kenneth Burch, Ziqiang Wang, Jasper Van Wezel and Ilija Zeljkovic

PNAS 115, 6986 (2018)