Assistant Professor

Research Interests:

Dynamical Materials Control with Light

I work on experimental condensed matter physics. My previous research focused on light-induced far-from-equilibrium phenomena, steady-state electrodynamics of strongly correlated materials, and the discovery of unconventional superconductors. My future research plans include coherent phonon control in unconventional superconductors, ultrafast imaging of optically stabilized quantum phases, and high precision optical spectroscopy and dynamical materials control in low dimensions.

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Selected Publications:

  • Jacob A. Warshauer, Daniel Alejandro Bustamante Lopez, Qishuo Tan, Huyongqing Chen, Jing Tang, Xi Ling, and Wanzheng Hu, Long-lived gapped state in resonantly driven excitonic antiferromagnet, Phys. Rev. Lett. 134, 016901 (2025).
  • Xiaoran Liu, Jong-Woo Kim, Yao Wang, Michael Terilli, Xun Jia, Mikhail Kareev, Shiyu Peng, Fangdi Wen, Tsung-Chi Wu, Huyongqing Chen, Wanzheng Hu, Mary H. Upton, Jungho Kim, Yongseong Choi, Daniel Haskel, Hongming Weng, Philip J. Ryan, Yue Cao, Yang Qi, Jiandong Guo, Jak Chakhalian, Chiral Spin-Liquid-Like State in Pyrochlore Iridate Thin Films, Nature Communications 15, 10348 (2024).
  • Jacob A. Warshauer, Daniel Alejandro Bustamante Lopez, Qingxin Dong, Genfu Chen, Wanzheng Hu, Transient gap generation in BaFe2As2 driven by coherent lattice vibrations, PNAS Nexus 2, pgad164 (2023).
  • W. Hu*, S. Kaiser*, D. Nicoletti*, C. R. Hunt*, I. Gierz, M. C. Hoffmann, M. Le Tacon, T. Loew, B. Keimer, and A. Cavalleri (*equal contribution), Optically enhanced coherent transport in YBa2Cu3O6.5 by ultrafast redistribution of interlayer coupling Nature Materials 13,705(2014).
  • A. D. Caviglia, R. Scherwitzl, P. Popovich, W. Hu, H. Bromberger, R. Singla, M. Mitrano, M. C. Hoffmann, S. Kaiser, P. Zubko, S. Gariglio, J.-M. Triscone, M. Först, and A. Cavalleri, Ultrafast Strain Engineering in Complex Oxide Heterostructures, Phys. Rev. Lett. 108, 136801(2012).
  • W. Z. Hu, Q. M. Zhang, N. L. Wang, Optical and Raman spectroscopy studies on Fe-based superconductors, Physica C 469, 545(2009).
  • W. Z. Hu, J. Dong, G. Li, Z. Li, P. Zheng, G. F. Chen, J. L. Luo, and N. L. Wang, Origin of the Spin Density Wave Instability in AFe2As2 (A=Ba,Sr) as Revealed by Optical Spectroscopy, Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 257005 (2008).
  • G. F. Chen, Z. Li, D. Wu, G. Li, W. Z. Hu, J. Dong, P. Zheng, J. L. Luo, and N. L. Wang, Superconductivity at 41 K and its competition with spin-density-wave instability in layered CeO1-xFxFeAs, Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 247002 (2008).

For a full list of publications, please see the attached CV.

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