M. Zahid Hasan

M. Zahid Hasan
Native name জাহিদ হাসান
Nationality Bangladeshi
Scientific career
Fields Quantum Physics; Topology
Institutions Princeton University, Stanford University, SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, University of Texas at Austin, University of California at Berkeley, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Website http://physics.princeton.edu/zahidhasangroup/

M. Zahid Hasan is an endowed chair Eugene Higgins Professor of Physics at Princeton University.[1][2][3] He is known for his research on quantum matter exhibiting topological properties.[4][5] He is the Principal Investigator of Laboratory for Topological Quantum Matter and Advanced Spectroscopy at Princeton University and a Visiting Faculty Scientist at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory in California.[4]

Born in Dhaka, Bangladesh, Hasan completed his higher secondary schooling at Dhaka College, then studied physics and mathematics at the University of Texas at Austin.[6] He obtained his Ph.D. in 2002 from Stanford University, working at SLAC/Stanford National Accelerator Laboratory and Brookhaven National Laboratory. He was then a Robert H. Dicke Fellow in fundamental physics at Princeton and held several visiting appointments at Bell Labs (in Murray Hill, New Jersey) and Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory and joined the faculty rank at Princeton University.[5] While at the University of Texas at Austin his research focused on field theory and quantum gravity upon completing coursework with Steven Weinberg and others in the 1990s.[6] Later while at Stanford University he became interested in exploring many-body phenomena in unconventional superconductors and in developing new spectroscopic techniques at SLAC.[7] In 2016-2017 he joined Miller Institute of Basic Research in Science as a Visiting Miller Professor at the University of California at Berkeley.[8] Since 2017, he holds the Eugene Higgins endowed professorship at Princeton.[2] According to an interview conducted by U.S. DOE (osti.gov) he was motivated to work on exotic properties of quantum matter including emergent phenomena following scientific exchanges with his Princeton physics colleague Philip W. Anderson in the early 2000s.[6]

He is an expert in the physics of quantum matter in relation to condensed matter version of Dirac equation, quantum field theory, topological phenomena,[9] and advanced spectroscopic high resolution imaging techniques. His research has focused on strongly correlated electron systems and superconductivity, quantum Hall-like topological phases, Mott insulators, Kondo insulators, heavy fermions, quantum spin chains, exotic superconductors, quantum phase transitions, and topological quantum matter.[9] He played a pioneering role in demonstrating momentum-tuned resonant X-ray photon scattering technique and nature of collective modes in Mott insulators and spin-1/2 quantum chains exhibiting spin-charge separation type electron fractionalization; Mott-Hubbard physics in unconventional superconductors and related thermoelectrics and also in the experimental discoveries of bulk topological insulators, topological crystalline insulators, CDW-melted superconductors, helical topological superconductors, topological metals, Weyl fermion materials and related new forms of quantum matter using spin-resolved spectroscopic techniques.[10]

A highly cited researcher listed in World's-Most-Influential-Scientific-Minds,[11] Hasan has published more than 150 research papers (receiving more than 30,000 Google Scholar citations, and more than 20,000 Web of Science/Web of Knowledge citations).[10][12][13][14][15][16][17][10] Many of his papers in Physical Review Letters, Nature and Science have been identified as "hot papers in the field" by Web of Science.[12] His research on Weyl fermionic semimetals was named a Top-10 breakthrough of the year by PhysicsWorld and his topological materials paper was listed among the top ten papers by Physics on "topics that really made waves in and beyond the physics community" in 2015. [18][19]

References

  1. ↑ "Princeton University Directory". princeton.edu.
  2. 1 2 "Princeton University, Program". princeton.edu.
  3. ↑ "Princeton University News". princeton.edu.
  4. 1 2 Castelvecchi, Davide (19 July 2017). "The strange topology that is reshaping physics". Nature. 547 (7663): 272–274. Bibcode:2017Natur.547..272C. doi:10.1038/547272a. PMID 28726840.
  5. 1 2 "M. Zahid Hasan". Physics.
  6. 1 2 3 "U.S. Department of Energy website". osti.gov.
  7. ↑ "Stanford University News". stanford.edu.
  8. ↑ "Miller Institute of Basic Research in Science Newsletter (UC Berkeley)" (PDF). miller.berkeley.edu.
  9. 1 2 "New Topological Phases of Matter: Platform for emergent Dirac, Majorana and Weyl fermions". University of Central Florida.
  10. 1 2 3 "Publications by M. Zahid Hasan". Google Scholar.
  11. ↑ "ScienceWatch's Worlds-Most-Influential-Scientific-Minds" (PDF). sciencewatch.com.
  12. 1 2 "Search hot papers in the field by M. Z. Hasan (Princeton University)". Web of Science (Web of Knowledge).
  13. ↑ "Publications in AAAS journals: M. Zahid Hasan". sciencemag.org.
  14. ↑ "298 publications by M. Zahid Hasan". researchgate.net.
  15. ↑ "ORCID entry Zahid Hasan".
  16. ↑ Hasan, M. Zahid; Xu, Su-Yang; Belopolski, Ilya; Huang, Shin-Ming (31 March 2017). "Discovery of Weyl Fermion Semimetals and Topological Fermi Arc States". Annual Review of Condensed Matter Physics. 8 (1): 289–309. arXiv:1702.07310. Bibcode:2017ARCMP...8..289H. doi:10.1146/annurev-conmatphys-031016-025225.
  17. ↑ Hasan, M. Z.; Kane, C. L. (8 November 2010). "Topological insulators". Reviews of Modern Physics. 82 (4): 3045–3067. arXiv:1002.3895. Bibcode:2010RvMP...82.3045H. doi:10.1103/RevModPhys.82.3045.
  18. ↑ "Discovery of Weyl fermion named a 'breakthrough of the year' by Physics World magazine". princeton.edu.
  19. ↑ "Physics Highlights of the Year 2015 (Physics - American Physical Society)". aps.org.
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