Xi Dai/ T. D. Lee Chair Professor (Adjunct)
Condensed Matter Division

Educational Background

  • 1996- 1999, Institute of Theoretical Physics, CAS , Doctor
  • 1993- 1996, Zhejiang University , Master
  • 1989- 1993, Zhejiang University , Bachelor

Work Experience

  • 2017-Now, The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Professor
  • 2007-2017, Institute of Physics, CAS, Professor
  • 2004-2007, University of Hong Kong, Research Assistant Professor
  • 2002-2004, Rutgers University, Postdoc
  • 2001-2002, Boston College, Postdoc
  • 1999-2001, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Postdoc

Research Interests

  • Developing computational methods for the electronic structure of the strongly correlated materials
  • Searching for the topological non-trivial quantum state in realistic materials

Representative Papers And Monographs

  • Yuanfeng Xu, Changming Yue, Hongming Weng and Xi Dai, “Heavy Weyl Fermion state in CeRu4Sn6”, Phys. Rev. X7, 011027 (2017).
  • Alexey A. Soluyanov, Dominik Gresch, Zhijun Wang, QuanSheng Wu, Matthias Troyer, Xi Dai and B. Andrei Bernevig, “A New Type of Weyl Semimetals”, Nature 527 , 495-498, (2015).
  • Hongming Weng, Chen Fang, Zhong Fang, B. Andrei Bernevig, and Xi Dai,”Weyl Semimetal Phase in Noncentrosymmetric Transition-Metal Monophosphides”, Phys. Rev. X 5, 011029 (2015)
  • H. Weng, J. Zhao, Z. Wang, Z. Fang and Xi Dai , "Topological Crystalline Kondo Insulator in Mixed Valence Ytterbium Borides." Physical Review Letters 112, 016403 (2014).
  • Z. Wang, Y. Sun, X.-Q. Chen, C. Franchini, G. Xu, H. Weng, X. Dai and Z. Fang, “Dirac semimetal and topological phase transitions in A3Bi (A=Na, K, Rb)”, Physical Review B 85, 195320 (2012).
  • Feng Lu, JianZhou Zhao, Hongming Weng, Zhong Fang, and Xi Dai,“Correlated Topological Insulators with Mixed Valence”, Phys. Rew. Lett. 110, 096401 (2013)
  • Rui Yu, Wei Zhang, Hai-Jun Zhang, Shou-Cheng Zhang, Xi Dai and Zhong Fang, “Quantized Anomalous Hall Effect in Magnetic Topological Insulators”, Science 329, 61, (2010).
  • H. Zhang, C.-X.Liu, X.-L. Qi, X. Dai, Z. Fang, and S.-C. Zhang,“Topological insulators in Bi2Se3, Bi2Te3 and Sb2Te3 with a single Dirac cone on the surface”, Nature Phys. 5, 438, (2009).
  • X. Deng, L. Wang, X. Dai, and Z. Fang,"Local density approximation combined with Gutzwiller method for correlated electron systems: Formalism and applications", Physical Review B 79, 075114 (2009).
  • X. Dai, S. Y. Savrasov, G. Kotliar, A. Miglori, H. Ledbetter and E. Abrahams, "Calculated phonon spectra of plutonium at high temperatures”, Science 300, 953 (2003).