Yaoyi Li - Tsung-Dao Lee Institute

Yaoyi Li/ Tenured Fellow

Condensed Matter Division

N557 yaoyili@sjtu.edu.cn

Educational Background

2007- 2011, Department of Physics, Tsinghua University, China, Ph. D.
2005- 2007, Institute of Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China, Ph. D. Candidate
2001- 2005, School of Physics and Technology, Wuhan University, China, B. S.

Work Experience

2024-Now, Tsung-Dao Lee Institute, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China, TDLI Tenured Fellow
2015-Now, School of Physics and Astronomy, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China, Researcher
2011-2015, Department of Physics, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, USA, Postdoc

Research Interests

1. Topological Superconductor and Majorana Zero Mode
2. Surface and Low-Dimensional Physics
3. Scanning Tunneling Microscope and Molecular Beam Epitaxy

Representative Papers And Monographs

B. J. Xie#, Z. X. Yi#, W. Y. Zheng#, Z. H. Gao, D. D. Guan, X. X. Liu, L. Liu, S. Y. Wang, H. Zheng, C. H. Liu, H. Yang*, Yaoyi Li*, and J. F. Jia*, Strong Superconducting Proximity Compatible with Fermi-Level Tuning at Top Surfaces of Bulk Insulating SnTe-Type Semiconductors, Nano Letters 25, 7981 (2025).
T. T. Liu#, C. Y. Wan#, H. Yang#, Y. J. Zhao, B. J. Xie, W. Y. Zheng, Z. X. Yi, D. D. Guan, S. Y. Wang, H. Zheng, C. H. Liu, L. Fu, J. W. Liu*, Yaoyi Li*, and J. F. Jia*, Signatures of Hybridization of Multiple Majorana Zero Modes in a Vortex, Nature 633, 71 (2024).
T. T. Liu#, Z. X. Yi#, B. J. Xie#, W. Y. Zheng, D. D. Guan, S. Y. Wang, H. Zheng, C. H. Liu, H. Yang*, Yaoyi Li*, and J. F. Jia*, Fermi Level Tuning in Sn1-xPbxTe-Pb Heterostructure via Changing Interface Roughness, Science China - Physics Mechanics & Astronomy 67, 286811 (2024).
H. Yang, Yaoyi Li*, T. T. Liu, D. D. Guan, S. Y. Wang, H. Zheng, C. H. Liu, L. Fu, and J. F. Jia*, Multiple In-Gap States Induced by Topological Surface States in the Superconducting Topological Crystalline Insulator Heterostructure Sn1−xPbxTe−Pb, Physical Review Letters 125, 136802 (2020).
H. Yang, Yaoyi Li*, T. T. Liu, H. Y. Xue, D. D. Guan, S. Y. Wang, H. Zheng, C. H. Liu, L. Fu, and J. F. Jia*, Superconductivity of Topological Surface States and Strong Proximity Effect in Sn1−xPbxTe–Pb Heterostructure, Advanced Materials 31, 1905582 (2019).
H. Y. Xue, H. Yang, Y. F. Wu, G. Yao, D. D. Guan, S. Y. Wang, H. Zheng, C. H. Liu, Yaoyi Li*, and J. F. Jia*, Molecular Beam Epitaxy of Superconducting PdTe2 Films on Topological Insulator Bi2Te3, Science China - Physics Mechanics & Astronomy 62, 076801 (2019).
Yaoyi Li, M. X. Chen, M. Weinert, and L. Li*, 1D Metallic Edge States of Oxygen-Terminated Zigzag Graphene Edges, 2D Materials 6, 025038 (2019).
Yaoyi Li, M. X. Chen, M. Weinert, and L. Li*, Direct Experimental Determination of Onset of Electron-Electron Interactions in Gap Opening of Zigzag Graphene Nanoribbons, Nature Communications 5, 4311 (2014).
Y. Liu, Yaoyi Li, S. Rajput, D. Gilks, L. Lari, P. L. Galindo, M. Weinert, V. K. Lazarov*, and L. Li*, Tuning Dirac States by Strain in the Topological Insulator Bi2Se3 (Cover Article), Nature Physics 10, 294 (2014).
Y. Liu, Yaoyi Li, D. Gilks, V. K. Lazarov, M. Weinert, and L. Li*, Charging Dirac States at Antiphase Domain Boundaries in the Three-Dimensional Topological Insulator Bi2Se3 (Cover Article), Physical Review Letters 110, 186804 (2013).
Yaoyi Li, G. Wang, X. G. Zhu, M. H. Liu, C. Ye, X. Chen, Y. Y. Wang, K. He, L. L. Wang, X. C. Ma, H. J. Zhang, X. Dai, Z. Fang, X. C. Xie, Y. Liu, X. L. Qi, J. F. Jia*, S. C. Zhang, and Q. K. Xue, Intrinsic Topological Insulator Bi2Te3 Thin Films on Si and Their Thickness Limit, Advanced Materials 22, 4002 (2010).
Yaoyi Li, M. Liu, D. Y. Ma, D. C. Yu, X. Chen, X. C. Ma, Q. K. Xue, K. W. Xu, J. F. Jia*, and F. Liu*, Bistability of Nanoscale Ag Islands on a Si(111)-(4×1)-In Surface Induced by Anisotropic Stress, Physical Review Letters 103, 076102 (2009).