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Condensed Matter Division
N672 majorana2025 AT sjtu.edu.cn
Our research group is actively seeking motivated and passionate graduate students and postdoctoral scholars.

Educational Background

  • 2006- 2012, Texas A&M University, USA , Doctor
  • 2003- 2006, Nankai University , Master
  • 1999- 2003, Nankai University , Bachelor

Work Experience

  • 2024-Now, Tsung-Dao Lee Institute, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, T. D. Lee Senior Fellow
  • 2015-2024, School of Physics, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Professor
  • 2014-2015, Condensed Matter Theory Center, University of Maryland, Postdoc Researcher
  • 2012-2014, Pennsylvania State University, Postdoc Researcher

Research Interests

  • Topological superconductors and topological quantum computing
  • Topological insulators and low-dimensional physics
  • Unconventional superconductors and flat-band system
  • Symmetry-protected superconducting quantum computing

Representative Papers And Monographs

  • Xiao-Hong Pan, Li Chen, Dong E. Liu*, Fu-Chun Zhang*, and Xin Liu*, “Majorana zero modes induced by the Meissner effect at small magnetic field”, Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 036602 (2024)
  • Jingnan Hu, Fei Yu, Aiyun Luo, Xiao-Hong Pan, Jinyu Zou, Xin Liu and Gang Xu*. “Chiral Topological Superconductivity in Superconductor/Obstructed Atomic Insulator/Ferromagnetic Insulator Heterostructures”. Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 036601 (2024).
  • Chuang Li, Xun-Jiang Luo, Li Chen, Dong E. Liu*, Fu-Chun Zhang”, and Xin Liu*, “Controllable Majorana vortex states in iron-based superconducting nanowires”, National Science Review, 9: nwac095 (2022)
  • Xiao-Hong Pan, Kai-Jie Yang, Li Chen, Gang Xu, Chao-Xing Liu, and Xin Liu*, “Lattice-Symmetry-Assisted Second-Order Topological Superconductors and Majorana Patterns”, Phys. Rev. Lett., 123, 156801 (2019)
  • Manas Ranjan Sahu, Xin Liu, Arup Kumar Paul, Sourin Das, Pratap Raychaudhuri, J. K. Jain, and Anindya Das “Inter-Landau-level Andreev Reflection at the Dirac Point in a Graphene Quantum Hall State Coupled to a NbSe2 Superconductor”, Phys. Rev. Lett., 121, 086809 (2018)
  • Xin Liu*, J. K. Jain and Chao-Xing Liu, “Long-Range Spin-Triplet Helix in Proximity Induced Superconductivity in Spin-Orbit-Coupled Systems”, Phys. Rev. Lett. 113, 227002 (2014).
  • Xin Liu, Hsiu-Chuan Hsu and Chao-Xing Liu*, “In-Plane Magnetization-Induced Quantum Anomalous Hall Effect”, Phys. Rev. Lett. 111, 086802 (2013).
  • Xin Liu* and Jairo Sinova, “Reading charge transport from spin dynamics on the surface of topological insulator”, Phys. Rev. Lett. 111, 166801 (2013).
  • Rui-Heng Liu and Xin Liu*, “Non-Abelian line graph: A generalized approach to flat bands”, Phys. Rev. B 111, 035134 (2025).
  • Su-Qi Zhang, , Jian-Song Hong, Yuan Xue, Xun-Jiang Luo, Li-Wei Yu, Xiong-Jun Liu*, and Xin Liu*, “Ancilla-free scheme of deterministic topological quantum gates for Majorana qubits”, Phys. Rev. B 109, 165302 (2024)
  • Li Chen, Xiao-Hong Pan, Zhan Cao, Dong E. Liu, and Xin Liu*, “Electrostatic environment and Majorana bound states in full-shell topological insulator nanowires”, Phys. Rev. B 109, 075408 (2024)
  • Guo-Liang Guo, Han-Bing Leng, and Xin Liu*, “Parity-spin superconducting qubit based on topological insulators”, New J. Phys. 26 063005 (2024)
  • Li Chen, Zhan Cao, Ke He, Xin Liu*, and Dong E. Liu*, “Electrostatic effects of MnBi2Te4-superconductor heterostructures in the chiral Majorana search”, Phys. Rev. B 107, 165405 (2023), Editor’s Suggestion
  • Xun-Jiang Luo, Xiao-Hong Pan, Chao-Xing Liu, and Xin Liu*, “Higher-order topological phases emerging from Su-Schrieffer-Heeger stacking”, Phys. Rev. B, 045118 (2023)
  • Gu Zhang, Chuang Li, Geng Li, Can-Li Song, Xin Liu*, Fu-Chun Zhang* and Dong E. Liu*, “Theoretical proposal to obtain strong Majorana evidence from scanning tunneling spectroscopy of a vortex with a dissipative environment”, Phys. Rev. B 107, 195413 (2023)
  • Guo-Liang Guo, Han-Bing Leng, Yong Hu, and Xin Liu*, “0-π qubit with one Josephson junction”, Phys. Rev. B 105, L180502 (2022)
  • Xiao-Hong Pan, Xun-Jiang Luo, Jin-Hua Gao and, Xin Liu*, “Detecting and braiding higher-order Majorana corner states through their spin degree of freedom”, Phys. Rev. B 105, 195106 (2022)
  • Xun-Jiang Luo, Xiao-Hong Pan, and Xin Liu*, “Higher-order topological superconductors based on weak topological insulators”, Phys. Rev. B 104, 104510 (2021)
  • Han-Bing Leng, Chuang Li, and Xin Liu*, “Reveal the nematic topological superconductivity from the anisotropic unconventional Josephson effect: Theory and application to doped Bi2Se3”, Science China, Physics, Mechanics & Astronomy, 64, 297211 (2021)
  • Li Chen, Bin Liu, Gang Xu*, and Xin Liu*, “Lattice distortion induced first- and second-order topological phase transition in a rectangular high-Tc superconducting monolayer”, Phys. Rev. Research, 3, 023166 (2021)
  • Xianxin Wu, Xin Liu, Ronny Thomale, Chao-Xing Liu*, “High-Tc Superconductor Fe(Se,Te) Monolayer: an Intrinsic, Scalable and Electrically-tunable Majorana Platform”, National Science Review, nwab087 (2021)
  • Jing Li, Han-Bing Leng, Hailong Fu, Kenji Watanabe, Takashi Taniguchi, Xin Liu, Chao-Xing Liu, and Jun Zhu, “Superconducting proximity effect in a transparent van der Waals superconductor-metal junction”, Phys. Rev. B, 101, 195405 (2020)
  • Li Chen, Ying-Hai Wu*, and Xin Liu*, “Superconducting spin properties of Majorana nanowires and the associated spin-orbit coupling driven transverse supercurrent”, Phys. Rev. B 99, 165307 (2019)
  • Xin Liu*, Xiao-Peng Li, Dong-Ling Deng, Xiong-Jun Liu and S. Das Sarma, “Majorana Spintronics”, Phys. Rev. B., 94, 014511 (2016).
  • Weiwei Zhao*, Xin Liu*, M. H. W. Chan*, “Quantum phase slips in 6 mm length Niobium nanowire”. Nano Lett., 16, 1173 (2016).
  • Xin Liu*, Jay D. Sau, and S. Das Sarma, “Universal spin-triplet superconducting correlations of Majorana fermions”, Phys. Rev. B, 92, 014513 (2015).
  • Weiwei Zhao*, Jesse L. Bischof, Jimmy Hutasoit, Xin Liu, Thomas C. Fitzgibbons, John R. Hayes, Pier J.A. Sazio, Chaoxing Liu, Jainendra K. Jain, John V. Badding, and M. H. W. Chan*, “Single-Fluxon Controlled Resistance Switching in Centimeter-Long Superconducting Gallium–Indium Eutectic Nanowires”, Nano Lett. 15, 153 (2015).
  • Qingze Wang, Xin Liu, Hai-Jun Zhang, Nitin Samarth, Shou-Cheng Zhang, and Chao-Xing Liu*, “Quantum Anomalous Hall Effect in Magnetically Doped InAs/GaSb Quantum Wells”, Phys. Rev. Lett., 113, 147201 (2014).
  • Hsiu-Chuan Hsu, Xin Liu and Chao-Xing Liu*, “Reentrant quantum anomalous Hall effect with in-plane magnetic field in HgMnTe quantum wells”, Phys. Rev. B 88, 085315 (2013)
  • Xin Liu* and Jairo Sinova, “Unified theory of spin dynamics in a two-dimensional electron gas with arbitrary spin-orbit coupling strength at finite temperature”, Phys. Rev. B 86, 174301(2012)
  • Xin Liu*, Xiong-Jun Liu and Jairo Sinova, “Spin dynamics in the strong spin-orbit coupling regime”, Phys. Rev. B 84, 015318 (2011)
  • Xiong-Jun Liu*, Xin Liu and Jairo Sinova, “Scaling of the anomalous Hall effect in the insulating regime”, Phys. Rev. B 84, 165304 (2011)
  • Xiong-Jun Liu*, Xin Liu, Congjun Wu and Jairo Sinova, “Quantum anomalous Hall effect with cold atoms trapped in a square lattice”, Phys. Rev. A 81, 033622 (2010)
  • Xin Liu*, M. F. Borunda, Xiong-Jun Liu, and Jairo Sinova, “Control of Josephson current by Aharonov-Casher phase in a Rashba ring”, Phys. Rev. B 80, 174524 (2009)
  • Xiong-Jun Liu, Xin Liu, L. C. Kwek, and C. H. Oh, “Fractional spin Hall effect in atomic Bose gases”, Phys. Rev. B 79, 165301 (2009)
  • Xiong-Jun Liu, Mario F. Borunda, Xin Liu, and Jairo Sinova, “Effect of Induced Spin-Orbit Coupling for Atoms via Laser Fields”, Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 046402 (2009)
  • M.F. Borunda, Xin Liu, Alexey A. Kovalev, Xiong-Jun Liu, T. Jungwirth, and Jairo Sinova, “Aharonov-Casher and spin Hall effects in mesoscopic ring structures with strong spin-orbit interaction”, Phys. Rev. B 78, 245315 (2008)
  • Xiong-Jun Liu, Xin Liu, L. C. Kwek, and C. H. Oh, “Optically Induced Spin-Hall Effect in Atoms”, Phys. Rev. Lett. 98, 026602 (2007)
  • Xiong-Jun Liu, Xin Liu, Zheng-Xin Liu, L. C. Kwek and C. H. Oh, “Tightly localized stationary pulses in a multilevel atomic system”, Phys. Rev. A 75, 023809 (2007)
  • Zheng-Xin Liu, Xiao-Ting Zhou, Xin Liu, Xiong-Jun Liu, Jing-Ling Chen, “Topological structures of adiabatic phase for multi-level quantum systems”, J. Phys. A: Math. Theor. 40 1661
  • Xiong-Jun Liu, Zheng-Xin Liu, Xin Liu and Mo-Lin Ge, “Possibility of inhomogeneous coupling leading to decoherence in an electromagnetically-induced-transparency quantum-memory process”, Phys. Rev. A 73, 013825 (2006)
  • Xin Liu, Xiong-Jun Liu, and Mo-Lin Ge, “Dynamics of domain wall in a biaxial ferromagnet interacting with a spin-polarized current”, Phys. Rev. B 71, 224419 (2005)