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100
Citations
80865
World Ranking
1621
National Ranking
23

Overview

Xi Dai is affiliated with the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology in China. Their research primarily spans the fields of Physics and Astronomy as well as Materials Science, with a particular focus on Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics, Materials Chemistry, and Condensed Matter Physics.

Their work covers several specialized areas including Graphene research and applications, Topological Materials and Phenomena, Quantum and electron transport phenomena, 2D Materials and Applications, Advanced Condensed Matter Physics, Single-cell and spatial transcriptomics, and the Physics of Superconductivity and Magnetism.

They have contributed to multiple publication venues, with a significant number published in arXiv (Cornell University), Physical Review B, Physical Review Letters, Nature Communications, and Nature Physics.

  • Spatiotemporal transcriptomic atlas of mouse organogenesis using DNA nanoball-patterned arrays (2022, Cell)
  • Strong and fragile topological Dirac semimetals with higher-order Fermi arcs (2020, Refubium - Universitätsbibliothek der Freien Universität Berlin)
  • Theories for the correlated insulating states and quantum anomalous Hall effect phenomena in twisted bilayer graphene (2021, Physical Review B)
  • Magnetic Semimetals and Quantized Anomalous Hall Effect in EuB₆ (2020, Physical Review Letters)
  • Heavy metal pollution risk assessments and their transportation in sediment and overlay water for the typical Chinese reservoirs (2020, Ecological Indicators)

Frequent collaborations include several co-authors with whom they have published multiple papers, notably Hongming Weng, Wangqian Miao, Zhijun Wang, Yuelin Shao, and B. Andrei Bernevig.

Best Publications

  • Topological insulators in Bi2Se3, Bi2Te3 and Sb2Te3 with a single Dirac cone on the surface

    Haijun Zhang;Chao Xing Liu;Xiao Liang Qi;Xi Dai

  • Experimental Observation of the Quantum Anomalous Hall Effect in a Magnetic Topological Insulator

    Cui Zu Chang;Cui Zu Chang;Jinsong Zhang;Xiao Feng;Xiao Feng;Jie Shen

  • Experimental realization of a three-dimensional topological insulator, Bi2Te3

    Y. L. Chen;J. G. Analytis;J. G. Analytis;J.-H. Chu;J.-H. Chu;Z. K. Liu;Z. K. Liu

  • Experimental Discovery of Weyl Semimetal TaAs

    Baiqing Lv;Hongming Weng;Binbin Fu;Xiaoping Wang;Xiaoping Wang

  • Type-II Weyl semimetals

    Alexey Soluyanov;Dominik Gresch;Zhijun Wang;QuanSheng Wu

  • Discovery of a Three-Dimensional Topological Dirac Semimetal, Na3Bi

    Zhongkai Liu;Bo Zhou;Bo Zhou;Yong Zhang;Zhijun Wang

  • Weyl Semimetal Phase in Noncentrosymmetric Transition-Metal Monophosphides

    Hongming Weng;Chen Fang;Zhong Fang;B. Andrei Bernevig

  • Quantized Anomalous Hall Effect in Magnetic Topological Insulators

    Rui Yu;Wei Zhang;Hai-Jun Zhang;Hai-Jun Zhang;Shou-Cheng Zhang;Shou-Cheng Zhang

  • Dirac semimetal and topological phase transitions in A 3 Bi ( A = Na , K, Rb)

    Zhijun Wang;Yan Sun;Xing-Qiu Chen;Cesare Franchini

  • Three-dimensional Dirac semimetal and quantum transport in Cd 3 As 2

    Zhijun Wang;Hongming Weng;Quansheng Wu;Xi Dai

  • Crossover of the three-dimensional topological insulator Bi 2 Se 3 to the two-dimensional limit

    Yi Zhang;Ke He;Cui Zu Chang;Cui Zu Chang;Can Li Song

  • Chern semimetal and the quantized anomalous Hall effect in HgCr2Se4.

    Gang Xu;Hongming Weng;Zhijun Wang;Xi Dai

  • A stable three-dimensional topological Dirac semimetal Cd3As2

    Zhongkai Liu;Juan Jiang;Bo Zhou;Zhijun Wang

  • Crossover of the three-dimensional topological insulator Bi2Se3 to the two-dimensional limit

    Yi Zhang;Ke He;Cui Zu Chang;Cui Zu Chang;Can Li Song

  • Observation of the Chiral-Anomaly-Induced Negative Magnetoresistance in 3D Weyl Semimetal TaAs

    Xiaochun Huang;Lingxiao Zhao;Yujia Long;Peipei Wang

  • Observation of Fermi-surface–dependent nodeless superconducting gaps in Ba0.6K0.4Fe2As2

    Hong Ding;Pierre Luc Richard;Kosuke Nakayama;Katsuaki Sugawara

  • Weyl semimetal phase in non-centrosymmetric transition metal monophosphides

    Hongming Weng;Chen Fang;Zhong Fang;Andrei Bernevig

  • Observation of Weyl nodes in TaAs

    B. Q. Lv;B. Q. Lv;N. Xu;N. Xu;H. M. Weng;J. Z. Ma;J. Z. Ma

  • Observation of the chiral anomaly induced negative magneto-resistance in 3D Weyl semi-metal TaAs

    Xiaochun Huang;Lingxiao Zhao;Yujia Long;Peipei Wang

  • Model Hamiltonian for topological insulators

    Chao Xing Liu;Xiao Liang Qi;Haijun Zhang;Xi Dai

Frequent Co-Authors

Zhong Fang
Zhong Fang Chinese Academy of Sciences
Hongming Weng
Hongming Weng Chinese Academy of Sciences
Hong Ding
Hong Ding Chinese Academy of Sciences
Shou-Cheng Zhang
Shou-Cheng Zhang Stanford University
Xiao-Liang Qi
Xiao-Liang Qi Stanford University
B. Andrei Bernevig
B. Andrei Bernevig Princeton University
Qi-Kun Xue
Qi-Kun Xue Southern University of Science and Technology
Chuangtian Chen
Chuangtian Chen Chinese Academy of Sciences
Youguo Shi
Youguo Shi Chinese Academy of Sciences
Xucun Ma
Xucun Ma Tsinghua University

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