Brief Vita

• Assistant Professor, University of Tennessee (2021-Present)
• Joint Quantum Institute Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Maryland (2018-2021)
• Research Assistant, Penn State University (2016-2018)
• PhD, Physics, Penn State University (2018)
• BSc, Physics, University of Science and Technology of China (2012)

Selected Honors

• Joint Quantum Institute Postdoctoral Fellowship, University of Maryland (2018)
• 8^th Peter Eklund Lecturing Award, Penn State University (2017)
• David C. Duncan Graduate Fellowship, Penn State University (2014-2016)

Research Interests

Group Website

• Topological insulators and semimetals
• Majorana materialization, unconventional superconductivity, and topological quantum information processing
• Floquet topological systems
• Twistronics and moiré physics
• Experimental realization and detection of SPT phase
• Luttinger liquids
• Valleytronics and Spintronics

Selected Publications

Google Scholar Profile

• R.-X. Zhang*, S. Das Sarma, “Anomalous Floquet Chiral Topological Superconductivity in a Topological Insulator Sandwich Structure”, Phys. Rev. Lett. 127, 067001 (2021)
• R.-X. Zhang*, S. Das Sarma, “Intrinsic Time-reversal-invariant Topological Superconductivity in Thin Films of Iron-based Superconductors”, Phys. Rev. Lett. 126, 137001 (2021)

(Cover Article for Phys. Rev. Lett. Vol 126, Issue 13, https://journals.aps.org/prl/issues/126/13)

• R.-X. Zhang*, F. Wu*, S. Das Sarma, “Möbius Insulator and Higher-Order Topology in MnBi2nTe3n+1”,Phys. Rev. Lett. 124, 136407 (2020)
• Y.-T. Hsu, W. S. Cole, R.-X. Zhang, J. D. Sau, “Inversion-protected higher order topological superconductivity in monolayer WTe2”,Phys. Rev. Lett. 125 (9), 097001 (2020)
• R.-X. Zhang*, W. S. Cole, X. Wu, S. Das Sarma, “Higher Order Topology and Nodal Topological Superconductivity in Fe (Se, Te) Heterostructures”,Phys. Rev. Lett. 123 (16), 167001 (2019)

(Cover Article for Phys. Rev. Lett. Vol 123, Issue 16,https://journals.aps.org/prl/issues/123/16)

• R.-X. Zhang*, W. S. Cole*, and S. Das Sarma, “Helical Hinge Majoranas in Iron-Based Superconductors”,Phys. Rev. Lett. 122, 187001 (2019)
• H. Jia, R.-X. Zhang, W. Gao, Q. Guo, B. Yang, J. Hu, Y. Bi, Y. Xiang, C.-X. Liu, and S. Zhang, “Observation of chiral zero mode in inhomogeneous three-dimensional Weyl metamaterials”,Science 363 (6423), 148-151 (2019)
• J. Li, R.-X. Zhang, Z. Yin, J. Zhang, K. Watanabe, T. Taniguchi, C.-X. Liu, J. Zhu, “A valley valve and electron beam splitter in bilayer graphene”,Science 362 (6419), 1149-1152 (2018)
• R.-X. Zhang and C.-X. Liu, “Crystalline symmetry protected Majorana mode in number-conserving Dirac semi-metal nanowires”,Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 156802 (2018)
• R.-X. Zhang and C.-X. Liu, “Fingerprints of bosonic symmetry protected topological state in a quantum point contact”,Phys. Rev. Lett. 118, 216803 (2017)
• Z. Bi§, R. Zhang§, Y.-Z. You, A. Young, L. Balents, C.-X. Liu, and C. Xu, “Bilayer Graphene as a platform for Bosonic Symmetry Protected Topological States”,Phys. Rev. Lett. 118, 126801 (2017)
• R.-X. Zhang and C.-X. Liu, “Topological magnetic crystalline insulators and corepresentation theory”,Phys. Rev. B 91 (11), 115317 (2015)
• C.-X. Liu, R.-X. Zhang and B. K. VanLeeuwen, “Topological nonsymmorphic crystalline insulators”,Phys. Rev. B 90 (8), 085304 (2014)