LI Junxue - The Department of Physics at Southern University of Science and Technology

Personal Profile

Dr. Junxue Li obtained Ph. D. degree in condensed matter physics from Fudan University in China in 2015. From March 2015 to September 2020, he worked as Postdoc and Assistant Project Scientist at the Department of Physics and Astronomy in University of California, Riverside (UCR). He joined in the Department of Physics in the Southern University of Science and Technology (SUSTech) as an Assistant Professor since December, 2020, and be promoted to Associate Professor since Jan. 2022.

His research concentrates on novel physical phenomena in nanoscale electronic devices and heterostructures originating from complex interactions such as spin orbit coupling and exchange interaction. Up to now, Dr. Li has published 10 first-author/co-first-author papers (include 1 Nature, 2 Nature Communications, 2 PRLs, 1 Nano Letters and 2 PRBs), 35 co-author papers, Google Citation=1581, h-index=20.

Research Areas

Spin and heat current transport
Quantum materials
Epitaxial thin film fabrication

Educational Background

Ph.D. Condensed Matter Physics 2009/09 – 2015/01

Fudan University, 2205 Songhu Road, Shanghai, 200438, P. R. China

Supervisor: Prof. Yizheng Wu

Dissertation: Anisotropic magneto-resistance in epitaxial iron films

B.Sc. Applied Physics 2004/09 - 2008/07

China University of Mining and Technology (CUMT), 1 Daxue Road,

Xuzhou, Jiangsu, 221116, P. R. China

Professional Experience

Assistant Project Scientist Condensed Matter Physics 2020/03 – 2020/09

University of California, Riverside (UCR)

Supervisors: Prof. Jing Shi

Project: 1. Magnon-polaron in Antiferromagnetic insulators;

2. Spin dynamics in antiferromagnetic bulk material and thin films;

Postdoc Condensed Matter Physics 2015/03 – 2020/03

University of California, Riverside (UCR)

Supervisors: Prof. Jing Shi, Prof. Peng Wei

Project: 1. Spin and heat transport in Antiferromagnetic insulators, spin dynamics in antiferromagnetic bulk material and thin films;

2. Growing WTe2 epitaxial films using molecular beam epitaxy and studying its novel transport properties;

Reviewer for Science Advances, Applied Physics Letters, Physics Letters A.

Director assistant of SHINES center since March 2015 (SHINES center is an Energy Frontier Research Center funded in 2014 by the US Department of Energy, Prof. Jing Shi is the director).

Honors & Awards

1.“Magnon mediated electric current drag effect in normal metal/YIG/normal metal heterostructures”, J. X. Li, Y. D. Xu, M. Aldosary, C. Tang, Z. S. Lin, S. F. Zhang, R. Lake, and J. Shi.

Best Poster Award. SHINES annual meeting 2016, Long Beach, California, USA.

2.“Three-dimensional mapping of the anisotropic magneto-resistance of single crystal iron thin films”, J. X. Li, Z. Ding, J. Zhu, T. P. Ma, and Y. Z. Wu.

Best Poster Award. Chinese Physical Society Fall Meeting, Xiamen University, Xiamen, P. R. China, Sep. 12-15, 2013.

3.“In-plane magnetic anisotropy in Fe/MgO/GaAs(001) system”, G. Chen, J. X. Li, J. Zhu, J. H. Liang, and Y. Z. Wu.

Best Poster Award. Annual Meeting of Physics Department, Fudan University, Shanghai, P. R. China, June 4, 2011. (Presented by Junxue Li).

Best Poster Award. 55th Annual Conference on Magnetism and Magnetic Materials, Atlanta, Nov. 14-18, 2010. (Presented by Gong Chen).

Selected Publication

(# Equal contribution, *Correspondence Author):

1. J. X. Li#, M. Rashetnia#, M. Lohmann, J. Koo, Y. M. Xu, X. Zhang, K. Watanabe, T. Taniguchi, S. Jia, X. Chen, B. H. Yan, Y-T. Cui & J. Shi*, Proximity-magnetized quantum spin Hall insulator: monolayer 1 T’ WTe₂/Cr₂Ge₂Te₆, Nat. Commun. 13, 5134 (2022).

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-022-32808-w

2. J. X. Li, H. T. Simensen, D. Reitz, Q. Y. Sun, W. Yuan, C. Li, Y. Tserkovnyak, A. Brataas, and J. Shi*, Observation of Magnon Polarons in a Uniaxial Antiferromagnetic Insulator, Phys. Rev. Lett. 125, 217201 (2020).

https://journals.aps.org/prl/abstract/10.1103/PhysRevLett.125.217201

3. J. X. Li, C. Blake Wilson, R. Cheng, M. Lohmann, M. Kavand, W. Yuan, M. Aldosary, N. Agladze, P. Wei, M. S. Sherwin, and J. Shi*, Spin Current from Sub-Terahertz-generated Antiferromagnetic Magnons, Nature (London) 578, 70 (2020).

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-020-1950-4

4. J. X. Li, Z. Shi, V. H. Ortiz, M. Aldosary, C. Chen, V. Aji, P. Wei, and J. Shi*, Spin Seebeck Effect from Antiferromagnetic Magnons and Critical Spin Fluctuations in Epitaxial FeF₂ Films, Phys. Rev. Lett. 122, 217204 (2019).

https://journals.aps.org/prl/abstract/10.1103/PhysRevLett.122.217204

5. J. X. Li#, Y. D. Xu#, M. Aldosary, C. Tang, Z. Lin, S. Zhang, R. Lake, and J. Shi*, Observation of magnon-mediated current drag in Pt/yttrium iron garnet/Pt(Ta) trilayers, Nat. Commun. 7, 10858 (2016).

https://www.nature.com/articles/ncomms10858