Milestones in Shoucheng’s research
1963 Shoucheng was born in Shanghai, China
1978 Admitted to Fudan University
1980 Began studying at Free University of Berlin
1983 Graduated from Free University of Berlin
Started Ph.D. at Stony Brook University
1986 Started working on condensed matter physics
1987 Received Ph.D. and started postdoc at ITP, UC Santa Barbara
Chern-Simons theory of fractional quantum Hall states
1989 Started at IBM Almaden Research Center, San Jose
Global phase diagram of fractional quantum Hall states
1993 Joined the faculty of Stanford University
1997 Proposed the SO(5) theory of high Tc superconductors
2001 Generalized quantum Hall effect to 4 dimensions
2003 Proposed the intrinsic spin Hall effect
2004 to 2005 Early models of quantum spin Hall effect
2006 Predicted the quantum spin Hall effect in HgTe
2007 Quantum spin Hall effect realized in HgTe
2008 Topological magneto-electric effect
Prediction and realization of Bi2Te3 family of topological insulators
2009 Prediction of new topological superconductors
2010 Prediction of quantum anomalous Hall effect
2013 Quantum anomalous Hall effect realized
2017 Experimental evidence of chiral topological superconductor
2018 Founded the Stanford Center for Topological Quantum Physics
Selected scientific works
- Bachelor Thesis, Free University of Berlin (1983) [pdf]
- Ph.D. Thesis, The State University of New York at Stony Brook (1987) [pdf]
- Zhang, S. C., Hanson, T. H., & Kivelson, S. (1989). Effective-field-theory model for the fractional quantum Hall effect. Phys. Rev. Lett., 62, 82-85. [pdf]
- Bernevig, B. A., Hughes, T. L., & Zhang, S. C. (2006). Quantum spin Hall effect and topological phase transition in HgTe quantum wells. Science, 314(5806), 1757-1761. [pdf]
- König, M., Wiedmann, S., Brüne, C., Roth, A., Buhmann, H., Molenkamp, L. W., Qi, X. L., & Zhang, S. C. (2007). Quantum spin Hall insulator state in HgTe quantum wells. Science, 318(5851), 766-770. [pdf]
- Zhang, H., Liu, C. X., Qi, X. L., Dai, X., Fang, Z., & Zhang, S. C. (2009). Topological insulators in Bi2Se3, Bi2Te3 and Sb2Te3 with a single Dirac cone on the surface. Nature Physics, 5(6), 438-442. [pdf]
- Yu, R., Zhang, W., Zhang, H. J., Zhang, S. C., Dai, X., & Fang, Z. (2010). Quantized anomalous Hall effect in magnetic topological insulators. Science, 329(5987), 61-64. [pdf]