Profile
Educational Background
Ph.D., Condensed Matter Physics, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, 2018
Research Interests
Condensed Matter Physics
- Investigate exotic magnetism, superconductivity, and nematicity in quantum materials.
- Develop cutting-edge uniaxial strain techniques
Courses Taught
CH 4000/6000 Quantum Materials Characterization
Selected Publications
* Co-first author, # Corresponding author
1. Alex L. Melendez*, Sijie Xu*, Liangbo Liang, An-Ping Li, Pengcheng Dai, Hu Miao#, Zhaoyu Liu#, Huan Zhao#.
Nanoscale Imaging of Strain-Controlled Altermagnetic Domains in alpha-MnTe.
arXiv:2607.26495 (2026) https://arxiv.org/abs/2607.26495
2. Xuetao Ma*, Zhaoyu Liu*#, Jiaqi Cai, Kenji Watanabe, Takashi Taniguchi, Xiaodong Xu, Jiun-Haw Chu#, Matthew Yankowitz#.
Giant elastoresistance in magic-angle twisted bilayer graphene.
arXiv:2505.10506 (2025) https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.10506
3. Zhaoyu Liu*#, Sijie Xu*, Jonathan M. DeStefano, Elliott Rosenberg, Tingjun Zhang, Jinyulin Li, Matthew B. Stone, Feng Ye, Rong Cong, Siyu Pan, Ching-Wu Chu, Liangzi Deng, E. Morosan, Jiun-Haw Chu#, and Pengcheng Dai#.
Strain-tunable anomalous Hall effect in hexagonal MnTe.
Phys. Rev. X 16, 031033 (2026)
https://journals.aps.org/prx/abstract/10.1103/589s-s1yy
News:
https://news.rice.edu/news/2026/rice-researchers-discover-new-way-tune-electron-flow-altermagnet-material-0
https://phys.org/news/2026-08-uniaxial-strain-reveals-tune-electron.html
4. Zhaoyu Liu#, Yue Shi, Qianni Jiang, Elliott W Rosenberg, Jonathan M DeStefano, Jinjin Liu, Chaowei Hu, Yuzhou Zhao, Zhiwei Wang, Yugui Yao, David Graf, Pengcheng Dai, Jihui Yang, Xiaodong Xu, Jiun-Haw Chu#.
Absence of E2g nematic instability and dominant A1g response in the kagome metal CsV3Sb5.
Physical Review X 14, 031015 (2024)
https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevX.14.031015
5. Zhaoyu Liu*#, Xuetao Ma*, John Cenker, Jiaqi Cai, Zaiyao Fei, Paul Malinowski, Joshua Mutch, Yuzhou Zhao, Kyle Hwangbo, Zhong Lin, Arnab Manna, Jihui Yang, David Cobden, Xiaodong Xu, Matthew Yankowitz#, Jiun-Haw Chu#.
Continuously tunable uniaxial strain control of van der Waals heterostructure devices.
Journal of Applied Physics 135, 204306 (2024) (Editor’s Suggestion)
https://doi.org/10.1063/5.0211557
- Highlighted by Nature Reviews Materials Synopsis (https://www.nature.com/articles/s41578-024-00699-6)
6. Chun-Chih Tseng*, Xuetao Ma*, Zhaoyu Liu*, Kenji Watanabe, Takashi Taniguchi, Jiun-Haw Chu, Matthew Yankowitz#.
Anomalous Hall effect at half filling in twisted bilayer graphene.
Nature Physics 18, 1038 (2022)
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41567-022-01697-7
7. Zhaoyu Liu, Yanhong Gu, Wenshan Hong, Tao Xie, Dongliang Gong, Xiaoyan Ma, Jing Liu, Cheng Hu, Lin Zhao, Xingjiang Zhou, RM Fernandes, Yi-feng Yang, Huiqian Luo, Shiliang Li#.
Nonlinear uniaxial pressure dependence of Tc in iron-based superconductors.
Physical Review Research 1, 033154 (2019)
https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevResearch.1.033154
8. Zhaoyu Liu, Yanhong Gu, Wei Zhang, Dongliang Gong, Wenliang Zhang, Tao Xie, Xingye Lu, Xiaoyan Ma, Xiaotian Zhang, Rui Zhang, Jun Zhu, Cong Ren, Lei Shan, Xianggang Qiu, Pengcheng Dai, Yi-feng Yang, Huiqian Luo, Shiliang Li#.
Nematic quantum critical fluctuations in BaFe_{2-x}Ni_xAs_2.
Physical Review Letters 117, 157002 (2016)
https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.117.157002
