Professor Luo Yongkang is an experimentalist of Condensed Matter Physics. HIs research interests focuson strongly correlated electronic systems, including unconventional superconductivity, magnetism, heavy-fermion materials, quantum phase transition and quantum critical point, and topological materials. He lead his team to use electrical/thermal transport, magnetic and thermodynamic properties measurements, in combination with all kinds of quantum controlling like physical pressure, chemical doping, high magnetic field, strain to tune the physical properties. Besides, they do nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) to study spin dynamics of these materials.
Academic Degrees
2004.9-2008.6: bachelor, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, China
2008.9-2013.6: Ph.D., Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, China
2010.9-2011.10: visiting student, Princeton University, USA
Professional Experience
2013.10-2017.1: Postdoc, Los Alamos National Lab, USA
2017.1-2018.7: Postdoc, the University of California, Los Angeles, USA
2018.8-present: Professor, 1000-Youth plan, Huazhong University of Science and technology, Wuhan, China
Selected Publications
[1] Yongkang Luo, Leonid Pourovskii, Stephen Rowley, Yuke Li, Chunmu Feng, Antoine Georges, Jianhui Dai, Guanghan Cao, Zhu’an Xu*, Qimiao Si, and N. P. Ong,“Heavy Fermion Quantum Criticality and Destruction of the Kondo Effect in a Nickel Oxypnictide”, Nature Materials 13, 777 (2014).
[2] Yongkang Luo*, Hua Chen, Jianhui Dai, Zhu-an Xu, and J. D. Thompson, "Heavy surface state in a possible topological Kondo insulator: Magnetothermoelectric transport on the (011) plane of SmB6”, Phys. Rev. B 91, 075130 (2015).
[3] Yongkang Luo*, N. J. Ghimire, M. Wartenbe, Hongchul Choi, M. Neupane, R. McDonald, E. D. Bauer, Jianxin Zhu, J. D. Thompson, and F. Ronning, “Electronhole compensation effect between topologically trivial electrons and nontrivial holes in NbAs”, Phys. Rev. B 92, 205134 (2015).
[4] Yongkang Luo*, H. Li, Y. M. Dai, H. Miao, Y. G. Shi, H. Ding, A. J. Taylor, D. A. Yarotski, R. P. Prasankumar, and J. D. Thompson, “Hall effect in the extremely large magnetoresis
Courses Taught
My group accepts 1-2 Ph.D. students and some master students every year. Undergraduate students who want to complete their dissertations are also welcome to join us. The postdoc positions are open for all seasons. Young scientists with techniques of material synthesis, transport measurements, NMR et al. are welcome to contact me!
