Argonne National Laboratory

Hengdi Zhao

Postdoctoral Appointee

exploratory synthesis of quantum materials in the single-crystal form

Biography

Hengdi Zhao is a postdoctoral appointee in the Emerging Materials Group. He received Ph.D. in Physical from the University of Colorado at Boulder and B.S. in Physics from the University of Kentucky.

His research interest focuses on the exploratory synthesis and characterization of novel quantum materials in the single crystal form, such as materials with 4d/5d transition metal elements. He is also a group member of Neutron and X-ray Scattering and he studies the structure and dynamics of strongly correlated systems with both x-ray and neutron diffraction and diffuse scattering. 

 

Selected Publications:

1. H. Zhao, Y. Zhang, P. Schlottmann, R. Nandkishore, and G. Cao, Heavy-Fermion Strange Metal and Quantum Spin Liquid in a 4d-Electron Trimer Lattice, arXiv:2305.01033.

2. Y. Zhang, Y. Ni, H. Zhao, S. Hakani, F. Ye, L. DeLong, I. Kimchi, and G. Cao, Control of Chiral Orbital Currents in a Colossal Magnetoresistance Material, Nature 611, 7936 (2022).

3. H. Zhao, Y. Ni, B. Hu, S. Selter, S. Aswartham, Y. Zhang, B. Büchner, P. Schlottmann, and G. Cao, Mechanical Control of Physical Properties in the van Der Waals Ferromagnet Cr2Ge2Te6 via Application of Electric Current, Phys. Rev. B 106, L041103 (2022).

4. H. Zhao, H. Zheng, J. Terzic, W. Song, Y. Ni, Y. Zhang, P. Schlottmann, and G. Cao, Lattice Flexibility in Ca3Ru2O7 : Control of Electrical Transport via Anisotropic Magnetostriction, Phys. Rev. B 104, L121119 (2021).

5. H. Zhao, B. Hu, F. Ye, M. Lee, P. Schlottmann, and G. Cao, Ground State in Proximity to a Possible Kitaev Spin Liquid: The Undistorted Honeycomb Iridate NaxIrO3 (0.60≤x≤0.80), Phys. Rev. B 104, L041108 (2021).

6. G. Cao, H. Zhao, B. Hu, N. Pellatz, D. Reznik, P. Schlottmann, and I. Kimchi, Quest for Quantum States via Field-Altering Technology, Npj Quantum Mater. 5, 83 (2020).

7. H. Zhao, B. Hu, F. Ye, C. Hoffmann, I. Kimchi, and G. Cao, Nonequilibrium Orbital Transitions via Applied Electrical Current in Calcium Ruthenates, Phys. Rev. B 100, 241104 (2019).

8. H. Zhao, F. Ye, H. Zheng, B. Hu, Y. Ni, Y. Zhang, I. Kimchi, and G. Cao, Ground State in the Novel Dimer IridateBa13Ir6O30 with Ir6+(5d3) Ions, Phys. Rev. B 100, 064418 (2019).

9. H. D. Zhao, J. Terzic, H. Zheng, Y. F. Ni, Y. Zhang, F. Ye, P. Schlottmann, and G. Cao, Decoupling of Magnetism and Electric Transport in Single-Crystal (Sr1− xAx)2IrO4 (A = Ca or Ba), J. Phys.: Condens. Matter 30, 245801 (2018).