Dr. Yixi Su

Senior Staff Scientist

Research Topics

Quantum materials, Experimental condensed matter physics (frustrated magnetism, strongly correlated electrons, superconductivity, spintronics), Neutron and x-ray scattering, Neutron instrumentation, Material synthesis and crystal growth

Contact

+49 89/158860-714

+49 89/158860-799

E-Mail

ResearcherID: K-9119-2013

ORCID: 0000-0001-8434-1758

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Address

Jülich Centre for Neutron Science JCNS at MLZ
Forschungszentrum Jülich GmbH
Lichtenbergstr. 1
D-85747 Garching
Germany

Jülich Centre for Neutron Science (JCNS)

Neutron Methods (JCNS-4)

Building Garching-UYL / Room 0532

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About me

Dr. Yixi Su is Senior Staff Scientist and Principal Investigator in the Forschungszentrum Jülich GmbH, one of the largest and leading interdisciplinary research centres in Europe, and the group leader of the MLZ Science Group "Quantum Phenomena" in Garching, Germany. He studied physics at the University of Science and Technology of China in Hefei, and received his PhD in experimental condensed matter physics from the University of Durham in England in March 1999, with a thesis supervised by Prof. Peter Hatton on X-ray scattering studies of strongly correlated electron systems. Dr. Su then worked as a postdoctoral researcher at DESY and the University of Hamburg in Germany, before joining the Forschungszentrum Jülich in July 2001, where he became permanent Staff Scientist in 2005 and subsequently Senior Staff Scientist in 2012. His main research interests are on neutron and X-ray scattering studies of topological quantum materials, frustrated magnetism, strongly correlated electrons, unconventional superconductors and nanomagnetism. Dr. Su has also been extensively engaged in the research and development of scattering methods and neutron instrumentation, as well as in the synthesis of novel quantum materials. He has published more than 150 papers in the internationally reputed journals, including Science, Nature Physics, Science Advances, Nature Communications and Physical Review Letters etc., with H-index = 34 (Google Scholar). Dr. Su is very active in the education and training of the next generation neutron scattering scientists, and has supervised more than 10 PhD students and postdocs in recent years.

Vita

Professional appointments

Group leader, Science Group “Quantum Phenomena”, MLZ, Garching Dec. 2012 - present

Senior staff scientist (E15), JCNS-MLZ, Forschungszentrum Jülich Sep. 2012 - present

Staff scientist (permanent, E14), JCNS, Forschungszentrum Jülich Jan. 2005 - Aug. 2012

Postdoctoral researcher, IFF, Forschungszentrum Jülich, Germany July 2001 - Dec. 2004

(Advisor: Prof. Thomas Brückel)

Postdoctoral researcher, DESY & University of Hamburg, Germany Apr. 1999 - June 2001

(Advisor: Prof. R. L. Johnson)

Education

Ph.D. in Experimental Condensed Matter Physics, University of Durham, UK

(Advisor: Prof. Peter D. Hatton) March 1999

B.Sc. in Physics, University of Science and Technology of China (USTC), China

July 1993

Research expertise

Principal Investigator (PI) in the fields of quantum materials, strongly correlated electrons, frustrated magnetism, and unconventional superconductors

More than 150 publications in the refereed journals (ResearcherID: K-9119-2013; ORCID: 0000-0001-8434-1758), H-index=34 (Google Scholar)

More than 80 refereed publications and grant proposals as a peer reviewer

Responsible scientist for the polarized time-of-flight neutron spectrometer DNS at the Heinz Maier-Leibneitz Zentrum (MLZ), Garching, with extensive experience in the neutron and synchrotron x-ray scattering methods and instrumentation developments, including inelastic neutron scattering techniques, polarized neutron scattering techniques, and magnetic and resonant x-ray scattering

Responsible scientist for the sample preparation laboratories for the synthesis of quantum materials at JCNS-MLZ

Publications

[1] “Topological magnon insulators in two-dimensional van der Waals ferromagnets CrSiTe3 and CrGeTe3: Toward intrinsic gap-tunability”, Fengfeng Zhu, Lichuan Zhang, Xiao Wang, Flaviano José Dos Santos, Junda Song, Thomas Mueller, Karin Schmalzl, Wolfgang F Schmidt, Alexandre Ivanov, Jitae T Park, Jianhui Xu, Jie Ma, Samir Lounis, Stefan Blügel, Yuriy Mokrousov, Yixi Su, Thomas Brückel, Science Advances 7, eabi7532 (2021)

[2] “Magnetic structures, spin-flop transition, and coupling of Eu and Mn magnetism in the Dirac semimetal EuMnBi2”, Fengfeng Zhu, Xiao Wang, Martin Meven, Junda Song, Thomas Mueller, Changjiang Yi, Wenhai Ji, Youguo Shi, Jie Ma, Karin Schmalzl, Wolfgang F Schmidt, Yixi Su, Thomas Brückel, Phys. Rev. Research 2, 043100 (2020)

[3] “Intermultiplet transitions and magnetic long-range order in Sm-based pyrochlores”, Viviane Peçanha-Antonio, Erxi Feng, Xiao Sun, Devashibhai Adroja, Helen C Walker, Alexandra S Gibbs, Fabio Orlandi, Yixi Su, Thomas Brückel, Phys. Rev. B 99, 134415 (2019)

[4] “All-oxide-based synthetic antiferromagnets exhibiting layer-resolved magnetization reversal”, Binbin Chen, Haoran Xu, Chao Ma, Stefan Mattauch, Da Lan, Feng Jin, Zhuang Guo, Siyuan Wan, Pingfan Chen, Guanyin Gao, Feng Chen, Yixi Su, Wenbin Wu, Science 357, 191 (2017)

[5] “Spiral spin-liquid and the emergence of a vortex-like state in MnSc2S4”, Shang Gao, Oksana Zaharko, Vladimir Tsurkan, Yixi Su, Jonathan S. White, Gregory S. Tucker, Bertrand Roessli, Frederic Bourdarot, Romain Sibille, Dmitry Chernyshov, Tom Fennell, Alois Loidl, Christian Rüegg, Nature Physics 13, 157 (2017)

Last Modified: 07.06.2024