个人简介
刘奇航，南方科技大学物理系副教授，主要从事以密度泛函理论为主的凝聚态理论研究，聚焦真实材料。研究兴趣包括理解材料中新奇的电学，磁学，光学，缺陷，自旋极化，拓扑等性质及它们的耦合，以及功能导向的新型材料设计及预测。刘奇航博士以第一作者或通讯作者身份已发表包括Nat. Phys. 、Phys. Rev. X、Phys, Rev. Lett. 、Nano Lett. 、Adv. Funct. Mater. 等多篇学术论文；署名作者共计已发表学术论文30余篇，Google Scholar统计引用超过2200次；担任Phys. Rev. Lett.、 Nano Lett.、Adv. Mater. 等期刊审稿人。

研究领域
凝聚态理论以及计算材料物理，包括：
自旋轨道耦合引起的新奇物理现象，如拓扑材料，自旋劈裂以及相关性质。
量子材料以及低维材料中电子结构现象。
基于纳电子学和自旋电子学的反向功能材料设计以及器件设计

工作经历
2018- ，南方科技大学物理系，副教授
2013-2018，美国科罗拉多大学博尔德分校，助理研究员
2012-2013，美国西北大学，博士后研究员

学习经历
2007-2012，北京大学物理学院，博士
2003-2007，北京大学物理学院，学士


代表文章
? Q. Liu*, Q. Yao, Z. Kelly, C. Pasco, T. McQueen, S. Lany and A. Zunger, Electron Doping of Proposed Kagome Quantum Spin Liquid Produces Localized States in the Band Gap, Phys. Rev. Lett. 121, 186402 (2018).
? J. Zheng, G. Teng, J. Yang, M. Xu, Q. Yao, Z. Zhuo, W. Yang, Q. Liu* and F. Pan, Mechanism of Exact Transition Between Cationic and Anionic Redox Activities in Cathode Material Li2FeSiO4, J. Phys. Chem. Lett. 9, 6262 (2018).
? X. Zhang?, Q. Liu?, Q. Xu?, X. Dai and A. Zunger, Topological insulators vs. topological Dirac semimetals in honeycomb compounds, J. Am. Chem. Soc. 140, 13687 (2018).
? X. Zhou, Q. Liu*, Q. Wu, T. Nummy, H. Li, J. Griffith, S. Parham, J. Waugh, E. Emmanouilidou, B. Shen, O. Yazyev, N. Ni and D. Dessau, Coexistence of tunable Weyl points and topological nodal lines in ternary transition-metal telluride TaIrTe4, Phys. Rev. B 97, 241102(R) (2018).
? X. Zhang, L. B. Abdalla, Q. Liu* and A. Zunger, "Enabling electronic motif for topological insulation in ABO3 perovskites and its structural stability", Adv. Func. Mater. 27, ** (2017).
?Q. Liu* and A. Zunger, Predicted Realization of Cubic Dirac Fermion in Quasi-One-Dimensional Transition-Metal Mono-Chalcogenides, Phys. Rev. X 7, 021019 (2017).
?X. Zhou, Q. Liu*, J. A. Waugh, H. Li, T. Nummy, X. Zhang, X. Zhu, G. Cao, A. Zunger and D. S. Dessau. Predicted electronic markers for polytypes of LaOBiS2 examined via angular resolved photoemission spectroscopy, Phys. Rev. B 95, 075118 (2017).
?Q. Liu*, X. Zhang, J. A. Waugh, D. S. Dessau and A. Zunger. Orbital mapping of energy bands and the truncated spin polarization in three-dimensional Rashba semiconductors, Phys. Rev. B 94, 125207 (2016).
?Q. Liu*, X. Zhang and A. Zunger. Transforming common III-V and II-VI semiconductor compounds into topological heterostructures: The case of CdTe/InSb superlattices, Adv. Func. Mater. 26, 3259 (2016).
?Q. Liu*, X. Zhang and A. Zunger. Polytypism in LaOBiS2-type compounds based on different three-dimensional stacking sequences of two-dimensional BiS2 layers, Phys. Rev. B 93, 174119 (2016).
?Q. Liu*, X. Zhang and A. Zunger, Intrinsic circular polarization in centrosymmetric stacks of transition-metal dichalcogenides, Phys. Rev. Lett. 114,087402 (2015).
?Q. Liu*, X. Zhang, L. B. Abdalla, A. Fazzio and A. Zunger, Switching a Normal Insulator into a Topological Insulator via Electric Field with Application to Phosphorene, Nano Lett. 15, 1222 (2015).
?Q. Liu*, X. Zhang, H. Jin, K. Lam, J. Im, A. J. Freeman, et al. Search and design of nonmagnetic centrosymmetric layered crystals with large local spin polarization. Phys. Rev. B 91, 235204 (2015).
?X. Zhang?, Q. Liu?, J.-W. Luo, A. J. Freeman, A. Zunger, Hidden spin polarization in inversion-symmetric bulk crystals, Nat. Phys. 10, 387 (2014).
?Q. Liu*, Y. Guo, A. J. Freeman, Tunable Rashba Effect in Two-dimensional LaOBiS2 Films: Ultra-thin Candidates for Spin Field Effect Transistors, Nano Lett. 13, 5264 (2013).
?Z. Ni, Q. Liu, K. Tang, J. Zheng, J. Zhou, R. Qin, Z. Gao, D. Yu and J. Lu, Tunable Bandgap in Silicene and Germanene, Nano Lett. 12, 113 (2012).
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