Richen Xiong

Richen Xiong

HQI Postdoctoral Fellow
Harvard University
I am an experimental physicist and HQI Postdoctoral Fellow at Harvard University studying how light–matter interactions uncover new physics in quantum materials. My work spans microwave to ultrafast optical spectroscopy to track dynamical many-body states, with a focus on harnessing native entanglement and coherence in correlated materials to expand the frontiers of quantum sensing and quantum information science.
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Observation of metastable chiral domain walls in a topological magnet

We report the first direct probe of spin-valley excitations and nonequilibrium dynamics of a quantum anomalous Hall insulator in twisted MoTe2 moiré superlattices. Using pump probe …

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Observation of propagating collective spin–valley modes in twisted WSe2

Elementary excitations in quantum systems govern their responses to intrinsic and extrinsic stimuli, such as phase stabilities and device operations. Emergent collective …

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Optical imaging of flavor order in flat band graphene

We describe an optical technique that sensitively and selectively detects flavor textures via the exciton response of a proximal transition metal dichalcogenide layer (WSe2). …

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Tunable transient valley-pseudospin orders in a moiré Bose-Hubbard model

We demonstrate exciton-filling and magnetic field tunable exciton valley-pseudospin orders in a doped correlated insulator of excitons. We find evidence of an in-plane order of …

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Correlated insulator of excitons in WSe2/WS2 moiré superlattices

We observed a bosonic correlated insulator in WSe2/WS2 moiré superlattices composed of excitons, tightly bound electron-hole pairs. In our experiment, we built a novel optical …

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