Jia-Xin Xiong

Knowledgeable Postdoctoral Associate in academic discipline. Hardworking professional adept at conceiving and performing self-directed and team-based research.

Symmetry breaking controlled metal vs insulator phases in quantum materials:

[1] Jia-Xin Xiong, Xiuwen Zhang, and Alex Zunger, Role of magnetic and structural symmetry breaking in forming the Mott insulating gap in Nb3Cl8, Phys. Rev. B 111, 155122 (2025).

[2] Jia-Xin Xiong, Xiuwen Zhang, and Alex Zunger, Symmetry breaking forms split-off flat bands in quantum oxides controlling metal versus insulator phases, Phys. Rev. B 111, 035154 (2025).

[3] Xiuwen Zhang, Jia-Xin Xiong, and Alex Zunger, Hidden magnetism and split off flat bands in the insulator metal transition in VO2, npj Comput. Mater. 10, 217 (2024).

Order and disorder alloying effects in halide perovskites:

[4] Fernando P. Sabino, Jia-Xin Xiong, Xiuwen Zhang, Gustavo M. Dalpian, and Alex Zugner, Alloying multiple halide perovskites on the same sublattice in search of stability and target band gaps, Under review (2025).

Spin effects in crystalline solids:

[5] Xiuwen Zhang, Jia-Xin Xiong, Lin-Ding Yuan, and Alex Zunger, Prototypes of non-relativistic spin splitting and polarization in symmetry broken antiferromagnets, Under review (2025).

[6] Jia-Xin Xiong, Xiuwen Zhang, Lin-Ding Yuan, and Alex Zunger, Matter with apparent or hidden spin effects, In process (2025).

[7] Jia-Xin Xiong, Yang Liu, Shan Guan, Jun-Wei Luo, and Shu-Shen Li, Why experiments fail to detect the finite linear Rashba spin-orbit coupling of two-dimensional holes in semiconductor quantum wells: The case of Ge/SiGe quantum wells, Phys. Rev. B 106, 155421 (2022).

[8] Shan Guan, Jia-Xin Xiong, Zhi Wang, and Jun-Wei Luo, Progress of hidden spin polarization in inversion-symmetric crystals, Sci. China-Phys. Mech. Astron. 65, 237301 (2022).

[9] Yang Liu, Jia-Xin Xiong, Zhi Wang, Wen-Long Ma, Shan Guan, Jun-Wei Luo, and Shu-Shen Li, Emergent linear Rashba spin-orbit coupling offers fast manipulation of hole-spin qubits in germanium, Phys. Rev. B 105, 075313 (2022).

[10] Jia-Xin Xiong, Shan Guan, Jun-Wei Luo, and Shu-Shen Li, Orientation-dependent Rashba spin-orbit coupling of two-dimensional hole gases in semiconductor quantum wells: Linear or cubic, Phys. Rev. B 105, 115303 (2022).

[11] Jia-Xin Xiong, Yang Liu, Shan Guan, Jun-Wei Luo, and Shu-Shen Li, Interface enhanced  linear Rashba spin-orbit coupling of two-dimensional holes in Ge quantum wells, In process (2025).