Associate Professor of Physics, NYU Shanghai;
Global Network Associate Professor, Department of Physics, Faculty of Arts and Science, NYU
Email: hanghui.chen@nyu.edu
Group Website: www.hanghuichen.org (You need VPN to access.)
Hanghui Chen is an Associate Professor of Physics at NYU Shanghai. Prior to joining NYU Shanghai, he was a post-doctoral fellow at Columbia University. He holds a Ph.D. from Yale University and a B.S. from Peking University.
Research Interests:
We combine state-of-the-art first principles and many-body model calculations to study strongly correlated properties of quantum materials, with an emphasis on unconventional superconductivity.
Education:
Ph.D., Physics, Yale University, 2012
B.S., Physics, Peking University, 2004
Recent Publications:
- Yu Zhou, Xinyu Shu, Yang Zhang, Zhiwei Liu, Liangyang Liu, Kunhong Xiao, Shengchun Shen, Sijie Wu, Cong Li, Jianbing Zhang, Yingjie Lyu, Yongshun Wu, Houssam Sabri, Meng Wang, Di Yi, Tianxiang Nan, Guang-Ming Zhang, Qing He, Jiadong Zang, Luyi Yang, Shuyun Zhou, Hanghui Chen, Pu Yu, "Geometry-driven polar antiferromagnetic metallicity in a double-layered perovskite cobaltate", Nature Materials (2025)
- Chengliang Xia, Hongquan Liu, Shengjie Zhou, Hanghui Chen, "Sensitive dependence of pairing symmetry on Ni-eg crystal field splitting in the nickelate superconductor La3Ni2O7", Nature Communications 16, 1054 (2025)
- Wenjie Sun, Zhicheng Jiang, Chengliang Xia, Bo Hao, Shengjun Yan, Maosen Wang, Yueying Li, Hongquan Liu, Jianyang Ding, Jiayu Liu, Zhengtai Liu, Jishan Liu, Hanghui Chen, Dawei Shen, Yuefeng Nie, "Electronic structure of superconducting infinite-layer lanthanum nickelates", Science Advances 11, eadr5116 (2025)
- Yifei Hao, Xuegang Chen, Le Zhang, Myung-Geun Han, Wei Wang, Yue-Wen Fang, Hanghui Chen, Yimei Zhu, Xia Hong, "Record high room temperature resistance switching in ferroelectric-gated Mott transistors unlocked by interfacial charge engineering", Nature Communications 14, 8247 (2023)
- Hanghui Chen, Yifeng Yang, Guangming Zhang, Hongquan Liu, "An electronic origin of charge order in infinite-layer nickelates", Nature Communications 14, 5477 (2023)
- Jiaji Ma, Ruihan Yang, Hanghui Chen, "A large modulation of electron-phonon coupling and an emergent superconducting dome in doped strong ferroelectrics", Nature Communications 12, 2314 (2021)
- Di Tian, Zhiwei Liu, Shengchun Shen, Zhuolu Li, Yu Zhou, Hongquan Liu, Hanghui Chen, Pu Yu, "Manipulating Berry curvature of SrRuO3 thin films via epitaxial strain", PNAS 118 e2101946118 (2021)
- Zhangzhang Cui, Alexander J Grutter, Hua Zhou, Hui Cao, Yongqi Dong, Dustin A Gilbert, Jingyuan Wang, Yi-Sheng Liu, Jiaji Ma, Zhenpeng Hu, Jinghua Guo, Jing Xia, Brian J Kirby, Padraic Shafer, Elke Arenholz, Hanghui Chen, Xiaofang Zhai, Yalin Lu, "Correlationdriven eightfold magnetic anisotropy in a two-dimensional oxide monolayer", Science Advances 6, eaay0114 (2020)