Fudan University's Professor Xiu Faxian and Collaborators Discover Room-Temperature Intrinsic Nonlinear Planar Hall EffectRecently, Professor Xiu Faxian's research group from the Department of Physics at Fudan University, in collaboration with multiple institutions, discovered a novel intrinsic transport response—the intrinsic nonlinear planar Hall effect (INPHE)—in the topological semimetal TaIrTe₄...

Recently, the research group led by Xiu Faxian from the Department of Physics at Fudan University, based on the anisotropic two-dimensional material ReS2 and the piezoelectric material LiNbO3, discovered an optoelectronic response anisotropy that can be modulated by surface acoustic waves. They also employed machine-learning algorithms to achieve simultaneous multi-dimensional detection of light. On ...

Recently, the research group of Prof. Xiu Faxian from the Department of Physics at Fudan University, in collaboration with other researchers, constructed high-quality proximity Josephson junction devices based on the antiferromagnetic topological insulator MnBi₂Te₄. They achieved asymmetric edge supercurrent and a zero-field tunable Josephson diode effect. On May 14, 2025, the related findings were ...

Recently, the research group of Prof. Xiu Faxian from the Department of Physics at Fudan University, in collaboration with other researchers, achieved magnetization switching based on asymmetric topological surface states in the magnetic topological material MnSb₂Te₄. On May 9, 2025, the related findings were published online in the journal National Science Review under the title "Magnetization Switching ...

Our group has made significant progress in the research of low-pass filters based on two-dimensional ferromagnetic materials. On March 20th, the relevant research findings were published online in the journal Nature Electronics (DOI: 10.1038/s41928-023-00941-z) under the title of “Low-pass filters based on van der Waals ferromagnets”. The first unit of the paper is the Department of Physics a...

​Our group and collaborators have revealed a new superconducting mechanism of spin-orbit-parity coupling in the thin layer two-dimensional layered single crystal superconductor 2M-WS2. On November 14, 2022, the relevant research findings were published online in the journal Nature Physics under the title “Spin-Orbit-Parity Coupled Superconductivity in Atomically Thin 2M-WS2”, and a review ti...

Our group collaborated with Shaoming Dong's team to achieve superconducting magnetic heterostructures in a two-dimensional material system. On November 12th, the relevant research findings were published online in the journal Nature Communications (DOI: 10.1038/s41467-021-26946-w) under the title “Van der Waals ferromagnetic Josephson junctions”. The corresponding authors of the paper are Sha...

Professor Faxian Xiu was invited to write a review paper on the novel Weyl electron cyclotron orbitals in Nature Review Physics. The paper was titled “Cycling Fermi arc electrons with Weyl orbitals” and was published online on July 15, 2021 in Nature Reviews Physics 3, 660 (2021). The corresponding author is Professor Faxian Xiu, and the first author is Cheng Zhang, a teen researcher at the I...

Recently, our group has made significant progress in the research of nonreciprocal antennas for two-dimensional layered superconductors NbSe2. On November 6th, the relevant research findings were published online in the journal Nature Communications 115634 (2020) under the title of “Nonreciprocal Superconducting NbSe2 Antenna”. The first unit of the paper is the Department of Physics at Fudan...