To See a World in a Grain of Sand -- The Scientific Life of Shoucheng Zhang

Abstract

Our friend and colleague, Prof. Shoucheng Zhang, passed away in 2018, which was a great loss for the entire physics community. For all of us who knew Shoucheng, it is difficult to overcome the sadness and shock of his early departure. However, we are very fortunate that Shoucheng has left us such a rich legacy and so many memories in his 55 years of life as a valuable friend, a world-leading physicist, a remarkable advisor, and a great thinker. On May 2-4, 2019, a memorial workshop for Shoucheng was organized at Stanford University, where we displayed a small exhibition of 12 posters, as a brief overview of Shoucheng's wonderful scientific life. This article is prepared based on those posters.

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• Quantum Spin Hall Effect and Topological Phase Transition in HgTe Quantum Wells
• Quantum Spin Hall Insulator State in HgTe Quantum Wells
• Topological Insulators in Three Dimensions
• Topological Insulators with Inversion Symmetry
• Experimental Observation of the Quantum Anomalous Hall Effect in a Magnetic Topological Insulator
• Discovery (theoretical prediction and experimental observation) of a large-gap topological-insulator class with spin-polarized single-Dirac-cone on the surface
• Angle-resolved photoemission spectroscopy of the cuprate superconductors
• A topological Dirac insulator in a quantum spin Hall phase : Experimental observation of first strong topological insulator
• Paired states of fermions in two dimensions with breaking of parity and time-reversal symmetries, and the fractional quantum Hall effect
• Classification of topological insulators and superconductors in three spatial dimensions
• Topological Field Theory of Time-Reversal Invariant Insulators
• Topological invariants of time-reversal-invariant band structures
• Quantized Anomalous Hall Effect in Magnetic Topological Insulators
• Quantum Spin Hall Effect
• Universal Intrinsic Spin-Hall Effect
• Dissipationless Quantum Spin Current at Room Temperature
• Experimental observation of the spin-Hall effect in a two dimensional spin-orbit coupled semiconductor system
• Large-gap quantum spin Hall insulators in tin films
• Intrinsic magnetic topological insulators in van der Waals layered MnBi${}_2$Te${}_4$-family materials
• Three dimensional topological invariants for time reversal invariant Hamiltonians and the three dimensional quantum spin Hall effect
• Seeing the magnetic monopole through the mirror of topological surface states
• Topological quantization of the spin Hall effect in two-dimensional paramagnetic semiconductors
• Quantum Spin Hall Effect in Inverted Type II Semiconductors
• The Helical Liquid and the Edge of Quantum Spin Hall Systems
• Topological Superconductivity and Superfluidity
• An Exact SU(2) Symmetry and Persistent Spin Helix in a Spin-Orbit Coupled System
• Emergence of the persistent spin helix in semiconductor quantum wells
• Chiral Topological Superconductor From the Quantum Hall State
• A Four Dimensional Generalization of the Quantum Hall Effect
• Photonic topological pumping through the edges of a dynamical four-dimensional quantum Hall system
• Modification of the Landau-Lifshitz Equation in the Presence of a Spin-Polarized Current in CMR and GMR Materials
• A minimal two-band model for the superconducting Fe-pnictides
• Exploring 4D Quantum Hall Physics with a 2D Topological Charge Pump
• Quantized Faraday and Kerr rotation and axion electrodynamics of a 3D topological insulator
• Topological Quantum Computation Based on Chiral Majorana Fermions
• Topological superconductivity on the surface of Fe-based superconductors
• Topological quantization in units of the fine structure constant
• Chiral anomaly, Charge Density Waves, and Axion Strings from Weyl Semimetals
• A sufficient condition for the absence of the sign problem in the fermionic quantum Monte-Carlo algorithm
• Quantized topological magnetoelectric effect of the zero-plateau quantum anomalous Hall state
• Helical edge and surface states in HgTe quantum wells and bulk insulators
• Chiral topological superconductor and half-integer conductance plateau from quantum anomalous Hall plateau transition
• Atom2Vec: learning atoms for materials discovery
• Quantum Anomalous Hall Effect with Higher Plateaus
• Observation of the universal magnetoelectric effect in a 3D topological insulator
• Fractional topological insulators in three dimensions
• Metal-to-Insulator Switching in Quantum Anomalous Hall States
• Zero-field dissipationless chiral edge transport and the nature of dissipation in the quantum anomalous Hall state
• Non-Majorana Origin of the Half-Quantized Conductance Plateau in Quantum Anomalous Hall Insulator and Superconductor Hybrid Structures
• Conductance and noise signatures of Majorana backscattering
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• Observation of the zero Hall plateau in a quantum anomalous Hall insulator
• Actinide Topological Insulator Materials with Strong Interaction
• Anomalous Edge Transport in the Quantum Anomalous Hall State
• Axion topological field theory of topological superconductors
• Observation of the quantum-anomalous-Hall insulator to Anderson insulator quantum phase transition and its scaling behavior
• Topological insulators in filled skutterudites
• Microscopic Electron Models with Exact SO(5) Symmetry
• Chern-Simons Theory and Wilson Loops in the Brillouin Zone