Department of Physics Faculty
Qiong Ma
Assistant Professor of Physics
Qiong Ma
Ph.D.
Contact
Higgins Hall 330D
Telephone: 617-552-1017
Email: qiong.ma@bc.edu
Education
- B.S., University of Science and Technology of China (USTC)
- Ph.D., Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)
Research Interests
Experimental condensed matter physics; topological and correlated materials; 2D materials and devices; nanofabrication; electronic transport, optical and optoelectronic measurements of quantum materials.
Selected Publications
1. J. Tang*, S. Ding*, H. Chen*, A. Gao, T. Qian, Z. Huang, Z. Sun, X. Han, A. Strasser, J. Li, M. Geiwitz, M. Shehabeldin, V. Belosevich, Z. Wang, Y. Wang, K. Watanabe, T. Taniguchi, D. Bell, Z. Wang, L. Fu, Y. Zhang, X. Qian, K. Burch, Y. Shi, N. Ni, G. Chang†, S.-Y. Xu, & Qiong Ma†, “Observation of a dual quantum spin Hall insulator by density-tuned correlations in a van der Waals monolayer,” Nature 628, 515 (2024)
2. X. Yan*, Z. Zheng*, V. Sangwan, J. Qian, X. Wang, S.-Y. Xu, P. Jarillo-Herrero†, Qiong Ma†, & M. C. Hersam†, “Moiré Synaptic Transistors for Neuromorphic Computing,” Nature 624, 551 (2023)
3. A. Gao, Y.-F. Liu, B. Ghosh, T. Trevisan, Y. Onishi, C. Hu, T. Qian, H.-J. Tien, S.-W. Chen, D. Berube, J.-X. Qiu, H. Li, C. Tzschaschel, T. Dinh, Z. Sun, S.-C. Ho,  S.-W. Lien, B. Singh, K. Watanabe, T. Taniguchi, D. C. Bell, H. Lin, T.-R.Chang, A. Bansil, L. Fu, N. Ni, P. P. Orth, Qiong Ma, & S.-Y. Xu†, “Quantum metric nonlinear Hall effect in a topological antiferromagnetic heterostructure,” Science 381, 181 (2023)
4. Qiong Ma†, R. Kumar, S.-Y. Xu, F. Koppens, & J. Song†, “Photocurrent as a multi-physics diagnostic of quantum materials,” Nature Reviews Physics, 5, 170 (2023)
5. Qiong Ma, A. Grushin, K. Burch†, “Topology and geometry under the nonlinear spotlight,” Review article, Nature Materials 20, 1601 (2021)
6. Z. Zheng*, Qiong Ma*†, Z. Bi, S. Barrera, M. Liu, N. Mao, Y. Zhang, N. Kiper, K. Watanabe, T. Taniguchi, J. Kong, W. Tisdale, R. Ashoori, N. Gedik, L. Fu, S.-Y. Xu, & P. Jarillo-Herrero†, “Unconventional ferroelectricity in moiré heterostructures,” Nature 588, 71 (2021)
7. S-Y. Xu*, Qiong Ma*, Y. Gao*, A. Kogar, G. Zong, A. Valdivia, T. Dinh, S. Huang, B. Singh, C. Hsu, T. Chang, J. Ruff, K. Watanabe, T. Taniguchi, H. Lin, G. Karapetrov, D. Xiao, P. Jarillo-Herrero & N. Gedik, “Spontaneous gyrotropic electronic order in a transition-metal dichalcogenide,” Nature 578, 545 (2020)
8. Qiong Ma, C. Lui, J. Song, Y. Lin, J. Kong, Y. Cao, T. Dinh, N. Nair, W. Fang, K. Watanabe, T. Taniguchi, S-Y. Xu, J. Kong, T. Palacios, N. Gedik, N. Gabor & P. Jarillo-Herrero, “Giant intrinsic photoresponse in pristine graphene,” Nature Nano. 14, 145 (2019)
9. Qiong Ma*, S-Y. Xu*, H. Shen*, D. MacNeill, V. Fatemi, T. Chang, A. Valdivia, S. Wu, Z. Du, C. Hsu, S. Fang, Q. Gibson, K. Watanabe, T. Taniguchi, R. Cava, E. Kaxiras, H. Lu, H. Lin, L. Fu, N. Gedik & P. Jarillo-Herrero, “Observation of the nonlinear Hall effect under time reversal symmetric conditions,” Nature 565, 337 (2019)
10. S-Y. Xu*, Qiong Ma*, H. Shen, V. Fatemi, S. Wu, T. Chang, G. Chang, A. Valdivia, C. Chan, Q. Gibson, K. Watanabe, T. Taniguchi, H. Lin, R. Cava, L. Fu, N. Gedik & P. Jarillo-Herrero, “Electrically switchable Berry curvature dipole in the monolayer topological insulator WTe2,” Nature Phys. 14, 900 (2018)
11. Qiong Ma*, S-Y. Xu*, C. Chan, C. Zhang, G. Chang, Y. Lin, W. Xie, T. Palacios, H. Lin, S. Jia, P. Lee, P. Jarillo-Herrero & N. Gedik, “Direct optical detection of Weyl fermion chirality in a topological semimetal,” Nature Phys. 13, 842 (2017)
12. Qiong Ma*, T. Andersen*, N. Nair*, N. Gabor, M. Massicotte, C. Lui, A. Young, W. Fang, J. Kong, K. Watanabe, T. Taniguchi, N. Gedik, F. Koppens & P. Jarillo-Herrero, “Tuning ultrafast electron thermalization pathways in a van der Waals Heterostructure,” Nature Phys. 12, 455 (2016)
13. S. Dai, Qiong Ma, S. Zhu, M. Liu, T. Andersen, Z. Fei, M. Goldflam, M. Wagner, K.Watanabe, T. Taniguchi, M. Thiemens, F. Keilmann, G. Janssen, P. Jarillo-Herrero, M. Fogler & D. Basov, “Graphene on Hexagonal Boron Nitride as a Tunable Hyperbolic Metamaterial,” Nature Nano. 10, 682 (2015)
14. Qiong Ma, N. Gabor, T. Andersen, N. Nair, K. Watanabe, T. Taniguchi & P. Jarillo-Herrero, “Competing channels for hot carrier cooling in graphene,” Phys. Rev. Lett. 112, 247401 (2014)