Education Background

2007-2011            Department of Physics, Tsinghua University, China                                            Ph. D.

2005-2007            Institute of Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China                                 Ph. D. Candidate

2001-2005            School of Physics and Technology, Wuhan University, China                            B. S.

Professional Experience

2024-present        Tsung-Dao Lee Institute, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China                        TDLI Tenured Fellow

2015-present        School of Physics and Astronomy, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China        Researcher

2011-2015            Department of Physics, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, USA                  Postdoc

Topological Superconductor and Majorana Zero Mode

Surface and Low-Dimensional Physics

Scanning Tunneling Microscope and Molecular Beam Epitaxy

1. T. T. Liu^#, C. Y. Wan^#, H. Yang^#, Y. J. Zhao, B. J. Xie, W. Y. Zheng, Z. X. Yi, D. D. Guan, S. Y. Wang, H. Zheng, C. H. Liu, L. Fu, J. W. Liu*, Yaoyi Li*, and J. F. Jia*, Signatures of Hybridization of Multiple Majorana Zero Modes in a Vortex, Nature 633, 71 (2024).

2. T. T. Liu^#, Z. X. Yi^#, B. J. Xie^#, W. Y. Zheng, D. D. Guan, S. Y. Wang, H. Zheng, C. H. Liu, H. Yang*, Yaoyi Li*, and J. F. Jia*, Fermi Level Tuning in Sn_1-xPb_xTe-Pb Heterostructure via Changing Interface Roughness, Science China - Physics Mechanics & Astronomy 67, 286811 (2024).

3. H. Yang, Yaoyi Li*, T. T. Liu, D. D. Guan, S. Y. Wang, H. Zheng, C. H. Liu, L. Fu, and J. F. Jia*, Multiple In-Gap States Induced by Topological Surface States in the Superconducting Topological Crystalline Insulator Heterostructure Sn_1−xPb_xTe−Pb, Physical Review Letters 125, 136802 (2020).

4. H. Yang, Yaoyi Li*, T. T. Liu, H. Y. Xue, D. D. Guan, S. Y. Wang, H. Zheng, C. H. Liu, L. Fu, and J. F. Jia*, Superconductivity of Topological Surface States and Strong Proximity Effect in Sn_1−xPb_xTe–Pb Heterostructure, Advanced Materials 31, 1905582 (2019).

5. H. Y. Xue, H. Yang, Y. F. Wu, G. Yao, D. D. Guan, S. Y. Wang, H. Zheng, C. H. Liu, Yaoyi Li*, and J. F. Jia*, Molecular Beam Epitaxy of Superconducting PdTe₂ Films on Topological Insulator Bi₂Te₃, Science China - Physics Mechanics & Astronomy 62, 076801 (2019).

6. Yaoyi Li, M. X. Chen, M. Weinert, and L. Li*, 1D Metallic Edge States of Oxygen-Terminated Zigzag Graphene Edges, 2D Materials 6, 025038 (2019).

7. Yaoyi Li, M. X. Chen, M. Weinert, and L. Li*, Direct Experimental Determination of Onset of Electron-Electron Interactions in Gap Opening of Zigzag Graphene Nanoribbons, Nature Communications 5, 4311 (2014).

8. Y. Liu, Yaoyi Li, S. Rajput, D. Gilks, L. Lari, P. L. Galindo, M. Weinert, V. K. Lazarov*, and L. Li*, Tuning Dirac States by Strain in the Topological Insulator Bi₂Se₃ (Cover Article), Nature Physics 10, 294 (2014).

9. Y. Liu, Yaoyi Li, D. Gilks, V. K. Lazarov, M. Weinert, and L. Li*, Charging Dirac States at Antiphase Domain Boundaries in the Three-Dimensional Topological Insulator Bi₂Se₃ (Cover Article), Physical Review Letters 110, 186804 (2013).

10. Yaoyi Li, G. Wang, X. G. Zhu, M. H. Liu, C. Ye, X. Chen, Y. Y. Wang, K. He, L. L. Wang, X. C. Ma, H. J. Zhang, X. Dai, Z. Fang, X. C. Xie, Y. Liu, X. L. Qi, J. F. Jia*, S. C. Zhang, and Q. K. Xue, Intrinsic Topological Insulator Bi₂Te₃ Thin Films on Si and Their Thickness Limit, Advanced Materials 22, 4002 (2010).

11. Yaoyi Li, M. Liu, D. Y. Ma, D. C. Yu, X. Chen, X. C. Ma, Q. K. Xue, K. W. Xu, J. F. Jia*, and F. Liu*, Bistability of Nanoscale Ag Islands on a Si(111)-(4×1)-In Surface Induced by Anisotropic Stress, Physical Review Letters 103, 076102 (2009).