Shoucheng Zhang

Shoucheng Zhang, Shou- Cheng Zhang also, is a Sino- American theoretical solid state physicist.

Zhang studied at the Free University of Berlin with a diploma degree in 1983 and in 1987 received his doctorate at the State University of New York at Stony Brook. As a post - graduate student, he was until 1989 at the Institute for Theoretical Physics ( ITP), University of California, Santa Barbara. 1989 to 1993 he was at the IBM Almaden Research Center and from 1993 he was professor of physics at Stanford University. Since 2003 he has been there co -director of the IBM - Stanford Center for Spintronics Science and Application Center.

It deals with spintronics and quantum spin Hall effect (which he independently in 2006 by Charles L. Kane suggested with B. Andrei Bernevig ) ) as a prototype of topological insulators, ie topological insulators with line conditions at the surface. He also suggested other a realization of the quantum spin Hall effect in quantum wells before (sandwich structures made of mercury - tellurium layers between cadmium - tellurium layers ), where they have also been demonstrated experimentally in 2007. He also dealt with high -temperature superconductors, where he (5 ) developed a theory SO that both the antiferromagnetic and the superconducting properties describes in a unified manner.

In 1993 he received the Outstanding Innovation Award from IBM. In 2012 he was awarded the Dirac Medal ( ICTP ) ( with F. Duncan M. Haldane and Charles L. Kane in particular for their pioneering work in two - and three-dimensional topological insulators ) and the Oliver E. Buckley Condensed Matter Prize. In 2010 he received the Physics Prize €. Since 2011 he is member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and is a member of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. In 2007 he was Guggenheim Fellow and in 2006 he became a Fellow of the American Physical Society. In 2013 he received the Physics Frontiers Prize.

Writings

• Xiao- Liang Qi with: The Quantum Spin Hall Effect and Topological Insulators, Physics Today, January 2010, Arxiv