Wanzheng Hu

Email: wanzheng@bu.edu
Tel: (617) 353-4518
Metcalf Science Center (SCI), Room 208
Department of Physics, Boston University
590 Commonwealth Avenue, Boston, MA 02215

Research Insterests

Wanzheng Hu’s research focused on light-induced far-from-equilibrium phenomena, steady-state electrodynamics of strongly correlated materials, and the discovery of unconventional superconductors.

Biographical Sketch

Wanzheng Hu joined BU Physics Department as an assistant professor in September 2017. She recieved her PhD in 2010 from Institute of Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences. In July 2010, she moved to Max-Planck Institute for the Structure and Dynamics of Matter in Hamburg, Germany, first as a postdoc and then a research scientist. In September 2017, she won European Research Council Starting Grant (ERC-StG, €1.79 million), which is one of the most prestigious grants for individuals in Europe.

Selected Publications

    • Jacob A. Warshauer, Daniel Alejandro Bustamante Lopez, Qishuo Tan, Huyongqing Chen, Jing Tang, Xi Ling, and Wanzheng Hu, Long-lived gapped state in resonantly driven excitonic antiferromagnet, Phys. Rev. Lett. 134, 016901 (2025).
    • Xiaoran Liu, Jong-Woo Kim, Yao Wang, Michael Terilli, Xun Jia, Mikhail Kareev, Shiyu Peng, Fangdi Wen, Tsung-Chi Wu, Huyongqing Chen, Wanzheng Hu, Mary H. Upton, Jungho Kim, Yongseong Choi, Daniel Haskel, Hongming Weng, Philip J. Ryan, Yue Cao, Yang Qi, Jiandong Guo, Jak Chakhalian, Chiral Spin-Liquid-Like State in Pyrochlore Iridate Thin Films, Nature Communications 15, 10348 (2024).
    • Jacob A. Warshauer, Daniel Alejandro Bustamante Lopez, Qingxin Dong, Genfu Chen, Wanzheng Hu, Transient gap generation in BaFe2As2 driven by coherent lattice vibrations, PNAS Nexus 2, pgad164 (2023).
    • W.  Hu*, S. Kaiser*, D. Nicoletti*, C. R. Hunt*, I. Gierz, M. C. Hoffmann, M. Le Tacon, T. Loew, B. Keimer, and A. Cavalleri (*equal contribution), Optically enhanced coherent transport in YBa2Cu3O6.5 by ultrafast redistribution of interlayer coupling Nature Materials 13,705(2014).
    • A. D. Caviglia, R. Scherwitzl, P. Popovich, W. Hu, H. Bromberger, R. Singla, M. Mitrano, M. C. Hoffmann, S. Kaiser, P. Zubko, S. Gariglio, J.-M. Triscone, M. Först, and A. Cavalleri, Ultrafast Strain Engineering in Complex Oxide Heterostructures,Phys. Rev. Lett. 108, 136801(2012).
    • W. Z. Hu, Q. M. Zhang, N. L. Wang, Optical and Raman spectroscopy studies on Fe-based superconductors, Physica C 469, 545(2009).
    • W. Z. Hu, J. Dong, G. Li, Z. Li, P. Zheng, G. F. Chen, J. L. Luo, and N. L. Wang, Origin of the Spin Density Wave Instability in AFe2As2 (A=Ba,Sr) as Revealed by Optical Spectroscopy, Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 257005 (2008).
    • G. F. Chen, Z. Li, D. Wu, G. Li, W. Z. Hu, J. Dong, P. Zheng, J. L. Luo, and N. L. Wang, Superconductivity at 41 K and its competition with spin-density-wave instability in layered CeO1-xFxFeAs, Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 247002 (2008).

Teaching

Graduate level
PY543 Introduction to Solid State Physics, Spring 2021-2025
Undergraduate level
PY313 Modern Physics, Fall 2023, 2024
PY212 General Physics 2, Fall 2019-2022
PY252 Principle of Physics 2, Spring 2018
PY251 Principle of Physics 1, Fall 2017

Honors and Awards