Jing Xia

Jing Xia is a Professor of Physics at the University of California, Irvine, specializing in studying quantum materials with precision optical and transport measurements. He obtained his PhD in 2008 from Stanford University where he developed the loopless Sagnac interferometer, an ultra-sensitive magneto-optic probe with unprecedented nano-radian Faraday and Kerr sensitivities, and detected broken time-reversal symmetry in unconventional superconductors such as Strontium Ruthenate and the Cuprates. He spent three years at Caltech as a Tolman fellow studying the competition between the nematic and non-Abelian quantum Hall states, before moving to Irvine in 2011. His group at UC Irvine has made several important contributions to the study of quantum materials, including the discovery of the topological surface state in Samarium hexaboride, the discovery of the first long-range 2D magnetic state in Van der Waals layers of Chromium Germanium Telluride, and the identification of an unconventional superconducting state in the bilayers of Bismuth and Nickel. His awards include the Sloan Fellowship, NSF Career Award, Macronix Prize from OCPA, and the Lee-Osheroff-Richardson Prize for low-temperature physics. He is a Fellow of the American Physical Society.