Ziliang Ye

Assistant Professor

Department of Physics & Astronomy

Current Projects

  • Shift current and bulk photovoltaic effect at low-symmetry interfaces
  • Topological superconductivity in van der Waals heterostructures
  • Bose-Einstein condensate of interlayer excitons
  • Sliding ferroelectricy in twisted 2D semiconductors
  • Multidimensional coherent spectroscopy of correlated materials

Selected Publications

  1. D. Yang, J. Wu, B. T. Zhou, J. Liang, T. Ideue, T. Siu, K.M. Awan, K. Watanabe, T. Taniguchi, Y. Iwasa, M. Franz, Z. Ye. Spontaneous polarization induced photovoltaic effect in rhombohedrally stacked MoS2. Nat. Photon. 16, 469 (2022).
  2. J. Liang, D. Yang, J. Wu, J.I. Dadap, K. Watanabe, T. Taniguchi, Z. Ye. Optically probing the asymmetric interlayer coupling in rhombohedral-stacked MoS2 bilayer. Phys. Rev. X 12, 041005 (2022).
  3. J. Wu, D. Yang, J. Liang, M. Werner, E. Ostroumov, Y. Xiao, K. Watanabe, T. Taniguchi, J.I. Dadap, D.J. Jones, Z. Ye. Ultrafast response of spontaneous photovoltaic effect in 3R-MoS2-based heterostructures. Sci. Adv. 8, eade375 (2022).