Publications

    2026
  1. Universal Phase Transitions of Matter in Optically Driven Cavities
    T Huang, Z Sun*
  2. Ab initio approach to collective excitations in excitonic insulators
    F Xuan*, J Song, Z Sun*
  3. 2025
  4. Optical Detection and Manipulation of Pseudospin Orders in Wigner Crystals
    Y Dong, E Demler*, Z Sun*
  5. Supercurrent Amplification in Nonequilibrium Superconductors
    Q Yang, Y Cao, DM Kennes, Z Sun*
  6. Floquet engineering enabled by charge density wave transition
    F Wang, X Cai, T Xiao, C Bao, H Zhong, W Chen, T Lin, T Sheng, X Tang, H Zhang, P Yu, Z Sun*, S Zhou*
  7. Interaction effects on electronic Floquet spectra: Excitonic effects
    T Xiao, T Huang, C Bao, Z Sun*
  8. Optical signatures of dynamical excitonic condensates
    A Osterkorn, Y Murakami, T Kaneko, Z Sun, AJ Millis, D Golež
  9. Current-driven nonequilibrium electrodynamics in graphene revealed by nano-infrared imaging
    Y Dong, Z Sun, IY Phinney, D Sun, TI Andersen, L Xiong, Y Shao, ...
  10. Ultrafast Infrared Plasmonics
    Y Luo, Z Sun, Z Sun*, Q Dai*
  11. Fate of transient order parameter domain walls in ultrafast experiments
    L Kong, R Shindou, Z Sun*
  12. Plasmonic polarization sensing of electrostatic superlattice potentials
    S Zhang, J Fonseca, D Bennett, Z Sun, J Zhang, R Jing, S Xu, L He, ...
  13. 2024
  14. Manipulating the symmetry of photon-dressed electronic states
    C Bao, M Schüler, T Xiao, F Wang, H Zhong, T Lin, X Cai, T Sheng, ...
  15. Dynamical exciton condensates in biased electron-hole bilayers
    Z Sun*, Y Murakami, F Xuan, T Kaneko, D Golež, AJ Millis
  16. Semi-Dirac fermions in a topological metal
    Y Shao, S Moon, AN Rudenko, J Wang, J Herzog-Arbeitman, M Ozerov, ...
  17. Floquet engineering of many-body states by the ponderomotive potential
    Z Sun*
  18. Plasmons in the Kagome metal CsV3Sb5
    H Shiravi, A Gupta, BR Ortiz, S Cui, B Yu, E Uykur, AA Tsirlin, SD Wilson, Z Sun*, GX Ni*
  19. Adequacy of the dynamical mean field theory for low density and Dirac materials
    A Mu, Z Sun, AJ Millis
  20. 2023
  21. Hyperbolic exciton polaritons in a van der Waals magnet
    FL Ruta, S Zhang, Y Shao, SL Moore, S Acharya, Z Sun, S Qiu, J Geurs, ...
  22. Exciton-spin interactions in antiferromagnetic charge-transfer insulators
    T Kaneko, Y Murakami, D Golež, Z Sun, AJ Millis
  23. Revealing the frequency-dependent oscillations in the nonlinear terahertz response induced by the Josephson current
    S Zhang*, Z Sun*, Q Liu, Z Wang, Q Wu, L Yue, S Xu, T Hu, R Li, X Zhou, J Yuan, G Gu, T Dong, N Wang*
  24. Visualizing moiré ferroelectricity via plasmons and nano-photocurrent in graphene/twisted-WSe2 structures
    S Zhang, Y Liu, Z Sun, X Chen, B Li, SL Moore, S Liu, Z Wang, SE Rossi, ...
  25. Ambipolar charge-transfer graphene plasmonic cavities
    BSY Kim, AJ Sternbach, MS Choi, Z Sun, FL Ruta, Y Shao, AS McLeod, ...
  26. Distinguishing and controlling Mottness in by ultrafast light
    C Bao, H Zhong, F Wang, T Lin, H Zhang, Z Sun, W Duan, S Zhou
  27. 2022
  28. Infrared plasmons propagate through a hyperbolic nodal metal
    Y Shao, AJ Sternbach, BSY Kim, AA Rikhter, X Xu, ...
  29. Optical conductivity of the two-dimensional Hubbard model: Vertex corrections, emergent Galilean invariance, and the accuracy of the single-site dynamical mean field approximation
    A Mu, Z Sun, AJ Millis
  30. Snapshots of a light-induced metastable hidden phase driven by the collapse of charge order
    FY Gao, Z Zhang, Z Sun, L Ye, YH Cheng, ZJ Liu, JG Checkelsky, ...
  31. Surface plasmons induce topological transition in graphene/α-MoO3 heterostructures
    FL Ruta, BSY Kim, Z Sun, DJ Rizzo, AS McLeod, A Rajendran, S Liu, ...
  32. Graphene as a source of entangled plasmons
    Z Sun, DN Basov, MM Fogler
  33. Rapid simulations of hyperspectral near-field images of three-dimensional heterogeneous surfaces–part II
    X Chen, Z Yao, Z Sun, SG Stanciu, DN Basov, R Hillenbrand, M Liu
  34. Nano-spectroscopy of excitons in atomically thin transition metal dichalcogenides
    S Zhang, B Li, X Chen, FL Ruta, Y Shao, AJ Sternbach, AS McLeod, ...
  35. Exploring nonequilibrium phases of photo-doped Mott insulators with generalized Gibbs ensembles
    Y Murakami, S Takayoshi, T Kaneko, Z Sun, D Golež, AJ Millis, P Werner
  36. Before 2022
  37. Nonlinear Nano-electrodynamics of a Weyl Metal
    Y Shao, R Jing, SH Chae, C Wang, Z Sun, E Emmanouilidou, S Xu, ...
  38. Deep Learning Analysis of Polaritonic Wave Images
    S Xu, AS McLeod, X Chen, DJ Rizzo, BS Jessen, Z Yao, Z Wang, Z Sun, ...
  39. Polaritonic Vortices with a Half-Integer Charge
    L Xiong, Y Li, D Halbertal, M Sammon, Z Sun, S Liu, JH Edgar, T Low, ...
  40. A compact device sustains a fluid of bosons
    D Golež, Z Sun
  41. Terahertz response of monolayer and few-layer WTe2 at the nanoscale
    R Jing, Y Shao, Z Fei, CFB Lo, RA Vitalone, FL Ruta, J Staunton, ...
  42. Second order Josephson effect in excitonic insulators
    Z Sun, T Kaneko, D Golež, AJ Millis
  43. Bulk photovoltaic effect driven by collective excitations in a correlated insulator
    T Kaneko, Z Sun, Y Murakami, D Golež, AJ Millis
  44. Long-lived phonon polaritons in hyperbolic materials
    G Ni, AS McLeod, Z Sun, JR Matson, CFB Lo, DA Rhodes, FL Ruta, ...
  45. Fizeau drag in graphene plasmonics
    Y Dong, L Xiong, IY Phinney, Z Sun, R Jing, AS McLeod, S Zhang, S Liu, ...
  46. Topological Charge Pumping in Excitonic Insulators
    Z Sun, AJ Millis
  47. Nonlinear Spectroscopy of Collective Modes in an Excitonic Insulator
    D Golez, Z Sun, Y Murakami, A Georges, AJ Millis
  48. Hyperbolic cooper-pair polaritons in planar graphene/cuprate plasmonic cavities
    ME Berkowitz, BSY Kim, G Ni, AS McLeod, CFB Lo, Z Sun, G Gu, ...
  49. Charge-Transfer Plasmon Polaritons at Graphene/α-RuCl3 Interfaces
    DJ Rizzo, BS Jessen, Z Sun, FL Ruta, J Zhang, JQ Yan, L Xian, ...
  50. Femtosecond exciton dynamics in WSe2 optical waveguides
    AJ Sternbach, S Latini, S Chae, H Hübener, U De Giovannini, Y Shao, ...
  51. Bardasis-Schrieffer polaritons in excitonic insulators
    Z Sun, AJ Millis
  52. Collective modes and terahertz near-field response of superconductors
    Z Sun, MM Fogler, DN Basov, AJ Millis
  53. Pump-induced motion of an interface between competing orders
    Z Sun, AJ Millis
  54. Electronic correlations in nodal-line semimetals
    Y Shao, AN Rudenko, J Hu, Z Sun, Y Zhu, S Moon, AJ Millis, S Yuan, ...
  55. Transient Trapping into Metastable States in Systems with Competing Orders
    Z Sun, AJ Millis
  56. Photoenhanced metastable c-axis electrodynamics in stripe-ordered cuprate La1.885Ba0.115CuO4
    KA Cremin, J Zhang, CC Homes, GD Gu, Z Sun, MM Fogler, AJ Millis, ...
  57. Soliton superlattices in twisted hexagonal boron nitride
    GX Ni, H Wang, BY Jiang, LX Chen, Y Du, ZY Sun, MD Goldflam, ...
  58. Optical signatures of Dirac nodal lines in NbAs2
    Y Shao, Z Sun, Y Wang, C Xu, R Sankar, AJ Breindel, C Cao, MM Fogler, ...
  59. Fundamental limits to graphene plasmonics
    GX Ni, AS McLeod, Z Sun, L Wang, L Xiong, KW Post, SS Sunku, ...
  60. Universal linear and nonlinear electrodynamics of a Dirac fluid
    Z Sun, DN Basov, MM Fogler
  61. Third-order optical conductivity of an electron fluid
    Z Sun, DN Basov, MM Fogler
  62. Nanoscale mapping and spectroscopy of nonradiative hyperbolic modes in hexagonal boron nitride nanostructures
    LV Brown, M Davanco, Z Sun, A Kretinin, Y Chen, JR Matson, ...
  63. Efficiency of launching highly confined polaritons by infrared light incident on a hyperbolic material
    S Dai, Q Ma, Y Yang, J Rosenfeld, MD Goldflam, A McLeod, Z Sun, ...
  64. Adiabatic amplification of plasmons and demons in 2D systems
    Z Sun, DN Basov, MM Fogler
  65. Imaging of anomalous internal reflections of hyperbolic phonon-polaritons in hexagonal boron nitride
    AJ Giles, S Dai, OJ Glembocki, AV Kretinin, Z Sun, CT Ellis, JG Tischler, ...
  66. Hamiltonian optics of hyperbolic polaritons in nanogranules
    Z Sun, Á Gutiérrez-Rubio, DN Basov, MM Fogler