个人简介

2016年本科毕业于西北大学物理学院，2021年于北京大学物理学院获博士学位，2021至2025年在美国华盛顿大学从事博士后研究。2026年1月加入复旦大学理论物理与信息科学交叉中心，担任助理教授、博士生导师。共发表SCI论文30篇，其中Nature 1篇、Nature Physics 2篇、Nature Materials 1篇、Nature Communications 3篇、Physical Review Letters 4篇等，多个理论预言被实验证实。

研究方向

• 1.    莫尔体系中电子结构计算方法的发展

• 2.    莫尔体系中的能带拓扑

• 3.    莫尔体系中的分数陈绝缘体

• 4.    机器学习方法在莫尔体系中的发展和应用

• 5.    电声耦合、手性声子、激子

学术任职、荣誉与获奖

入选国家级海外青年人才项目（2025年）

代表性论文和论著

• 1.    Cheng Chen#, William Holtzmann#, Xiao-Wei Zhang#, Eric Anderson, Shanmei He, Yuzhou Zhao, Weijie Li, Jieyi Liu, Yucheng Guo, Chris Jozwiak, Aaron Bostwick, Eli Rotenberg, Kenji Watanabe, Takashi Taniguchi, Ting Cao, Di Xiao, Xiaodong Xu, Yulin Chen，Visualizing electronic structure of twisted bilayer MoTe2 in devices, Commun. Phys. 9, 62 (2026).

• 2.    Xiao-Wei Zhang, Kaijie Yang, Chong Wang, Xiaoyu Liu, Ting Cao, Di Xiao, Twist-angle transferable continuum model and second flat Chern band in twisted MoTe2 and WSe2, npj Quantum Mater. 10, 110 (2025).

• 3.    Yueyao Fan#, Xiao-Wei Zhang#, Yusen Ye, Xiaoyu Liu, Chong Wang, Kaijie Yang, Di Xiao, Ting Cao, Layerwise Stratification and Band Reordering in Twisted Multilayer MoTe2, arXiv:2511.19782.

• 4.    Ellis Thompson#, Keng Tou Chu#, Florie Mesple#, Xiao-Wei Zhang#, Chaowei Hu, Yuzhou Zhao, Heonjoon Park, Jiaqi Cai, Eric Anderson, Kenji Watanabe, Takashi Taniguchi, Jihui Yang, Jiun-Haw Chu, Xiaodong Xu, Ting Cao, Di Xiao, Matthew Yankowitz, Nat. Phys. 21, 1224–1230 (2025).

• 5.    Heonjoon Park#, Jiaqi Cai#, Eric Anderson#, Xiao-Wei Zhang#, Xiaoyu Liu, William Holtzmann, Weijie Li, Chong Wang, Chaowei Hu, Yuzhou Zhao, Takashi Taniguchi, Kenji Watanabe, Jihui Yang, David Cobden, Jiun-haw Chu, Nicolas Regnault, B Andrei Bernevig, Liang Fu, Ting Cao, Di Xiao, Xiaodong Xu, Ferromagnetism and topology of the higher flat band in a fractional Chern insulator, Nat. Phys. 21, 549–555 (2025).

• 6.    Chong Wang#, Xiao-Wei Zhang#, Xiaoyu Liu, Jie Wang, Ting Cao, Di Xiao, Higher Landau-Level Analogs and Signatures of Non-Abelian States in Twisted Bilayer, Phys. Rev. Lett. 134, 076503 (2025).

• 7.    Xiao-Wei Zhang, Kaichen Xie, En-Ge Wang, Xin-Zheng Li, Ting Cao, Phonon-mediated exciton relaxation in two-dimensional semiconductors: Selection rules and relaxation pathways, J. Phys. Chem. Lett. 15, 30, 7584–7590 (2024).

• 8.    Xiao-Wei Zhang, Chong Wang, Xiaoyu Liu, Yueyao Fan, Ting Cao, Di Xiao, Polarization-driven band topology evolution in twisted MoTe2 and WSe2, Nat. Commun. 15, 4223 (2024).

• 9.    Chong Wang, Xiao-Wei Zhang, Xiaoyu Liu, Yuchi He, Xiaodong Xu, Ying Ran, Ting Cao, Di Xiao, Fractional Chern Insulator in Twisted Bilayer MoTe2, Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 036501(2024).

• 10.    Jiaqi Cai, Eric Anderson, Chong Wang, Xiaowei Zhang, Xiaoyu Liu, William Holtzmann, Yinong Zhang, Fengren Fan, Takashi Taniguchi, Kenji Watanabe, Ying Ran, Ting Cao, Liang Fu, Di Xiao, Wang Yao, Xiaodong Xu, Signatures of fractional quantum anomalous Hall states in twisted MoTe2, Nature 622, 63–68 (2023).

• 11.    Xiao-Wei Zhang, Yafei Ren, Chong Wang, Ting Cao, Di Xiao, Gate-tunable phonon magnetic moment in bilayer graphene, Phys. Rev. Lett. 130, 226302 (2023).

• 12.    Xi Wang#, Xiaowei Zhang#, Jiayi Zhu#, Heonjoon Park#, Yingqi Wang, Chong Wang, William G Holtzmann, Takashi Taniguchi, Kenji Watanabe, Jiaqiang Yan, Daniel R Gamelin, Wang Yao, Di Xiao, Ting Cao, Xiaodong Xu, Intercell moiré exciton complexes in electron lattices, Nat. Mater. 22, 599–604 (2023).

• 13.    Xiao-Wei Zhang and Ting Cao, Ab initio calculations of spin-nonconserving exciton–phonon scattering in monolayer transition metal dichalcogenides, J. Phys.: Condens. Matter 34, 264002 (2022).

• 14.    Xiao-Wei Zhang, Haoran Chen, En-Ge Wang, Junren Shi, Xin-Zheng Li, Nonperturbative ab initio approach for calculating the electrical conductivity of a liquid metal, Phys. Rev. B 105, 155148 (2022).