- Email: kokwee.song@xmu.edu.my
- Office: A1-379
- Research interests:
- Strongly-correlated physics in quantum many-body systems
- Quantum optics and polaritons
- Superconductivity and magnetism
- Two-dimensional materials and materials modelling
BIOGRAPHY
Sep 2024 – present Xiamen University Malaysia, Sepang, Malaysia
Associate Professor, Department of Physics
Sep 2021 – present University of Exeter, Exeter, UK
Postdoctoral Research Fellow
Sep 2021 – present University of Exeter, Exeter, UK
Postdoctoral Research Fellow
Oct 2018 – Sep 2021 National Graphene Institute, Manchester, UK
Research Associate
Aug 2015 – Aug 2018 Argonne National Laboratory, Lemont, IL, USA
Postdoctoral Appointee
Feb 2015 – Aug 2015 Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company, Hsinchu, Taiwan
Principal Engineer, Advanced Exposure-Tool Technology Department
RESEARCH INTERESTS
- Strongly-correlated physics in quantum many-body systems
- Quantum optics and polaritons
- Superconductivity and magnetism
- Two-dimensional materials and materials modelling
EDUCATIONAL BACKGROUND
- University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA
- May 2014 Ph.D. in Physics, Condensed Matter Theory (adviser: Prof. Stephen Haas)
- National Tsing-Hua University, Hsinchu, Taiwan
- June 2006 M.S. in Physics, Particle Phenomenology (adviser: Prof. Kingman Cheung) June 2004 B.S. in Physics.
SELECTED PUBLICATION:
[1] KW Song, Salvatore Chiavazzo, Oleksandr Kyriienko, Microscopic theory of nonlinear phase space filling in polaritonic lattices. Phys. Rev. Research 6 (2024)
[2] M. Makhonin, A. Delphan, KW Song, P. Walker, T. Isoniemi, P. Claronino, K. Orfanakis, K. Rajendran, H. Ohadi, J. Heckӧtter, M. Assmann, M. Bayer, A. Tartakovskii, M. Skolnick, O. Kyriienko, and D. Krizhanovskii, Nonlinear Rydberg exciton-polaritons in Cu2O microcavities. Light. Sci. Appl. 13, 47 (2024)
[3] KW Song, Interlayer superexchange in bilayer chromium trihalides. Phys. Rev. B 107, 245133 (2023)
[4] KW Song and Vladimir I. Fal’ko, Superexchange and spin-orbit coupling in monolayer and bilayer chromium trihalides. Phys. Rev. B 106, 245111 (2022)
[5] Adrián Ceferino, KW Song, Samuel J. Magorrian, Viktor Zólyomi and Vladimir I. Fal’ko, Crossover from weakly indirect to direct excitons in atomically thin films of InSe. Phys. Rev. B 101, 245432 (2020)
[6] KW Song and Alexei E. Koshelev, Quantum FFLO state in clean layered superconductors. Phys. Rev. X 9, 021025 (2019)
[7] K.Willa, R. Willa, KW Song, G. D. Gu, J. A. Schneeloch, R. Zhong, A. E. Koshelev, W.-K. Kwok, U. Welp, Nanocalorimetric Evidence for Nematic Superconductivity in the Doped Topological Insulator Sr0.1Bi2Se3. Phys. Rev. B 98, 184509 (2018)
[8] KW Song and Alexei E. Koshelev, Interplay between orbital-quantization effects and the Fulde-Ferrell-Larkin-Ovchinnikov instability in multiple-band layered superconductors. Phys. Rev. B 97 224520 (2018)
[9] M. P. Smylie, K. Willa, H. Claus, A. E. Koshelev, KW Song, W.-K. Kwok, Z. Islam, G. Gu, and U. Welp, Superconducting and normal-state anisotropy of the doped topological insulator Sr0.1Bi2Se3. Sci. Rep. 8: 7666 (2018)
[10] KW Song and Alexei E. Koshelev, Strong Landau-quantization effects in high-magnetic-field super-conductivity of a two-dimensional multiple-band metal near Lifshitz transition. Phys. Rev. B 95, 174503 (2017)
[11] KW Song and Alexei E. Koshelev, Surface nematic order in iron pnictides. Phys. Rev. B 94 094509 (2016)
[12] KW Song, Y.C. Liang, H. Lim, and S. Haas, Possible nematic order driven by magnetic fluctuations in iron pnictides. Phys. Rev. B 88, 054501 (2013)
[13] KW Song, Y.C. Liang, and S. Haas, Excitonic instabilities and insulating states in bilayer graphene. Phys. Rev. B 86, 205418 (2012)
[14] A. Arhrib, K. Cheung, T.J. Hou and KW Song, Associated production of a light pseudoscalar Higgs boson with a chargino pair in the NMSSM. JHEP 0703, 073 (2007)
[15] A. Arhrib, K. Cheung, T.J. Hou and KW Song, The light pseudoscalar Higgs boson in NMSSM. AIP Conference Proceedings 903, 193 (2007)