Publications

 

2024


 
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Inhomogeneous high temperature melting and decoupling of charge density waves in spin-triplet superconductor UTe2

Alexander LaFleur, Hong Li, Corey E. Frank, Muxian Xu, Siyu Cheng, Ziqiang Wang, Nicholas P. Butch, and Ilija Zeljkovic

Nature Communications 15, 4456 (2024)

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Spin Berry curvature-enhanced orbital Zeeman effect in a kagome metal

Hong Li, Siyu Cheng, Ganesh Pokharel, Philipp Eck, Chiara Bigi, Federico Mazzola, Giorgio Sangiovanni, Stephen D. Wilson, Domenico Di Sante, Ziqiang Wang, and Ilija Zeljkovic

Nature Physics 20, 1103-1109 (2024)

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Quantifying magnetic field driven lattice distortions in kagome metals at the femto-scale using scanning tunneling microscopy

Christopher Candelora, Hong Li, Muxian Xu, Brenden R. Ortiz, Andrea Capa Salinas, Siyu Cheng, Alexander LaFleur, Ziqiang Wang, Stephen D. Wilson, and Ilija Zeljkovic

Phys. Rev. B 109, 155121 (2024)

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Nanoscale visualization and spectral fingerprints of the charge order in ScV6Sn6 distinct from other kagome metals

Siyu Cheng, Zheng Ren, Hong Li, Jiseop Oh, Hengxin Tan, Ganesh Pokharel, Jonathan M. DeStefano, Elliott Rosenberg, Yucheng Guo, Yichen Zhang, Ziqin Yue, Yongbin Lee, Sergey Gorovikov, Marta Zonno, Makoto Hashimoto, Donghui Lu, Liqin Ke, Federico Mazzola, Junichiro Kono, R. J. Birgeneau, Jiun-Haw Chu, Stephen D. Wilson, Ziqiang Wang, Binghai Yan, Ming Yi and Ilija Zeljkovic

npj Quantum Materials 9, 14 (2024)

 

2023


 

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Nanoscale strain manipulation of smectic susceptibility in kagome superconductors

Yidi Wang, Hong Li, Siyu Cheng, He Zhao, Brenden R. Ortiz, Andrea Capa Salinas, Stephen D. Wilson, Ziqiang Wang, and Ilija Zeljkovic

arXiv: 2312.06407, (2023)

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Dynamics and resilience of the unconventional charge density wave in ScV6Sn6 bilayer kagome metal

Manuel Tuniz, Armando Consiglio, Denny Puntel, Chiara Bigi, Stefan Enzner, Ganesh Pokharel, Pasquale Orgiani, Wibke Bronsch, Fulvio Parmigiani, Vincent Polewczyk, Phil D. C. King, Justin W. Wells, Ilija Zeljkovic, Pietro Carrara, Giorgio Rossi, Jun Fujii, Ivana Vobornik, Stephen D. Wilson, Ronny Thomale, Tim Wehling, Giorgio Sangiovanni, Giancarlo Panaccione, Federico Cilento, Domenico Di Sante, and Federico Mazzola 

Communications Materials 4, 1 (2023)

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Electronic nematicity without charge density waves in titanium-based kagome metal

Hong Li, Siyu Cheng, Brenden R. Ortiz, Hengxin Tan, Dominik Werhahn, Keyu Zeng, Dirk Jorhendt, Binghai Yan, Ziqiang Wang, Stephen D. Wilson and Ilija Zeljkovic

Nature Physics 19, 1591-1598 (2023)

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Small Fermi pockets intertwined with charge stripes and pair density wave order in a kagome superconductor

Hong Li, Dongjin Oh, Mingu Kang, He Zhao, Brenden R. Ortiz, Yuzki Oey, Shiang Fang, Zheng Ren, Chris Jozwiak, Aaron Bostwick, Eli Rotenberg, Joseph G. Checkelsky, Ziqiang Wang, Stephen D. Wilson, Riccardo Comin, and Ilija Zeljkovic

Phys. Rev. X 13, 031030 (2023)

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Incommensurate charge-stripe correlations in the kagome superconductor CsV3Sb5−xSnx

Linus Kautzsch, Yuzki M Oey, Hong Li, Zheng Ren, Brenden R Ortiz, Ganesh Pokharel, Ram Seshadri, Jacob Ruff, Terawit Kongruengkit, John W Harter, Ziqiang Wang, Ilija Zeljkovic, and Stephen D Wilson

npj Quantum Materials 8, 37 (2023)

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Nanoscale visualization of the thermally driven evolution of antiferromagnetic domains in FeTe thin films

Shrinkhala Sharma, Hong Li, Zheng Ren, Wilber Alfaro Castro, and Ilija Zeljkovic

Phys. Rev. Materials 7, 074401 (2023)

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YbV3Sb4 and EuV3Sb4 vanadium-based kagome metals with Yb2+ and Eu2+ zigzag chains

Brenden R. Ortiz, Ganesh Pokharel, Malia Gundayao, Hong Li, Farnaz Kaboudvand, Linus Kautzsch, Suchismita Sarker, Jacob P. C. Ruff, Tom Hogan, Steven J. Gomez Alvarado, Paul M. Sarte, Guang Wu, Tara Braden, Ram Seshadri, Eric S. Toberer, Ilija Zeljkovic, and Stephen D. Wilson

Phys. Rev. Materials 7, 064201 (2023)

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Flat band separation and robust spin Berry curvature in bilayer kagome metals

Domenico Di Sante, Chiara Bigi, Philipp Eck, Stefan Enzner, Armando Consiglio, Ganesh Pokharel, Pietro Carrara, Pasquale Orgiani, Vincent Polewczyk, Jun Fujii, Phil DC King, Ivana Vobornik, Giorgio Rossi, Ilija Zeljkovic, Stephen D Wilson, Ronny Thomale, Giorgio Sangiovanni, Giancarlo Panaccione, Federico Mazzola

Nature Physics 19, 1135 (2023)

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Epitaxial integration of MnTe with Bi2Te3

O Maksimov, HB Bhandari, B Rachmilowitz, & I Zeljkovic

MRS Advances 8, 183 (2023)

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Unidirectional coherent quasiparticles in the high-temperature rotational symmetry broken phase of AV3Sb5 kagome superconductors

Hong Li, He Zhao, Brenden R. Ortiz, Yuzki Oey, Ziqiang Wang, Stephen D. Wilson & Ilija Zeljkovic

Nature Physics 19, 637 (2023)

 

2022


 
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Rotation of the dislocation grid in multilayer FeSe films and visualization of electronic nematic domains via orbital-selective tunneling

Zheng Ren, Hong Li, He Zhao, Shrinkhala Sharma, and Ilija Zeljkovic

Physical Review Materials 6, 124802 (2022)

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Plethora of tunable Weyl fermions in kagome magnet Fe3Sn2 thin films

Zheng Ren, Hong Li, Shrinkhala Sharma, Dipak Bhattarai, He Zhao, Bryan Rachmilowitz, Faranak Bahrami, Fazel Tafti, Shiang Fang, Madhav Prasad Ghimire, Ziqiang Wang, and Ilija Zeljkovic

npj Quantum Materials 7, 109 (2022)

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Spin-polarized imaging of the antiferromagnetic structure and field-tunable bound states in kagome magnet FeSn

Hong Li, He Zhao, Qiangwei Yin, Qi Wang, Zheng Ren, Shrinkhala Sharma, Hechang Lei, Ziqiang Wang, and Ilija Zeljkovic

Scientific Reports 12, 14525 (2022)

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Manipulation of Dirac band curvature and momentum-dependent g factor in a kagome magnet

Hong Li, He Zhao, Kun Jiang, Qi Wang, Qiangwei Yin, Ning-Ning Zhao, Kai Liu, Ziqiang Wang, Hechang Lei, and Ilija Zeljkovic

Nature Physics 18, 644 (2022)

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Rotation symmetry breaking in the normal state of a kagome superconductor KV3Sb5

Hong Li, He Zhao, Brenden R. Ortiz, Takamori Park, Mengxing Ye, Leon Balents, Ziqiang Wang, Stephen D. Wilson, and Ilija Zeljkovic

Nature Physics 18, 265 (2022)

 

2021


 
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Cascade of correlated electron states in a kagome superconductor CsV3Sb5

He Zhao, Hong Li, Brenden R. Ortiz, Samuel M. L. Teicher, Taka Park, Mengxing Ye, Ziqiang Wang, Leon Balents, Stephen D. Wilson, and Ilija Zeljkovic

Nature 599, 216 (2021)

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Growth, characterization, and Chern insulator state in MnBi2Te4 via the chemical vapor transport method

Chaowei Hu, Anyuan Gao, Bryan Stephen Berggren, Hong Li, Rafał Kurleto, Dushyant Narayan, Ilija Zeljkovic, Dan Dessau, Suyang Xu, and Ni Ni

Phys. Rev. Materials 5, 124206 (2021)

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Imaging antiferromagnetic domain fluctuations and the effect of atomic-scale disorder in a doped spin-orbit Mott insulator

He Zhao, Zach Porter, Xiang Chen, Stephen D. Wilson, Ziqiang Wang, and Ilija Zeljkovic

Science Advances 7, abi6468 (2021)

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Nematic transition and nanoscale suppression of superconductivity in Fe(Te,Se)

He Zhao, Hong Li, Lianyang Dong, Binjie Xu, John Schneeloch, Ruidan Zhong, Minghu Fang, Genda Gu, John Harter, Stephen D. Wilson, Ziqiang Wang, and Ilija Zeljkovic

Nature Physics 17, 903 (2021)

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Nanoscale decoupling of electronic nematicity and structural anisotropy in FeSe thin films

Zheng Ren, Hong Li, He Zhao, Shrinkhala Sharma, Ziqiang Wang and Ilija Zeljkovic

Nature Communications 12, 10 (2021)

 

2020


 
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Coulomb blockade effects in a topological insulator grown on a high-Tc cuprate superconductor

Bryan Rachmilowitz­, He Zhao, Zheng Ren, Hong Li, Konrad H. Thomas, John Marangola, Shang Gao, John Schneeloch, Ruidan Zhong, Genda Gu, Christian Flindt and Ilija Zeljkovic

npj Quantum Materials 5, 72 (2020)

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A cleanroom in a glove box

Mason J. Gray,  Narendra Kumar, Ryan O’Connor,  Marcel Hoek,  Erin Sheridan, Meaghan C. Doyle,  Marisa L. Romanelli,  Gavin B. Osterhoudt,  Yiping Wang,  Vincent Plisson,  Shiming Lei,  Ruidan Zhong, Bryan Rachmilowitz, He Zhao,  Hikari Kitadai, Steven Shepard,  Leslie M. Schoop,  G. D. Gu,  Ilija Zeljkovic,  Xi Ling and  Kenneth S. Burch

Review of Scientific Instruments 91, 073909 (2020)

 

2019


 
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Atomic-scale fragmentation and collapse of antiferromagnetic order in a doped Mott insulator

He Zhao, Sujit Manna, Zach Porter, Xiang Chen, Andrew Uzdejczyk, Jagadeesh Moodera, Ziqiang Wang, Stephen Wilson and Ilija Zeljkovic

Nature Physics 15, 1267 (2019)

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Proximity-Induced Superconductivity in a Topological Crystalline Insulator

Bryan Rachmilowitz*, He Zhao*, Hong Li, Alex LaFleur, J. Schneeloch, Ruidan Zhong, Genda Gu, and Ilija Zeljkovic

Phys. Rev. B 100, 241402(R) (2019)

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Charge-stripe crystal phase in an insulating cuprate

He Zhao, Zheng Ren, Bryan Rachmilowitz, John Schneeloch, Ruidan Zhong, Genda Gu, Ziqiang Wang and Ilija Zeljkovic

Nature Materials 18, 103 (2019)

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Bulk superconductivity in FeTe1-xSex via physicochemical pumping of excess iron

Lianyang Dong, He Zhao, Ilija Zeljkovic, Stephen D. Wilson, and John W. Harter

Phys. Rev. Materials 3, 114801 (2019)

 

2018


 
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Atomic-Scale Strain Manipulation of a Charge Density Wave

Shang Gao, Felix Flicker, Raman Sankar, He Zhao, Zheng Ren, Bryan Rachmilowitz, Sidhika Balachandar, Fangcheng Chou, Kenneth Burch, Ziqiang Wang, Jasper Van Wezel and Ilija Zeljkovic

PNAS 115, 6986 (2018)

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Superconducting Proximity Effect in a Topological Insulator using Fe(Te,Se)

He Zhao, Bryan Rachmilowitz, Zheng Ren, Ruobin Han, J. Schneeloch, Ruidan Zhong, Genda Gu, Ziqiang Wang and Ilija Zeljkovic

PRB 97, 224504 (2018)

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Interplay of orbital effects and nanoscale strain in topological crystalline insulators

Daniel Walkup, Badih Assaf, Kane L. Scipioni, R. Sankar, Fangcheng Chou, Guoqing Chang, Hsin Lin, Ilija Zeljkovic and Vidya Madhavan

Nature Communications 9, 1550 (2018)

 

2017


 
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Quasiparticle Interference and Strong Electron-Mode Coupling in the Quasi-One-Dimensional Bands of Sr2RuO4

Zhenyu Wang, Daniel Walkup, Philip Derry, Thomas Scaffidi, Melinda Rak, Sean Vig, Anshul Kogar, Ilija Zeljkovic, Ali Husain, Luiz H Santos, Yuxuan Wang, Andrea Damascelli, Yoshiteru Maeno, Peter Abbamonte, Eduardo Fradkin, and Vidya Madhavan

Nature Physics 13, 799 (2017)

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Etching of Cr tips for scanning tunneling microscopy of cleavable oxide

Dennis Huang, Stephen Liu, Ilija Zeljkovic, J.F. Mitchell, and Jennifer E. Hoffman

Review of Scientific Instruments 88, 023705 (2017)

 

2015


 
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Strain engineering Dirac surface states in heteroepitaxial topological crystalline insulator thin films

Ilija Zeljkovic, Daniel Walkup, Badih Assaf, Kane L. Scipioni, R. Sankar, Fangcheng Chou, and Vidya Madhavan

Nature Nanotechnology 10, 849 (2015)

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Large single crystal growth, transport property, and spectroscopic characterizations of three-dimensional Dirac semimetal Cd3As2

R. Sankar, M. Neupane, S.-Y. Xu, C. J. Butler, I. Zeljkovic, I. Panneer Muthuselvam, F.-T. Huang, S.-T. Guo, Sunil K. Karna, M.-W. Chu, W. L. Lee, M.-T. Lin, R. Jayavel, V. Madhavan, M. Z. Hasan, and F. C. Chou

Scientific Reports 5, 12966 (2015)

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Dirac mass generation from crystal symmetry breaking on the surfaces of topological crystalline insulators

Ilija Zeljkovic, Yoshinori Okada, Maksym Serbyn, R. Sankar, Daniel Walkup, Wenwen Zhou, Junwei Liu, Guoqing Chang, Yung Jui Wang, M. Zahid Hasan, Fangcheng Chou, Hsin Lin, Arun Bansil, Liang Fu, and Vidya Madhavan

Nature Materials 14, 318 (2015)

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Nanoscale determination of the mass enhancement factor in the lightly-doped bulk insulator lead selenide

Ilija Zeljkovic, Kane Scipioni, Daniel Walkup, Yoshinori Okada, Wenwen Zhou, R. Sankar, Guoqing Chang, Yung Jui Wang, Hsin Lin, A. Bansil, Fangcheng Chou, Ziqiang Wang, and Vidya Madhavan

Nature Communications 4, 6659 (2015)

 

2014


 
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Mapping the unconventional orbital texture in topological crystalline insulators

Ilija Zeljkovic, Yoshinori Okada, Cheng-Yi Huang, R. Sankar, Daniel Walkup, Wenwen Zhou, Maksym Serbyn, Fangcheng Chou, Wei-Feng Tsai, Hsin Lin, A. Bansil, Liang Fu, M. Zahid Hasan, and Vidya Madhavan

Nature Physics 10, 572 (2014)

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Nanoscale interplay of strain and doping in a high-temperature superconductor

Ilija Zeljkovic, Jouko Nieminen, Dennis Huang, Tay-Rong Chang, Yang He, Horng-Tay Jeng, Zhijun Xu, Jinsheng Wen, Genda Gu, Hsin Lin, Robert S. Markiewicz, Arun Bansil and Jennifer E. Hoffman

Nano Letters 14, 6749 (2014)

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Fermi Surface and Pseudogap Evolution in a Cuprate Superconductor

Yang He, Yi Yin, M. Zech, Anjan Soumyanarayanan, Michael M. Yee, Tess Williams, M. C. Boyer, Kamalesh Chatterjee, W. D. Wise, Ilija Zeljkovic, Takeshi Kondo, T. Takeuchi, H. Ikuta, Peter Mistark, Robert S. Markiewicz, Arun Bansil, Subir Sachdev, E. W. Hudson, and Jennifer E. Hoffman

Science 344, 608 (2014)

 

2013


 
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Interplay of chemical disorder and electronic inhomogeneity in unconventional superconductors

Ilija Zeljkovic and J. E. Hoffman

Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics 15, 13462 (2013)

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Nanoscale Surface Element Identification and Dopant Homogeneity in the High-Tc Superconductor Ca1-xPrxFe2As2

Ilija Zeljkovic, Dennis Huang, Can-Li Song, Bing Lv, Ching-Wu Chu, and Jennifer E. Hoffman

Physical Review B 87, 201108R (2013)

 

2012


 
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Imaging the impact of single oxygen atoms on superconducting Bi2+ySr2-yCaCu2O8+x

Ilija Zeljkovic, Zhijun Xu, Jinsheng Wen, Genda Gu, Robert S. Markiewicz, and Jennifer E. Hoffman

Science 337, 320 (2012)

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Scanning tunneling microscopy imaging of symmetry-breaking structural distortion in the bismuth-based cuprate superconductors

Ilija Zeljkovic, Elizabeth J. Main, Tess L. Williams, M. C. Boyer, Kamalesh Chatterjee, W. D. Wise, Yi Yin, Martin Zech, Adam E. Pivonka, Takeshi Kondo, T. Takeuchi, Hiroshi Ikuta, Jinsheng Wen, Zhijun Xu, G. D. Gu, E. W. Hudson, and Jennifer E. Hoffman

Nature Materials 11, 585-589 (2012)