Department of Physics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
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11/2024
11/2024 Honglie had an interview with Bold Journey.
​​09/2024
Honglie attended the XII Ultrafast Dynamics and Ultrafast Bandgap Photonics conference at the University of Arizona and presented an invited talk titled "Terahertz control of magno-phononics in 2D antiferromagnets".
​​09/2024
Honglie's News and Views paper titled “Visualizing the moiré of moiré” was published on Nat. Mater.
​​08/2024
Honglie's first-coauthored paper titled “Dynamical decoding of the competition between charge density waves in a kagome superconductor” was published on Nat. Commun.
​​06/2024
Honglie attended the Gordon Research Conference Multiphoton Processes and presented a poster titled “Terahertz control of linear and nonlinear magno-phononics”.
​​03/2024
Honglie attended the APS March Meeting 2024 and presented a talk titled “Dynamical decoding of competing charge density waves in a kagome superconductor”. Abstract can be found here. Honglie's coauthored talks titled "Crossover between linear and nonlinear magno-phononics in FePS₃" and "Hubbard exciton fluids in Mott antiferromagnets" were given by his collaborators. Honglie also won the the DMP Post-Doctoral Travel Awards.
12/2023
Honglie was invited to present an online talk at IOP, China titled “Ultrafast optical control of order parameters in quantum materials”. Abstract can be found here.
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12/2023
Honglie's first-authored paper titled “A coherent phonon-induced hidden quadrupolar ordered state in Caâ‚‚RuOâ‚„” was published on Nat. Commun.
09/2023
Honglie's first-coauthored paper titled “A Hubbard exciton fluid in a photo-doped antiferromagnetic Mott insulator” was published on Nat. Phys.
04/2023
Honglie was invited to attend the 2023 Moore Foundation EPiQS Postdoctoral Symposium and presented a poster titled “Evidence for light-induced order decoupling and phase competition in a kagome metal”.
03/2023
Honglie attended the APS March Meeting 2023 and presented a talk titled “Dynamics of antiferromagnetic order in a Mott insulator upon photodoping”. Abstract can be found here. Honglie's coauthored talks titled "Correlated spin and charge dynamics during ultrafast demagnetization of Caâ‚‚RuOâ‚„" was given by his collaborator.
11/2022
Honglie's first-authored paper titled “Light-induced Weyl semiconductor-to-metal transition mediated by Peierls instability” was published on Phys. Rev. B.
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10/2022
Honglie attended the Gordon Research Conference Ultrafast Phenomena in Cooperative Systems and presented a poster titled “Signatures of light-induced switch of spin-orbit-coupled quadrupolar order in Caâ‚‚RuOâ‚„”.
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09/2022
Honglie arrived at MIT and started to work with Prof. Nuh Gedik.
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08/2022
Honglie successfully defended his PhD.
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04/2022
Honglie's first-coauthored paper titled “Keldysh space of charge dynamics in a strongly driven Mott insulator” was published on Phys. Rev. Lett.
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03/2022
Honglie attended the APS March Meeting 2022 virtually and presented a talk titled “Wavelength-dependent coherent phonon spectroscopy of Caâ‚‚RuOâ‚„”. Abstract can be found here. Honglie's coauthored talks titled "Intra-excitonic spectroscopy of a Mott insulator" and "Keldysh space of charge dynamics in a strongly driven Mott insulator" were also given by his collaborators.
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03/2022
Honglie accepted the postdoc offer from Prof. Nuh Gedik at Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
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01/2022
Honglie won the Sweeney Family Postdoctoral Fellowship from Johns Hopkins University.
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06/2021
Honglie was selected to be a Tombrello Scholar as one of the recipients of the 2021 France A Cordova Graduate Student Fund. More information can be found here.
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03/2021
Honglie attended the APS March Meeting 2021 virtually and presented a talk titled “Signatures of ultrafast reversal of excitonic order in Taâ‚‚NiSeâ‚…”. Abstract can be found here.
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02/2021
Honglie’s research on Taâ‚‚NiSeâ‚… was reported by Caltech News. More information can be found here.
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12/2020
Honglie's first-authored paper titled “Signatures of ultrafast reversal of excitonic order in Taâ‚‚NiSeâ‚…” was published on Phys. Rev. Lett.
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11/2020
Honglie's coauthored paper titled “Ultrafast enhancement of ferromagnetic spin exchange induced by ligand-to-metal charge transfer” was published on Phys. Rev. Lett.
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03/2020
Honglie was supposed to attend the APS March Meeting 2020 in Denver and presented a talk titled “Dynamics of an order parameter coupled phonon in an excitonic insulator”, but the conference was cancelled due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Abstract can be found here.
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06/2019
Honglie passed the PhD oral candidacy exam and became a PhD candidate.
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03/2019
Honglie attended APS March Meeting 2019 in Boston and gave a presentation titled “Time-resolved second harmonic generation polarimetry study of elemental tellurium”. Abstract can be found here.
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03/2019
Honglie attended APS March Meeting 2018 in Los Angeles.
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07/2017
Honglie passed the PhD written candidacy exam.
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03/2017
Honglie attended APS March Meeting 2017 in New Orleans.
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09/2016
Honglie arrived at Caltech and started to work with Prof. David Hsieh.
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07/2016
Honglie obtained his B.S. degree in physics with Honors from Peking University. Congratulations!
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05/2016
Honglie successfully defended his undergraduate thesis titled “Angle-resolved photoemission spectroscopy study of iron-based superconductors” under the supervision of Prof. Yan Zhang.
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04/2016
Honglie accepted the PhD offer from Prof. David Hsieh at California Institute of Technology.
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04/2016
Honglie's first-coauthored paper titled “Negative to Positive Crossover of Magnetoresistance in WSâ‚‚ nanoflakes” was published on Appl. Phys. Lett.
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03/2016
Honglie’s first-coauthored work tilted “Negative to Positive Crossover of Magnetoresistance in WSâ‚‚ nanoflakes with Ohmic Contact” was presented at APS March Meeting 2016 in Baltimore. Abstract can be found here.
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12/2015
Honglie’s coauthored paper titled “Simultaneous emergence of superconductivity, inter-pocket scattering and nematic fluctuation in potassium-coated FeSe superconductor” was preprinted on arxiv.
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10/2015
Honglie gave a poster titled “Electrical and thermal transport measurements of low dimensional materials” at National Conference for Excellent Innovative Talents in Basic Science.
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08/2015
Honglie arrived at SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, Stanford University and started to use angle-resolved photoemission spectroscopy to study FeSe with Prof. Yan Zhang.
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07/2015
Honglie arrived at University of Michigan, Ann Arbor and started to conduct summer research focused on thermal transport measurement of InAs/GaSb quantum well in Prof. Lu Li’s group.
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07/2014
Honglie joined Prof. Jian Wang’s group and started to investigate the synthesis and magnetotransport properties of transition metal dichalcogenides and topological materials.