Biography

• Sep 2024 – present
  • Xiamen University Malaysia, Sepang, Malaysia Associate Professor, Department of Physics
• Sep 2021 – Sep 2024
  • 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 Interest

• 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, Ph.D. in Physics, Condensed Matter Theory
• National Tsing-Hua University, Hsinchu, Taiwan, M.S. in Physics, Particle Phenomenology
• National Tsing-Hua University, Hsinchu, Taiwan, 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)