
2009–2013: B.S., Dalian University of Technology
2013–2019: Ph.D., Tsinghua University (Supervisor: Prof. Wenhui Duan)
2019–2020: Postdoctoral Fellow, Max Planck Institute for Microstructure Physics, Germany (Advisor: Prof. Stuart Parkin)
2020–2024: Postdoctoral Fellow, Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel (Advisor: Prof. Binghai Yan)
2025–Present: Tenure-Track Associate Professor, School of Physics and Astronomy, Shanghai Jiao Tong University
My research focuses on computational condensed matter physics and materials science, with an emphasis on the theoretical modeling and design of crystal structures, electronic structures, magnetic properties, and transport phenomena in novel quantum materials. My work spans a range of topics, including but not limited to:
Kagome systems, topological semimetals and insulators, surfaces and interfaces, ferroelectrics, multiferroic materials
Electronic structure, phonons, charge density waves, Hall effect
Most of my papers have been published in mainstream physics journals such as the APS and Nature series. More information can be found on my Google Scholar.
Recent first and co-first authored publications
Zihao Huang*, Hui Chen*, Hengxin Tan*, Xianghe Han, Yuhan Ye, Bin Hu, Zhen Zhao, Chengmin Shen, Haitao Yang, Binghai Yan, Ziqiang Wang, Feng Liu, and Hong-Jun Gao, Revealing the Orbital Origins of Exotic Electronic States with Ti Substitution in Kagome Superconductor CsV3Sb5, Phys. Rev. Lett. 134, 056001 (2025) (*co-first author)
Hengxin Tan and Binghai Yan, Disordered charge density waves in the kagome metal FeGe, Phys. Rev. B 111, 045160 (2025)
Hengxin Tan, Yiyang Jiang, Gregory T. McCandless, Julia Y. Chan, and Binghai Yan, Three-dimensional higher-order saddle-point-induced flat bands in Co-based kagome metals, Phys. Rev. Research 6, 043132 (2024)
Hengxin Tan and Binghai Yan, Competing lattice instability and magnetism on the surface of kagome metals, Phys. Rev. B 109, 195428 (2024)
Hengxin Tan, Yongkang Li, Yizhou Liu, Daniel Kaplan, Ziqiang Wang, and Binghai Yan, Emergent topological quantum orbits in the charge density wave phase of kagome metal CsV3Sb5, npj Quantum Mater. 8, 39 (2023)
Hengxin Tan and Binghai Yan, Abundant Lattice Instability in Kagome Metal ScV6Sn6, Phys. Rev. Lett. 130, 266402 (2023)
Hengxin Tan and Binghai Yan, Distinct Magnetic Gaps between Antiferromagnetic and Ferromagnetic Orders Driven by Surface Defects in the Topological Magnet MnBi2Te4, Phys. Rev. Lett. 130, 126702 (2023)
Hengxin Tan, Daniel Kaplan, and Binghai Yan, Momentum-inversion symmetry breaking on the Fermi surface of magnetic topological insulators, Phys. Rev. Mater. 6, 104204 (2022)
Hengxin Tan and Binghai Yan, Facet dependent surface energy gap on magnetic topological insulators, Phys. Rev. B 105, 165130 (2022)
Hengxin Tan, Yizhou Liu, Ziqiang Wang, and Binghai Yan, Charge Density Waves and Electronic Properties of Superconducting Kagome Metals, Phys. Rev. Lett. 127, 046401 (2021)
Hengxin Tan, Yizhou Liu, and Binghai Yan, Unconventional anomalous Hall effect from magnetization parallel to the electric field, Phys. Rev. B 103, 214438 (2021)
Recent representative co-authored publications
Zheng Ren, Jianwei Huang, Hengxin Tan, Ananya Biswas, Aki Pulkkinen, Yichen Zhang, Yaofeng Xie, Ziqin Yue, Lei Chen, Fang Xie, Kevin Allen, Han Wu, Qirui Ren, Anil Rajapitamahuni, Asish Kundu, Elio Vescovo, Junichiro Kono, Emilia Morosan, Pengcheng Dai, Jian-Xin Zhu, Qimiao Si, Jan Minar, Binghai Yan, Ming Yi, Persistent flat band splitting and strong selective band renormalization in a kagome magnet thin film, Nat. Commun. 15, 9376 (2024)
Xiaokun Teng, David W. Tam, Lebing Chen, Hengxin Tan, Yaofeng Xie, Bin Gao, Garrett E. Granroth, Alexandre Ivanov, Philippe Bourges, Binghai Yan, Ming Yi, and Pengcheng Dai, Spin-Charge-Lattice Coupling across the Charge Density Wave Transition in a Kagome Lattice Antiferromagnet, Phys. Rev. Lett. 133, 046502 (2024)
Hui Chen, Yuqing Xing, Hengxin Tan, Li Huang, Qi Zheng, Zihao Huang, Xianghe Han, Bin Hu, Yuhan Ye, Yan Li, Yao Xiao, Hechang Lei, Xianggang Qiu, Enke Liu, Haitao Yang, Ziqiang Wang, Binghai Yan, and Hong-Jun Gao, Atomically precise engineering of spin–orbit polarons in a kagome magnetic Weyl semimetal, Nat. Commun. 15, 2301 (2024)
Lebing Chen, Xiaokun Teng, Hengxin Tan, Barry L. Winn, Garrett E. Granorth, Feng Ye, D. H. Yu, R. A. Mole, Bin Gao, Binghai Yan, Ming Yi, and Pengcheng Dai, Competing itinerant and local spin interactions in kagome metal FeGe, Nat. Commun. 15, 1918 (2024)
Binhua Zhang, Hengxin Tan, Binghai Yan, Changsong Xu, and Hongjun Xiang, Atomistic origin of diverse charge density wave states in CsV3Sb5, Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 096101 (2024)
Hong Li, Siyu Cheng, Brenden R Ortiz, Hengxin Tan, Dominik Werhahn, Keyu Zeng, Dirk Johrendt, Binghai Yan, Ziqiang Wang, Stephen D. Wilson, and Ilija Zeljkovic, Electronic nematicity without charge density waves in titanium-based kagome metal, Nat. Phys. 19, 1591 (2023)
Woojoo Lee, Sebastian Fernandez-Mulligan, Hengxin Tan, Chenhui Yan, Yingdong Guan, Seng Huat Lee, Ruobing Mei, Chaoxing Liu, Binghai Yan, Zhiqiang Mao, and Shuolong Yang, Layer-by-layer disentanglement of Bloch states, Nat. Phys. 19, 950 (2023)
Xiaokun Teng, Ji Seop Oh, Hengxin Tan, Lebing Chen, Jianwei Huang, Bin Gao, Jia-Xin Yin, Jiun-Haw Chu, Makoto Hashimoto, Donghui Lu, Chris Jozwiak, Aaron Bostwick, Eli Rotenberg, Garrett E. Granroth, Binghai Yan, Robert J. Birgeneau, Pengcheng Dai, and Ming Yi, Magnetism and charge density wave order in kagome FeGe, Nat. Phys. 19, 814 (2023)
Lujin Min, Hengxin Tan, Zhijian Xie, Leixin Miao, Ruoxi Zhang, Seng Huat Lee, Venkatraman Gopalan, Chao-Xing Liu, Nasim Alem, Binghai Yan, and Zhiqiang Mao, Strong room-temperature bulk nonlinear Hall effect in a spin-valley locked Dirac material, Nat. Commun. 14, 364 (2023)
Gan Liu, Xinran Ma, Kuanyu He, Qing Li, Hengxin Tan, Yizhou Liu, Jie Xu, Wenna Tang, Kenji Watanabe, Takashi Taniguchi, Libo Gao, Yaomin Dai, Hai-Hu Wen, Binghai Yan, Xiaoxiang Xi, Observation of anomalous amplitude modes in the kagome metal CsV3Sb5, Nat. Commun. 13, 3461 (2022)
Hui Chen, Haitao Yang, Bin Hu, Zhen Zhao, Jie Yuan, Yuqing Xing, Guojian Qian, Zihao Huang, Geng Li, Yuhan Ye, Sheng Ma, Shunli Ni, Hua Zhang, Qiangwei Yin, Chunsheng Gong, Zhijun Tu, Hechang Lei, Hengxin Tan, Sen Zhou, Chengmin Shen, Xiaoli Dong, Binghai Yan, Ziqiang Wang, Hong-Jun Gao, Roton pair density wave in a strong-coupling kagome superconductor, Nature 599, 222 (2021)
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