*Equal contributor

2026

AIMS: An uncertainty-aware AI experimentalist for quantum matter

Siyuan Qiu, Philip D Suh, Nhat Huy Tran, Xirui Wang, Heonjoon Park, Kutay Akin, Kevin KS Multani, Seungwon Jung, Wenkai Cai, Xinyu Liu, Ziyan Zhu, Chunjing Jia, Zhantao Chen, Zhixun Shen, Zhurun Ji, arXiv:2607.16544 (2026)

Perturbative sensing of nanoscale materials with millimeter-wave photonic crystals

Kevin KS Multani*, Zhurun Ji*, Wentao Jiang, Siyuan Qi, Akasha G Hayden, Gitanjali Multani, Sharon Ruth S Platt, Emilio A Nanni, Zhi-Xun Shen, Amir H Safavi-Naeini, Applied Physics Letters (2026)

Magnetic field driven emergent phenomena: Insights from magneto-optics and nanoscopy

Zhenbing Dai, Bing Cheng, Ran Jing, Lukas Wehmeier, Zhurun Ji, DN Basov, Guangxin Ni, Mengkun Liu, Progress in Quantum Electronics (2026)

2025

Local Microwave Sensing of Excitons and Their Electrical Environment

Zhurun Ji#, Mark E Barber, Ziyan Zhu, Carlos R Kometter, Jiachen Yu, Kenji Watanabe, Takashi Taniguchi, Mengkun Liu, Thomas P Devereaux, Ben Feldman, Zhixun Shen, Nature Communications (2025)

Voyaging beneath wavelengths with a scattering tip

Xinyu Liu, Zhurun Ji, Photonics Insights, 4 (2), C03-C03

Implicit neural representations for experimental steering of advanced experiments

Zhantao Chen, Alexander N Petsch, Zhurun Ji, Sathya R Chitturi, Cheng Peng, Chunjing Jia, Alexander I Kolesnikov, Jana B Thayer, Joshua J Turner, Cell Reports Physical Science, 6, 1 (2025)

2024

Opto-twistronic Hall effect in a three-dimensional spiral lattice

Zhurun Ji, Yuzhou Zhao, Yicong Chen, Ziyan Zhu, Yuhui Wang, Wenjing Liu, Gaurav Modi, Eugene J Mele, Song Jin, Ritesh Agarwal, Nature, 634, 69-73 (2024)

Local probe of bulk and edge states in a fractional Chern insulator

Zhurun Ji*, Heonjoon Park*, Mark E Barber, Chaowei Hu, Kenji Watanabe, Takashi Taniguchi, Jiun-Haw Chu, Xiaodong Xu, Zhi-xun Shen, Nature, 635 (8039), 578-583 (2024)

Optically Triggered Emergent Mesostructures in Monolayer WS2

Young-Chul Leem, Zhenyao Fang, Yun-Kyung Lee, Na-Yeong Kim, Arvin Kakekhani, Wenjing Liu, Sung-Pyo Cho, Cheolsu Kim, Yuhui Wang, Zhurun Ji, Abhirup Patra, Leeor Kronik, Andrew M Rappe, Sang-Youp Yim, Ritesh Agarwal, Nano Letters, 24, 18 (2025)

Characterization of two fast-turnaround dry dilution refrigerators for scanning probe microscopy

Mark E Barber, Yifan Li, Jared Gibson, Jiachen Yu, Zhanzhi Jiang, Yuwen Hu, Zhurun Ji, Nabhanila Nandi, Jesse C Hoke, Logan Bishop-Van Horn, Gilbert R Arias, Dale J Van Harlingen, Kathryn A Moler, Zhi-Xun Shen, Angela Kou, Benjamin E Feldman, Journal of Low Temperature Physics, 215(1), 1-23 (2024)

Harnessing excitons at the nanoscale--photoelectrical platform for quantitative sensing and imaging

Zhurun Ji, Mark E Barber, Ziyan Zhu, Carlos R Kometter, Jiachen Yu, Kenji Watanabe, Takashi Taniguchi, Mengkun Liu, Thomas P Devereaux, Ben Feldman, Zhixun Shen, arXiv: 2311.04211 (2023)

Capturing dynamical correlations using implicit neural representations

Sathya R Chitturi*, Zhurun Ji*, Alexander N Petsch*, Cheng Peng, Zhantao Chen, Rajan Plumley, Mike Dunne, Sougata Mardanya, Sugata Chowdhury, Hongwei Chen, Arun Bansil, Adrian Feiguin, Alexander I Kolesnikov, Dharmalingam Prabhakaran, Stephen M Hayden, Daniel Ratner, Chunjing Jia, Youssef Nashed, Joshua J Turner, Nature Communications, 14(1) (2023)