Zhiqiang Mao, Ph.D.

Associate Professor

 

Office: 5024 Percival Stern Hall

Office Phone: (504) 865-5084

 

Lab(s): 5034, 5044 Percival Stern Hall

Lab Phone: (504) 862-8672

 

Fax: (504) 862-8702

 

Email: zmao@tulane.edu

 

Other Sites: Group Website

Research Interests:

Low Temperature Condensed Matter Physics

 

Recent Courses:

PHYS 131/2 – General Physics I & II

 

Education:

B.S., Nanjing Normal University, P.R. China (1987)

Ph.D., University of Science and Technology of China (1992)

 

Recent Publications:

Quantum phase transition in quasi one-dimensional BaRu6O12 Z. Q. Mao, T. He, M. M. Rosario, K. D. Nelson, D. Okuno, B. Ueland, I. G. Deac, P. Schiffer, Y. Liu, and R. J. Cava, Phys. Rev. Lett. 90, 186601 (2003)

Experimental determination of superconducting parameters for the intermetallic perovskite superconductor MgCNi3 Z. Q. Mao, M. M. Rosario, K. D. Nelson, K. Wu, I. G. Deac, P. Schiffer, Y. Liu, T. He, K. A. Regan, and R. J. Cava, Phys. Rev B 67, 094502 (2003).

Universal Heat Transport in Sr2RuO4, M. Suzuki, M. A. Tanatar, N. Kikugawa, Z. Q. Mao, Y. Maeno, and T. Ishiguro, Phys. Rev. Lett. 88, 227004 (2002).

Evolution of Fermi-Liquid Interactions in Sr2RuO4 under Pressure, D. Forsythe, S. R. Julian, C. Bergemann, E. Pugh, M. J. Steiner, P. L. Alireza, G. J. McMullan, F. Nakamura, R. K. W. Haselwimmer, I. R. Walker, S. S. Saxena, G. G. Lonzarich, A. P. Mackenzie, Z. Q. Mao, and Y. Maeno, Phys. Rev. Lett. 89, 166402 (2002).

Observation of Andreev surface bound state in the 3-K phase region of Sr2RuO4, Z. Q. Mao, K. D. Nelson, R. Jin, Y. Liu and Y. Maeno, Phys. Rev. Lett. 87, 037003 (2001).

Non-Fermi-liquid behavior in La4RuO19, P. Khalifah, K. D. Nelson, R. Jin, Z. Q. Mao, Y. Liu, Q. Huang, X. P. A. Gao, A. P. Ramirez, and R. J. Cava, Nature 411, 669 (2001)

Sign reversal of the oxygen isotope effect on Tc in Sr2RuO4, Z. Q. Mao, Y. Maeno, Y. Mori, S. Sakita, S. Nimori, and M. Udagawa, Phys. Rev. B 63, 144514 (2001).

Anisotropy of Manetothermal conductivity in Sr2RuO4, M. A. Tanatar, M. Suzuki, S. Nagai, Z. Q. Mao, Y. Maeno, and T. Ishiguro, Phys. Rev. Lett. 86, 2649 (2001)

Nodal structure of the superconducting gap in Sr2RuO4, C.Lupien,W.A. MacFarlane,C. Proust,L. Taillefer, Z. Q. Mao, and Y. Maeno, Phys. Rev. Lett. 86, 5986 (2001).

In-plane Anisotropy of Upper Critical Field in Sr2RuO4, Z. Q. Mao, Y. Maeno, S. NishiZaki, T. Akima, and T. Ishiguro, Phys. Rev. Lett. 84, 991 (2000).

Polarized-neutron scattering study of the Cooper-pair moment in Sr2RuO4, J.A. Duffy, S.M. Hayden, Y. Maeno, Z.Q. Mao, J. Kulda, and G.J. McIntyre, Phys. Rev. Lett. 85, 5412 (2000).

Crystal Growth of Sr2RuO4, Z. Q. Mao, Y. Maeno, and H. Fukazawa, Mat. Res. Bull. 35, 1813 (2000).

Cyclotron resonance in the layered perovskite superconductor Sr2RuO4, S. Hill, J. S. Brooks, Z. Q. Mao, and Y. Maeno, Phys. Rev. Lett. 84, 3374 (2000).

Anisotropic superconducting gap in the spin-triplet superconductor Sr2RuO4: Evidence from a Ru-NQR study, K. Ishida, H. Mukuda, Y. Kitaoka, Z. Q. Mao, Y. Mori, and Y. Maeno, Phys. Rev. Lett. 84, 5387 (2000)

Temperature dependence of the penetration depth in Sr2RuO4: Evidence for nodes in the gap function, I. Bonalde, Brian D. Yanoff, M. B. Salamon, D. J. Van Harlingen, E. M. E.Chia,, Z. Q. Mao, and Y. Maeno, Phys. Rev. Lett. 85, 4775 (2000).

Reconstruction from small angle angle neutron scattering measurements of the real space magnetic field distribution in the mixed state of Sr2RuO4, P. G. Kealey, T. M. Riseman, E. M. Forgan, L. M. Galvin, A. P. Mackenzie, S. L. Lee, D. Mck. Paul, R. Cubitt, D. F. Agterberg, R. Heeb, Z. Q. Mao, and Y. Maeno, Phys. Rev. Lett. 84, 6094 (2000).

Fermi Surface, Surface States, and Surface Reconstruction in Sr2RuO4, A. Damascelli, D. H. Lu, K. M. Shen, N. P. Armitage, F. Ronning, D. L. Feng, C. Kim, Z.-X. Shen, T. Kimura and Y. Tokura, Z. Q. Mao and Y. Maeno, Phys. Rev. Lett. 85, 5194 (2000).

Selection rule in Josephson coupling between In and Sr2RuO4, R. Jin, Y. Liu, Z. Q. Mao, and Y. Maeno, Europhys. Lett. 51, 341 (2000).

Specific heat of superconductor Sr2RuO4 under magnetic fields, S. NishiZaki, Y. Maeno, and Z.Q. Mao, J. Phys. Soc. Jpn. 69, 572 (2000).

Superconducting state of Sr2RuO4 under magnetic fields, Y. Maeno, Z. Q. Mao, S. NishiZaki,, and T. Akima, Physica B 280. 285 (2000).

Experimental search for the second superconducting transition, Z. Q. Mao, T. Akima, T. Ando, and Y. Maeno, Physica B, 284-288, 541 (2000).

Eutectic systems containing the superconductor Sr2RuO4, Z. Q. Mao and Y. Maeno, Physica C 341-348, 787 (2000).

Suppression of Superconductivity in Sr2RuO4 caused by defects, Z. Q. Mao, Y. Mori, and Y. Maeno, Phys. Rev. B 60, 610 (1999).

Magnetoresistance of Sr2RuO4 under high magnetic fields, E. Ohmichi, Y. Maeno, S. Nagai, Z. Q. Mao, M. A. Tanatar, and T. Ishiguro, Phys. Rev. B 61, 7101 (2000).