General

Bo Gu 
Associate Professor
Kavli Institute for Theoretical Sciences, 
University of Chinese Academy of Sciences,
7-305, No.80 Zhong-Guan-Cun Dong Lu, 
Haidian, Beijing 100190, China
Phone: +86-18301093786
E-mail: gubo@ucas.ac.cn
http://people.ucas.ac.cn/~gubo







Research Areas

I am interested in the theoretical study of magnetic semiconductors, including diluted magnetic semiconductors, two-dimensional magnetic semiconductors, magnetic topological materials, magnetic interface systems, quantum anomalous Hall effect, spin Hall effect, magneto-optical Kerr effect, etc. 

Education

  1. 2004/2 - 2007/1, Ph.D. in Theoretical Physics,Graduate University of Chinese Academy of Sciences
  2. 2000/9 - 2003/7, M.S. in Theoretical Physics, Peking University
  3. 1996/9 - 2000/7, Bachelor in Physics, Wuhan University

Experience

1.      2018/3 – now, Associate Professor

Kavli Institute for Theoretical Sciences, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China

2.      2016/7 – 2018/3, Senior Scientist (Permanent staff)

Advanced Science Research Center, Japan Atomic Energy Agency, Tokai, Japan.

3.      2012/4 -  2016/6, Scientist (Permanent staff)

Advanced Science Research Center, Japan Atomic Energy Agency, Tokai, Japan.

4.      2010/4 - 2012/3, Special Topic Researcher

Advanced Science Research Center, Japan Atomic Energy Agency, Tokai, Japan.

5.      2007/5 - 2010/3, Post-Doctoral Researcher

Institute for Materials Research, Tohoku University, Sendai, Japan. 

Publications

1.       Bo Gu*, Ji-Zhong Lou, Shao-Jing Qin, and Tao Xiang, Exciton excitations in a one-dimensional band insulator with Hubbard interactions, Chinese Physics Letters 21, 530-355 (2004).

 

2.       Bo Gu* and Jun Zhang, Anomalous magnetization exponent and singular frustration induced gap in incommensurate massive one-dimensional lattice models, Communications in Theoretical Physics 42, 146-150 (2004).

 

3.       Bo Gu, Gang Su*, and Song Gao, Magnetic properties of J-J-J’ quantum Heisenberg chains with spin S = 1/2, 1, 3/2 and 2 in a magnetic field, Journal of Physics: Condensed Matter 17, 6081-6094 (2005). arXiv:cond-mat/0508685.

 

4.       Bo Gu, Gang Su*, and Song Gao, Thermodynamics of spin-1/2 antiferromagnet-antiferromagnet-ferromagnet and ferromagnet- ferromagnet-antiferromagnet trimerized quantum Heisenberg chains, Physical Review B 73, 134427 (1-10) (2006). arXiv:cond-mat/0512652.

 

5.       Bo Gu and Gang Su*, Comment on "Experimental observation of the 1/3 magnetization plateau in the diamond chain compound Cu3(CO3)2(OH)2", Physical Review Letters 97, 089701 (1) (2006).

 

6.       Bo Gu and Gang Su*, Magnetism and thermodynamic of spin-1/2 Heisenberg diamond chains in a magnetic field, Physical Review B 75, 174437 (1-16) (2007). arXiv:0704.0150.

 

7.       Shou-Shu Gong, Bo Gu, and Gang Su*, Spin structure factors and valence-bond-solid states of the trimerized Heisenberg chains in a magnetic field, Physics Letters A 372, 2322-2325 (2008). arXiv:0803.1238.

 

8.       Bo Gu*, Nejat Bulut, and Sadamichi Maekawa, Crystal structure effect on the ferromagnetic correlations in ZnO with magnetic impurities, Journal of Applied Physics 104, 103906 (1-7) (2008). arXiv:0804.3436.

 

9.       Bo Gu, Nejat Bulut, Timothy Ziman, and Sadamichi Maekawa, Possible d0 ferromagnetism in MgO doped with nitrogen, Physical Review B 79, 024407 (1-7) (2009). arXiv:0812.1836.

 

10.    Bo Gu, Jing-Yu Gan, Nejat Bulut, Timothy Ziman, Guang-Yu Guo, Naoto Nagaosa, and Sadamichi Maekawa, Quantum renormalization of the spin Hall effect, Physical Review Letters 105, 086401 (1-4) (2010). arXiv:1007.3821.

 

11.    Bo Gu, Isamu Sugai, Timothy Ziman, Guang-Yu Guo, Naoto Nagaosa, Takeshi Seki, Koki Takanashi, and Sadamichi Maekawa, Surface-assisted spin Hall effect in Au films with Pt impurities, Physical Review Letters 105, 216401 (1-4) (2010). arXiv:1011.5540. Nature Publishing Group (NPG) Asia Materials research highlight doi:10.1038/asiamat.2011.24.

 

12.    Bo Gu*, Jing-Yu Gan, Nejat Bulut, Guang-Yu Guo, Naoto Nagaosa, and Sadamichi Maekawa, Orbital-dependent Kondo effect for Fe in Au: Combined approach of density functional theory and quantum Monte Carlo method, Journal of Physics: Conference Series 200, 062007 (1-4) (2010).

 

13.    Jun-ichiro Ohe, Bo Gu, and Sadamichi Maekawa, New numerical approach for studying diluted magnetic semiconductors, Solid State Physics 45, 269-278 (2010) (in Japanese).

 

14.    Bo Gu*, Timothy Ziman, Guang-Yu Guo, Naoto Nagaosa, and Sadamichi Maekawa, Giant spin Hall effect of Au films with Pt impurities: Surface-assisted skew scattering, Journal of Applied Physics 109, 07C502 (1-3) (2011). Virtual Journal of Nanoscale Science & Technology 23, 13 (2011).

 

15.    Z. Deng, C. Q. Jin*, Q. Q. Liu, X. C. Wang, J. L. Zhu, S. M. Feng, L. C. Chen, R. C. Yu, C. Arguello, T. Goko, F. Ning, J. Zhang, Y. Wang, A. A. Aczel, T. Munsie, T. J. Williams, G. M. Luke, T. Kakeshita, S. Uchida, W. Higemoto, T. U. Ito, B. Gu, S. Maekawa, G. D. Morris, and Y. J. Uemura*, Li(Zn,Mn)As  as a new generation ferromagnet based on a I-II-V semiconductor, Nature Communications 2, 422 (1-5) (2011).

 

16.    Z. Deng, Q. Q. Liu, X. C. Wang, J. L. Zhu, S. M. Feng, L. C. Chen, R. C. Yu, C. Arguello, T. Goko, F. L. Ning, J. S. Zhang, Y. Y. Wang, A. A. Aczel, T. Munsie, T. J. Williams, G. M. Luke, T. Kakeshita, S. Uchida, W. Higemoto, T. U. Ito, B. Gu, S. Maekawa, G. D. Morris, Y. J. Uemura*, and C. Q. Jin*, A new type diluted magnetic semiconductor Li(Zn,Mn)As, Journal of Physics: Conference Series 400, 032033 (1-3) (2012).

 

17.    Dahai Wei, Yasuhiro Niimi*, Bo Gu, Timothy Ziman, Sadamichi Maekawa, and Yoshichika Otani, The spin Hall effect as a probe of nonlinear spin fluctuations, Nature Communications 3, 1058 (1-5) (2012). arXiv:1209.2799.

 

18.    Bo Gu, Timothy Ziman, and Sadamichi Maekawa, Theory of the spin Hall effect, and its inverse, in a ferromagnetic metal near the Curie temperature, Physical Review B 86, 241303 (R) (1-5) (2012). arXiv:1212.4561.

 

19.    A. Annadi, Q. Zhang, X. Renshaw Wang, N. Tuzla, K. Gopinadhan, W. M. Lu, A. Roy Barman, Z. Q. Liu, A. Srivastava, S. Saha, Y. L. Zhao, S. W. Zeng, S. Dhar, E. Olsson, B. Gu, S. Yunoki, S. Maekawa, H. Hilgenkamp, T. Venkatesan, and Ariando*, Anisotropic two-dimensional electron gas at the LaAlO3/SrTiO3 (110) interface, Nature Communications 4, 1838 (1-7) (2013). arXiv:1208.6135.

 

20.    Z. Deng, K. Zhao, B. Gu, W. Han, J. L. Zhu, X. C. Wang, X. Li, Q. Q. Liu, R. C. Yu, T. Goko, B. Frandsen, L. Liu, Jinsong Zhang, Yayu Wang, F. L. Ning, S. Maekawa, Y. J. Uemura, and C. Q. Jin*, Diluted ferromagnetic semiconductor Li(Zn,Mn)P with decoupled charge and spin doping, Physical Review B 88, 081203 (R) (1-5) (2013). arXiv:1308.4929.

 

21.    Bo Gu*, Timothy Ziman*, and Sadamichi Maekawa*, Negatively charged muonium as a detector of electron spin polarization: A puzzle and a possible theory, JPS Conference Proceedings 2, 010301 (1-5) (2014).

 

22.    Zhuo Xu, Bo Gu, Michiyasu Mori, Timothy Ziman, and Sadamichi Maekawa, Sign change of the spin Hall effect due to electron correlation in nonmagnetic CuIr alloys,  Physical Review Letters 114, 017202 (1-5) (2015). arXiv:1405.7449.

 

23.    Bo Gu*, Zhuo Xu, Michiyasu Mori, Timothy Ziman, and Sadamichi Maekawa, Enhanced spin Hall effect by electron correlations in CuBi alloys, Journal of Applied Physics 117, 17D503 (1-4) (2015). arXiv:1402.3012.

 

24.    Zhuo Xu*, Bo Gu, Michiyasu Mori, Timothy Ziman, and Sadamichi Maekawa, Analysis of the spin Hall effect in CuIr alloys: Combined approach of density functional theory and Hartree-Fock approximation, Journal of Applied Physics 117, 17D510 (1-4) (2015). arXiv:1411.7733.

 

25.    H. Suzuki, K. Zhao, G. Shibata, Y. Takahashi, S. Sakamoto, K. Yoshimatsu, B. J. Chen, H. Kumigashira, F. H. Chang, H. J. Lin, D. J. Huang, C. T. Chen, B. Gu, S. Maekawa, Y. J. Uemura, C. Q. Jin, and A. Fujimori, Photoemission and X-ray absorption studies of the isostructural to Fe-based superconductors diluted magnetic semiconductor Ba1-xKx(Zn1-yMny)2As2, Physical Review B 91, 140401 (R) (1-5) (2015). arXiv:1410.2409.

 

26.    H. J. Zhang*, S. Yamamoto, B. Gu, H. Li, M. Maekawa, Y. Fukaya, and A. Kawasuso, Charge-to-spin conversion and spin diffusion in Bi/Ag bilayers observed by spin-polarized positron beam, Physical Review Letters 114, 166602 (1-5) (2015).

 

27.    Y. Niimi*, M. Kimata, Y. Omori, B. Gu, T. Ziman, S. Maekawa, A. Fert, and Y. Otani, Strong suppression of the spin Hall effect in the spin glass state, Physical Review Letters 115, 196602 (1-5) (2015). arXiv:1510.00808.

 

28.    H. Suzuki, G. Q. Zhao, K. Zhao, B. J. Chen, M. Horio, K. Koshiishi, J. Xu, M. Kobayashi, M. Minohara, E. Sakai, K. Horiba, H. Kumigashira, B. Gu, S. Maekawa, Y. J. Uemura, C. Q. Jin, and A. Fujimori, Fermi surfaces and p-d hybridization in the diluted magnetic semiconductor Ba1-xKx(Zn1-yMny)2As2 studied by soft X-ray angle resolved photoemission spectroscopy, Physical Review B 92, 235120 (1-5) (2015). arXiv:1509.04520.

 

29.    Zhuo Xu*, Bo Gu, Michiyasu Mori, Timothy Ziman, and Sadamichi Maekawa, What determines the sign of the spin Hall effects in Cu alloys doped with 5d elements? The Journal of Magnetism and Magnetic Materials 400, 184-187 (2016).  arXiv:1506.06437.

 

30.    Bo Gu* and Sadamichi Maekawa, Diluted magnetic semiconductors with narrow band gaps, Physical Review B 94, 155202 (1-8) (2016). arXiv:1601.05165.

 

31.    Timothy Ziman, Bo Gu, and Sadamichi Maekawa, Skew scattering from correlated systems: Impurities and collective excitations in the spin Hall effect, Journal of the Physical Society of Japan 86, 011005 (1-8) (2017).

 

32.    Bo Gu and Sadamichi Maekawa, New p- and n-type ferromagnetic semiconductors: Cr-doped BaZn2As2, AIP Advances 7, 055805 (1-6) (2017). arXiv:1610.03578.

 

33.    A. Okada#, S. He#, B. Gu, S. Kanai, A. Soumyanarayanan, S. T. Lim, M. Tran, M. Mori, S. Maekawa, F. Matsukura*, H. Ohno, and C. Panagopoulos*, Magnetization dynamics and its scattering mechanism in thin CoFeB films with interfacial anisotropy, The Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 144, 3815-3820 (2017).  arXiv:1705.06624.

 

34.    Y. Ogata*, H. Chudo, B. Gu, N. Kobayashi, M. Ono, K. Harii, M. Matsuo, E. Saitoh, and S. Maekawa, Enhanced orbital magnetic moment in FeCo nanogranules observed by Barnett effect, The Journal of Magnetism and Magnetic Materials 442, 329-331 (2017).

 

35.    Bo Gu, Saburo Takahashi, and Sadamichi Maekawa, Enhanced magneto-optical Kerr effect at Fe/insulator interfaces, Physical Review B 96, 214423 (1-6) (2017). arXiv:1710.09986.

 

36.    N. Kobayashi*, K. Ikeda, B. Gu, S. Takahashi, H. Masumoto, and S. Maekawa, Giant Faraday rotation in metal-fluoride nanogranular films, Scientific Reports 8, 4978 (1-8) (2018).

 

37.    W. Han, B. J. Chen, B. Gu, G. Q. Zhao, S. Yu, X. C. Wang, Q. Q. Liu, Z. Deng*, S. Maekawa, Y. J. Uemura, C. Q. Jin*, Li(Cd, Mn)P: a new cadmium based diluted magnetic semiconductor with independent spin & charge doping, Scientific Reports 9, 7490 (1-6) (2019).

 

38.    Xue-Juan Dong, Jing-Yang You, Bo Gu*, and Gang Su*, Strain-induced room-temperature ferromagnetic semiconductors with large anomalous Hall conductivity in two-dimensional Cr2Ge2Se6, Physical Review Applied 12, 014020 (1-6) (2019). arXiv:1901.09306.

 

39.    Bo Gu*, High temperature magnetic semiconductors: narrow band gaps and two-dimensional systems, Journal of Semiconductors 40, 081504 (1-9) (2019).

 

40.    Jing-Yang You#, Zhen Zhang#, Bo Gu*, and Gang Su*, Two-dimensional room temperature ferromagnetic semiconductors with quantum anomalous Hall effect, Physical Review Applied 12, 024063 (1-7) (2019). arXiv:1904.11357.

 

41.    Jing-Yang You, Bo Gu*, and Gang Su*, Flat band and hole-induced ferromagnetism in a novel carbon monolayer, Scientific Reports 9, 20116 (1-7) (2019). arXiv:1907.12362.

 

42.    Jing-Yang You, Zhen Zhang, Xue-Juan Dong, Bo Gu*, and Gang Su*, Two-dimensional magnetic semiconductors with room Curie temperatures, Physical Review Research 2, 013002 (1-7) (2020). arXiv:1908.05836.

 

43.    Jing-Yang You, Bo Gu*, and Gang Su*, Superconductivity in sodium-doped T-carbon, Physical Review B 101, 184521 (1-8) (2020). arXiv:2002.00156.

 

44.    Zhen Zhang#, Jing-Yang You#, Bo Gu*, and Gang Su*, Antiferromagnetic and electric polarized states in two-dimensional Janus semiconductor Fe2Cl3I3, The Journal of Physical Chemistry C 124, 19219-19227 (2020). arXiv:2001.02842.

 

45.    H. Taniguchi, M. Watanabe, T. Ibe, M. Tokuda, T. Arakawa, T. Taniguchi, B. Gu, T. Ziman, S. Maekawa, K. Kobayashi, and Y. Niimi*, Spin treacle in a frustrated magnet observed with spin current, Physical Review B 102, 094405 (1-7) (2020). arXiv:2008.09250.

 

46.    Jing-Yang You, Bo Gu*, Sadamichi Maekawa, and Gang Su*, Microscopic mechanism of high temperature ferromagnetism in Fe, Mn, and Cr-doped InSb, InAs, and GaSb magnetic semiconductors, Physical Review B 102, 094432 (1-13) (2020). arXiv:2010.07454.

 

47.    X. Shen#, Z. Deng#, Z. Li, B. Gu, L. H. He, Y. Yao, C. Q. Jin*, and R. C. Yu*, Effects of structure modulation on the magnetic properties in diluted magnetic semiconductor Li1+yZn0.9Mn0.1As1.0, Physical Review Materials 4, 094412 (1-6) (2020).

 

48.    Xue-Juan Dong, Jing-Yang You, Zhen Zhang, Bo Gu*, and Gang Su*, Great enhancement of Curie temperature and magnetic anisotropy in two-dimensional van der Waals semiconductor heterostructures, Physical Review B 102, 144443 (1-9) (2020). arXiv:2009.00317.

 

49.    Zhen Zhang, Jing-Yang You, Xing-Yu Ma, Bo Gu*, and Gang Su*, Kagome quantum anomalous Hall effect with high Chern number and large band gap, Physical Review B 103, 014410 (1-8) (2021). arXiv:2010.07670.

 

50.    Jing-Yang You#, Xue-Juan Dong#, Bo Gu*, and Gang Su*, Electric field induced topological phase transition and large enhancements of spin-orbit coupling and Curie temperature in two-dimensional ferromagnetic semiconductors, Physical Review B 103, 104403 (1-7) (2021). arXiv:2009.13328.

 

51.    Jing-Yang You, Bo Gu, Gang Su, and Yuan Ping Feng*, Two-dimensional topological superconductivity candidate in a van der Waals layered material, Physical Review B 103, 104503 (1-6) (2021). arXiv:2012.13857.

 

52.    Zhen Zhang, Jing-Yang You*, Bo Gu*, and Gang Su*, Emergent magnetic states due to stacking and strain in the van der Waals magnetic trilayer CrI3, Physical Review B 104, 174433 (1-8) (2021) (Editors’ Suggestion). arXiv:2111.03287.

 

53.    Jing-Yang You, Bo Gu*, and Gang Su*, The p-orbital magnetic topological states on a square lattice, National Science Review 9, nwab114 (1-8) (2022). arXiv:2011.00161.

 

54.    Zheng-Wei Liao, Zhen Zhang, Jing-Yang You*, Bo Gu*, and Gang Su*, Enhanced superconductivity in C-S-H compounds at high pressure, Physical Review B 105, L020510 (1-6) (2022) (Letter). arXiv:2111.03276.

 

55.    Jing-Yang You*, Bo Gu, Gang Su, and Yuan Ping Feng*, Emergent kagome electrides, Journal of the American Chemical Society 144, 5527-5534 (2022).

 

56.    H. Suzuki, G. Q. Zhao, J. Okamoto, S. Sakamoto, Z. Y. Chen, Y. Nonaka, G. Shibata, K. Zhao, B. J. Chen, W. B. Wu, F. H. Chang, H. J. Lin, C. T. Chen, A. Tanaka, M. Kobayashi, Bo Gu, S. Maekawa, Y. J. Uemura, C. Q. Jin, D. J. Huang, and A. Fujimori, Magnetic properties and electronic configurations and of Mn ions in the diluted magnetic semiconductor Ba1−xKx(Zn1−yMny)2As2 studied by X-ray magnetic circular dichroism and resonant inelastic X-ray scattering, Journal of the Physical Society of Japan 91, 064710 (1-5) (2022). arXiv:2201.13061.

 

57.    Zhen Zhang, Jing-Yang You*, Bo Gu*, and Gang Su*, Emergent topological superconductivity in Bi-intercalated van der Waals layered SiTe2, Physical Review B 106, 174519 (1-6) (2022).

 

58.    Xin-Wei Yi, Zheng-Wei Liao, Jing-Yang You*, Bo Gu*, and Gang Su*, Topological superconductivity and large spin Hall effect in the kagome family Ti6X4 (X = Bi, Sb, Pb, Tl, and In), iScience 26, 105813 (1-13) (2023). arXiv:2211.11372.

 

59.    Adam O’Neill#, Sharidya Rahman#, Zhen Zhang, Peggy Schoenherr, Tanju Yildirim, Bo Gu*, Gang Su, Yuerui Lu*, and Jan Seidel*, Enhanced room temperature ferromagnetism in highly strained 2D semiconductor Cr2Ge2Te6, ACS Nano 17, 735-742 (2023).

 

60.    Ze Liu, Jing-Yang You, Bo Gu*, Sadamichi Maekawa, and Gang Su*, Enhanced spin-orbit coupling and orbital moment in ferromagnets by electron correlations, Physical Review B 107, 104407 (1-7) (2023). arXiv:2106.01046.

 

61.    Jing-Yang You*, Xue-Juan Dong, Bo Gu*, and Gang Su*, Possible room-temperature ferromagnetic semiconductors, Chinese Physics Letters 40, 067502 (1-10) (2023).

 

62.    Jia-Wen Li, Zhen Zhang, Jing-Yang You, Bo Gu*, and Gang Su*, Two-dimensional Heisenberg model with material-dependent superexchange interactions, Physical Review B 107, 224411 (1-8) (2023). arXiv:2301.01923.

 

63.    Zheng-Wei Liao, Xin-Wei Yi, Jing-Yang You*, Bo Gu*, and Gang Su*, Family of binary transition metal pnictides superconductors, Physical Review B 108, 014501 (1-8) (2023). arXiv:2208.03021.

 

64.    Jian-Gang Yang#, Xin-Wei Yi#, Zhen Zhao#, Yu-Yang Xie#, Tai-Min Miao, Hai-Lan Luo, Hao Chen, Bo Liang, Wen-Pei Zhu, Yu-Han Ye, Jing-Yang You, Bo Gu, Shen-Jin Zhang, Feng-Feng Zhang, Feng Yang, Zhi-Min Wang, Qin-Jun Peng, Han-Qing Mao, Guo-Dong Liu, Zu-Yan Xu, Hui Chen, Hai-Tao Yang, Gang Su*, Hong-Jun Gao*, Lin Zhao*, and X. J. Zhou*, Observation of flat band, Dirac nodal lines and topological surface states in Kagome superconductor CsTi3Bi5, Nature Communications 14, 4089 (1-8) (2023).

 

65.    Xin-Wei Yi, Zheng-Wei Liao, Jing-Yang You*, Bo Gu*, and Gang Su*, Superconducting, topological and transport properties of kagome metals CsTi3Bi5 and RbTi3Bi5, Research 6, 0238 (1-10) (2023). arXiv:2306.17616.

Honors & Distinctions

1. Tang Lixin Outstanding Scholar Award

University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, December 8, 2020, Beijing, China. 


2. JAEA President Award 2011

Japan Atomic Energy Agency (JAEA), October 1, 2011, Tokai, Japan.

 

2.  ASRC Director General's Award 2010

Advanced Science Research Center (ASRC), Japan Atomic Energy Agency, March 23, 2011, Tokai, Japan.