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Kaifa Luo

Austin, TX
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About Me

I completed my Ph.D. in Physics from UT Austin in 2025, where I was advised by Feliciano Giustino. I earned an M.S. in Computational Science, Engineering, and Mathematics from the Oden Institute in 2024. Earlier, I studied at Wuhan University in China, and worked at HKUST under the supervision of Xi Dai.

My research spans many-body physics and first-principles methodologies for real systems, and lies at the intersection of quantum materials, quantum geometry, and quantum optics, aiming to design and control materials functionalities for information and energy applications.

Selected Publications

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Extreme-Band-Gap Semiconductors with Shallow Dopants and Mobile Carriers

Sieun Chae, Nocona Sanders, Kelsey A. Mengle, Amanda Wang, Xiao Zhang, Jon Lafuente Bartolome, Kaifa Luo, Yen-Chun Huang, Feliciano Giustino, John T. Heron, Emmanouil Kioupakis
arXiv:2506.07284, 2025
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Symmetry-protected topological polarons

Kaifa Luo, Jon Lafuente-Bartolome, Feliciano Giustino
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 123 (4) e2514647123 (2026)
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Incommensurate Transverse Peierls Transition and Signature of Chiral Charge Density Wave in EuAl4

Fazhi Yang, Kaifa Luo, Weizhe Zhang, Xiaoyu Guo, William R Meier, Haoyang Ni, Haoxiang X Li, Pedro Mercado Lozano, Gilberto Fabbris, Ayman H Said, Christie Nelson, Tiantian Zhang, Andrew May, Michael McGuire, Rinkle Juneja, Lucas Lindsay, Honyung Lee, J-M Zuo, Miaofang Chi, Xi Dai, Liuyan Zhao, Hu Miao
Nature Communications, 16, 10401 (2025)
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Transverse Peierls Transition

Kaifa Luo, Xi Dai
Physical Review X, 13 (1), 011027 (2023)
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Topological nodal states in circuit lattice

Kaifa Luo, Rui Yu, Hongming Weng
Research, 2018