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Kaifa Luo

Austin, TX

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.

Selected Publications

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

Symmetry-protected topological polarons

Kaifa Luo, Jon Lafuente-Bartolome, Feliciano Giustino
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 123 (4) e2514647123 (2026)

Incommensurate Transverse Peierls Transition and Signature of Chiral Charge Density Wave in EuAl4

FZ Yang*, KF Luo*, et al.
Nature Communications, 16, 10401 (2025)

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

Transverse Peierls Transition

Kaifa Luo, Xi Dai
Physical Review X, 13 (1), 011027 (2023)

Topological nodal states in circuit lattice

Kaifa Luo, Rui Yu, Hongming Weng
Research, 2018