The American Physical Society announced that Xue Qikun, an academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, a professor at Tsinghua University, and the president of Southern University of Science and Technology, has won the 2024 Buckley Award.This is the first time the prize has been awarded to a Chinese physicist since it was first awarded in 1953. The Buckley Prize is recognized as the highest international award in the field of condensed matter physics and aims to recognize scientists who have made outstanding contributions in the field of condensed matter physics.
This time, Xue Qikun and Ashvin Vishwanath, a professor at Harvard University in the United States, jointly won the award for their "pioneering theoretical and experimental research on the collective electronic properties of materials with topological band structures."
The quantum anomalous Hall effect is an important quantum effect in condensed matter physics. For a long time, it has been extremely difficult to make it "appear" and achieve experimental observations, and it has been a scientific goal that countless researchers have struggled to pursue.
At the end of 2012, after overcoming one difficulty after another, Xue Qikun and his team finally succeeded in experimentally observing the quantum anomalous Hall effect, becoming the "first in the world"!
Final measurement samples and data for the experimental discovery of the quantum anomalous Hall effect