Research Team

Meet our distinguished researchers in magnetic point groups and quantum materials

Sang-Wook Cheong

Sang-Wook Cheong

Information: Single Crystals Specialist; Professor at the Department of Physics; Rutgers University, Piscataway, NJ USA; sangc@physics.rutgers.edu

We grow single crystals capable of hosting topological spin textures.

Valery Kiryukhin

Valery Kiryukhin

Information: Soft-Xray Vortex Beam Specialist; Professor at the Department of Physics; Rutgers University, Piscataway, NJ USA; vkir@physics.rutgers.edu

Soft-Xray Vortex Beam Enables Control multi-valued topological magnetic states.

Sanghyuk Lee

Sanghyuk Lee

Information: Visible-Light Vortex Beam Specialist; Assistant Professor at the Department of Physics and Astronomy and Resident Member of Institute for Quantitative Biomedicine; Rutgers University, Piscataway, NJ USA; shlee@physics.rutgers.edu

Visible light vortex beams imprint chiral spin textures and match exotic topologies.

Andrei Sirenko

Andrei Sirenko

Information: THz Vortex Beam Specialist; Professor at the Department of Physics; New Jersey Institute of Technology, Newark, NJ USA; andrei.sirenko@njit.edu

THz light couples effectively with spin waves (magnons) and crystal field excitations.