Dr. Yachao Liu is currently an associate professor in the College of Electronics and Information Engineering at Shenzhen University (SZU). He received his bachelor’s and doctoral degrees from Hunan University in 2013 and 2018 respectively. He was a postdoctoral research fellow at SZU from 2018 to 2021, and served as a visiting researcher at the University of Birmingham (UK) from 2019 to 2021. Dr. Liu’s current research focuses on the physical theory and experimental study of artificial optical structures and light field manipulation. He has published more than 40 papers indexed in SCI, with his work being cited over 2,000 times. Dr. Liu’s achievements have been recognized with funding from the China Scholarship Council (CSC), the China Postdoctoral Science Foundation (CPSF), and Shenzhen Municipality. He currently leads two projects funded by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC).

[1]2018  Ph.D. in Physics, Hunan University, China

[2]2013  B.E. in Electronic Science and Technology, Hunan University, China

[1]2019-2021     Visiting Researcher, University of Birmingham, UK

[2]2018-2021     Postdoctoral Fellow, Shenzhen University, China

[3]2017-2018     Visiting PhD student, University of Birmingham, UK

[1] Y. Liu, M. Wang, Y. Huang, G. P. Wang, and S. Zhang, Continuous evolution of Fermi arcs in a minimal ideal photonic Weyl medium, Light: Science & Applications, 2024, (accepted).

[2] Y. Liu, G. P. Wang, J. Pendry, and S. Zhang, All-angle reflectionless negative refraction with ideal photonic Weyl metamaterials, Light: Science & Applications, 2022, 11, 276.

[3] L. Peng^#, H. Ren^#, Y. Liu^#, T.W. Lan, K.W. Xu, D.X. Ye, H.B. Sun, S.Xu, H.S. Chen, and S. Zhang, Spin-Hall effect of transversely spinning light, Science Advances, 2022, 8, eabo6033.

[4] Y. Liu, G. P. Wang, and S. Zhang, A nonlocal effective medium description of topological Weyl metamaterials, Laser & Photonics Review. 2021, 15, 2100129.

[5] W. Ye^#, Y. Liu^#, J. Liu, S. A. R. Horsley, S. Wen, and S. Zhang. Photonic Hall effect and helical Zitterbewegung in a synthetic Weyl system. Light: Science & Applications. 2019, 8, 49.

[6] Y. Liu and G.P. Wang, Beam manipulations with compact planar dielectric Pancharatnam–Berry phase devices, Frontiers in Physics, 2022, 10, 894703.

[7] Y. Liu, Y. Ke, H. Luo, and S. Wen, Photonic spin Hall effect in metasurfaces: a brief review. Nanophotonics. 2017, 6, 51-70.

[8] Y. Liu, S. Chen, Y. Ke, et al. in Spintronics Viii Vol. 9551 Proceedings of SPIE (eds Drouhin H J, Wegrowe J E , Razeghi M) (2015).

[9] Y. Liu, Y. Ke, J. Zhou, H. Luo, and S. Wen, Manipulating the spin-dependent splitting by geometric Doppler effect. Optics Express. 2015, 23, 16682-16692.

[10] Y. Liu, X. Ling, X. Yi, X. Zhou, S. Chen, Y. Ke, H. Luo, and S. Wen, Photonic spin Hall effect in dielectric metasurfaces with rotational symmetry breaking. Optics Letters. 2015, 40, 756-759.

[11] Y. Liu, X. Ling, X. Yi, X. Zhou, H. Luo, and S. Wen, Realization of polarization evolution on higher-order Poincare sphere with metasurface. Applied Physics Letters. 2014, 104, 191110.

[1] Topological materials and topological optics, valley Hall effect, pseudo spin, wave packet evolution

[2] Metasurfaces and metamaterials, dielectric metasurfaces, Pancharatnam-Berry phase devices, Holographic metasurfaces

[3] Structured optical field, vector field, vortex beam, optical qubit, focused field

[4] Photonic spin Hall effect, spin and orbit angular momentum interaction, quantum weak measurement

[1] 01/2023-12/2026: National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC) No.12274302, The effective medium theory of inhomogeneous photonic Weyl structures and the realization of artificial magnetic field, PI.

[2] 01/2019-12/2021: National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC) No.11904238, Principle and verification of generating and manipulating structured light field using photonic Weyl structures, PI.

[3] 01/2019-12/2020: The International Postdoctoral Exchange Fellowship Program No.20190058, Photonic spin Hall effect and spin-orbit interaction in topological optical structures, PI.

[4] 01/2024-12/2026: SZU Scientific Research Foundation for Young Scholars, Research on the generation and application of structured light field based on topological photonic structures, PI.

Dr. Liu is inviting applications from prospective Ph.D. students, postdoctoral researchers, and full-time research staff. For inquiries, feel free to contact him by email.