He Zhao

971 total citations · 1 hit paper
20 papers, 664 citations indexed

About

He Zhao is a scholar working on Condensed Matter Physics, Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics and Materials Chemistry. According to data from OpenAlex, He Zhao has authored 20 papers receiving a total of 664 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 16 papers in Condensed Matter Physics, 12 papers in Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics and 10 papers in Materials Chemistry. Recurrent topics in He Zhao's work include Topological Materials and Phenomena (10 papers), Iron-based superconductors research (8 papers) and Physics of Superconductivity and Magnetism (7 papers). He Zhao is often cited by papers focused on Topological Materials and Phenomena (10 papers), Iron-based superconductors research (8 papers) and Physics of Superconductivity and Magnetism (7 papers). He Zhao collaborates with scholars based in United States, China and Canada. He Zhao's co-authors include Ilija Zeljkovic, Ziqiang Wang, Hong Li, Stephen D. Wilson, Brenden R. Ortiz, Zheng Ren, Mengxing Ye, Leon Balents, Takamori Park and B. J. Skromme and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and Nature Communications.

In The Last Decade

He Zhao

20 papers receiving 653 citations

Hit Papers

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Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if it has ≥500 total citations, achieves ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (this is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it), or reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

  1. Rotation symmetry breaking in the normal state of a kagome superconductor KV3Sb5
    2022 165 citations Hong Li, He Zhao et al. Nature Physics profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

Peers by citation overlap · career bar shows stage (early→late) cites · hero ref

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
He Zhao United States 13 445 400 301 212 65 20 664
R. Fan United Kingdom 11 277 0.6× 298 0.7× 187 0.6× 333 1.6× 50 0.8× 31 512
L. S. I. Veiga United Kingdom 16 725 1.6× 259 0.6× 226 0.8× 566 2.7× 107 1.6× 45 964
J.L. Izquierdo Colombia 12 127 0.3× 227 0.6× 212 0.7× 184 0.9× 85 1.3× 38 442
Bo-Yao Wang Taiwan 15 197 0.4× 350 0.9× 230 0.8× 277 1.3× 121 1.9× 32 531
T. Mitsuhashi Japan 10 193 0.4× 146 0.4× 245 0.8× 227 1.1× 95 1.5× 22 476
Oleksandr Zheliuk Netherlands 8 334 0.8× 362 0.9× 737 2.4× 259 1.2× 194 3.0× 15 961
В. С. Захвалинский Russia 16 516 1.2× 170 0.4× 436 1.4× 607 2.9× 192 3.0× 101 914
Pengdong Wang China 11 295 0.7× 447 1.1× 384 1.3× 95 0.4× 139 2.1× 25 679
Rui‐Chun Xiao China 16 207 0.5× 418 1.0× 582 1.9× 250 1.2× 229 3.5× 45 854
Shoya Sakamoto Japan 13 257 0.6× 441 1.1× 314 1.0× 316 1.5× 144 2.2× 47 680

Countries citing papers authored by He Zhao

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Fields of papers citing papers by He Zhao

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of He Zhao

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of He Zhao. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of He Zhao based on the total number of citations received by their joint publications. Widths of edges represent the number of papers authors have co-authored together. Node borders signify the number of papers an author published with He Zhao. He Zhao is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Wang, Yidi, Hong Li, He Zhao, et al.. (2025). Interplay of Nanoscale Strain and Smectic Susceptibility in Kagome Superconductors. Physical Review X. 15(2). 1 indexed citations
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Li, Hong, Mingu Kang, He Zhao, et al.. (2023). Small Fermi Pockets Intertwined with Charge Stripes and Pair Density Wave Order in a Kagome Superconductor. Physical Review X. 13(3). 17 indexed citations
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Li, Hong, He Zhao, Brenden R. Ortiz, et al.. (2023). Unidirectional coherent quasiparticles in the high-temperature rotational symmetry broken phase of AV3Sb5 kagome superconductors. Nature Physics. 39 indexed citations
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Zhao, He, Raymond Blackwell, Taketo Handa, et al.. (2023). Smectic pair-density-wave order in EuRbFe4As4. Nature. 618(7967). 940–945. 37 indexed citations
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Li, Hong, He Zhao, Kun Jiang, et al.. (2022). Manipulation of Dirac band curvature and momentum-dependent g factor in a kagome magnet. Nature Physics. 18(6). 644–649. 22 indexed citations
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Li, Hong, He Zhao, Brenden R. Ortiz, et al.. (2022). Rotation symmetry breaking in the normal state of a kagome superconductor KV3Sb5. Nature Physics. 18(3). 265–270. 165 indexed citations breakdown →
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Li, Hong, He Zhao, Qiangwei Yin, et al.. (2022). Spin-polarized imaging of the antiferromagnetic structure and field-tunable bound states in kagome magnet FeSn. Scientific Reports. 12(1). 14525–14525. 10 indexed citations
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Ren, Zheng, Hong Li, He Zhao, et al.. (2022). Plethora of tunable Weyl fermions in kagome magnet Fe3Sn2 thin films. npj Quantum Materials. 7(1). 21 indexed citations
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Zhao, He, Hong Li, Binjie Xu, et al.. (2021). Nematic transition and nanoscale suppression of superconductivity in Fe(Te,Se). Nature Physics. 17(8). 903–908. 21 indexed citations
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Ren, Zheng, et al.. (2021). Nanoscale decoupling of electronic nematicity and structural anisotropy in FeSe thin films. Nature Communications. 12(1). 58 indexed citations
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Zhao, He, et al.. (2020). Energy Variance in Decoherence*. Chinese Physics Letters. 37(3). 30301–30301. 1 indexed citations
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Zhao, He, et al.. (2019). Bulk superconductivity in FeTe1−xSex via physicochemical pumping of excess iron. Physical Review Materials. 3(11). 5 indexed citations
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Zhao, He, Pingping Wu, Lifei Du, & Huiling Du. (2018). Effect of the nanopore on ferroelectric domain structures and switching properties. Computational Materials Science. 148. 216–223. 12 indexed citations
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Gao, Shang, Felix Flicker, Raman Sankar, et al.. (2018). Atomic-scale strain manipulation of a charge density wave. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 115(27). 6986–6990. 54 indexed citations
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Zhao, He, Zheng Ren, John Schneeloch, et al.. (2018). Superconducting proximity effect in a topological insulator using Fe(Te, Se). Physical review. B.. 97(22). 23 indexed citations
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Kushwaha, Satya, I. Pletikosić, Tian Liang, et al.. (2016). Sn-doped Bi1.1Sb0.9Te2S bulk crystal topological insulator with excellent properties. Nature Communications. 7(1). 11456–11456. 91 indexed citations
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Skromme, B. J., et al.. (1997). Strain determination in heteroepitaxial GaN. Applied Physics Letters. 71(6). 829–831. 54 indexed citations
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Skromme, B. J., He Zhao, B. Goldenberg, et al.. (1996). Photoluminescence, Reflectance, and Magnetospectroscopy of Shallow Excitons in GaN. MRS Proceedings. 449. 713–718. 1 indexed citations
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Johnson, Mark A., Zhonghai Yu, C. Boney, et al.. (1996). Reactive MBE Growth of GaN and GaN:H on GaN/SiC Substrates. MRS Proceedings. 449. 28 indexed citations

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