Yabin Fan

6.2k total citations · 3 hit papers
63 papers, 4.6k citations indexed

About

Yabin Fan is a scholar working on Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics, Condensed Matter Physics and Materials Chemistry. According to data from OpenAlex, Yabin Fan has authored 63 papers receiving a total of 4.6k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 52 papers in Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics, 23 papers in Condensed Matter Physics and 20 papers in Materials Chemistry. Recurrent topics in Yabin Fan's work include Magnetic properties of thin films (34 papers), Topological Materials and Phenomena (21 papers) and Quantum and electron transport phenomena (15 papers). Yabin Fan is often cited by papers focused on Magnetic properties of thin films (34 papers), Topological Materials and Phenomena (21 papers) and Quantum and electron transport phenomena (15 papers). Yabin Fan collaborates with scholars based in United States, China and Taiwan. Yabin Fan's co-authors include Kang L. Wang, Murong Lang, Xufeng Kou, Pramey Upadhyaya, Jianshi Tang, Guoqiang Yu, Wanjun Jiang, Yong Wang, Yaroslav Tserkovnyak and Tianxiao Nie and has published in prestigious journals such as Physical Review Letters, Advanced Materials and Nature Communications.

In The Last Decade

Yabin Fan

62 papers receiving 4.5k citations

Hit Papers

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What are hit papers?

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.

Switching of perpendicular magnetization by spin–orbit torques in the absence of external magnetic fields

2014 797 citations Guoqiang Yu, Pramey Upadhyaya et al. Nature Nanotechnology profile →
Magnetization switching through giant spin–orbit torque in a magnetically doped topological insulator heterostructure

2014 715 citations Yabin Fan, Pramey Upadhyaya et al. profile →
Scale-Invariant Quantum Anomalous Hall Effect in Magnetic Topological Insulators beyond the Two-Dimensional Limit

2014 449 citations Xufeng Kou, Yabin Fan et al. Physical Review Letters profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Yabin Fan United States	28	4.1k	2.1k	1.8k	1.2k	1.1k	63	4.6k
G. Hrkac United Kingdom	27	2.1k 0.5×	416 0.2×	762 0.4×	1.5k 1.3×	378 0.3×	93	2.5k
Denis D. Sheka Ukraine	29	1.9k 0.5×	440 0.2×	1.0k 0.6×	702 0.6×	310 0.3×	77	2.3k
Byoung‐Chul Min South Korea	30	3.5k 0.9×	1.0k 0.5×	1.2k 0.7×	1.4k 1.2×	1.6k 1.4×	125	4.1k
Jiang Xiao China	28	2.8k 0.7×	658 0.3×	1.3k 0.7×	891 0.8×	1.3k 1.1×	83	3.4k
Y. Kajiwara Japan	19	4.1k 1.0×	859 0.4×	1.5k 0.8×	1.2k 1.0×	2.1k 1.8×	59	4.5k
Olivier Boulle France	31	4.2k 1.0×	1.0k 0.5×	1.7k 1.0×	2.0k 1.8×	1.5k 1.4×	56	4.6k
V. S. Tiberkevich United States	33	3.1k 0.8×	366 0.2×	941 0.5×	825 0.7×	1.5k 1.4×	78	3.5k
S. Brown United States	22	2.1k 0.5×	733 0.4×	579 0.3×	1.1k 0.9×	1.4k 1.3×	56	2.9k
Attila Kákay Germany	26	2.0k 0.5×	424 0.2×	902 0.5×	804 0.7×	527 0.5×	85	2.3k
L. López-Dı́az Spain	30	2.7k 0.7×	684 0.3×	1.1k 0.6×	1.5k 1.2×	723 0.6×	127	3.1k

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20 of 20 papers shown

Fan, Yabin, Takian Fakhrul, Justin T. Hou, et al.. (2025). Dynamically Tunable Magnon-Magnon Coupling in a Perpendicular Anisotropy Magnetic Garnet-Ferromagnet Bilayer. Physical Review Letters. 134(12). 126702–126702. 2 indexed citations

Hou, Justin T., et al.. (2024). Electrical manipulation of dissipation in microwave photon–magnon hybrid system through the spin Hall effect. Applied Physics Letters. 124(7). 3 indexed citations

Fan, Yabin, Takian Fakhrul, Joseph Finley, et al.. (2023). Coherent magnon-induced domain-wall motion in a magnetic insulator channel. Nature Nanotechnology. 18(9). 1000–1004. 25 indexed citations

Fakhrul, Takian, Hans T. Nembach, Justin M. Shaw, et al.. (2023). Substrate‐Dependent Anisotropy and Damping in Epitaxial Bismuth Yttrium Iron Garnet Thin Films. Advanced Materials Interfaces. 10(30). 6 indexed citations

Han, Jiahao, Pengxiang Zhang, Zhen Bi, et al.. (2021). Birefringence-like spin transport via linearly polarized antiferromagnetic magnons. Bulletin of the American Physical Society.

Fan, Yabin, Patrick Quarterman, Joseph Finley, et al.. (2020). Manipulation of Coupling and Magnon Transport in Magnetic Metal-Insulator Hybrid Structures. Physical Review Applied. 13(6). 31 indexed citations

Safi, Taqiyyah, Pengxiang Zhang, Yabin Fan, et al.. (2020). Variable spin-charge conversion across metal-insulator transition. Nature Communications. 11(1). 476–476. 15 indexed citations

Han, Jiahao, Pengxiang Zhang, Zhen Bi, et al.. (2020). Birefringence-like spin transport via linearly polarized antiferromagnetic magnons. Nature Nanotechnology. 15(7). 563–568. 116 indexed citations

Fan, Yabin, Qiming Shao, Lei Pan, et al.. (2019). Unidirectional Magneto-Resistance in Modulation-Doped Magnetic Topological Insulators. Nano Letters. 19(2). 692–698. 21 indexed citations

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Che, Xiaoyu, Koichi Murata, Lei Pan, et al.. (2018). Proximity-Induced Magnetic Order in a Transferred Topological Insulator Thin Film on a Magnetic Insulator. ACS Nano. 12(5). 5042–5050. 40 indexed citations

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Nie, Tianxiao, Xufeng Kou, Jianshi Tang, et al.. (2017). Nanoengineering of an Si/MnGe quantum dot superlattice for high Curie-temperature ferromagnetism. Nanoscale. 9(9). 3086–3094. 9 indexed citations

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Tang, Jianshi, Li‐Te Chang, Xufeng Kou, et al.. (2015). Electrical Detection of Spin-Polarized Surface States Conduction in (Bi$_{0.53}$Sb$_{0.47})_{2}$Te$_{3}$ Topological Insulator. Bulletin of the American Physical Society. 12 indexed citations

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Nie, Tianxiao, Xufeng Kou, Jianshi Tang, et al.. (2014). Superlattice of Fe_xGe_1−xnanodots and nanolayers for spintronics application. Nanotechnology. 25(50). 505702–505702. 2 indexed citations

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Yu, Guoqiang, Pramey Upadhyaya, Yabin Fan, et al.. (2014). Switching of perpendicular magnetization by spin–orbit torques in the absence of external magnetic fields. Nature Nanotechnology. 9(7). 548–554. 797 indexed citations breakdown →

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Kou, Xufeng, Yabin Fan, Lei Pan, et al.. (2014). Scale-Invariant Quantum Anomalous Hall Effect in Magnetic Topological Insulators beyond the Two-Dimensional Limit. Physical Review Letters. 113(13). 137201–137201. 449 indexed citations breakdown →

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Fan, Yabin, K. Smith, G. Lüpke, et al.. (2013). Exchange bias of the interface spin system at the Fe/MgO interface. Nature Nanotechnology. 8(6). 438–444. 93 indexed citations

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He, Liang, Xufeng Kou, Murong Lang, et al.. (2013). Evidence of the two surface states of (Bi0.53Sb0.47)2Te3 films grown by van der Waals epitaxy. Scientific Reports. 3(1). 3406–3406. 31 indexed citations

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Cancès, Clément, et al.. (2010). Existence of weak solutions to a degenerate pseudo-parabolic equation modeling two-phase flow in porous media. Data Archiving and Networked Services (DANS). 1075(8). 79–82. 11 indexed citations

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Duijn, C.J. van, Yabin Fan, L. A. Peletier, & I. Pop. (2010). Travelling wave solutions for degenerate pseudo-parabolic equation modelling two-phase flow in porous media. 1001. 3 indexed citations

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Zhao, Hui, K. Smith, Yabin Fan, et al.. (2008). Viscous Spin Exchange Torque on Precessional Magnetization in(LaMnO3)2n/(SrMnO3)nSuperlattices. Physical Review Letters. 100(11). 117208–117208. 13 indexed citations

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