Jue Wang is an experimental condensed matter physicist working on low-dimensional materials and strongly correlated phenomena. Jue’s research aims to realize novel quantum matters, deepen our understanding of them, and unlock their potential in the ongoing quantum revolution. To achieve these goals, Jue’s group develops and applies a variety of optical spectroscopies and techniques, especially those using ultrafast lasers, together with nanofabrication of electronic devices, electrical measurements, and low-temperature techniques capable of cooling electrons down to the 10 mK range.

Jue joined the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology as an assistant professor in 2025. Prior to joining HKUST, he was a Harvard Quantum Initiative Postdoctoral Fellow at Harvard University, co-advised by Professor Philip Kim and Professor Hongkun Park. Jue received his B.S. from Peking University in 2014, and his Ph.D. from Columbia University in 2020, advised by Professor Xiaoyang Zhu.

Representative Publications 

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• Sung, J.*, Wang, J.*, Esterlis, I.*, Volkov, P.*, Scuri, G., Zhou, Y., Brutschea, E., Taniguchi, T., Watanabe, K., Yang, Y., Morales, M., Zhang, S., Millis, A., Lukin, M., Kim, P., Demler, E. & Park, H. An electronic microemulsion phase emerging from a quantum crystal-to-liquid transition. Nature Physics 21, 437-443 (2025).

• Han, T.*, Lu, Z.*, Scuri, G., Sung, J., Wang, J., Han, T., Watanabe, K., Taniguchi, T., Fu, L., Park, H. & Ju, L. Orbital multiferroicity in pentalayer rhombohedral graphene. Nature 623, 41-47 (2023).

• Bae, Y. J., Wang, J., Scheie, A., Xu, J., Chica, D. G., Diederich, G. M., Cenker, J., Ziebel, M. E., Bai, Y., Ren, H., Dean, C. R., Delor, M., Xu, X., Roy, X., Kent, A. D. & Zhu, X.-Y. Exciton-coupled coherent magnons in a 2D semiconductor. Nature 609, 282-286 (2022)

• Wang, J., Manolatou, C., Bai, Y., Hone, J., Rana, F. & Zhu X.-Y. Disorder of Excitons and Trions in Monolayer MoSe2. J. Chem. Phys. 157, 211101 (2022).

• Wang, J., Shi, Q., Shih, E.-M., Zhou, L., Wu, W., Bai, Y., Rhodes, D. A., Barmak, K., Hone, J., Dean, C. R. & Zhu, X.-Y. Diffusivity reveals three distinct phases of interlayer excitons in MoSe2/WSe2 heterobilayers. Phys. Rev. Lett. 126, 106804 (2021).

• Liu, F., Wu, W., Bai, Y., Chae, S. H., Li, Q., Wang, J., Hone, J. & Zhu, X.-Y. Disassembling 2D van der Waals crystals into macroscopic monolayers and reassembling into artificial lattices. Science 367, 903-906 (2020).

• Wang, J.*, Ardelean, J.*, Bai, Y.*, Steinhoff, A., Florian, M., Jahnke, F., Xu, X., Kira, M., Hone, J. & Zhu, X.-Y. Optical generation of high carrier densities in 2D semiconductor heterobilayers. Science Advances 5, eaax0145 (2019).

• Zhu, H. *, Wang, J.*, Gong, Z. Z., Kim, Y. D., Hone, J. & Zhu, X.-Y. Interfacial charge transfer circumventing momentum mismatch at two-dimensional van der Waals heterojunctions. Nano Lett. 17, 3591-3598 (2017).

• Zhu, H.*, Miyata, K.*, Fu, Y., Wang, J., Joshi, P. P., Niesner, D., Williams, K. W., Jin, S. & Zhu, X.-Y. Screening in crystalline liquids protects energetic carriers in hybrid perovskites. Science 353, 1409-1413 (2016).