Zhongqi Xiu 修中淇
Exploring light, quantum materials,
and the physics in between.
I’m a second-year graduate researcher at Brown University in Yusong Bai’s Group,
studying excitonic physics, quantum states, and two-dimensional materials.
Questions that guide my work.
From individual photons and atoms to collective behavior in two-dimensional materials.
Quantum light.
Single-photon emission, optical spectroscopy, and strain engineering in two-dimensional materials.
Explore the experimentsExcitons in 2D.
Exciton polarons and many-body states in two-dimensional semiconductor heterostructures.
See the current workTools for discovery.
Numerical models and practical software for spectroscopy, data analysis, and experiments.
Browse the toolsSelected publication.
All publicationsUltrahigh-Purity Single-Photon Emission from 2D WSe2 via Effective Suppression of Classical Emission
Wenjing Wu, Alex Strasser, Zhongqi Xiu, et al.
Read the paperThe path so far.
Full CV2025 — Present
Brown University
Chemistry PhD program.
2024 — 2025
Rice University
Research at the SCOPE Lab with Prof. Shengxi Huang and Wenjing Wu, studying single-photon emission in two-dimensional materials.
2021 — 2025
University of Science and Technology of China
Bachelor’s degree in physics, focused on optics and optical engineering. Research in fiber cavity quantum electrodynamics at the CAS Key Laboratory of Quantum Information.
Bachelor’s thesis PDFBeyond the lab.
Music, travel, and a different way of looking.
A moment, kept.
Photography, journeys, and details worth pausing for.
Browse the galleryAnother kind of wavelength.
I was principal player of the wind section in the School Folk Orchestra from 2021 to 2023.
Listen to my playlistLet’s exchange ideas.
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