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Xiaodong Xu Boeing Professor of Physics

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[email protected] 206-543-8444 B437, B009 Personal Website Condensed Matter Courses Taught

Autumn 2025

• PHYS 331 A: Advanced Laboratory: Optics
• PHYS 580 A: Physics Colloquium

Spring 2025

• PHYS 117 A: General Physics Laboratory: Mechanics
• PHYS 117 B: General Physics Laboratory: Mechanics
• PHYS 117 C: General Physics Laboratory: Mechanics
• PHYS 117 D: General Physics Laboratory: Mechanics
• PHYS 117 E: General Physics Laboratory: Mechanics
• PHYS 117 F: General Physics Laboratory: Mechanics
• PHYS 117 G: General Physics Laboratory: Mechanics
• PHYS 117 H: General Physics Laboratory: Mechanics
• PHYS 118 A: General Physics Laboratory: Heat and Electromagnetism
• PHYS 118 B: General Physics Laboratory: Heat and Electromagnetism
• PHYS 118 C: General Physics Laboratory: Heat and Electromagnetism
• PHYS 118 D: General Physics Laboratory: Heat and Electromagnetism
• PHYS 118 E: General Physics Laboratory: Heat and Electromagnetism
• PHYS 118 F: General Physics Laboratory: Heat and Electromagnetism
• PHYS 118 G: General Physics Laboratory: Heat and Electromagnetism
• PHYS 118 H: General Physics Laboratory: Heat and Electromagnetism
• PHYS 118 I: General Physics Laboratory: Heat and Electromagnetism
• PHYS 118 J: General Physics Laboratory: Heat and Electromagnetism
• PHYS 119 A: General Physics Laboratory: Sound, Light, and Modern Physics
• PHYS 119 B: General Physics Laboratory: Sound, Light, and Modern Physics
• PHYS 119 C: General Physics Laboratory: Sound, Light, and Modern Physics
• PHYS 119 D: General Physics Laboratory: Sound, Light, and Modern Physics
• PHYS 119 E: General Physics Laboratory: Sound, Light, and Modern Physics
• PHYS 119 F: General Physics Laboratory: Sound, Light, and Modern Physics
• PHYS 119 G: General Physics Laboratory: Sound, Light, and Modern Physics
• PHYS 119 H: General Physics Laboratory: Sound, Light, and Modern Physics
• PHYS 119 I: General Physics Laboratory: Sound, Light, and Modern Physics
• PHYS 119 J: General Physics Laboratory: Sound, Light, and Modern Physics
• PHYS 119 K: General Physics Laboratory: Sound, Light, and Modern Physics
• PHYS 119 L: General Physics Laboratory: Sound, Light, and Modern Physics
• PHYS 119 M: General Physics Laboratory: Sound, Light, and Modern Physics
• PHYS 119 N: General Physics Laboratory: Sound, Light, and Modern Physics
• PHYS 119 O: General Physics Laboratory: Sound, Light, and Modern Physics
• PHYS 119 P: General Physics Laboratory: Sound, Light, and Modern Physics
• PHYS 580 A: Physics Colloquium

Winter 2025

• PHYS 580 A: Physics Colloquium

Autumn 2024

• PHYS 580 A: Physics Colloquium

Spring 2024

• PHYS 432 A: Advanced Laboratory: Atomic Physics
• PHYS 432 B: Advanced Laboratory: Atomic Physics

Autumn 2023

• PHYS 117 A: General Physics Laboratory: Mechanics
• PHYS 117 B: General Physics Laboratory: Mechanics
• PHYS 117 C: General Physics Laboratory: Mechanics
• PHYS 117 D: General Physics Laboratory: Mechanics
• PHYS 117 E: General Physics Laboratory: Mechanics
• PHYS 117 F: General Physics Laboratory: Mechanics
• PHYS 117 G: General Physics Laboratory: Mechanics
• PHYS 117 H: General Physics Laboratory: Mechanics
• PHYS 117 I: General Physics Laboratory: Mechanics
• PHYS 117 J: General Physics Laboratory: Mechanics
• PHYS 117 K: General Physics Laboratory: Mechanics
• PHYS 117 L: General Physics Laboratory: Mechanics
• PHYS 117 M: General Physics Laboratory: Mechanics
• PHYS 117 N: General Physics Laboratory: Mechanics
• PHYS 117 O: General Physics Laboratory: Mechanics
• PHYS 117 P: General Physics Laboratory: Mechanics
• PHYS 117 Q: General Physics Laboratory: Mechanics
• PHYS 117 R: General Physics Laboratory: Mechanics
• PHYS 118 A: General Physics Laboratory: Heat and Electromagnetism
• PHYS 118 B: General Physics Laboratory: Heat and Electromagnetism
• PHYS 118 C: General Physics Laboratory: Heat and Electromagnetism
• PHYS 118 D: General Physics Laboratory: Heat and Electromagnetism
• PHYS 118 E: General Physics Laboratory: Heat and Electromagnetism
• PHYS 118 F: General Physics Laboratory: Heat and Electromagnetism
• PHYS 118 G: General Physics Laboratory: Heat and Electromagnetism
• PHYS 118 H: General Physics Laboratory: Heat and Electromagnetism
• PHYS 119 A: General Physics Laboratory: Sound, Light, and Modern Physics
• PHYS 119 B: General Physics Laboratory: Sound, Light, and Modern Physics
• PHYS 119 C: General Physics Laboratory: Sound, Light, and Modern Physics
• PHYS 119 D: General Physics Laboratory: Sound, Light, and Modern Physics
• PHYS 119 E: General Physics Laboratory: Sound, Light, and Modern Physics
• PHYS 119 F: General Physics Laboratory: Sound, Light, and Modern Physics

Spring 2023

• PHYS 432 A: Advanced Laboratory: Atomic Physics
• PHYS 432 B: Advanced Laboratory: Atomic Physics

Autumn 2022

• PHYS 576 B: Selected Topics in Experimental Physics

Affiliations Home Department Physics News & Events

• Xiaodong Xu awarded the National Academy of Sciences Award for Scientific Discovery (February 10, 2025)
• Physicists Puzzle Over Emergence of Strange Electron Aggregates (May 31, 2024)
• John Cenker wins 2023 CEI Student Award (September 5, 2023)
• Researchers make a quantum computing leap with a magnetic twist (June 28, 2023)
• Lasers trigger magnetism in atomically thin quantum materials (April 20, 2022)
• Six CEI researchers among world’s most influential scholars (January 4, 2021)
• Atomically thin magnetic device could lead to new memory technologies (May 3, 2018)
• Professors Majumdar and Xu Discover an Important First Step Towards Building Electrically Pumped Nano-Lasers (January 26, 2017)
• A nanolaser using a single atomic sheet (March 26, 2015)
• Xiaodong Xu garners Department of Energy early-career grant (June 25, 2012)

• Thouless Institute for Quantum Matter: The Quantum Twisting Microscope: Image quantum matter in momentum space - December 8 2025, 11am
• Thouless Institute for Quantum Matter: Ultrafast Control of Hidden Magnetic Phases by Shaping Fluctuations - December 4 2025, 12:30pm
• Thouless Institute for Quantum Matter: Electron fractionalization without magnetic fields: characterizing composite fermions in twisted bilayer MoTe2 - November 20 2025, 12:30pm
• Thouless Institute for Quantum Matter: Hyperdeterminant wavefunctions - November 13 2025, 12:30pm
• Thouless Institute for Quantum Matter: Excitons in the Fractional Quantum Hall Effect - January 14 2025, 12:30pm
• Thouless Institute for Quantum Matter: Composite fermions and the fractional quantum anomalous Hall effect - May 23 2024, 12:30pm
• Thouless Institute for Quantum Matter: Emergent photons and fractionalized excitations in a quantum spin liquid - April 25 2024, 12:30pm
• Thouless Institute for Quantum Matter: Unconventional Superconducting Quantum Criticality in Monolayer WTe2 - April 4 2024, 12:30pm
• Thouless Institute for Quantum Matter: Quantum Geometry and Orbital Frustration in Twisted Bilayer Graphene - March 11 2024, 12pm
• Thouless Institute for Quantum Matter: Revealing correlation and topology in Kagome lattices using STM - February 1 2024, 12:30pm
• Thouless Institute for Quantum Matter: Quantum anomalous Hall effect in intrinsic magnetic topological insulator MnBi2Te4 - December 7 2023, 12:30pm
• Thouless Institute for Quantum Matter: Fractional Chern Insulators vs. Non-Magnetic States in Twisted Bilayer MoTe2 - November 2 2023, 12:30pm
• Thouless Institute for Quantum Matter: Electron correlation and topology in rhombohedral multilayer graphene - May 25 2023, 12:30pm
• Thouless Institute for Quantum Matter: Probing interfacial polarization in rhombohedral-stacked transition metal dichalcogenides - May 4 2023, 12:30pm
• ABC Physics (Atomic/Bio/Condensed Matter): Probing Nontrivial Topology in Van der Waals Crystals - February 20 2020, 12:30pm
• Physics Department: TIQM Inaugural Workshop - January 19 2020, 9am

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