Selected Works

  1. Emergent Vortex Ordering in a Multiflavor Pyrochlore-Lattice Compound GeCo2O4.
    arXiv preprint arXiv:2605.12042 , (2026) [link]
    Jiajun Mo, Otkur Omar, Shuangkui Guang, Kazuki Iida, Kazuya Kamazawa, Fabio Orlandi, Wenyun Yang, Xiaobai Ma, Xiquan Zheng, Yingying Peng, Yuan Xiao, Shunhong Zhang, Oksana Zaharko, Xuefeng Sun, and Shang Gao.

  2. Skyrmion and Meron Crystals in Intermetallic Gd3Ru4Al12: Microscopic Model Insights into Chiral Phases.
    arXiv preprint arXiv:2512.24071 , (2025) [link]
    Jiajun Mo, Leandro M Chinellato, Fletcher Williams, Akiko Kikkawa, Joseph AM Paddison, Matthias D Frontzek, Gabriele Sala, Chris Pasco, Kipton Barros, Taro Nakajima, Taka-hisa Arima, Yasujiro Taguchi, Yoshinori Tokura, Matthew B Stone, Andrew D Christianson, Cristian D Batista, and Shang Gao.

  3. Dynamic spin-lattice coupling and statistical interpretation for the molecularlike excitations in frustrated pyrochlores.
    Phy. Rev. B 110, 214420 (2024) [link]
    Shang Gao.

  4. Line-Graph Approach to Spiral Spin Liquids.
    Phys. Rev. Lett. 129, 237202 (2022) [link]
    Shang Gao, Ganesh Pokharel, Andrew F May, Joseph AM Paddison, Chris Pasco, Yaohua Liu, Keith M Taddei, Stuart Calder, David G Mandrus, Matthew B Stone, and Andrew D Christianson.

  5. Spiral spin liquid on a honeycomb lattice.
    Phys. Rev. Lett. 128, 227201 (2022) [link]
    Shang Gao, Michael A McGuire, Yaohua Liu, Douglas L Abernathy, Clarina dela Cruz, Matthias Frontzek, Matthew B Stone, and Andrew D Christianson.

  6. Suppressed incommensurate order in swedenborgite Ca0.5Y0.5BaCo4O7.
    Phys. Rev. B 104, L140408 (2021) [link]
    Shang Gao, Vilmos Kocsis, Minoru Soda, Feng Ye, Yaohua Liu, Andrew F May, Yasujiro Taguchi, Yoshinori Tokura, Taka-hisa Arima, Werner Schweika, Andrew D Christianson, and Matthew B Stone.

  7. Fractional antiferromagnetic skyrmion lattice induced by anisotropic couplings.
    Nature 586, 37 (2020) [link]
    Shang Gao, H Diego Rosales, Flavia A Gómez Albarracín, Vladimir Tsurkan, Guratinder Kaur, Tom Fennell, Paul Steffens, Martin Boehm, Petr Čermák, Astrid Schneidewind, Ressouche Eric, Cabra Daniel C, Christian Rüegg, and Oksana Zaharko.

  8. Dipolar spin ice states with a fast monopole hopping rate in CdEr2X4 (X = Se, S).
    Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 137201 (2018) [link]
    Shang Gao, Oksana Zaharko, Vladimir Tsurkan, Lilian Prodan, Edward Riordan, Jorge Lago, Björn Fåk, Andrew Wildes, Marek M Koza, Clemens Ritter, Peter Fouquet, Lukas Keller, Emmanuel Canévet, Marisa Medarde, Jakob Blomgren, Christer Johansson, Sean R Giblin, Stanislav Vrtnik, Jože Luzar, Alois Loidl, Christian Rüegg, and Tom Fennell.

  9. Spiral spin-liquid and the emergence of a vortex-like state in MnSc2S4.
    Nat. Phys. 13, 157-161 (2017) [link]
    Shang Gao, Oksana Zaharko, Vladimir Tsurkan, Yixi Su, Jonathan S White, Gregory S Tucker, Bertrand Roessli, Frederic Bourdarot, Romain Sibille, Dmitry Chernyshov, Tom Fennell, Alois Loidl, and Christian Rüegg.



Full Publications

  1. Codimension-two spiral spin liquid in the effective honeycomb-lattice compound Cs3Fe2Cl9.
    Physical Review B 113, L140401 (2026).
    Shang Gao, Chris Pasco, Otkur Omar, Qiang Zhang, Daniel M Pajerowski, Feng Ye, Matthias Frontzek, Andrew F May, Matthew B Stone, and Andrew D Christianson.

  2. Emergent Vortex Ordering in a Multiflavor Pyrochlore-Lattice Compound GeCo2O4.
    arXiv preprint arXiv:2605.12042 , (2026).
    Jiajun Mo, Otkur Omar, Shuangkui Guang, Kazuki Iida, Kazuya Kamazawa, Fabio Orlandi, Wenyun Yang, Xiaobai Ma, Xiquan Zheng, Yingying Peng, Yuan Xiao, Shunhong Zhang, Oksana Zaharko, Xuefeng Sun, and Shang Gao.

  3. Field-induced evolution of the ferrimagnetic ground state and possible thermally induced spin chirality in Tb3Ru4Al12.
    Physical Review B 113, 134417 (2026).
    Kosuke Karube, Shang Gao, Nguyen Duy Khanh, Akiko Kikkawa, Hironori Nakao, Hajime Sagayama, Max Hirschberger, Taro Nakajima, Taka-hisa Arima, Masahito Mochizuki, Yoshinori Tokura, and Yasujiro Taguchi.

  4. Dipolar and quadrupolar correlations in the 5d2 Re-based double perovskites Ba2YReO6 and Ba2ScReO6.
    Physical Review B 112, 075103 (2025).
    Otkur Omar, Yang Zhang, Qiang Zhang, Wei Tian, Elbio Dagotto, Gang Chen, Taka-hisa Arima, Matthew B Stone, Andrew D Christianson, Daigorou Hirai, and Shang Gao.

  5. Spin correlations in the nematic quantum disordered state of FeSe.
    Nature Communications 16, 5212 (2025).
    Ruixian Liu, Matthew B Stone, Shang Gao, Mitsutaka Nakamura, Kazuya Kamazawa, Aleksandra Krajewska, Helen C Walker, Peng Cheng, Rong Yu, Qimiao Si, Pengcheng Dai, and Xingye Lu.

  6. Skyrmion and Meron Crystals in Intermetallic Gd3Ru4Al12: Microscopic Model Insights into Chiral Phases.
    arXiv preprint arXiv:2512.24071 , (2025).
    Jiajun Mo, Leandro M Chinellato, Fletcher Williams, Akiko Kikkawa, Joseph AM Paddison, Matthias D Frontzek, Gabriele Sala, Chris Pasco, Kipton Barros, Taro Nakajima, Taka-hisa Arima, Yasujiro Taguchi, Yoshinori Tokura, Matthew B Stone, Andrew D Christianson, Cristian D Batista, and Shang Gao.

  7. A metallic p-wave magnet with commensurate spin helix.
    Nature 646, 837-842 (2025).
    Rinsuke Yamada, Max T Birch, Priya R Baral, Shun Okumura, Ryota Nakano, Shang Gao, Motohiko Ezawa, Takuya Nomoto, Jan Masell, Yuki Ishihara, Kamil K Kolincio, Ilya Belopolski, Hajime Sagayama, Hironori Nakao, Kazuki Ohishi, Takashi Ohhara, Ryoji Kiyanagi, Taro Nakajima, Yoshinori Tokura, Taka-hisa Arima, Yukitoshi Motome, Moritz M Hirschmann, and Max Hirschberger.

  8. Nanometric modulations of the magnetic structure of the element Nd.
    Materials Today Quantum 4, 100016 (2024).
    H Suriya Arachchige, Lisa M DeBeer-Schmitt, Lazar L Kish, Binod K Rai, Andrew F May, David S Parker, Ganesh Pokharel, Wei Tian, Matthew B Stone, Matthias Frontzek, David G Mandrus, Markus Bleuel, Zahirul Islam, Gilberto Fabbris, Huibo Li, Shang Gao, Hu Miao, Samuel M Thomas, Priscila F S Rosa, Joe D Thompson, Shi-Zeng Lin, and Andrew D Christianson.

  9. Cubic double perovskites host noncoplanar spin textures.
    npj Quantum Materials 9, 48 (2024).
    Joseph AM Paddison, Hao Zhang, Jiaqiang Yan, Matthew J Cliffe, Michael A McGuire, Seung-Hwan Do, Shang Gao, Matthew B Stone, David Dahlbom, Kipton Barros, Cristian D Batista, and Andrew D Christianson.

  10. Spinon continuum in the Heisenberg quantum chain compound Sr2V3O9.
    Phys. Rev. B 109, L020402 (2024).
    Shang Gao, Ling-Fang Lin, Pontus Laurell, Qiang Chen, Qing Huang, Clarina dela Cruz, Krishnamurthy V Vemuru, Mark D Lumsden, Stephen E Nagler, Gonzalo Alvarez, Elbio Dagotto, Haidong Zhou, Andrew D Christianson, and Matthew B Stone.

  11. Non-coplanar helimagnetism in the layered van-der-Waals metal DyTe3.
    Nature Communications 15, 4291 (2024).
    Shun Akatsuka, Sebastian Esser, Shun Okumura, Ryota Yambe, Rinsuke Yamada, Moritz M Hirschmann, Seno Aji, Jonathan S White, Shang Gao, Yoshichika Onuki, Taka-hisa Arima, Taro Nakajima, and Max Hirschberger.

  12. Dynamic spin-lattice coupling and statistical interpretation for the molecularlike excitations in frustrated pyrochlores.
    Phy. Rev. B 110, 214420 (2024).
    Shang Gao.

  13. Experimental progress in Eu(Al,Ga)4 topological antiferromagnets.
    J. Phys.: Condensed Matt. 37, 013002 (2024).
    Tian Shang, Yang Xu, Shang Gao, Run Yang, Toni Shiroka, and Ming Shi.

  14. Phonon excitations in Eu2Ir2O7 probed by inelastic x-ray scattering.
    J. Phys.: Condensed Matt. 36, 425705 (2024).
    Han Wang, Ryoma Kaneko, Kentaro Ueda, Yang Zhang, Alfred QR Baron, Daisuke Ishikawa, Björn Wehinger, Elbio Dagotto, Yoshinori Tokura, Taka-hisa Arima, and Shang Gao.

  15. Simultaneous development of antiferromagnetism and local symmetry breaking in a kagome magnet (Co0.45Fe0.55)Sn.
    Journal of the American Chemical Society 146, 34374-34382 (2024).
    Tsung-Han Yang, Shang Gao, Yuanpeng Zhang, Daniel Olds, William R Meier, Matthew B Stone, Brian C Sales, Andrew D Christianson, and Qiang Zhang.

  16. Spin Dynamics and Phonons in Chromites CoCr2O4 and MnCr2O4.
    Chinese Physics Letters 41, 117503 (2024).
    Wei Xu, Gaoting Lin, Mingfang Shu, Jinlong Jiao, Jinfeng Zhu, Qingyong Ren, Manh Duc Le, Xuan Luo, Yuping Sun, Yi Liu, Zhe Qu, Haidong Zhou, Shang Gao, and Jie Ma.

  17. Line-Graph Approach to Spiral Spin Liquids.
    Phys. Rev. Lett. 129, 237202 (2022).
    Shang Gao, Ganesh Pokharel, Andrew F May, Joseph AM Paddison, Chris Pasco, Yaohua Liu, Keith M Taddei, Stuart Calder, David G Mandrus, Matthew B Stone, and Andrew D Christianson.

  18. Electronic structure, magnetic properties, and pairing tendencies of the copper-based honeycomb lattice Na2Cu2TeO6.
    Phys. Rev. B 105, 245113 (2022).
    Ling-Fang Lin, Rahul Soni, Yang Zhang, Shang Gao, Adriana Moreo, Gonzalo Alvarez, Andrew D Christianson, Matthew B Stone, and Elbio Dagotto.

  19. Spiral spin liquid on a honeycomb lattice.
    Phys. Rev. Lett. 128, 227201 (2022).
    Shang Gao, Michael A McGuire, Yaohua Liu, Douglas L Abernathy, Clarina dela Cruz, Matthias Frontzek, Matthew B Stone, and Andrew D Christianson.

  20. Magnetic properties of Fe-substituted NiBr2 single crystals.
    J. Magn. Magn. Mater. 557, 169452 (2022).
    Binod K Rai, Shang Gao, Matthias Frontzek, Yaohua Liu, Andrew D Christianson, and Andrew F May.

  21. Zoology of Multiple‐Q Spin Textures in a Centrosymmetric Tetragonal Magnet with Itinerant Electrons.
    Adv. Sci. 9, 2105452 (2022).
    Nguyen Duy Khanh, Taro Nakajima, Satoru Hayami, Shang Gao, Yuichi Yamasaki, Hajime Sagayama, Hironori Nakao, Rina Takagi, Yukitoshi Motome, Yoshinori Tokura, Taka-hisa Arima, and Shinichiro Seki.

  22. Spin dynamics in the skyrmion-host lacunar spinel GaV4S8.
    Phys. Rev. B 104, 224425 (2021).
    Ganesh Pokharel, H Suriya Arachchige, Shang Gao, Seung-Hwan Do, Randy S Fishman, Georg Ehlers, Yiming Qiu, Jose A Rodriguez-Rivera, Matthew B Stone, Hao Zhang, Stephen D Wilson, David G Mandrus, and Andrew D Christianson.

  23. Suppressed incommensurate order in swedenborgite Ca0.5Y0.5BaCo4O7.
    Phys. Rev. B 104, L140408 (2021).
    Shang Gao, Vilmos Kocsis, Minoru Soda, Feng Ye, Yaohua Liu, Andrew F May, Yasujiro Taguchi, Yoshinori Tokura, Taka-hisa Arima, Werner Schweika, Andrew D Christianson, and Matthew B Stone.

  24. Large Hall and Nernst responses from thermally induced spin chirality in a spin-trimer ferromagnet.
    Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. 118, 2023588118 (2021).
    Kamil K Kolincio, Max Hirschberger, Jan Masell, Shang Gao, Akiko Kikkawa, Yasujiro Taguchi, Taka-hisa Arima, Naoto Nagaosa, and Yoshinori Tokura.

  25. Hierarchical excitations from correlated spin tetrahedra on the breathing pyrochlore lattice.
    Phys. Rev. B 103, 214418 (2021).
    Shang Gao, Andrew F May, Mao-Hua Du, Joseph AM Paddison, Hasitha Suriya Arachchige, Ganesh Pokharel, Clarina dela Cruz, Qiang Zhang, Georg Ehlers, David S Parker, David G Mandrus, Matthew B Stone, and Andrew D Christianson.

  26. Tuning the flat bands of the kagome metal CoSn with Fe, In, or Ni doping.
    Phys. Rev. Mater. 5, 44202 (2021).
    BC Sales, WR Meier, AF May, J Xing, J-Q Yan, S Gao, YH Liu, MB Stone, AD Christianson, Q Zhang, and MA McGuire.

  27. A catastrophic charge density wave in BaFe2Al9.
    Chem. Mater. 33, 2855 (2021).
    William R Meier, Bryan C Chakoumakos, Satoshi Okamoto, Michael A McGuire, Raphaël P Hermann, German D Samolyuk, Shang Gao, Qiang Zhang, Matthew B Stone, Andrew D Christianson, and Brian C Sales.

  28. Weakly coupled alternating S = 1/2 chains in the distorted honeycomb lattice compound Na2Cu2TeO6.
    Phys. Rev. B 102, 220402(R) (2020).
    Shang Gao, Ling-Fang Lin, Andrew F May, Binod K Rai, Qiang Zhang, Elbio Dagotto, Andrew D Christianson, and Matthew B Stone.

  29. Fractional antiferromagnetic skyrmion lattice induced by anisotropic couplings.
    Nature 586, 37 (2020).
    Shang Gao, H Diego Rosales, Flavia A Gómez Albarracín, Vladimir Tsurkan, Guratinder Kaur, Tom Fennell, Paul Steffens, Martin Boehm, Petr Čermák, Astrid Schneidewind, Ressouche Eric, Cabra Daniel C, Christian Rüegg, and Oksana Zaharko.

  30. Topological Nernst effect of the two-dimensional skyrmion lattice.
    Phys. Rev. Lett. 125, 76602 (2020).
    Max Hirschberger, Leonie Spitz, Takuya Nomoto, Takashi Kurumaji, Shang Gao, Jan Masell, Taro Nakajima, Akiko Kikkawa, Yuichi Yamasaki, Hajime Sagayama, Hironori Nakao, Yasujiro Taguchi, Ryotaro Arita, Taka-hisa Arima, and Yoshinori Tokura.

  31. Crystal electric field excitations in the quantum spin liquid candidate NaErS2.
    Phys. Rev. B 102, 24424 (2020).
    Shang Gao, Fan Xiao, Kazuya Kamazawa, Kazuhiko Ikeuchi, Daniel Biner, Karl W Krämer, Christian Rüegg, and Taka-hisa Arima.

  32. Antiferromagnetic long-range order in the 5d1 double-perovskite Sr2MgReO6.
    Phys. Rev. B 101, 220412(R) (2020).
    Shang Gao, Daigorou Hirai, Hajime Sagayama, Hiroyuki Ohsumi, Zenji Hiroi, and Taka-hisa Arima.

  33. Detection of multipolar orders in the spin-orbit-coupled 5d Mott insulator Ba2MgReO6.
    Phys. Rev. Research 2, 022063(R) (2020).
    Daigorou Hirai, Hajime Sagayama, Shang Gao, Hiroyuki Ohsumi, Gang Chen, Taka-hisa Arima, and Zenji Hiroi.

  34. High-field depinned phase and planar Hall effect in the skyrmion host Gd2PdSi3.
    Phys. Rev. B 101, 220401(R) (2020).
    Max Hirschberger, Taro Nakajima, Markus Kriener, Takashi Kurumaji, Leonie Spitz, Shang Gao, Akiko Kikkawa, Yuichi Yamasaki, Hajime Sagayama, Hironori Nakao, Seiko Ohira-Kawamura, Yasujiro Taguchi, Taka-hisa Arima, and Yoshinori Tokura.

  35. Nanometric square skyrmion lattice in a centrosymmetric tetragonal magnet.
    Nat. Nanotech. 15, 444-449 (2020).
    Nguyen Duy Khanh, Taro Nakajima, Xiuzhen Yu, Shang Gao, Kiyou Shibata, Max Hirschberger, Yuichi Yamasaki, Hajime Sagayama, Hironori Nakao, Licong Peng, Kiyomi Nakajima, Rina Takagi, Taka-hisa Arima, Yoshinori Tokura, and Shinichiro Seki.

  36. Ordering phenomena of spin trimers accompanied by large geometrical Hall effect.
    Phys. Rev. B 100, 241115(R) (2019).
    Shang Gao, Max Hirschberger, Oksana Zaharko, Taro Nakajima, Takashi Kurumaji, Akiko Kikkawa, Junichi Shiogai, Atsushi Tsukazaki, Shojiro Kimura, Satoshi Awaji, Yasujiro Taguchi, Taka-hisa Arima, and Yoshinori Tokura.

  37. Skyrmion phase and competing magnetic orders on a breathing kagome lattice.
    Nat. Commun. 10, 5831 (2019).
    Max Hirschberger, Taro Nakajima, Shang Gao, Licong Peng, Akiko Kikkawa, Takashi Kurumaji, Markus Kriener, Yuichi Yamasaki, Hajime Sagayama, Hironori Nakao, Kazuki Ohishi, Kazuhisa Kakurai, Yasujiro Taguchi, Xiuzhen Yu, Taka-hisa Arima, and Yoshinori Tokura.

  38. Manifolds of magnetic ordered states and excitations in the almost Heisenberg pyrochlore antiferromagnet MgCr2O4.
    Phys. Rev. B 97, 134430 (2018).
    Shang Gao, Kaur Guratinder, Vladimir Tsurkan, Alois Loidl, M Ciomaga Hatnean, Geetha Balakrishnan, Stéphane Raymond, Laurent Chapon, Vasile Ovidiu Garlea, Andrei T Savici, Uwe Stuhr, Jonathan S White, Martin Mansson, Bertrand Roessli, Antonio Cervellino, Alessandro Bombardi, Chernyshov Dmitry, Tom Fennell, Christian Rüegg, Jason T Haraldsen, and Oksana Zaharko.

  39. Dipolar spin ice states with a fast monopole hopping rate in CdEr2X4 (X = Se, S).
    Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 137201 (2018).
    Shang Gao, Oksana Zaharko, Vladimir Tsurkan, Lilian Prodan, Edward Riordan, Jorge Lago, Björn Fåk, Andrew Wildes, Marek M Koza, Clemens Ritter, Peter Fouquet, Lukas Keller, Emmanuel Canévet, Marisa Medarde, Jakob Blomgren, Christer Johansson, Sean R Giblin, Stanislav Vrtnik, Jože Luzar, Alois Loidl, Christian Rüegg, and Tom Fennell.

  40. Spiral spin-liquid and the emergence of a vortex-like state in MnSc2S4.
    Nat. Phys. 13, 157-161 (2017).
    Shang Gao, Oksana Zaharko, Vladimir Tsurkan, Yixi Su, Jonathan S White, Gregory S Tucker, Bertrand Roessli, Frederic Bourdarot, Romain Sibille, Dmitry Chernyshov, Tom Fennell, Alois Loidl, and Christian Rüegg.

  41. Room temperature exchange bias in SmFeO3 single crystal.
    J. Magn. Magn. Mater. 399, 170-174 (2016).
    Xiaoxiong Wang, Xiangyi Cheng, Shang Gao, Junda Song, Keqing Ruan, and Xiaoguang Li.

  42. Magnetic and dielectric properties of quasi-two-dimensional manganese oxide Sr7Mn4O15.
    J. Magn. Magn. Mater. 328, 66-71 (2013).
    Shang Gao, YanDi Lv, XiaoXiong Wang, Hongshun Yang, Keqing Ruan, and Xiaoguang Li.