Personal Biography

Dr. Jilei Chen is currently an associate researcher (PI) and the leader of the magnonics group at the Shenzhen International Quantum Academy. He received his bachelor’s (2015) and PhD (2021) degrees from Beihang University, China, and was a visiting scholar at École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, Switzerland. Dr. Chen has published more than 30 peer-reviewed papers as the first or corresponding author in high-impact journals, such as one in Nat. Nanotechnol., one in Nat. Mater., three in Nat. Commun., six in PRL/PRX, two in ACS Nano, two in Appl. Phys. Rev. and one in Nano Lett. He has been nominated as an Emerging Leader 2024 in applied physics by Journal of Physics D: Applied Physics, IOP and serves as a guest editor of Journal of Physics: Condensed Matter.

Education Background

2016.09-2020.12 Beihang University Physical electronics PhD

2018.11-2019.11 EPFL Material science and engineering visiting scholar

2015.09-2016.07 Beihang University Microelectronics Master

2011.09-2015.07 Beihang University Ecole central de Pékin Bachelor

Working Experience

2025.01- present Shenzhen International Quantum Academy associate researcher

2023.06- 2025.01 Institute for Quantum Science and Engineering, Southern University of Science and Technology associate researcher

2021.02- 2023.06 Institute for Quantum Science and Engineering, Southern University of Science and Technology assistant researcher

Papers and Patents

1. J. Chen^*, Z. Jin, R. Yuan, H. Wang, H. Jia, et al. Observation of Coherent Gapless Magnons in an Antiferromagnet. Physical Review Letters, 134, 056701 (2025).

2. J. Chen^*, K. Yamamoto, C. Kang, R. Yuan, K. Yu, et al. Surface magnon propagation in a van der Waals antiferromagnet. Physical Review Letters, in press (2026).

3. J. Chen, M. Xu, J. Wang, K. Wagner, L. Sheng, et al. Deterministic switching of antiferromagnetic spin textures by nonlinear magnons. Nature Communications, 16, 5794 (2025)

4. Y. Zhang, L. Qiu, J. Chen (co-first author), S. Wu, et al. Switchable long-distance propagation of chiral magnonic edge states. Nature Materials, 24, 69-75 (2025).

5. J. Chen^*, R. Yuan, K. Yu, X. Wang, et al. Coherent magnon transport in a van der Waals antiferromagnet. Applied Physics Reviews, 12, 011407 (2025).

6. J. Chen, C. Liu, T. Liu, Y. Xiao, K. Xia, et al. Strong interlayer magnon-magnon coupling in magnetic metal-insulator hybrid Nanostructures. Physical Review Letters, 120, 207206 (2018).

7. C. Liu, S. Wu, J. Zhang, J. Chen (co-first author), J. Ding, et al. Current-controlled propagation of spin waves in antiparallel, coupled domains. Nature Nanotechnology, 14, 691–697 (2019). (Cover article)

8. H. Wang, J. Chen (co-first author), T. Liu, J. Zhang, K. Baumgaertl, et al. Chiral Spin-Wave Velocities Induced by All-Garnet Interfacial Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya Interaction in Ultrathin Yttrium Iron Garnet Films. Physical Review Letters, 124, 027203 (2020).

9. Y. Zhang, J. Chen^*, J. Zhang^*, H. Yu^*. Oxide magnonics: Spin waves in functional magnetic oxides. Applied Physics Reviews, 9, 041312 (2022).

10. J. Chen, H. Wang, T. Hula, C. Liu, S. Liu, et al. Reconfigurable spin-wave interferometer at the nanoscale. Nano Letters, 21, 6237 (2021).

11. J. Chen, J. Hu and H. Yu^*. Chiral Emission of Exchange Spin Waves by Magnetic Skyrmions. ACS Nano, 15, 4372 (2021).