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Swee Kuan GOH ORCID iD icon

Education

PhD, University of Cambridge, United Kingdom (2009)
BSc (Hons), Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand (2004)

Positions

2019-Now Associate Professor
Department of Physics, The Chinese University of Hong Kong

2013-2019 Assistant Professor
Department of Physics, The Chinese University of Hong Kong

2018 (May - June) Distinguished Visiting Senior Lecturer
Graduate School of Science, Kyoto University, Japan
Host: Prof. Kazuyoshi Yoshimura, Kinso Laboratory

2011-2012 Visiting Foreign Researcher
Division of Physics and Astronomy, Kyoto University, Japan

2009-2011, 2012-2013 Trinity College Research Fellow
Cavendish Laboratory, University of Cambridge, U.K.

Fellowships

Trinity College Junior Research Fellowship (2008)
Japan Society for the Promotion of Science Fellowship (2011)

Awards and Honours

Faculty Exemplary Teaching Award (2019)
Departmental Teaching Award (2017)

Publications

Linear magnetoresistance with a universal energy scale in a strong-coupling superconductor
W. Zhang, Y. J. Hu, C. N. Kuo, S. T. Kuo, Yue-Wen Fang, Kwing To Lai, X. Y. Liu, K. Y. Yip, D. Sun, F. F. Balakirev, C. S. Lue, Hanghui Chen, Swee K. Goh
arXiv:2010.03319

Stabilization of antiferromagnetism in 1T-Fe0.05TaS2
Q. Niu, W. Zhang, Y. T. Chan, E. C. T. O'Farrell, R. Doganov, K. Y. Yip, Kwing To Lai, W. C. Yu, B. Özyilmaz, G. R. Stewart, J. S. Kim, and Swee K. Goh
Phys. Rev. Research 2, 023297 [arXiv:2006.05283]

Detection of hole pockets in the candidate type-II Weyl semimetal MoTe2 from Shubnikov-de Haas quantum oscillations
Y. J. Hu, W. C. Yu, Kwing To Lai, D. Sun, F. F. Balakirev, W. Zhang, J. Y. Xie, K. Y. Yip, E. I. Paredes Aulestia, Rajveer Jha, Ryuji Higashinaka, Tatsuma D. Matsuda, Y. Yanase, Yuji Aoki, and Swee K. Goh
Phys. Rev. Lett. 124, 076402 (2020) [arXiv:1908.07241]

Probing Local Pressure Environment in Anvil Cells with Nitrogen-Vacancy (N-V-) Centers in Diamond
Kin On Ho, Man Yin Leung, Yaxin Jiang, Kin Pong Ao, Wei Zhang, King Yau Yip, Yiu Yung Pang, King Cho Wong, Swee K. Goh, and Sen Yang
Phys. Rev. Applied 13, 024041 (2020) [arXiv:2002.00549]

Spectroscopic fingerprint of chiral Majorana modes at the edge of a quantum anomalous Hall insulator/superconductor heterostructure
Junying Shen, Jian Lyu, Jason Z. Gao, Ying-Ming Xie, Chui-Zhen Chen, Chang-woo Cho, Omargeldi Atanov, Zhijie Chen, Kai Liu, Yajian J. Hu, King Yau Yip, Swee K. Goh, Qing Lin He, Lei Pan, Kang L. Wang, Kam Tuen Law, and Rolf Lortz
Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 117, 238 (2020) [arXiv:1809.04752]

Measuring magnetic field texture in correlated electron systems under extreme conditions
King Yau Yip, Kin On Ho, King Yiu Yu, Yang Chen, Wei Zhang, S. Kasahara, Y. Mizukami, T. Shibauchi, Y. Matsuda, Swee K. Goh, Sen Yang
Science 366, 1355 (2019) [arXiv:1812.10116]
  • Press coverage at CUHK's CPR office, Physics World and HK China News Agency (in Chinese).

    • Angular dependence of the upper critical field in the high-pressure 1T' phase of MoTe2
    Y. J. Hu, Yuk Tai Chan, Kwing To Lai, Kin On Ho, Xiaoyu Guo, Hai-Peng Sun, K. Y. Yip, Dickon H. L. Ng, Hai Zhou Lu, and Swee K. Goh
     Phys. Rev. Materials 3, 034201 (2019) [arXiv:1903.05388]

    Nonsaturating large magnetoresistance in high carrier density nonsymmorphic metal CrP
    Q. Niu, W. C. Yu, E. I. Paredes Aulestia, Y. J. Hu, Kwing To Lai, H. Kotegawa, E. Matsuoka, H. Sugawara, H. Tou, D. Sun, F. F. Balakirev, Y. Yanase, and Swee K. Goh
    Phys. Rev. B 99, 125126 (2019) [arXiv:1903.05914]

    Evidence of a structural quantum critical point in (CaxSr1-x)3Rh4Sn13 from a lattice dynamics study
    Y. W. Cheung, Y. J. Hu, M. Imai, Y. Tanioku, H. Kanagawa, J. Murakawa, K. Moriyama, W. Zhang, K. T. Lai, K. Yoshimura, F. M. Grosche, K. Kaneko, S. Tsutsui, and Swee K. Goh
    Phys. Rev. B 98, 161103 (R) (2018) [arXiv:1810.02248]

    Extremely large magnetoresistance and the complete determination of the Fermi surface topology in the semimetal ScSb
    Y. J. Hu, E. I. Paredes Aulestia, K. F. Tse, C. N. Kuo, J. Y. Zhu, C. S. Lue, K. T. Lai, Swee K. Goh
    Phys. Rev. B 98, 035133 (2018) [arXiv:1806.08139]

    Pressure-induced enhancement of non-polar to polar transition temperature in metallic LiOsO3
    Esteban I. Paredes Aulestia, Yiu Wing Cheung, Yue-Wen Fang, Jianfeng He, Kazunari Yamaura, Kwing To Lai, Swee K. Goh, and Hanghui Chen
    Appl. Phys. Lett. 113, 012902 (2018) [arXiv:1806.00639v2]

    Anisotropic two-gap superconductivity and the absence of a Pauli paramagnetic limit in single-crystalline LaO0.5F0.5BiS2
    Y. C. Chan, K. Y. Yip, Y. W. Cheung, Y. T. Chan, Q. Niu, J. Kajitani, R. Higashinaka, T. D. Matsuda, Y. Yanase, Y. Aoki, K. T. Lai, Swee K. Goh
    Phys. Rev. B 97, 104509 (2018) [arXiv:1710.10841]

    Nearly isotropic superconductivity in layered Weyl semimetal WTe2 at 98.5 kbar
    Yuk Tai Chan, P. L. Alireza, K. Y. Yip, Q. Niu, K. T. Lai, Swee K. Goh
    Phys. Rev. B 96, 180504(R) (2017) [arXiv:1711.00666]

    Maximizing Tc by tuning nematicity and magnetism in FeSe1-xSx superconductors
    K. Matsuura, Y. Mizukami, Y. Arai, Y. Sugimura, N. Maejima, A. Machida, T. Watanuki, T. Fukuda, T. Yajima, Z. Hiroi, K. Y. Yip, Y. C. Chan, Q. Niu, S. Hosoi, K. Ishida, K. Mukasa, T. Watashige, S. Kasahara, J.-G. Cheng, S. K. Goh, Y. Matsuda, Y. Uwatoko, and T. Shibauchi
    Nat. Commun. 8, 1143 (2017)

    Weakening of the diamagnetic shielding in FeSe1-xSx at high pressures
    K. Y. Yip, Y. C. Chan, Q. Niu, K. Matsuura, Y. Mizukami, S. Kasahara, Y. Matsuda, T. Shibauchi, and Swee K. Goh
    Phys. Rev. B 96, 020502(R) (2017) [arXiv:1705.07639]

    Quasilinear quantum magnetoresistance in pressure-induced nonsymmorphic superconductor chromium arsenide
    Q. Niu, W. C. Yu, K. Y. Yip, Z. L. Lim, H. Kotegawa, E. Matsuoka, H. Sugawara, H. Tou, Y. Yanase, Swee K. Goh
    Nat. Commun. 8, 15358 (2017)
  • Press coverage at EurekAlert! and Phys.org.
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    Soft phonon modes in the vicinity of the structural quantum critical point
    Y. J. Hu, Y. W. Cheung, W. C. Yu, Masaki Imai, Hibiki Kanagawa, Joichi Murakawa, Kazuyoshi Yoshimura, and Swee K. Goh
    Phys. Rev. B 95, 155142 (2017)

    Second-order Structural Transition in (Ca0.5Sr0.5)3Rh4Sn13
    Y.W. Cheung, Y.J. Hu, S.K. Goh, K. Kaneko, S. Tsutsui, P.W. Logg, F.M. Grosche, H. Kanagawa, Y. Tanioku, M. Imai, T. Matsumoto, K. Yoshimura
    J. Phys.: Conf. Ser. 807, 032002 (2017)

    Second-order Structural Transition in the Superconductor La3Co4Sn13
    Y. W. Cheung, J. Z. Zhang, J. Y. Zhu, W. C. Yu, Y. J. Hu, D. G. Wang, Yuka Otomo, Kazuaki Iwasa, Koji Kaneko, Masaki Imai, Hibiki Kanagawa, Kazuyoshi Yoshimura, and Swee K. Goh
    Phys. Rev. B 93, 241112(R) (2016)

    From Kondo Lattices to Kondo Superlattices
    Masaaki Shimozawa, Swee K. Goh, T. Shibauchi, Y. Matsuda
    Rep. Prog. Phys. 79, 074503 (2016) [arXiv:1601.07003]
  • Invited review
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    Experimental Determination of the Fermi Surface of Sr3Ir4Sn13
    Xiaoye Chen, Swee K. Goh, David A. Tompsett, Wing Chi Yu, Lina Klintberg, Sven Friedemann, HongEn Tan, Jinhu Yang, Bin Chen, M. Imai, Kazuyoshi Yoshimura, Monika B. Gamza, F. Malte Grosche, Michael L. Sutherland
    Phys. Rev. B 93, 235121 (2016)

    Robust two-dimensional superconductivity and vortex system in Bi2Te3/FeTe heterostructures
    Hong-Chao Liu, Hui Li, Qing Lin He, Iam Keong Sou, Swee K. Goh, and Jiannong Wang
    Sci. Rep. 6, 26168 (2016)

    Strong Coupling Superconductivity in the Vicinity of the Structural Quantum Critical Point in (CaxSr1-x)3Rh4Sn13
    W. C. Yu, Y. W. Cheung, P. J. Saines, M. Imai, T. Matsumoto, C. Michioka, K. Yoshimura, and S. K. Goh
    Phys. Rev. Lett. 115, 207003 (2015)

    Ambient Pressure Structural Quantum Critical Point in the Phase Diagram of (CaxSr1-x)3Rh4Sn13
    S. K. Goh, D. A. Tompsett, P. J. Saines, H. C. Chang, T. Matsumoto, M. Imai, K. Yoshimura, and F. M. Grosche
    Phys. Rev. Lett. 114, 097002 (2015)

    Higher-Tc Superconducting Phase in Sr2RuO4 Induced by In-Plane Uniaxial Pressure
    Haruka Taniguchi, Keigo Nishimura, Swee K. Goh, Shingo Yonezawa, Yoshiteru Maeno
    J. Phys. Soc. Jpn. 84, 014707 (2015)

    Anomalous pressure dependence of the superconducting transition temperature in TlNi2Se2-xSx
    S. K. Goh, H. C. Chang, P. Reiss, P. L. Alireza, Y. W. Cheung, S. Y. Lau, Hangdong Wang, Qianhui Mao, Jinhu Yang, Minghu Fang, F. M. Grosche, and M. L. Sutherland
    Phys. Rev. B 90, 201105(R) (2014)

    Controllable Rashba spin-orbit interaction in artificially engineered superlattices involving the heavy-Fermion superconductor CeCoIn5
    M. Shimozawa, S.K. Goh, R. Endo, R. Kobayashi, T. Watashige, Y. Mizukami, H. Ikeda, H. Shishido, Y. Yanase, T. Terashima, T. Shibauchi, and Y. Matsuda,
    Phys. Rev. Lett. 112, 156404 (2014)

    Segregation of antiferromagnetism and high-temperature superconductivity in Ca1-xLaxFe2As2
    Shanta R. Saha, T. Drye, S. K. Goh, L. E. Klintberg, J. M. Silver, F. M. Grosche, M. Sutherland, T. J. S. Munsie, G. M. Luke, D. K. Pratt, J. W. Lynn, and J. Paglione
    Phys. Rev. B 89, 134516 (2014)

    Nuclear Magnetic Resonance up to 10.1 Gigapascal Pressure Detects an Electronic Topological Transition in Aluminum Metal
    Thomas Meissner, Swee K. Goh, Juergen Haase, Manuel Richter, Klaus Koepernik and Helmut Eschrig
    J. Phys.: Condens. Matter 26, 015501 (2014)

    Anisotropic uniaxial pressure response of the Mott insulator Ca2RuO4
    Haruka Taniguchi, Keigo Nishimura, Ryo Ishikawa, Shingo Yonezawa, Swee K. Goh, Fumihiko Nakamura, and Yoshiteru Maeno,
    Phys. Rev. B 88, 205111 (2013)

    Electronic structure of LuRh2Si2: 'small' Fermi surface reference to YbRh2Si2
    Sven Friedemann, Swee K Goh, Patrick M C Rourke, Pascal Reiss, Michael L Sutherland, F Malte Grosche, Gertrud Zwicknagl and Zachary Fisk,
    New J. Phys. 15, 093014 (2013)

    Pressure and field tuning in the Kondo lattice ferromagnet CeAgSb2
    P. Logg, Z. Feng, T. Ebihara, Y. Zou, S. Friedemann, P. Alireza, S. Goh, and F. M. Grosche
    Phys. Status Solidi B 250, 515 (2013)

    Pressure- and Composition-induced Structural Quantum Phase Transition in the Cubic Superconductor (Sr,Ca)3Ir4Sn13
    Lina E. Klintberg, Swee K. Goh, Patricia L. Alireza, Paul J. Saines, David A. Tompsett, Peter W. Logg, Jinhu Yang, Bin Chen, Kazuyoshi Yoshimura, F. Malte Grosche
    Phys. Rev. Lett. 109, 237008 (2012) [arXiv:1202.3282 (2012)]

    Anomalous Upper Critical Field in CeCoIn5/YbCoIn5 Superlattices with a Rashba-type Heavy Fermion Interface
    S. K. Goh, Y. Mizukami, H. Shishido, D. Watanabe, S. Yasumoto, M. Shimozawa, M. Yamashita, T. Terashima, Y. Yanase, T. Shibauchi, A. I. Buzdin, Y. Matsuda
    Phys. Rev. Lett. 109, 157006 (2012) [arXiv:1207.4889 (2012)]

    Strong Suppression of Superconductivity by Divalent Ytterbium Kondo-holes in CeCoIn5
    M. Shimozawa, T. Watashige, S. Yasumoto, Y. Mizukami, M. Nakamura, H. Shishido, S. K. Goh, T. Terashima, T. Shibauchi and Y. Matsuda
    Phys. Rev. B 86, 144526 (2012) [arXiv:1208.0672 (2012)]

    Quantum Oscillations in the High Pressure Matallic State of Ca2RuO4
    Swee K. Goh, P. L. Alireza, Lina E. Klintberg, T. Murphy, F. Nakamura, D. J. Singh and Mike Sutherland
    arXiv:1205.3045 (2012)

    Control of the electronic states of Ca2RuO4 by uniaxial pressure
    R. Ishikawa, H. Taniguchi, S. K. Goh, S. Yonezawa, F. Nakamura, Y. Maeno
    J. Phys.: Conf. Ser. 400, 022036 (2012).

    Shubnikov-de Haas Measurements on LuRh2Si2
    S. Friedemann, S. K. Goh, F. M. Grosche, Z. Fisk, M. Sutherland
    J. Phys.: Conf. Ser. 391, 012011 (2012).

    Pressure and field tuning in the heavy fermion ferromagnet CeAgSb2
    P. Logg, Z. Feng, T. Ebihara, S. K. Goh, P. Alireza, and F. M. Grosche
    J. Phys.: Conf. Ser. 391, 012035 (2012).

    Two-component Behavior of Cuprate Superconductors from NMR Shifts
    Damian Rybicki, Martin Greven, Jürgen Haase, Thomas Meissner, Swee K. Goh and Grant V. M. Williams
    Materials Science Forum 700, 1 (2011)

    Enhancement of the Superconducting Transition Temperature with Hydrostatic Pressure in Ca3Ir4Sn13 Single Crystals
    Swee K. Goh, Lina E. Klintberg, Patricia L. Alireza, David A. Tompsett, Jinhu Yang, Bin Chen, Kazuyoshi Yoshimura and F. Malte Grosche
    arXiv:1105.3941 (2011)

    High-pressure spin-shifts in the pseudogap regime of superconducting YBa2Cu4O8 revealed by 17O nuclear magnetic resonance
    Thomas Meissner, Swee K. Goh, Jürgen Haase, Grant V. M. Williams, and Peter B. Littlewood
    Phys. Rev. B 83, 220517(R) (2011) [arXiv:1105.2009 (2011)]
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    Chemical Pressure and Physical Pressure in BaFe2(As1-xPx)2
    Lina E. Klintberg, Swee K. Goh, Shigeru Kasahara, Yusuke Nakai, Kenji Ishida, Michael Sutherland, Takasada Shibauchi, Yuji Matsuda, and Takahito Terashima
    J. Phys. Soc. Jpn. 79, 123706 (2010) [arXiv:1009.2716 (2010)]

    Anisotropic Superconducting Properties of Optimally Doped BaFe2(As0.65P0.35)2 under Pressure
    Swee K. Goh, Y. Nakai, K. Ishida, L. E. Klintberg, Y. Ihara, S.Kasahara, T. Shibauchi, Y. Matsuda, and T. Terashima
    Phys. Rev. B 82, 094502 (2010) [arXiv:1006.5830 (2010)]

    Quantum oscillations near the metamagnetic transition in Sr3Ru2O7
    J.-F. Mercure, A. W. Rost, E. C. T. O'Farrell, S. K. Goh, R. S. Perry, M. L. Sutherland, S. A. Grigera, R. A. Borzi, P. Gegenwart, A. S. Gibbs, and A. P. Mackenzie
    Phys. Rev. B 81, 235103 (2010)

    Evidence of superconductivity on the border of quasi-2D ferromagnetism in Ca2RuO4 at high pressure
    P. L. Alireza, F. Nakamura, S. K. Goh, Y. Maeno, S. Nakatsuji, Y. Chris Ko, M. Sutherland, S. R. Julian and G. G. Lonzarich
    J. Phys.: Condens. Matter 22, 052202 (2010)
  • JPCM's Highlights of 2010

    • New Approach to High-Pressure Nuclear Magnetic Resonance with Anvil Cells
    T. Meissner, S. K. Goh, J. Haase, B. Meier, D. Rybicki and P.L. Alireza
    Journal of Low Temperature Physics 159, 284 (2010)

    Quantum Oscillations in the Anomalous Phase in Sr3Ru2O7
    J.-F. Mercure, S. K. Goh, E. C. T. O'Farrell, R. S. Perry, M. L. Sutherland, A. W. Rost, S. A. Grigera, R. A. Borzi, P. Gegenwart, and A. P. Mackenzie
    Phys. Rev. Lett. 103, 176401 (2009)

    High sensitivity nuclear magnetic resonance probe for anvil cell pressure experiments
    Jürgen Haase, Swee K. Goh, Thomas Meissner, Patricia L. Alireza, and Damian Rybicki
    Rev. Sci. Instrum. 80, 073905 (2009)

    Observation of de Haas-van Alphen oscillations across the phase diagram of CeRh1-xCoxIn5
    Mike Sutherland, Swee K. Goh, E. C. T. O'Farrell, C. Bergemann, Johnpierre Paglione, T. A. Sayles, and M. B. Maple
    J. Phys.: Conf. Ser. 150, 042193 (2009).

    Fermi surface reconstruction in CeRh1-xCoxIn5
     Swee K. Goh, Johnpierre Paglione, Mike Sutherland, E. C. T. O'Farrell, C. Bergemann, T. A. Sayles, and M. B. Maple
    Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 056402 (2008)

    High pressure de Haas-van Alphen studies of Sr2RuO4 using an anvil cell
     S.K. Goh, P.L. Alireza, P.D.A. Mann, A.-M. Cumberlidge, C. Bergemann, M. Sutherland and Y. Maeno
    Curr. Appl. Phys. 8, 304 (2008)

    Search for magnetic order in superconducting RuSr2Eu1.2Ce0.8Cu2O10
     J. W. Lynn, Y. Chen, Q. Huang, S. K. Goh, and G. V. Williams
    Phys. Rev. B 76, 014519 (2007)

    Superconducting and magnetic properties of Ru1-yMySr2Eu2-xCexCu2O10+d (M=Nb, Sn)
     S. K. Goh, G. V. M. Williams, E. K. Hemery, and H. K. Lee
    Phys. Rev. B 74, 134506 (2006)

    The effect of substituents on magnetic order and superconductivity in RuSr2R2-xCexCu2O10+d (R=Gd, Eu)
     S. K. Goh, G.V.M. Williams and H. K. Lee
    Curr. Appl. Phys. 6, 515 (2006)

    Some aspects of conduction in metallic single-wall carbon nanotubes
     S.K. Goh, A.B. Kaiser, S.W. Lee, D.S. Lee, H.Y. Yu, Y.W. Park
    Curr. Appl. Phys. 6, 919 (2006)

    Spatially Inhomogeneous Spin Fluctuations in RuSr2EuCeCu2O10+d
    G.V.M. Williams, H.K. Lee, S.K. Goh
    Phys. Rev. B 71, 014515 (2005)

    Nanotubes and Nanofibres: Evidence for Tunnelling Conduction and Luttinger Liquid?
    S.K. Goh and A.B. Kaiser
    AIP Conf. Proc.786, 516 (2005)

    Doping Dependence of the Critical Current and Irreversibility Field in Y1-xCaxBa2Cu3O7-d
     Anita Semwal, N M Strickland, A Bubendorfer, S H Naqib, Swee Kuan Goh and G V M Williams
    Supercond. Sci. Technol. 17 S506-S510 (2004)