Home People Teaching Staff GOH Swee Kuan

Education:

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

Position:

• 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
• 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.

Research Interest:

• High pressure studies of strongly correlated electron systems
• Fermi surface mapping via the de Haas-van Alphen effect

Honours and Awards:

• CUHK Science Faculty Young Researcher Award 2021
• Trinity College Junior Research Fellowship (2008)
• Japan Society for the Promotion of Science Fellowship (2011)

Selected Recent Publications:

• 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)
• 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)
• 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)
• Evidence of a structural quantum critical point in (Ca_xSr_1-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)
• 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)
• Strong Coupling Superconductivity in the Vicinity of the Structural Quantum Critical Point in (Ca_xSr_1-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 (Ca_xSr_1-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)