Boeing Professor of Physics Contact Information xuxd@uw.edu 206-543-8444 B437, B009 Personal Website Fields of Interest Condensed Matter Courses Taught Winter 2026PHYS 580 A: Physics Colloquium Autumn 2025PHYS 331 A: Advanced Laboratory: Optics PHYS 580 A: Physics Colloquium Spring 2025PHYS 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 2025PHYS 580 A: Physics Colloquium Autumn 2024PHYS 580 A: Physics Colloquium Spring 2024PHYS 432 A: Advanced Laboratory: Atomic Physics PHYS 432 B: Advanced Laboratory: Atomic Physics Autumn 2023PHYS 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 2023PHYS 432 A: Advanced Laboratory: Atomic Physics PHYS 432 B: Advanced Laboratory: Atomic Physics Affiliations Home Department Physics News & Events Related News 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) Related Events Thouless Institute for Quantum Matter: Towards reconfigurable and deterministic twistronic 2D materials - April 2 2026, 12:30pm 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
