Chendi’s Ph.D. thesis defense
Chendi Xie passed the thesis defense today! Congrats!
UT Knoxville CAMM & condensed matter physics seminar
Yao gave an invited talk about spectral characterization of entanglement in the UT Knoxville CAMM & condensed matter physics seminar.
UW-Madison condensed matter seminar
Yao gave an invited talk about multi-partite entanglement in the R. G. Herb condensed matter seminar of UW-Madison.
GaTech Quantum Seminar
Yao gave an invited talk about spectral witness of entanglement in the quantum seminar of Georgia Institute of Technology.
Rice eQMC Workshop 2025
Yao gave an invited talk about multi-partite entanglement in the Rice eQMC Workshop on Hidden Orders and Quantum Entanglement.
Interacting Dicke paper published in Phys. Rev. Lett.
Our paper about interacting Dicke model, has been published in Phys. Rev. Lett.! Congrats to Joao. This work combined the variational non-Gaussian method with DMRG and applied to light-matter interaction problems. It revealed new many-body phases in the strong-coupling and strongly correlated system.
Multi-shifted BiCG spectral simulation paper published in Phys. Rev. B
Our paper about the multi-shifted biconjugate gradient method has been published in Phys. Rev. B! Congrats to Prakash and Luogen. This work solves a long-standing problem for the simulation of resonant spectroscopies. It accelerates these Kramers-Heisenberg-type spectra to the level comparable to linear spectra.
RIXS/REXS Workshop 2025
Yao gave an invited talk about RIXS-based spin, orbital, and electronic entanglement witness in the RIXS/REXS Workshop.
Floquet hydride paper published in npj Comput. Mater.
Our paper about Floquet hydride superconductivity has been published in npj Computational Materials! Congrats to Chendi, Weichih, and Haoran. This work proposes a dynamical approach to enhance electron-phonon coupling in LaH10, which leads to transient room-temperature superconductivity.
XIII Ultrafast Dynamics Symposium
Yao was invited again this year to speak at the the 13th International Symposium on Ultrafast Dynamics and Ultrafast Bandgap Photonics held at Hersonissos, Greece, delivering the presentation about light control of entanglement and spin-triplet superconductivity
Symmetry-protected metastability published in Nat. Mater.
Our collaborative paper (with Prof. Mitrano) about orbital-symmetry protected metastable state, has been published in Nature Materials! Congrats to Zecheng and Logan, who led the theory and simulations. This work revealed that orbital symmetry has intrinsic protection for electronic metastability, which can be triggered off instantaneously by laser pulses, leading…
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Jordyn’s Ph.D. graduation
Congratulations to Jordyn Hales, the first Ph.D. graduate from our group! Jordyn led several innovative projects in X-ray theory and time-resolved RIXS, with a notable contribution to the identification of light-induced entanglement. Jordyn was also awarded the prestigious DOE SCGSR Fellowship, closely collaborating with leading X-ray experimentalists.
Yao is selected as a Scialog fellow
Yao is selected as one of the Scialog Fellows in Quantum Matter and Information, by the Research Corporation for Science Advancement.
Harvard Radcliffe Workshop on Entanglement
Yao gave an invited talk about entanglement witness in electronic systems at the workshop "Entanglement in Quantum Materials and Beyond" hosted by the Harvard Radcliffe Institute.
Jordyn’s Ph.D. thesis defense
Jordyn Hales passed the thesis defense today! Congrats!
Machine-learning phase transition paper published in Newton
Our collaborative paper with Dr. Liu and Dr. He, which uses domain-adversarial machine learning to identify fluctuating and long-range ordered superconductivity from ARPES spectrum, has been published in Newton! Our story is also selected as the cover! Congrats to Xu and Yuanjie, who led the development of method. This work…
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Nature Conference
Yao gave a talk about electron-phonon coupling in TBG at the Nature Conference on Competing Orders in Quantum Materials.
APS Global Physics Summit 2025
Our entire group participated in the APS Global Physics Summit in Anaheim. Haoran, Zecheng, Chendi, Prakash, Tongtong, and Luogen presented their papers.
Electron-doped cuprate paper published in Nature Communications
Our collaborative paper about hole pocket superconductivity in electron-doped cuprates has been published in Nature Communications! Congrats to Zecheng, who carried out all theoretical simulations. This work revealed the coexisting large and small Fermi surface in electron-doped cuprates and the correlation between superconductivity and the hole-pocket.
Electronic entanglement witness paper published in Phys. Rev. X
Our paper about electronic entanglement witness has been published in Phys. Rev. X! Congrats to Tongtong, Luogen, and Jiarui. This work establishes a theoretical framework for characterizing multipartite entanglement in indistinguishable many-electron systems. It also provides an x-ray-based strategy to witness electronic entanglement in quantum materials.