2026

Bay Area Light Sources Joint User’s Meeting

Yao and co-organizers (Hari, Matteo, Mark, Eli, and Aaron) organized a symposium…
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Caltech quantum matter seminar

Yao gave an invited talk about entanglement witness in quantum materials in…
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EPiQS Moore Workshop on QM & QI

Yao attended the EPiQS Workshop on “Bridging Quantum Materials and Quantum Information”,…
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Light-engineered magnetic excitations published in Phys. Rev. Lett.

Our collaborative paper (with Dr. Wei-Sheng Lee) about light-engineered magnetic excitations in…
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University of Houston physics colloquium

Yao gave an invited talk about solid-state entanglement witness in the University…
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Rice University condensed matter seminar

Yao gave an invited talk about entanglement theory and characterizations beyond magnetic…
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Yao is promoted to Associated Professor with tenure

Yao is promoted to associate professor with tenure

Zecheng’s Ph.D. graduation

Congratulations to Zecheng Shen, the 3rd Ph.D. graduate from our group! Zecheng…
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Kinetic control of Nagaoka paper published in Phys. Rev. Research

Our paper about Nagaoka states controlled by kinetic frustration, has been published…
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NSF GRFP Fellowship

Kush gets the NSF Graduate Research Fellowship Program (GRFP) fellowship! Congrats!

Stanford special seminar

Yao gave an invited talk about entanglement and x-ray spectroscopy at Stanford…
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Spin-orbital entanglement paper published in Phys. Rev. Lett.

Our paper about spin-orbital entanglement witness with x-ray scattering theory, has been…
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APS Global Physics Summit 2026

Part of our group participated in the APS Global Physics Summit in…
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Bistable superlattice order published in Nature

Our collaborative paper (with Prof. Qiong Ma) about tunable bistable superlattice order…
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Emory Workshop on Quantum Materials

Together with great Emory colleagues Luiz, Ajit, Wladimir, and Xiazi, we co-organized…
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Zecheng’s Ph.D. thesis defense

Zecheng Shen passed the thesis defense today! Congrats!

Quantum-inspired neural network paper published in Phys. Rev. Research

Our paper about the quantum-inspired weight-constraint neural network has been published in…
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Purdue University condensed matter seminar

Yao gave an invited talk about entanglement and x-ray spectroscopy in the…
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Yao is recognized as a 2026 APS Outstanding Referee

Yao is awarded the 2026 Outstanding Referee by American Physical Society!

University of Florida QTP seminar

Yao gave an invited talk about entanglement and x-ray spectroscopy in the…
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