APS Global Physics Summit 2026
Part of our group participated in the APS Global Physics Summit in Denver. Yao gave an invited talk; Zecheng and Prakash presented their papers.
Bistable superlattice order published in Nature
Our collaborative paper (with Prof. Qiong Ma) about tunable bistable superlattice order in TaIrTe4, has been published in Nature! Congrats to Shuhan, who led the theory for anharmonic phonon states. This work discovered a doping-induced superlattice order that is both anharmonic and significantly coupled to electronic instabilities.
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 Physical Review Research! Congrats to Shaozhi. This work significantly improves the efficiency of neural network through a weight-constraint structure.
Purdue University condensed matter seminar
Yao gave an invited talk about entanglement and x-ray spectroscopy in the Purdue University condensed matter seminar.
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 University of Florida QTP seminar.
Wang Group receives two RCSA grants
We are delighted to be selected by Research Corporation for Science Advancement for two Scialog grants to investigate the intersection of quantum materials and quantum information.
Chendi’s Ph.D. graduation
Congratulations to Chendi Xie, the second Ph.D. graduate from our group! As an expert of first-principles simulations, Chendi led several significant projects in electron-phonon coupling, light-induced superconductivity, and dynamical structural transition. He also participated in several projects led by other group members and experimental collaborators.
Boston College physics seminar
Yao gave an invited talk about entanglement in correlated materials in the Boston College physics seminar.
Welcome Ph.D. students Luting Wang, Aether Zhou, and Pan Zhou
We’re excited to welcome Bangda Zhou and Pan Zhou to the group as graduate students. We are also delighted to welcome Luting Wang back to the group as a Ph.D. student, following her prior research experience with us as an undergraduate intern.
Light-controlled triplet superconductivity paper published in Commun. Phys.
Our paper about light-enhanced and controlled spin-triplet superconductivity, has been published in Communications Physics! Congrats to Zecheng, Chendi, and Wei-Chih. This work presents and numerically validates a mechanism through which Floquet engineering induces spin-flip magnetic exchange interactions, thereby enabling controlled manipulation of spin-triplet pairing.
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 Physical Review Letters! 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 Physical Review 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.