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.

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.

Machine-learning phase transition paper published in Newton
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
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
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
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.

Ultrafast dynamics in Kitaev material published in npj Quantum Matter

Our collaborative paper about ultrafast dynamics in candidate Kitaev material has been published in npj Quantum Materials! Using trREXS experiments and simulations, we successfully revealed an extremely small spin gap beyond spectral resolution, only reflected in time domain.

Fock-state DQMC paper published in Commun. Phys.
Fock-state DQMC paper published in Commun. Phys.

Our paper about Fock-state quantum Monte Carlo has been published in Commun. Phys! Congrats to Shuhan and Shaozhi. This work establishes a new strategy for sampling electronic Fock states using QMC, relevant for analog quantum simulations.

Farewell to Logan

Our postdoc Logan Xu joins to Ernst & Young Global Limited as a risk quant. Congrats to Logan!

Welcome undergraduate students Srijon Sarkar and Kush Gandhi

We’re excited to welcome two new undergraduate students, Srijon Sarkar and Kush Gandhi, to our group!

Quantum Matter and Machine Learning Workshop

Yao gave an invited talk about electronic entanglement witness using RIXS at the Workshop on Quantum Matter and Machine Learning.

TBG phonon paper published in Nature
TBG phonon paper published in Nature

Our collaborative paper about strong electron-phonon coupling in twisted bilayer graphene has been published in Nature! Congrats to Shuhan and Haoran. This work experimentally and theoretically revealed the inter-valley electron-phonon coupling and its relation to the superconducting twisted bilayer graphene.

MRS Fall Meeting 2024
MRS Fall Meeting 2024

Yao and three co-organizers organized the MRS Fall 2024 symposium for Quantum Phenomena, Measurements, and Engineering in Materials. This symposium, with 10 sessions and lasting for 4 days, was very successful.

Farewell to Rohit

Our research specialist Rohit Sai Kiran Gadde, joint with the Liu group, joins to Caterpillar through HCLTech as the lead engineer. Congrats to Rohit! During the transition Clemson to Emory, Rohit made significant contribution in building and configuring the new cluster at Emory. He also led the cloud-computing platform developed…
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Seminar at UT Austin

Yao gave an invited talk at the Center for Complex Quantum Systems at UT Austin, about entanglement witness and control

Seminars at UChicago and Argonne National Lab

Yao gave two invited seminar talks at the University of Chicago and Argonne National Lab, about entanglement witnessing through spectroscopies

Seminar at the Brookhaven National Lab

Yao gave an invited seminar talk at the Brookhaven National Lab

eQMA Workshop

Yao gave a talk about entanglement witness at the eQMA Workshop on Quantum Materials and Entanglement held by the Rice University

DOE SCGSR Fellowship

Jordyn gets the DOE SCGSR fellowship! Congrats!

1D spin excitation paper published in Phys. Rev. Research

Our paper about spin excitation fingerprints for attractive interactions in 1D cuprates has been published in Phys. Rev. Research! Congrats to Zecheng and Jiarui. This work provides a major approach to identify and quantify the phonon-mediated attractive interactions in cuprates.

Overdoped CDW paper published in Phys. Rev. B

Our paper about phonon driven charge order in overdoped cuprates has been published in Phys. Rev. B! Congrats to Jiarui and Shaozhi. It is the first paper led by Jiarui, which successfully explained the origin of the recently observed charge order in extremely overdoped LSCO.

IXS 2024
IXS 2024

Chendi represented our group and presented a poster about our recent entanglement results in the 13th International Conference on Inelastic X-ray Scattering (IXS2024) at Arcrea, Japan.

Welcome undergraduate student Yea Eun Chung

We’re excited to welcome a new undergraduate student, Yea Eun Chung, to our group!

Frontera user’s meeting

Chendi represented our group and presented our recent work about light-induced room-temperature superconductivity, in the Frontera User's Meeting at TACC.

XI Ultrafast Dynamics Symposium
XI Ultrafast Dynamics Symposium

Yao was invited again this year to speak at the the 11th International Symposium on Ultrafast Dynamics and Ultrafast Bandgap Photonics held at Hersonissos, Greece, delivering the presentation about spin and electronic entanglement

SIAM Conference on Materials Science
SIAM Conference on Materials Science

Yao was invited to the 2024 SIAM Conference on Materials Science and gave a presentation about ultrafast dynamics and entanglement

Welcome undergraduate student Luting Wang

We’re excited to welcome a new undergraduate student, Luting Wang, to our group! Luting is a rising senior student at GaTech.

Seminar at PSU

Yao gave an invited seminar talk at the Penn State CAMP Seminar.

DOE PI Meeting 2024

Yao attended the DOE TCMP program PI meeting and gave a highlight presentation

APS March Meeting 2024

Yao co-organized focused sessions about nonequilibrium dynamics. Jordyn and Haoran presented in the APS March Meeting.

Welcome undergraduate student Euna Jang

We’re excited to welcome a new undergraduate student, Euna Jang, to our group!

Welcome winter intern student Kai Zhou

We’re excited to welcome our new winter intern student, Kai Zhou!

MRS Fall Meeting 2023
MRS Fall Meeting 2023

Yao and co-organizers (Mingda, Valentina, and Amélie) hosted a symposium about Space, Energy and Time-Resolved Spectroscopies for Emergent Quantum Materials at the MRS 2023 Fall Meeting. This symposium, with 10 sessions and lasting for 3 days, was very successful. Yao also presented recent work about entanglement probe in the conference.

Strained nickelate paper published in Commun. Phys.

Our paper about strain-enhanced superconductivity in infinite-layer nickelates has been published in Communications Physics! Congrats to Wei-Chih and Jordyn. It is a great experiment-theory collaboration with Prof. Zhihai Zhu and Prof. Xingjiang Zhou.

Two TNS papers published
Two TNS papers published

Our two Ta2NiSe5 papers have been published in Physical Review Research and Nature Communications! Congrats to Shuhan! It is a great experiment-theory collaboration with Prof. Yu He.

Seminar at Rice

Yao presented an invited talk at the RCQM Seminar of Rice University about entanglement probe in quantum materials

Welcome postdoc Logan Xu

We’re excited to welcome our new postdoc Logan Xu to the group!

Wang Group joins the Honda Research Institute center

We are now part of the newly established HRI/MIT center funded by the Honda Research Institute together with MIT collaborators.