
Our paper about spin-orbital entanglement witness with x-ray scattering theory, has been published in Physical Review Letters! Congrats to Zecheng and Shuhan. In this work, we propose a general framework for establishing a tight Bell-test bound using non-Hermitian scattering operators, which naturally encode the scattering geometry in multi-orbital systems. This…
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Part of our group participated in the APS Global Physics Summit in Denver. Yao gave an invited talk; Zecheng and Prakash presented their papers.
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.
Together with great Emory colleagues Luiz, Ajit, Wladimir, and Xiazi, we co-organized a local workshop on “Highly Entangled Quantum Materials” at Emory University. This three-day symposium was very successful, and we are grateful to all participants for the engaging discussions, as well as to ICAM and the Moore Foundation for…
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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.
Yao gave an invited talk about entanglement and x-ray spectroscopy in the Purdue University condensed matter seminar.
Yao is awarded the 2026 Outstanding Referee by American Physical Society!
We’re excited to welcome a new undergraduate student, Payam Rastkar, to our group!
Yao gave an invited talk about entanglement and x-ray spectroscopy in the University of Florida QTP seminar.
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.
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.
Yao gave an invited talk about entanglement in correlated materials in the Boston College physics seminar.
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.
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.
Yao gave an invited talk about spectral characterization of entanglement in the UT Knoxville CAMM & condensed matter physics seminar.
Yao gave an invited talk about multi-partite entanglement in the R. G. Herb condensed matter seminar of UW-Madison.
Yao gave an invited talk about spectral witness of entanglement in the quantum seminar of Georgia Institute of Technology.
Yao gave an invited talk about multi-partite entanglement in the Rice eQMC Workshop on Hidden Orders and Quantum Entanglement.
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.
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.
Yao gave an invited talk about RIXS-based spin, orbital, and electronic entanglement witness in the RIXS/REXS Workshop.
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.
We’re excited to welcome a staff scientist, Dr. Bin Yan, to our group! Bin obtained his Ph.D. degree in physics from Purdue University in the 2019. Before joining Emory, Bin was a staff scientist at Los Alamos National Laboratory.
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
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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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 one of the Scialog Fellows in Quantum Matter and Information, by the Research Corporation for Science Advancement.
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.
We’re excited to welcome a new undergraduate student, Noah Song, to our group!
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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Yao gave a talk about electron-phonon coupling in TBG at the Nature Conference on Competing Orders in Quantum Materials.
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.
Our entire group participated in the APS Global Physics Summit in Anaheim. Haoran, Zecheng, Chendi, Prakash, Tongtong, and Luogen presented their papers.
Our paper about electronic entanglement witness has been published in Physical Review 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.
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.
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.
Our postdoc Logan Xu joins to Ernst & Young Global Limited as a risk quant. Congrats to Logan!









