Welcome postdoc Lei Xu

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

Entanglement probe paper published in Nat. Commun.
Entanglement witness using trRIXS

Our entanglement control and probe paper has been published in Nature Communications. Congrats to Jordyn and Utkarsh! Our figure is also selected as the cover image for the Quantum Dynamics collection.

X Ultrafast Dynamics Symposium
X Ultrafast Dynamics Symposium

Yao presented an invited talk at the X Ultrafast Dynamics Symposium about entanglement probe and control in magnets.

Welcome postdoc Shaozhi Li

We’re excited to welcome our new postdoc Shaozhi Li to the group!

Yao receives Dean’s Professorship Award

Yao is selected as the College of Science Dean’s Professorship Award, as the only recipient at the assistant professor level!

MRS Spring Meeting 2023
MRS Spring Meeting 2023

Yao presented an invited talk at the MRS Spring Meeting about engineering and characterizing quantum magnets.

APS March Meeting 2023

Part of the group attended the APS March Meeting at Las Vegas. Jordyn presented the recent paper about light-controlled entanglement.

Seminar at University of Notre Dame

Yao presented an invited talk at University of Notre Dame about about strong correlations and phonons in superconductors.

Wang Group joins DOT Center

We are now part of the newly established DOT University Transportation Center and will lead the quantum effort in the center.

Welcome undergraduate students Anish Jha and Zhenyu Zhang

We’re excited to welcome two new undergraduate students, Anish Jha and Zhenyu Zhang, to our group!

Seminar at Georgia Tech

Yao presented an invited talk at Georgia Tech about strong correlations and phonons in superconductors.

Seminar at University of Delaware

Yao presented an invited talk at University of Delaware about unconventional and light-induced superconductivity.

Yao receives AFOSR young investigator award

Yao is selected as the recipient of prestigious AFOSR Young Investigator Award! This award “fosters creative basic research in science and engineering, enhances early career development of outstanding young investigators and increases opportunities for the young investigators to engage in forwarding the DAF mission and related challenges in science and…
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Seminar at Northeastern

Yao presented an invited talk at Northeastern University about correlations and electron-phonon coupling in superconductors.

Harvard ITAMP workshop

Yao presented an invited talk at the ITAMP workshop on “Quantum simulation of doped Hubbard Systems”, about single-hole many-body effects in ultracold atoms and quantum dots.

Seminar at ETH Zurich

Yao presented an invited talk at ETH Zurich about phonons with correlated electrons and quantum computing.

Seminar at PSI

Yao presents an invited talk at the Paul Scherrer Institut (PSI), Swiss Light Source, about time-resolved x-ray scattering and control of quantum materials.

Quantinuum award allocation at OLCF

We are awarded the quantum computing allocation of Quantinuum hardware, through the Oak Ridge Leadership Computing Facility (OLCF).

CPTDQMC paper published in Phys. Rev. Research

Our CPT+DQMC paper is published in Physical Review Research as a Letter! Congrats to Shuhan and Jiarui. This work pushes DQMC spectral simulations to infinite momentum resolutions in various many-body systems.

Triplet superconductivity paper published at Commun. Phys.

Our attractive extended Hubbard model p-wave superconductivity paper has been posted online at Communications Physics! Using large-scale DMRG simulations, this paper demonstrated that a spin-triplet p-wave superconductivity state can emerge near quarterly filled extended Hubbard model with mixed-sign (repulsive-U-attractive-V) interactions.

Seminar at JHU

Yao presented an invited talk at the Condensed Matter Seminar of Johns Hopkins University about phonons in unconventional superconductors

Welcome undergraduate students Kathryn Evancho and Raymond Purdy

We’re excited to welcome two new undergraduate students, Kathryn Evancho and Raymond Purdy, to our group!

IXS 2022
IXS 2022

Yao was invited to give a presentation about trRIXS in the 13th International Conference on Inelastic X-ray Scattering (IXS2022) at Oxford, UK.

Orbital excitation paper published in npj Quantum Mater.

Our collaborative paper (with Prof. Yingying Peng) is published in npj Quantum Materials! This work combined multiple RIXS experiments and simulations, demonstrating that the intercalated iron-selenide superconductor (Li,Fe)OHFeSe exhibits substantial orbital excitations, which may explain their relatively high superconductivity Tc.

Frontera user’s meeting

Yao was invited to give a presentation about electron-phonon coupling algorithms in the Frontera User’s Meeting at TACC.

Yao receives DOE early career award

Yao is selected as one of the 83 award recipients of the 2022 Early Career Award, by the Department of Energy! He is the first DOE Early Career Award recipient from the College of Science. The program “is designed to bolster the nation’s scientific workforce by providing support to exceptional researchers…
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Welcome master student Rajat Mittal

We’re excited to welcome a new student, Rajat Mittal, to the group! Rajat is currently a master student in the Computer Engineering department at Clemson.

Welcome summer intern student Yuanjie Sun

We’re excited to welcome our new summer intern student, Yuanjie Sun! Yuanjie is currently a master student at the King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST).

Welcome undergraduate student Jiarui Liu

We’re excited to welcome a new intern undergraduate student, Jiarui Liu, to our group!

Light-controlled Coulomb paper published in Phys. Rev. X
Light-controlled Coulomb paper published in Phys. Rev. X

Our collaborative paper with Prof. Mitrano at Harvard University is published in Physical Review X! This work demonstrates the light control of on-site Coulomb interaction in cuprates, using a combination of time-resolved x-ray experiments and exact diagonalization simulations.

Seminar at Yale

Yao presented an invited seminar talk at the Solid State & Optics Seminar of Yale University, about cooperation of phonons and correlations in cuprates.

Welcome postdoc Wei-Chih Chen

We’re excited to welcome our new postdoc Wei-Chih Chen to the group! Wei-Chih recently obtained his Ph.D. degree from University of Alabama at Birmingham.

MRS Fall Meeting 2021
MRS Fall Meeting 2021

Yao presents an invited talk at the MRS Fall Meeting 2021 about time-resolved x-ray scattering and control of quantum materials.

Welcome Ph.D. students Haoran Yan and Chendi Xie

We’re excited to welcome two graduate students, Haoran Yan and Chendi Xie, to the group!

Nonequilibrium NGSED published in Phys. Rev. X

Our paper about the nonequilibrium NGSED method is published in Physical Review X! This method introduced a new and efficient numerical approach to simulate strong electron-phonon coupled and strongly correlated systems out of equilibrium. The simulation results revealed that light-induced d-wave superconductivity out of melted charge-density wave state could be…
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High-order correlation paper published in Science

Our collaborative paper with Max-Planck Institute for Quantumoptics is published in Science! This work discovers high-order correlations in doped Mott insulator, realized by cold-atom quantum simulators and verified by numerically unbiased many-body simulations.

Light-engineered magnetic excitation paper published at Commun. Phys.

Our theoretical paper on light-engineered magnetic excitations has been published in Communications Physics! In this work, we demonstrate the distinct nonequilibrium dynamics of magnons and paramagnons driven by ultrafast laser pulses, and propose a mechanism for stabilizing Floquet magnetic excitations in correlated quantum materials. We also systematically generalize the theory of…
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Attractive interaction in cuprates published in Science
Attractive interaction in cuprates published in Science

Our collaborative paper with Stanford University and SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory is published in Science! This work reveals the presence of an unexpected attractive near-neighbor interaction in cuprates, beyond the well-known strong repulsive Hubbard interaction, shedding new light on the microscopic mechanisms in high-temperature superconductors. Check the press release in phys.org.

High-order correlation with impurity published in Phys. Rev. Research

Our paper about high-order correlations with impurity is published in Physical Review Research! This marks the first paper from our group involving students. Congrats to Shuhan!

Welcome Ph.D. students Zecheng Shen and Jordyn Hales

We’re excited to welcome our first two graduate students, Zecheng Shen and Jordyn Hales, to the group!