2022

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!

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

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

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

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.

2021

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

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 extended the simulation of strong electron-phonon coupled and strongly correlated systems out of equilibrium, revealing the fluctuating nature of light-induced d-wave superconductivity.

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.

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 postdoc Vivek Dixit

We’re excited to welcome our new postdoc Vivek Dixit to the group!