About

 I am Guangze Chen, a postdoctoral researcher in Department of Microtechnology and Nanoscience, Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden. My supervisor is Dr. Anton Frisk Kockum.

Current research interests

I am interested in developing new methods for solving open quantum many-body systems. In particular, this is divided into a quantum approach and a classical one. 

The quantum approach involves designing new protocols for the quantum simulation of open quantum many-body systems. In particular, I have been investigating how giant atoms, a recently raised quantum optical platform, can be versatile for quantum simulation. 

The classical approach involves developing new numerical tools to study open quantum many-body systems. In particular, I have developed the numerical library NHKPM.jl to compute dynamical correlators in non-Hermitian systems efficiently. This library is based on matrix-product states and the kernel polynomial method. Currently, I am generalizing this method to investigate Liouvillian dynamics in open quantum many-body systems.

Previous works

Exotic phases in van der Waals materials

Van der Waals materials are recently raised materials as versatile platforms for engineering. I am interested in how exotic phases of matter can be realized and probed in van der Waals materials with different ways of engineering. My past research has focused on identifying Dirac QSL with impurity and twist engineering, as well as driving 1T-TaS2 to the QSL regime with Coulomb engineering. I have collaborated with experimentalists on the STM characterization of aritificial heavy-fermions in 1T-TaS2/1H-TaS2 heterostructure and nodal superconductivity in 1H-TaS2


Non-Hermitian many-body physics

Recently, non-Hermitian Hamiltonians have attracted much interest as an effective description of the dynamics of open quantum systems. While their properties have been relatively well-understood in 1D single-particle systems, unveiling their properties in the many-body regime represents a big challenge due to numerical difficulties. I have designed an algorithm to investigate 1D non-Hermitian spin models.

Brief bio

I am a postdoctoral researcher at Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden. My supervisor is Dr. Anton Frisk Kockum. I did my Ph.D. between 2019 and 2023, at Aalto University, Finland, supervised by Prof. Jose L. Lado. I did my Master of Physics at ETH Zurich between 2017 and 2019, and my Master's thesis was supervised by Prof. Oded Zilberberg and Prof. Wei Chen. My PhD research has focused on designing exotic phases of matter in van der Waals materials. Currently, I am focusing on developing new methods for open quantum many-body systems.

Open source library development

Twistronics.jl : Julia package to study twisted 2D heterostructures with tight-binding modeling

NHKPM.jl : Julia library to compute dynamical correlators of non-hermitian many-body Hamiltonians


with matrix-product states and kernel polynomial method