The Yu Group

News

(Selective news from the Yu Group. The full publication list is available here.)

Feb 2026: Awwab A. Azam has been selected for the REU program at the Princeton Center for Complex Materials! Congratulations!

Jan 2026: Welcome Caleb T. Hebert (undergraduate student)! 

Dec 2025: Welcome Justin Hart (undergraduate student)! 

Nov 2025: Welcome Mengke Zhang (graduate student)!

Nov 2025: Welcome Ashwini Malviya (graduate student)!

Nov 2025: Welcome Byron E. Mayorga (undergraduate student)! 

Oct 2025: Awwab A. Azam has been awarded the CCMS Undergraduate Fellowship! Congratulations!

Oct 2025: Review  paper "Quantum geometry in quantum materials" is published on npj Quantum Materials. (First version submitted to arXiv on Mon, 30 Dec 2024.)

Aug 2025: Our paper "Universal Wilson Loop Bound of Quantum Geometry" is published on Physical Review Letters. (First version submitted to arXiv on Mon, 30 Dec 2024.)

Aug 2025: Welcome Lexu Zhao (Gavin, graduate student)!

Apr 2025: Thomas Caligiure has been awarded the CCMS Graduate Fellowship! Congratulations!

Mar 2025: Awwab A. Azam has been selected for the AI Scholars program! Congratulations!

Dec 2024: Our paper "Corner Charge Fluctuation as an Observable for Quantum Geometry and Entanglement in Two-Dimensional Insulators" is published on Physical Review Letters (Editors' Suggestion). (First version submitted to arXiv on Mon, 24 Jun 2024.)

Oct 2024: Welcome Awwab A. Azam (undergraduate student)! 

Sep 2024: Welcome Ethan T. Angerhofer (graduate student)! 

Aug 2024: Welcome Thomas Caligiure (graduate student)! 

Aug 2024: Jiabin Yu joined the Department of Physics at University of Florida