Junyi Zhang’s research explores a wide range of quantum phenomena in condensed matter systems. His recent work focuses on unconventional superconductivity, topological materials, and frustrated quantum magnets, with a particular interest in the role of strong electronic correlations. He studies novel quantum materials that may host exotic phases such as topological superconductors and quantum spin liquids. Beyond condensed matter physics, he is also interested in quantum simulation, quantum computation, and the emerging intersection between physics and artificial intelligence. He proposed the density-matrix mean-field theory an extension of conventional mean-field theory that incorporates quantum fluctuations and is particularly suited for strongly correlated systems such as quantum magnets.
Junyi Zhang received his Bachelor’s degree from Peking University in 2013. He then became a normalien (Sélection Internationale 2013) at the École normale supérieure, where he earned the Diplôme de l’ÉNS and a Master’s degree in 2015. He completed his Ph.D. in Physics at Princeton University in 2021 under the supervision of Prof. F. Duncan M. Haldane. Following his doctoral studies, he joined the Institute for Quantum Matter at Johns Hopkins University as a postdoctoral research fellow. In 2026, he joined Nanyang Technological University as a postdoctoral researcher.