Publication

Selected peer-reviewed publications and preprints

1. 1. Yupeng Wang, Junjie Wang, Aishik Panja, Xinghan Wang, and Qi-Yu Liang, "Directional transport in Rydberg atom arrays via kinetic constraints and temporal modulation", Phys. Rev. Research 7, L022035 (2025)

   2. Aishik Panja, Yupeng Wang, Xinghan Wang, Junjie Wang, Sarthak Subhankar, and Qi-Yu Liang, "Electric field control for experiments with atoms in Rydberg states", AIP Advances 14, 125013 (2024). Chosen as an Editor's Pick

   3. Q.-Y. Liang, D. Trypogeorgos, A Valdés-Curiel, J. Tao, M. Zhao & I. B. Spielman, “Coherence and decoherence in the Harper-Hofstadter model”, Phys. Rev. Research 3, 023058 (2021). 

   4. A Valdés-Curiel, D. Trypogeorgos, Q.-Y. Liang, R. P. Anderson & I. B. Spielman, “Topological features without a lattice in Rashba spin-orbit coupled atoms”, Nat. Commun. 12, 593 (2021).

   5. R. P. Anderson, D. Trypogeorgos, A Valdés-Curiel, Q.-Y. Liang, J. Tao, M. Zhao, T. Andrijauskas, G. Juzeli nas & I. B. Spielman, “Realization of a deeply subwavelength adiabatic optical lattice”, Phys. Rev. Research 2, 013149 (2020).

   6. Q.-Y. Liang, A. V. Venkatramani, S. H. Cantu, T. L. Nicholson, M. J. Gullans, A. V. Gorshkov, J. D. Thompson, C. Chin, M. D. Lukin & V. Vuletić, “Observation of a three-photon bound state in a quantum nonlinear medium”, Science 359, 783 (2018).

   7. J. D. Thompson, T. L. Nicholson, Q.-Y. Liang, S. H. Cantu, A. V. Venkatramani, S. Choi, I. A. Fedorov, D. Viscor, T. Pohl, M. D. Lukin & V. Vuletić, “Symmetry-protected collisions between strongly interacting photons”, Nature 542, 206 (2017).

   8. M. J. Gullans, J. D. Thompson, Y. Wang, Q.-Y. Liang, V. Vuletić, M. D. Lukin, & A. V. Gorshkov, “Effective field theory for Rydberg polaritons”, Phys. Rev. Lett. 117, 113601 (2016).

   9. O. Firstenberg, T. Peyronel, Q.-Y. Liang, A. V. Gorshkov, M. D. Lukin & V. Vuletić, “Attractive photons in a quantum nonlinear medium”, Nature 502, 71 (2013). Physics World 2013 Breakthrough of the Year (3rd). Featured in News and Views in Nature 502, 40 (2013).

   10. T. Peyronel, O. Firstenberg, Q.-Y. Liang, S. Hofferberth, A. V. Gorshkov, T. Pohl, M. D. Lukin & V. Vuletić, “Quantum nonlinear optics with single photons enabled by strongly interacting atoms”, Nature 488, 57 (2012). Featured in News and Views in Nature 488, 39 (2012).

   11. M. Bajcsy, S. Hofferberth, T. Peyronel, V. Balic, M. Hafezi, Q. Liang, A. Zibrov, V. Vuletić, and M. D. Lukin, “Switching and counting with atomic vapors in photonic-crystal fibers”, IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Quantum Electronics 18, 1747 (2012). Invited.

   12. M. Bajcsy, S. Hofferberth, T. Peyronel, V. Balic, Q. Liang, A. S. Zibrov, V. Vuletić & M. D. Lukin, “Laser-cooled atoms inside a hollow-core photonic-crystal fiber”, Phys. Rev. A 83, 063830 (2011). Featured in Physics Synopsis: Atoms down the tube.