About Me

I'm a postdoctoral fellow at Los Alamos National Lab. My research focus on quantum mechanical aspects of condensed matter systems in the areas of strongly correlated systems and mesoscopic physics, as seen by the entangled electrons or spins. The prospective goal of my research is to exploit quantum effects to enable quantum computation and/or quantum communication in next-generation electronics.

I received a BS in applied physics and a PhD in physics, all from the University of Science and Technology of China. I am performing the second postdoctoral appointments, at Los Alamos National Lab, after the first at the California State University, Northridge.

My current research interests

I am currently working on many aspects of the theoretical condensed matter physics, with a particular focus on topology, fractionalization and correlation in quantum many-body systems. A major portion of the current research involves:

• Topological states of matter in strongly correlated systems: Topological orders and fractional excitations on geometrically frustrated lattices, fractional quantum Hall effects, and the applications of quantum information concepts to quantum many-body systems
• Novel phases, emergent phenomena and collective states of matter in strongly-correlated systems and quantum materials, especially focusing on the interplay between Coulomb interaction, spin exchange interaction and orbital, spin, charge degrees of freedom
• Mesoscopic phenomena in two-dimensional materials: electronic structure, quantum transport properties and quantum hall effects, especially the role of the extrinsic (intrinsic) disorder, electron-electron interactions and the interplay of interactions and disorder
• Developing the state-of-the-art numerical methods, and applying new concepts, algorithms and codes to materials