Publications

(52) Symmetric localization of $\nu_{tot}=4/3$ fractional topological insulator edges

Yang-Zhi Chou, Sankar Das Sarma

https://arxiv.org/abs/2603.10103

(51) Superconductivity from phonon-mediated retardation in a single-flavor metal

Yang-Zhi Chou, Jihang Zhu, Jay D. Sau, Sankar Das Sarma

https://arxiv.org/abs/2512.23790

(50) Spin ladder quantum simulators from spin-orbit-coupled quantum dot spin qubits

Yang-Zhi Chou, Sankar Das Sarma

Phys. Rev. B 113, 035124 (2026)

(49) Perturbative renormalization group approach to magic-angle twisted bilayer graphene using topological heavy fermion model

Yi Huang, Yang-Zhi Chou, Sankar Das Sarma

Phys. Rev. B 112, 245132 (2025); Editors' Suggestion

(48) Apparent inconsistency between Streda formula and Hall conductivity in reentrant integer quantum anomalous Hall effect in twisted MoTe2

Yi Huang, Seth Musser, Jihang Zhu, Yang-Zhi Chou, Sankar Das Sarma

Phys. Rev. B 112, 195136 (2025); Editors' Suggestion

(47) In-plane magnetic field-induced orbital FFLO superconductivity in twisted WSe2 homobilayers

Jihang Zhu, Yang-Zhi Chou, Yi Huang, Sankar Das Sarma

Phys. Rev. B 112, L020507 (2025); Editors' Suggestion

(46) Intravalley spin-polarized superconductivity in rhombohedral tetralayer graphene

Yang-Zhi Chou, Jihang Zhu, Sankar Das Sarma

Phys. Rev. B 111, 174523 (2025)

(45) Superconductivity in twisted transition metal dichalcogenide homobilayers

Jihang Zhu, Yang-Zhi Chou, Ming Xie, Sankar Das Sarma

Phys. Rev. B 111, L060501 (2025)

(44) Topological phases, van Hove singularities, and spin texture in magic-angle twisted bilayer graphene in the presence of proximity-induced spin-orbit couplings

Yuting Tan, Yang-Zhi Chou, Fengcheng Wu, Sankar Das Sarma

Phys. Rev. B 110, 165406 (2024)

(43) Composite helical edges from Abelian fractional topological insulators

Yang-Zhi Chou, Sankar Das Sarma

Phys. Rev. B 110, 155117 (2024); Editors' Suggestion

(42) Topological flat bands, valley polarization, and interband superconductivity in magic-angle twisted bilayer graphene with proximitized spin-orbit couplings

Yang-Zhi Chou, Yuting Tan, Fengcheng Wu, Sankar Das Sarma

Phys. Rev. B 110, L041108 (2024)

(41) Monte Carlo solver and renormalization of Migdal-Eliashberg spin chain

Yang-Zhi Chou, Zhentao Wang, Sankar Das Sarma

Phys. Rev. B 109, 054514 (2024)

(40) Correlated insulator in two Coulomb-coupled quantum wires 

Yang-Zhi Chou, Sankar Das Sarma

Phys. Rev. B 108, 235135 (2023)

(39) Scaling theory of intrinsic Kondo and Hund's rule interactions in magic-angle twisted bilayer graphene

Yang-Zhi Chou, Sankar Das Sarma

Phys. Rev. B 108, 125106 (2023)

(38) Constrained motions and slow dynamics in one-dimensional bosons with double-well dispersion

Yang-Zhi Chou, Jay D. Sau

Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 046001 (2024)

(37) Kondo lattice model in magic-angle twisted bilayer graphene

Yang-Zhi Chou, Sankar Das Sarma

Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 026501 (2023)

(36) Mott-moiré excitons

T.-S. Huang, Yang-Zhi Chou, C. L. Baldwin, Fengcheng Wu, Mohammad Hafezi

Phys. Rev. B 107, 195151 (2023)

(35) Enhanced superconductivity through virtual tunneling in Bernal bilayer graphene coupled to WSe2

Yang-Zhi Chou, Fengcheng Wu, Sankar Das Sarma

Phys. Rev. B 106, L180502 (2022)

(34) Phonon-limited resistivity of multilayer graphene systems

Seth M. Davis, Yang-Zhi Chou, Fengcheng Wu, Sankar Das Sarma

Phys. Rev. B 107, 045426 (2023).

(33) Acoustic-phonon-mediated superconductivity in moiréless graphene multilayers

Yang-Zhi Chou, Fengcheng Wu, Jay D. Sau, and Sankar Das Sarma 

Phys. Rev. B 106, 024507 (2022)

(32) Acoustic-phonon-mediated superconductivity in Bernal bilayer graphene

Yang-Zhi Chou, Fengcheng Wu, Jay D. Sau, and Sankar Das Sarma 

Phys. Rev. B 105, L100503 (2022)

(31) Acoustic-phonon-mediated superconductivity in rhombohedral trilayer graphene

Yang-Zhi Chou, Fengcheng Wu, Jay D. Sau, and Sankar Das Sarma 

Phys. Rev. Lett. 127, 187001 (2021); Editors' Suggestion

(30) Band manipulation and spin texture in interacting moiré helical edges

Yang-Zhi Chou, Jennifer Cano, J. H. Pixley,

Phys. Rev. B 104, L201113 (2021)

(29) Correlation-induced triplet pairing superconductivity in graphene-based moiré systems

Yang-Zhi Chou, Fengcheng Wu, Jay D. Sau, and Sankar Das Sarma 

Phys. Rev. Lett. 127, 217001 (2021)

(28) Coulomb drag in topological wires separated by air-gap

Du, Zhen, YZC, Zhang, Wu, Sullivan, Ikhlassi, Du

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41928-021-00603-y;  PDF

(27) Charge density wave and finite-temperature transport in minimally twisted bilayer graphene

Yang-Zhi Chou, Fengcheng Wu, and Jay D. Sau

Phys. Rev. B 104, 045146 (2021)

(26) Marginally localized edges of time-reversal symmetric topological superconductors

Yang-Zhi Chou and Rahul M. Nandkishore

Phys. Rev. B 103, 075120 (2021)

(25) Finite-temperature spectroscopy of dirty helical Luttinger liquids

Tzu-Chi Hsieh, Yang-Zhi Chou, and Leo Radzihovsky

Phys. Rev. B 102, 085152 (2020); PDF

(24) Hofstadter butterfly and Floquet topological insulators in minimally twisted bilayer graphene

Yang-Zhi Chou, Fengcheng Wu, and Sankar Das Sarma

Phys. Rev. Research 2, 033271 (2020); PDF

(23) Nonmonotonic plasmon dispersion in strongly interacting Coulomb Luttinger liquids

Yang-Zhi Chou and Sankar Das Sarma

Phys. Rev. B 101, 075430 (2020)

(22) Anomalous localization at the boundary of an interacting topological insulator

Itamar Kimchi, Yang-Zhi Chou, Rahul M. Nandkishore, Leo Radzihovsky

Phys. Rev. B 101, 035131 (2020)

(21) Magic-Angle Semimetals with Chiral Symmetry 

Yang-Zhi Chou, Yixing Fu, Justin H. Wilson, E. J. König, and J. H. Pixley 

Phys. Rev. B 101, 235121 (2020); Editors' suggestion

(20) Superconductor versus insulator in twisted bilayer graphene

Yang-Zhi Chou, Yu-Ping Lin, Sankar Das Sarma, and Rahul M. Nandkishore

Phys. Rev. B 100, 115128 (2019)

(19) Localized surfaces of three-dimensional topological insulators

Yang-Zhi Chou, Rahul M. Nandkishore, and Leo Radzihovsky, 

Phys. Rev. B 99, 165108 (2019); Editors' suggestion; PDF

(18) Localization-driven correlated states of two isolated interacting helical edges

Yang-Zhi Chou, 

Phys. Rev. B 99, 045125 (2019); PDF

(17) Pinch point singularities of tensor spin liquids

Abhinav Prem, Sagar Vijay, Yang-Zhi Chou, Michael Pretko, and Rahul M. Nandkishore

Phys. Rev. B 98, 165140 (2018)

(16) Magic-angle semimetals

Yixing Fu, E. J. König, J. H. Wilson, Yang-Zhi Chou, J. H. Pixley, 

npj Quantum Materials 5, 71 (2020) 

(15) Gapless insulating edges of dirty interacting topological insulators

Yang-Zhi Chou, Rahul M. Nandkishore, and Leo Radzihovsky, 

Phys. Rev. B 98, 054205 (2018); This work is highlighted in 2019 calendar of physics department of CU Boulder

(14) Mott glass from localization and confinement

Yang-Zhi Chou, Rahul M. Nandkishore, and Leo Radzihovsky, 

Phys. Rev. B 97, 184205 (2018)

(13) Single-particle excitations in disordered Weyl fluids

J. H. Pixley, Yang-Zhi Chou, Pallab Goswami, David A. Huse, Rahul Nandkishore, Leo Radzihovsky, and S. Das Sarma, 

Phys. Rev. B 95, 235101 (2017); Editors' suggestion

(12) Twisting Anderson pseudospins with light: Quench dynamics in terahertz-pumped BCS superconductors

Yang-Zhi Chou, Yunxiang Liao, and Matthew S. Foster, 

Phys. Rev. B 95, 104507 (2017); Editors' suggestion

(11) Topological Protection from Random Rashba Spin-Orbit Backscattering: Ballistic Transport in a Helical Luttinger Liquid

Hong-Yi Xie, Heqiu Li, Yang-Zhi Chou, and Matthew S. Foster,

Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 086603 (2016)

(10) Helical Quantum Edge Gears in 2D Topological Insulators

Yang-Zhi Chou, Alex Levchenko, and Matthew S. Foster,

Phys. Rev. Lett. 115, 186404 (2015)

(9) Surface transport coefficients for three-dimensional topological superconductors

Hong-Yi Xie, Yang-Zhi Chou, and Matthew S. Foster,

Phys. Rev. B 91, 024203 (2015)

(8) Chalker scaling, level repulsion, and conformal invariance in critically delocalized quantum matter: Disordered topological superconductors and artificial graphene

Yang-Zhi Chou and Matthew S. Foster,

Phys. Rev. B 89, 165136 (2014); One figure is selected for the art installation in Brockman Hall for physics at Rice University

(7) Topological protection, disorder, and interactions: Survival at the surface of three-dimensional topological superconductors

Matthew S. Foster, Hong-Yi Xie, and Yang-Zhi Chou,

Phys. Rev. B 89, 155140 (2014); Editors' suggestion

(6) Interaction quenches in the one-dimensional Bose gas

Márton Kormos, Aditya Shashi, Yang-Zhi Chou, Jean-Sébastien Caux, and Adilet Imambekov,

Phys. Rev. B 88, 205131 (2013)

(5) Exact Three-Body Local Correlations for Excited States of the 1D Bose Gas

Márton Kormos, Yang-Zhi Chou, and Adilet Imambekov,

Phys. Rev. Lett. 107, 230405 (2011)

(4) The temperature evolution of the magnetic correlations in pure and diluted spin ice Ho2-xYxTi2O7

Chang, L. J., Y. Su, Y-J. Kao, Y. Z. Chou, K. Kakurai, R. Mittal, H. Schneider, Th Brückel, G. Balakrishnan, and M. R. Lees,

Physica B: Condensed Matter 406.12 (2011): 2393-2396

(3) Magnetic correlations in HoxTb2−xTi2O7

L. J. Chang, W. Schweika, Y. -J. Kao, Y. Z. Chou, J. Perßon, Th. Brückel, H. C. Yang, Y. Y. Chen, and J. S. Gardner,

Phys. Rev. B 83, 144413 (2011)

(2) Magnetic correlations in the spin ice Ho2−xYxTi2O7 as revealed by neutron polarization analysis

L. J. Chang, Y. Su, Y.-J. Kao, Y. Z. Chou, R. Mittal, H. Schneider, Th. Brückel, G. Balakrishnan, and M. R. Lees,

Phys. Rev. B 82, 172403 (2010)

(1) Quantum order by disorder in a semiclassical spin ice

Yang-Zhi Chou and Ying-Jer Kao

Phys. Rev. B 82, 132403 (2010)