List of Publications

1. Winding-Control Mechanism of Non-Hermitian Systems

Yongxu Fu*, Yi Zhang*

eprint-arXiv:2506.16887

2. 1D Spontaneous Symmetry Breaking in thermal equilibrium via Non-Hermitian Construction

Jia-Bao Wang, Zi-Hao Dong, Yi Zhang*

Physical Review Letters 134, 250402 (2025)

3. Non-Hermitian delocalization induced by residue imaginary velocity

Shi-Xin Hu, Yongxu Fu*, Yi Zhang*

Communications Physics 8, 269 (2025)

4. Recurrence method in Non-Hermitian Systems 

Hao-Yan Chen*, Yi Zhang*

Physical Review B 111, 165118 (2025)

5. Enhanced nonlinear Hall effect by Cooper pairs near superconductor criticality

Zi-Hao Dong, Hui Yang, Yi Zhang*

Physical Review B 111, 155120 (2025)

6. Braiding topology of non-Hermitian open-boundary bands

Yongxu Fu*, Yi Zhang*

Physical Review B 110, L121401 (2024)

7. Complex semiclassical theory for non-Hermitian quantum systems

Guang Yang, Yongkang Li, Yongxu Fu, Zhenduo Wang, Yi Zhang*

Phys. Rev. B 109, 045110 (2024)

8. Nontrivial worldline winding in non-Hermitian quantum systems

Shi-Xin Hu, Yongxu Fu*, Yi Zhang*

Physical Review B 108, 245114 (2023)

9. Hybrid scale-free skin effect in non-Hermitian systems: A transfer matrix approach

Yongxu Fu*, Yi Zhang*

Physical Review B 108, 205423 (2023)

10. Maximum-Likelihood-Estimate Hamiltonian learning via efficient and robust quantum likelihood gradient

Tian-Lun Zhao, Shi-Xin Hu, Yi Zhang*

Physical Review Research 5, 023136 (2023)

11. A quantum neural network with efficient optimization and interpretability

Pei-Lin Zheng, Jia-Bao Wang, Yi Zhang*

Physical Review Applied  20, 044002 (2023) [Editors' Suggestion]

12. Real spectra in one-dimensional single-band non-Hermitian Hamiltonians

Haoyan Chen*, Yi Zhang*

Physical Review B 108, 115114 (2023)

13. Quantum Dropout for Efficient Quantum Approximate Optimization Algorithm on Combinatorial Optimization Problems

Zhen-Duo Wang, Pei-Lin Zheng, Biao Wu, Yi Zhang* 

Physcal Review Research 5, 023171 (2023)

14. Anatomy of open-boundary bulk in multiband non-Hermitian systems

Yongxu Fu*, Yi Zhang*

Physcal Review B 107, 115412 (2023)

15. Single-shot quantum measurements sketch quantum states

Jia-Bao Wang, Yi Zhang* 

Physcal Review B 107, L161101 (2023)

16. A density-wave mechanism with a continuously variable wave vector

Tianlun Zhao, Yi Zhang* 

Chinese Physics B 32, 057304 (2023)

17. Ground-state properties via machine learning quantum constraints

Pei-Lin Zheng, Si-Jing Du, Yi Zhang* 

Physical Review Research 4, L032043 (2022)

18. Emergent channel over a pair of pockets in strong density waves

Di-Zhao Zhu, Yi Zhang*

Physical Review B 104, 165148 (2021)

19. Discrete Quantum Geometry and Intrinsic Spin Hall Effect

Jie-Xiang Yu, Jiadong Zang, Roger K. Lake, Yi Zhang, Gen Yin

Physical Review B 104, 184408 (2021)

20. Cycling Fermi arc electrons with Weyl orbits

Cheng Zhang, Yi Zhang, Hai-Zhou Lu, X.-C. Xie, Faxian Xiu

Nature Reviews Physics 3, 660-670 (2021)

21. Entanglement clustering for ground-stateable quantum many-body states

Michael Matty, Yi Zhang, T. Senthil, Eun-Ah Kim

Physical Review Research 3, 023212 (2021)

22. Quantum-limit Hall effect with large carrier density in topological semimetals

Guang Yang, Yi Zhang*

Physical Review B 103, L241104 (2021)

23. Topological quantum compiling with reinforcement learning

Yuan-Hang Zhang, Pei-Lin Zheng, Yi Zhang*, Dong-Ling Deng*

Physical Review Letters 125, 170501 (2020)

24. Fractionalized Excitations Revealed by Entanglement Entropy

Wen-Jun Hu, Yi Zhang, Andriy H Nevidomskyy, Elbio Dagotto, Qimiao Si, Hsin-Hua Lai

Physical Review Letters 124, 237201 (2020)

25. Interpreting machine learning of topological quantum phase transitions

Yi Zhang*, Paul Ginsparg*, Eun-Ah Kim*

Physical Review Research 2, 023283 (2020)

26. The discovery of dynamic chiral anomaly in a Weyl semimetal NbAs

Xiang Yuan*, Cheng Zhang*, Yi Zhang*, Zhongbo Yan, Tairu Lyu, Mengyao Zhang, Zhilin Li, Chaoyu Song, Minhao Zhao, Pengliang Leng, Mykhaylo Ozerov, Xiaolong Chen, Nanlin Wang, Yi Shi*, Hugen Yan*, Faxian Xiu*

Nature Communications 11, 1259 (2020)

27. Detecting Nematic Order in STM/STS Data with Artificial Intelligence 

Jeremy B. Goetz, Yi Zhang*, Michael J. Lawler

SciPost Physics 8, 087 (2020)

28. Optical Signatures of the Chiral Anomaly in Mirror-Symmetric Weyl Semimetals 

Aaron Hui, Yi Zhang*, Eun-Ah Kim

Physical Review B 100, 085144 (2019)

29. Cyclotron orbit knot and tunable-field quantum Hall effect

Yi Zhang

Physical Review Research 1, 022005(R) (2019)

30. Multi-faceted machine learning of competing orders in disordered interacting systems 

Michael Matty, Yi Zhang, Zlatko Papic, Eun-Ah Kim

Physical Review B 100, 155141 (2019) [Editors' Suggestion]

31. Machine Learning in Electronic Quantum Matter Imaging Experiments

Yi Zhang*, A Mesaros*, K Fujita, SD Edkins, MH Hamidian, K Ch’ng, H Eisaki, S Uchida, JC Séamus Davis, Ehsan Khatami, Eun-Ah Kim*

Nature 570, 484–490 (2019)

32. Quantum Hall effect based on Weyl orbits in Cd3As2

Cheng Zhang*, Yi Zhang*, Xiang Yuan*, Shiheng Lu, Jinglei Zhang, Awadhesh Narayan, Yanwen Liu, Huiqin Zhang, Zhuoliang Ni, Ran Liu, Eun Sang Choi, Alexey Suslov, Stefano Sanvito, Li Pi, Hai-Zhou Lu, Andrew C. Potter & Faxian Xiu*

Nature 565, 331–336 (2019)

33. Probing transport in quantum many-fermion simulations via quantum loop topography

Yi Zhang*, Carsten Bauer, Peter Broecker, Simon Trebst, Eun-Ah Kim* 

Physical Review B 99, 161120(R) (2019) [Editors' Suggestion]

34. Quantum Limit Transport and Destruction of the Weyl Nodes in TaAs

B. J. Ramshaw, K. A. Modic, Arkady Shekhter, Yi Zhang, Eun-Ah Kim, Philip J. W. Moll, Maja Bachmann, M. K. Chan, J. B. Betts, F. Balakirev, A. Migliori, N. J. Ghimire, E. D. Bauer, F. Ronning, R. D. McDonald

Nature Communications 9, 2217 (2018)

35. Quantum Loop Topography for Machine Learning

Yi Zhang*, Eun-Ah Kim*

Physical Review Letters 118, 216401 (2017) [Editors' Suggestion and featured in Physics Viewpoint]

36. Machine Learning Z2 Quantum Spin Liquids with Quasi-particle Statistics 

Yi Zhang, Roger G. Melko, Eun-Ah Kim

Physical Review B 96, 245119 (2017)

37. Unified non-Fermi liquid and superconductivity in a model of strongly-correlated systems

Yi Zhang

eprint-arXiv:1711.03981

38. The Hall number across a van Hove singularity 

Akash V. Maharaj, I Esterlis, Yi Zhang, Brad Ramshaw, Steven A Kivelson 

Physical Review B 96, 045132 (2017) [Editors' Suggestion]

39. Quantum oscillations from generic surface Fermi arcs and bulk chiral modes in Weyl semi-metals

Yi Zhang, Daniel Bulmash, Pavan Hosur, Andrew C. Potter, Ashvin Vishwanath

Scientific Reports 6 23741 (2016)

40. Quantum oscillations in a bilayer with broken mirror symmetry: a minimal model for YBa2Cu3O6 + δ

Akash V. Maharaj, Yi Zhang, Brad Ramshaw, Steven A. Kivelson

Physical Review B 93, 094503 (2016)

41. General procedure for determining braiding and statistics of anyons using entanglement interferometry

Yi Zhang, Tarun Grover, Ashvin Vishwanath

Physical Review B 91, 035127 (2015)

42. Variational Monte Carlo study of a chiral spin liquid in the extended Heisenberg model on the kagome lattice

Wen-Jun Hu, Wei Zhu, Yi Zhang, Shoushu Gong, Federico Becca, D. N. Sheng

Physical Review B 91, 041124(R) (2015) [Rapid Communications]

43. Are there quantum oscillations in an incommensurate charge density wave?

Yi Zhang, Akash V. Maharaj, Steven A. Kivelson

Physical Review B 91, 085105 (2015)

44. The almost mobility edge in the almost Mathieu equation

Yi Zhang, Danny Bulmash, Akash V. Maharaj, Chao-Ming Jian, Steven A. Kivelson

eprint-arXiv:1504.05205

45.  Identifying non-Abelian topological ordered state and transition by momentum polarization

Yi Zhang, Xiao-Liang Qi

Physical Review B 89, 195144 (2014) [Editors' Suggestion]

46. Observation of helical surface transport in topological insulator nanowire interferometer

Seung Sae Hong, Yi Zhang, Judy J, Cha, Xiao-Liang Qi, Yi Cui

Nano Lett. 14 (5), 2815 (2014)

47. Momentum polarization: an entanglement measure of topological spin and chiral central charge

Hong-Hao Tu, Yi Zhang, Xiao-Liang Qi

Physical Review B 88, 195412 (2013) 

48. Establishing non-Abelian topological order in Gutzwiller-projected Chern insulators via entanglement entropy and modular S-matrix

Yi Zhang, Ashvin Vishwanath

Physical Review B 87, 161113 (R) (2013) [Rapid Communications]

49. Entanglement entropy as a portal to the physics of quantum spin liquids

Tarun Grover, Yi Zhang, Ashvin Vishwanath

New Journal of Physics 15, 025002 (2013) 

50. Quasiparticle statistics and braiding from ground-state entanglement

Yi Zhang, Tarun Grover, Ari Turner, Masaki Oshikawa, Ashvin Vishwanath

Physical Review B 85, 235151 (2012) [Editors' Suggestion]

51.  Quantized response and topology of magnetic insulators with inversion symmetry

Ari M. Turner, Yi Zhang, Roger S. K. Mong, Ashvin Vishwanath

Physical Review B 85, 165120 (2012)

52. Topological entanglement entropy of Z2 spin liquids and lattice Laughlin states

Yi Zhang, Tarun Grover, Ashvin Vishwanath

Physical Review B 84, 075128 (2011)

53. Entanglement Entropy of Critical Spin Liquids

Yi Zhang, Tarun Grover, Ashvin Vishwanath

Physical Review Letters 107, 067202 (2011)

54. Anomalous Aharonov-Bohm Conductance Oscillations from Topological Insulator Surface States

Yi Zhang, and Ashvin Vishwanath

Physical Review Letters 105, 206601 (2010)

55. Entanglement and inversion symmetry in topological insulators

Ari M. Turner, Yi Zhang, Ashvin Vishwanath

Physical Review B 82, 241102(R) (2010) [Rapid Communications]

56. Topological insulators in three dimensions from spontaneous symmetry breaking

Yi Zhang, Ying Ran, Ashvin Vishwanath

Physical Review B 79, 245331 (2009)

57. One-dimensional topologically protected modes in topological insulators with lattice dislocations

Ying Ran, Yi Zhang, Ashvin Vishwanath

Nature Physics 5, 298 - 303 (2009)

58. Resonance properties of metallic ring systems

Lei Zhou, Xueqin Huang, Yi Zhang, Siu-Tat Chui

Materials Today 12, 52-59 (2009)

59. Design and miniaturization of split ring structures based on an analytic solution of their resonance

S.T. Chui, Yi Zhang, Lei Zhou

Journal of Applied Physics 104, 035305 (2008)

60. Electric and magnetic resonances in broadside coupled split-ring resonators: An extended mode-expansion theory

Xueqin Huang, Yi Zhang, S.T. Chui, Lei Zhou

Physical Review B 77, 235105 (2008)