Publications

(anti-chronological order, *asterisked authors contribute equally)

26. Zhaoyu Han, Jonah Herzog-Arbeitman, Qiang Gao, Eslam Khalaf. Exact models of chiral flat-band superconductors. arXiv: 2508.21127.

25. Zhaoyu Han, Taige Wang, Zhihuan Dong, Mike P. Zaletel, Ashvin Vishwanath. Anyon superfluidity of excitons in quantum Hall bilayers. arXiv: 2508.14894

24. Qiang Gao, Zhaoyu Han, Eslam Khalaf. Bootstrapping Flat-band Superconductors: Rigorous Lower Bounds on Superfluid Stiffness. arXiv: 2506.18969

23. Pavel A. Nosov*, Zhaoyu Han*, Eslam Khalaf. Anyon superconductivity and plateau transitions in doped fractional quantum anomalous Hall insulators. arXiv: 2506.02108

22. Zhaoyu Han and Steven A. Kivelson. Models of interacting bosons with exact ground states: a unified approach. Phys. Rev. B 111, 174520 (2025). arXiv: 2408.15319

21. Xun Cai, Zhaoyu Han, Zi-Xiang Li, Steven A. Kivelson, Hong Yao. Quantum spin liquid from electron-phonon coupling. PNAS 122 (33) e2426111122. arXiv: 2408.04002

20. Zhaoyu Han and Steven A. Kivelson. Emergent Gauge Fields in Band Insulators. PNAS 122 (15) e2421778122. arXiv: 2405.17539 (Commentary at PNAS)

19. Jiucai Wang, Wen Sun, Hao-Xin Wang, Zhaoyu Han, Steven A. Kivelson, Hong Yao. Pair density waves in the strong-coupling two-dimensional Holstein-Hubbard model: a variational Monte Carlo study. arXiv: 2404.11950

18. Zhaoyu Han, Jonah Herzog-Arbeitman, B. Andrei Bernevig, Steven A. Kivelson. "Quantum Geometric Nesting'' and Solvable Model Flat-Band Systems. Phys. Rev. X 14, 041004 (2024). arXiv: 2401.04163

17. Benjamin A. Foutty, Vladimir Calvera, Zhaoyu Han, Carlos R. Kometter, Song Liu, Kenji Watanabe, Takashi Taniguchi, James C. Hone, Steven A. Kivelson, Benjamin E. Feldman. Anomalous Landau level gaps near magnetic transitions in monolayer WSe2. Phys. Rev. X 14, 031018 (2024). arXiv: 2401.01486

16. Zhaoyu Han, Steven A. Kivelson, and Pavel A. Volkov. "Quantum bipolaron" superconductivity from quadratic electron-phonon coupling. Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 226001 (2024) (Editor's Suggestion, Featured in phys.org). arXiv: 2312.03844

15. Fangze Liu and Zhaoyu Han. Pair-density-wave and s±id superconductivity in a strongly coupled, lightly doped Kondo insulator. Phys. Rev. B 109, L121101 (2023) (Letter). arXiv: 2310.17691

14. Zhaoyu Han, Kyung-Su Kim, Steven A. Kivelson, and Thors Hans Hansson. Two-fluid theory of composite bosons and fermions and the quantum Hall proximity effect. Phys. Rev. B 108, 195117 (2023). arXiv: 2308.10190

13. Kyung-Su Kim*, Zhaoyu Han*, John Sous. Semi-classical theory of bipolaronic superconductivity in a bond-modulated electron-phonon model. Phys. Rev. B 109, L220502 (2024) (Letter) (Recommended at CMJC). arXiv: 2308.01961 

12. Zhaoyu Han and Steven A. Kivelson. Resonating valence bond states in an electron-phonon system. Phys. Rev. Lett. 130, 186404 (2023). arXiv: 2210.16321

11. Sijia Zhao, Zhaoyu Han, Ilya Esterlis, and Steven A. Kivelson. The one-dimensional Holstein model revisited. Phys. Rev. B 107, 075142 (2023). arXiv: 2209.05498

10. Zhaoyu Han and Jing-Yuan Chen. Fractional Hall conductivity and spin-c structure in solvable lattice Hamiltonians. J. High Energ. Phys. 2023, 130 (2023). arXiv: 2208.13785

9. Zhaoyu Han and Steven A. Kivelson. Pair density wave and re-entrant superconducting tendencies originating from valley polarization. Phys. Rev. B 105, L100509 (2022) (Letter, Editor’s Suggestion). arXiv: 2112.03278

8. Jiachen Yu, Benjamin A Foutty, Zhaoyu Han, Mark E Barber, Yoni Schattner, Kenji Watanabe, Takashi Taniguchi, Philip Phillips, Zhi-Xun Shen, Steven A Kivelson, and Benjamin E Feldman. Correlated Hofstadter spectrum and flavour phase diagram in magic-angle twisted bilayer graphene. Nat. Phys. 18, 825–831 (2022). arXiv: 2108.00009 

7. Zhaoyu Han and Jing-Yuan Chen. Solvable lattice Hamiltonians with fractional Hall conductivity. Phys. Rev. B 105, 155130 (2022). arXiv: 2107.02817

6. Kevin S. Huang*, Zhaoyu Han*, Steven A. Kivelson, and Hong Yao. Pair-density-wave in the strong coupling limit of the Holstein-Hubbard model. npj Quan. Mater. 7, 17 (2022). arXiv: 2103.04984

5. Zhaoyu Han, Steven A. Kivelson, and Hong Yao. Strong coupling limit of the Holstein-Hubbard model. Phys. Rev. Lett. 125, 167001 (2020). arXiv: 2006.16253

4. Zhaoyu Han, Shiwei Zhang, and Xi Dai. Charge density waves in a quantum plasma. Phys. Rev. B 100, 155132 (2019). arXiv: 1910.07152

3. Jun Wang*, Zhaoyu Han*, Song-Bo Wang, Zeyang Li, Liang-Zhu Mu, Heng Fan, Lei Wang. Scalable quantum tomography with fidelity estimation. Phys. Rev. A 101, 032321 (2020). arXiv: 1712.03213

2. Zhaoyu Han*, Jun Wang*, Heng Fan, Lei Wang and Pan Zhang. Unsupervised generative modeling using matrix product states. Phys. Rev. X 8, 031012 (2018). arXiv: 1709.01662

1. Bing-Tian Ye*, Zhaoyu Han*, Liang-Zhu Mu and Heng Fan. Investigating disordered many-body system with entanglement in momentum space. Sci. Rep. 7, 16668 (2017). arXiv: 1607.05877