Research

Recent Highlights:

A. Rydberg Quantum Spin Liquids and Beyond:

Preparing and Probing a Z2 Toric Code Topological Spin Liquid in Rydberg Atom Arrays

Theoretical Prediction: PRX.;           arXiv:2011.12310 . 

Popular article in Physics.          and      PHYSICS WORLD
Figure caption                    Spin liquids
Experimental Paper:   Science       arXiv:2104.04119
 March Meeting Tutorial. Pedagogical LECTURE:
Non-Local Order parameters for topological spin liquids and beyond.

 

B. Unifed Approach to 2D Magnetism from Quantum Electrodynamics:

Xue-Yang Song, Y.-C. He, A. Vishwanath, and C. Wang

1. From spinon band topology to the symmetry quantum numbers of monopoles in Dirac spMonopole Quantum Numbersin liquids: 

 Phys. Rev. X 10, 011033 (2020)

2. Unifying description of competing orders in two-dimensional quantum magnets

Nature Communications (2019) .

Reviewed in: "Quantum electrodynamics in a piece of rock" by John MacGreevy (UCSD) in Nature Reviews Physics (2019) "Gauge theories, such as quantum electrodynamics, are a cornerstone of high-energy particle physics. They may also describe the physics of certain unassuming materials. Recent theoretical work moves this idea closer to reality."

C. : Exactly Soluble Floquet Models and Sine-Square Deformed CFTsHeating Phase - Hot Spots

Ruihua Fan, Y. Gu, A. Vishwanath, and Xueda Wen

Emergent Spatial Structure and Entanglement Localization in Floquet Conformal Field Theory: [pdf] 

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Other Research:


Fermion-Vortex Duality & Interacting
Topological Phase

 

Skyrmion Lattices and MnSi

Weyl Fermions

Filling Constraints on Quantum Phases

Quantum Phases Far from Equilibrium

Frustrated Magnetism