I received my B.S. degree at the University of Science and Technology of China in 2013, and then I enrolled in the Ph.D. program at the University of Colorado Boulder. I joined Professor Rey’s theory group at the beginning of 2014. My interests include cold atom systems and the super-radiance laser. I am currently working on exploring the synchronization phenomenon with three-level atoms coupled to a large decay cavity.
I obtained my MSc in 2013 at the University of Munich and my PhD in 2016 at the University of Cambridge.
My PhD Research focussed on the interplay of periodic driving (Floquet systems), e.g. to induce synthetic gauge fields, and many-body interactions, in cold atomic systems. It aimed to understand deleterious heating effects observed in experiment, and to design experimental protocols to avoid these opening up the possibility to access strongly interacting periodically driven many-body phases.
Taking advantage of the additional degrees of freedom in more complex quantum systems as knobs for control, manipulation and probing give rise to exciting new possibilities but at the cost of new mechanisms for loss and decoherence.
Topological states of matter are a particular class of non-Landau states, which are characterized by the notion of topological order. For example in the fractional quantum Hall effect, the topological order is directly responsible for the celebrated properties of fractional charge, anionic statistics and gapless chiral edge modes. A major reason for the current interest in topological states of matter stems from the potential application of topologically protected quantum computation.
An optical clock consists of two components, a laboratory radiation source and an atomic system with a natural reference frequency determined by quantum mechanics to which the laboratory radiation source can be compared. The laboratory radiation source is an ultra-stable cw laser. It acts as the local oscillator (or pendulum) for the clock and is used to probe an electromagnetic resonance in an atom.
We investigate AMO (Atomic-Molecular-Optical) analogs of systems that fall under the general heading of quantum magnetism, where localized magnetic moments interact with one another and/or with mobile fermions. Important solid state systems in this class include the cuprate superconductors, heavy fermion materials, colossal magnetoresistive manganites, and geometrically frustrated magnetic insulators.
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