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Yu-An Chen (陈昱安)

Assistant Professor

Contact Info

Office W578

Tel+86 198 0026 1817

Email[email protected]

Personal Homepagehttps://scholar.google.com/citations?hl=en&user=fvFgUMsAAAAJ

 

Education

Degree Year Major    Institution
Ph.D. 2015-2020 Physics California Institute of Technology
B.S. 2010-2014 Physics Massachusetts Institute of Technology

 

Professional Appointments

Year Position Institution
2023-Present Assistant Professor ICQM, School of Physics, Peking University
2020-2023 JQI Postdoctoral Fellow University of Maryland, College Park

 

Honors and Awards

Gold Medal at the International Physics Olympiad (IPhO), 2009

Bronze Medal at the International Physics Olympiad (IMO), 2010

Phi Beta Kappa Award at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2015

 

Selected Publications

1. Yu-An Chen, Anton Kapustin, Djordje Radicevic; Exact bosonization in two spatial dimensions and a new class of lattice gauge theories; Annals of Physics; 2018, 393, 234-253

2. Yu-An Chen, Anton Kapustin; Bosonization in three spatial dimensions and a 2-form gauge theory; Physical Review B; 2019, 100 (24), 245127

3. Yu-An Chen; Exact bosonization in arbitrary dimensions; Physical Review Research; 2020, 2 (3), 033527

4. Yu-An Chen, Tyler Ellison, Nathanan Tantivasadakarn; Disentangling supercohomology symmetry-protected topological phases in three spatial dimensions; Physical Review Research; 2020, 3 (1), 013056

5. Tyler Ellison, Yu-An Chen, Arpit Dua, Wilbur Shirley, Nathanan Tantivasadakarn, Dominic Williamson; Pauli stabilizer models of twisted quantum doubles; PRX Quantum; 2022, 3 (1), 010353

6. Maissam Barkeshli, Yu-An Chen, Po-Shen Hsin, Naren Manjunath; Classification of (2+1)D invertible fermionic topological phases with symmetry; Physical Review B; 2022, 105 (23), 235143

7. Wilbur Shirley, Yu-An Chen, Arpit Dua, Tyler Ellison, Nathanan Tantivasadakarn, Dominic Williamson; Three-dimensional quantum cellular automata from chiral semion surface topological order and beyond; PRX Quantum; 2022, 3 (3), 030326

8. Yu-An Chen, Yijia Xu; Equivalence between fermion-to-qubit mappings in two spatial dimensions; PRX Quantum; 2023, 4 (1), 010326

9. Maissam Barkeshli, Yu-An Chen, Sheng-Jie Huang, Ryohei Kobayashi, Nathanan Tantivasadakarn, Guanyu Zhu; Codimension-2 defects and higher symmetries in (3+1)D topological phases; SciPost Physics; 2023, 14 (4), 065

10. Yu-An Chen, Po-Shen Hsin; Exactly solvable lattice Hamiltonians and gravitational anomalies; SciPost Physics; 2023, Physics 14 (5), 089

 

Opening Positions

Grad students and Postdoctoral researchers.