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YAN Yangqian

[Personal Research Homepage]

Assistant Professor

 (852) 3943 6396

yqyan(at)cuhk.edu.hk

0000-0002-3237-5945

Room G9, G/F, Science Centre North Block

Education:

  • PhD, Washington State University, 2016
  • BS, University of Science and Technology of China, 2010

Position:

  • 08/2021-now, Assistant Professor, The Chinese University of Hong Kong
  • 07/2017-07/2021 Postdoc Research Associate, Purdue University
  • 06/2016-06/2017 Postdoctoral Scholar, Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis

Research Interest:

  • Theory of ultracold atomic gas and quantum matters:
    • strongly interacting gases: few- and many-body systems
    • topological quantum matters
    • quantum simulation

Selected Recent Publications:

  • "Manipulating anyons in quantum Hall droplets of light using dissipations", Y Yan, Q Zhou, arXiv:2106.15726
  • "Efimov-like states and quantum funneling effects on synthetic hyperbolic surfaces", R Zhang, C Lv, Y Yan, Q Zhou, Science Bulletin (2021), doi.org/10.1016/j.scib.2021.06.017, arXiv:2010.05135
  • "Localization on a synthetic Hall cylinder", R Zhang, Y Yan, Q Zhou, Phys. Rev. Lett. 126 (19), 193001 (2021), arXiv:2012.02204
  • "Evidence for Bosonization in a Three-Dimensional Gas of SU(N) Fermions", B Song, Y Yan, C He, Z Ren, Q Zhou, GB Jo, Phys. Rev. X 10 (4), 041053 (2020), arXiv:1912.12105
  • "Eternal discrete time crystal beating the Heisenberg limit" C Lyu, S Choudhury, C Lv, Y Yan, Q Zhou, Phys. Rev. Research 2 (3), 033070 (2020), arXiv:1907.00474
  • "Emergent periodic and quasiperiodic lattices on surfaces of synthetic Hall tori and synthetic Hall cylinders", Y Yan, SL Zhang, S Choudhury, Q Zhou, Phys. Rev. Lett. 123 (26), 260405 (2019), arXiv:1810.12331
  • "Observation of quantum interference and coherent control in a photochemical reaction", DB Blasing, J Pérez-Ríos, Y Yan, S Dutta, CH Li, Q Zhou, YP Chen, Phys. Rev. Lett. 121 (7), 073202 (2018), arXiv:1807.11608
  • "Path integral Monte Carlo ground state approach: formalism, implementation, and applications", Y Yan, D Blume, J. Phys. B 50 (22), 223001 (2017), arXiv:1709.05496, tutorial
  • "Path-integral Monte Carlo determination of the fourth-order virial coefficient for a unitary two-component Fermi gas with zero-range interactions", Y Yan, D Blume, Phys. Rev. Lett. 116 (23), 230401 (2016), arXiv:1602.02328
  • "Generalized Efimov scenario for heavy-light mixtures", D Blume, Y Yan, Phys. Rev. Lett. 113 (21), 213201 (2014), arXiv:1410.2314
  • "Abnormal superfluid fraction of harmonically trapped few-fermion systems", Y Yan, D Blume, Phys. Rev. Lett. 112 (23), 235301 (2014), arXiv:1312.4470