Wang Yang Professor

2012/09 to 2018/09: Ph.D. in Physics, University of California San Diego
2008/09 to 2012/07: B.S. in Physics, Tsinghua University

2023/06 to Present: Professor, School of Physics, Nankai University
2018/09 to 2023/04: Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Physics and Stewart Blusson Quantum Matter Institute, University of British Columbia

Wang Yang is a professor in School of Physics at Nankai University. In 2018, he obtained his Ph.D. degree in Physics from University of California San Diego, under the supervision of Professor Congjun Wu. From 2018 to 2021 and from 2021 to 2023, he conducted postdoctoral research in the research groups of Professor Ian Affleck and Professor Robert Raussendorf at the University of British Columbia. His research interests encompass theoretical strongly correlated condensed matter physics and quantum computation, including one-dimensional strongly correlated systems, dynamics of quantum integrable models, measurement-based quantum computation, and unconventional superconductors. To date, he has published a total of 20 research papers in journals such as Nature, Nature Physics, Physical Review Letters, Applied Physics Reviews, Quantum, Physical Review B, and Physical Review Research.

1. One-Dimensional Strongly Correlated Physics 

Using the methods of conformal field theory and bosonization, combined with DMRG numerical techniques, we investigate one-dimensional strongly correlated condensed matter systems, including quantum magnetism, quasi-one-dimensional Kitaev materials, and helium-4 superfluidity in nanopores.

2. Quantum Integrable Systems 

We employ the Bethe ansatz method to study spin dynamics in one-dimensional integrable spin chains.

3. Measurement-Based Quantum Computation

We investigate the implementation of measurement-based quantum computation in symmetry protected topological condensed matter systems.

4. Unconventional Superconductors 

We study problems in unconventional superconductivity characterized by properties such as multi-component fermionic pairings, nontrivial topology, spontaneous time-reversal symmetry breaking, and inversion symmetry breaking.

For all papers, see https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=3BUZ_xYAAAAJ 

Published：

（* corresponding author, # co-first author）

21. Wang Yang, Chao Xu, Shenglong Xu, Alberto Nocera, Ian Affleck, Nonsymmorphic Luttinger liquids in generalized antiferromagnetic Kitaev spin-1/2 chain, Phys. Rev. B 109, L180403 (2024).

20. Robert Raussendorf, Wang Yang, Arnab Adhikary, Measurement-based quantum computation in finite one-dimensional systems: string order implies computational power, Quantum 7, 1215 (2023).

19. Chao Xu#, Wang Yang#, Congjun Wu*, Frustrated superconducting junction with tri-component pairing gap functions, Phys. Rev. B 108, 094509 (2023). 

18. Wang Yang, Chao Xu, Alberto Nocera, Ian Affleck, Origin of nonsymmorphic bosonization formulas in generalized antiferromagnetic Kitaev spin-1/2 chains from a renormalization-group perspective, Phys. Rev. B 106, 064425 (2022).

17. Chao Xu, Wang Yang∗, Nonrelativistic axion electrodynamics in p+is superconductors, Phys. Rev. B 106, 014517 (2022).      

16. Xinhe Wang#, Wei Yang#, Wang Yang#, Yuan Cao#, Xiaoyang Lin*, Guodong Wei, Haichang Lu, Peizhe Tang, Weisheng Zhao*, Spin Manipulation by Giant Valley-Zeeman Spin-Orbit Field in Atom-Thick WSe_2, Appl. Phys. Rev. 9, 031402 (2022). 

15. Wang Yang, Alberto Nocera, Paul Herringer, Robert Raussendorf, and Ian Affleck, Symmetry analysis of bond-alternating Kitaev spin chains and ladders, Phys. Rev. B 105, 094432 (2022).

14. Wang Yang, Alberto Nocera, Erik S Sørensen, Hae-Young Kee, Ian Affleck, Classical spin order near the antiferromagnetic Kitaev point in the spin-1/2  Kitaev-Gamma chain, Phys. Rev. B 103, 054437 (2021). 

13. Wang Yang, Chao Xu, Congjun Wu∗, Single branch of chiral Majorana modes from doubly degenerate Fermi surfaces, Phys. Rev. Research 2, 042047(R) (2020).

12. Wang Yang, Ian Affleck, Shell model for superfluids in rough-walled nanopores, Phys. Rev. B 102, 205426 (2020). 

11. Wang Yang, Alberto Nocera, Ian Affleck, Spin wave theory of a one-dimensional generalized Kitaev model, Phys. Rev. B 102, 134419 (2020). 

10. Wang Yang, Alberto Nocera, Ian Affleck, Comprehensive study of the phase diagram of the spin-1/2 Kitaev-Heisenberg-Gamma chain, Phys. Rev. Research 2, 033268 (2020). 

9.   Anup Kumar Bera*, Jianda Wu*, Wang Yang*, Robert Bewley, Martin Boehm, Jianhui Xu, Maciej Bartkowiak, Oleksandr Prokhnenko, Bastian Klemke, ATM Nazmul Islam, Joseph Mathew Law, Zhe Wang, Bella Lake*, Dispersions of many-body Bethe strings, Nature Physics 16, 625 (2020).

8.   Wang Yang, Alberto Nocera, Tarun Tummuru, Hae-Young Kee, Ian Affleck, Phase diagram of the spin-1/2 Kitaev-Gamma chain and emergent SU(2) symmetry, Phys. Rev. Lett. 124, 147205 (2020). 

7.   Wang Yang, Jianda Wu∗, Shenglong Xu, Zhe Wang, Congjun Wu∗, One-dimensional quantum spin dynamics of Bethe string states, Phys. Rev. B 100, 184406 (2019).

6.   Zhe Wang∗, M Schmidt, Alois Loidl, Jianda Wu∗, Haiyuan Zou, Wang Yang, Chao Dong, Y Kohama, K Kindo, DI Gorbunov, S Niesen, O Breunig, J Engelmayer, T Lorenz, Quantum critical dynamics of a Heisenberg-Ising chain in a longitudinal field: many-body strings versus fractional excitations, Phys. Rev. Lett. 123, 067202 (2019). 

5.   Jianda Wu, Wang Yang, Congjun Wu, Qimiao Si, Quantum critical dynamics for a prototype class of insulating antiferromagnets, Phys. Rev. B 97, 224405 (2018). 

4.   Zhe Wang, Jianda Wu, Wang Yang, Anup Kumar Bera, Dmytro Kamenskyi, A. T. M. Nazmul Islam, Shenglong Xu, Joseph Matthew Law, Bella Lake, Congjun Wu, Alois Loidl, Experimental observation of Bethe strings, Nature 554, 219 (2018). 

3.   Wang Yang, Tao Xiang, and Congjun Wu, Majorana surface modes of nodal topological pairings in spin-3/2 semi-metals, Phys. Rev. B 96, 144514 (2017). 

2.   Zhe Wang∗, Jianda Wu∗, Shenglong Xu, Wang Yang, Congjun Wu, Anup Kumar Bera, A. T. M. Nazmul Islam, Bella Lake, Dmytro Kamenskyi, Papori Gogoi, Hans Engelkamp, Nanlin Wang, Joachim Deisenhofer, Alois Loidl, From confined spinons to emergent fermions: Observation of elementary magnetic excitations in a transverse-field Ising chain, Phys. Rev. B 94, 125130 (2016). 

1.   Wang Yang, Yi Li, Congjun Wu, Topological septet pairing with spin-3/2 fermions – high partial-wave channel counterpart of the He3-B phase, Phys. Rev. Lett. 117, 075301 (2016).   

Preprints: 

4.   Arnab Adhikary#, Wang Yang#, Robert Raussendorf, Counter-intuitive yet efficient regimes for measurement based quantum computation on symmetry protected spin chains, arXiv:2307.08903 (2023). 

3.   Wang Yang, Alberto Nocera, Chao Xu, Ian Affleck, Nonsymmorphic spin-space cubic groups and SU(2)_1 conformal invariance in one-dimensional spin-1/2 models, arXiv:2208.10754 (2022).

2.   Wang Yang, Alberto Nocera, Chao Xu, Hae-Young Kee, Ian Affleck, Counter-rotating spiral, zigzag, and 120 orders from coupled-chain analysis of Kitaev-Gamma-Heisenberg model, and relations to honeycomb iridates, arXiv:2207.02188 (2022).

1.   Wang Yang, Alberto Nocera, Chao Xu, Arnab Adhikary, Ian Affleck, Emergent SU(2)_1 conformal symmetry in the spin-1/2 Kitaev-Gamma chain with a Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya interaction, arXiv:2204.13810 (2022).

 

Undergraduate course "Theoretical Mechanics"