Chong Wang

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Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics
Research Faculty
Areas of research:
Quantum Matter
(519) 569-7600 x7751
If you are interested in pursuing a MSc degree, please apply to the Perimeter Scholars International (PSI) masters program. If you are interested in working with me as a PhD student, please submit an application directly to my department at the University of Waterloo and indicate that you would like to be supervised by me. Perimeter Institute is committed to diversity within its community and I welcome applications from underrepresented groups.
I am interested in exotic quantum phases of matter, especially those arising from strongly correlated many-body systems. In particular I am interested in topological phases of matter, quantum spin liquids, quantum Hall effects, quantum phase transitions and related topics in quantum field theories such as anomalies and dualities.
  • 2015 - 2018 Society of Fellows, Harvard University, Junior Fellow
  • Lei Gioia, Chong Wang, Non-zero momentum requires long-range entanglement, Phys. Rev. X 12, 031007 (2022), arXiv: 2112.06946
  • Ruochen Ma, Liujun Zou, Chong Wang, Edge physics at the deconfined transition between a quantum spin Hall insulator and a superconductor, SciPost Phys. 12, 196 (2022), arXiv: 2110.08280
  • Chong Wang, Alexander Hickey, Xuzhe Ying, A.A. Burkov, Emergent anomalies and generalized Luttinger theorems in metals and semimetals, Phys. Rev. B 104, 235113 (2021), arXiv: 2110.10692
  • Lei Gioia, Chong Wang, A. A. Burkov, Unquantized anomalies in topological semimetals, Phys. Rev. Research 3, 043067 (2021), arXiv: 2103.09841
  • Liujun Zou, Yin-Chen He, Chong Wang, Stiefel Liquids: Possible Non-Lagrangian Quantum Criticality from Intertwined Orders, Phys. Rev. X 11, 031043 (2021), arXiv: 2101.07805
  • Xue-Yang Song, Yin-Chen He, Ashvin Vishwanath, Chong Wang, Electric polarization as a non- quantized topological response and boundary Luttinger theorem, Physical Review Research 3 (2), 023011 (2021), arXiv: 1909.08637
  • Katherine Latimer, Chong Wang, Correlated Fragile Topology: a Parton Approach, Physical Review B 103 (4), 045128 (2021), arXiv: 2007.15605
  • Ruochen Ma, Chong Wang, Theory of deconfined pseudocriticality, Physical Review B 102 (2), 020407(R) (2020), arXiv: 1912.12315
  • Chong Wang, L. Gioia, A.A. Burkov, Fractional Quantum Hall Effect in Weyl Semimetals, Physical Review Letters 124 (9), 096603 (2020), arXiv: 1907.02068
  • Xue-Yang Song, Yin-Chen He, Ashvin Vishwanath, Chong Wang, From spinon band topology to the symmetry quantum numbers of monopoles in Dirac spin liquids, Phys. Rev. X 10, 011033 (2020), arXiv: 1811.11182
  • T. Senthil, Dam Thanh Son, Chong Wang, Cenke Xu, Duality between (2+1)d Quantum Critical Points, Physics Reports 827, 1-48 (2019), arXiv: 1810.05174
  • Chong Wang, Ashvin Vishwanath, Bertrand I. Halperin, Topological Order from Disorder and the Quantized Hall Thermal Metal: Possible Applications to the 5/2 State, Phys. Rev. B 98, 045112 (2018), arXiv: 1711.11557
  • Snir Gazit, Fakher F Assaad, Subir Sachdev, Ashvin Vishwanath, Chong Wang, Confinement transition of Z2 gauge theories coupled to massless fermions: emergent quantum chromodynamics and SO(5) symmetry, Proceedings of National Academy of Sciences, 201806338 (2018), arXiv: 1804.01095
  • Chong Wang, Adam Nahum, Max A. Metlitski, Cenke Xu, T. Senthil, Deconfined quantum critical points: symmetries and dualities, Phys. Rev. X 7, 031051 (2017), arXiv: 1703.02426
  • Chong Wang, Nigel R. Cooper, Bertrand I. Halperin, Ady Stern, Particle-Hole Symmetry in the Fermion-Chern-Simons and Dirac Descriptions of a Half-Filled Landau Level, Phys. Rev. X 7, 031029 (2017), arXiv: 1701.00007
  • Nathan Seiberg, T. Senthil, Chong Wang, Edward Witten, A Duality Web in 2 + 1 Dimen- sions and Condensed Matter Physics, Annals of Physics, 374, 395-433 (2016), arXiv: 1606.01989
  • Chong Wang, T. Senthil, Time-reversal symmetric U(1) quantum spin liquids, Phys. Rev. X 6, 011034 (2016), arXiv: 1505.03520
  • Chong Wang, T. Senthil, Dual Dirac liquid on the surface of the electron topological insulator, Phys. Rev. X 5, 041031 (2015), arXiv: 1505.05141
  • Chong Wang, T. Senthil, Interacting fermionic topological insulators/superconductors in three dimensions, Phys. Rev. B 89, 195124 (2014), arXiv: 1401.1142
  • Chong Wang, Andrew C. Potter, T. Senthil, Classification of interacting electronic topological insulators in three dimensions, Science 343, 6171 (2014), arXiv: 1306.3238
  • Chong Wang, Andrew C. Potter, T. Senthil, Gapped Symmetry Preserving Surface-State for the Electron Topological Insulator, Phys. Rev. B 88, 115137 (2013), arXiv: 1306.3223
  • Chong Wang, T. Senthil, Boson topological insulators: A window into highly entangled quantum phases, Phys. Rev. B 87, 235122 (2013), arXiv: 1302.6234
  • Weicheng Ye, Meng Guo, Yin-Chen He, Chong Wang, Liujun Zou, Topological characterization of Lieb-Schultz-Mattis constraints and applications to symmetry-enriched quantum criticality, arXiv: 2111.12097
  • Ruochen Ma, Chong Wang, Emergent anomaly of Fermi surfaces: a simple derivation from Weyl fermions, arXiv: 2110.09492
  • PIRSA:21030041, Stiefel liquids: possible non-Lagrangian quantum criticality from intertwined orders, 2021-03-29, Quantum Matter Frontier Seminars
  • PIRSA:20080004, Dualities 1, 2020-08-11, Online School on Ultra Quantum Matter
  • PIRSA:19040094, QED and quantum magnetism in (2+1)d, 2019-04-22, Quantum Matter: Emergence & Entanglement 3
  • PIRSA:17100049, A Web of Dualities in Condensed Matter Physics: from Quantum Hall Effect to Exotic Quantum Criticality, 2017-10-04, Condensed Matter