Yin-Chen He

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Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics
Research Faculty
Areas of research:
Quantum Matter
(519) 569-7600 x6562
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 send me an email at [email protected] or 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 the condensed matter theory of strongly correlated system, particularly quantum spin liquid, quantum criticality, conformal field theory, topological phases of matter, quantum field theory and numerical simulations. Email: [email protected]
  • 2016.08-2018.06, Moore Postdoctoral Fellow, Harvard University
  • 2014.07-2016.07, Postdoctoral Fellow, Max Planck Institute for the Physics of Complex Systems
  • Aaron Szasz, Chong Wang, Yin-Chen He, "Phase diagram of a bilinear-biquadratic spin-1 model on the triangular lattice from density matrix renormalization group simulations", arXiv: 2206.04087
  • Zheng Zhou, Yin-Chen He, "Slightly broken higher-spin current in bosonic and fermionic QED in the large-N limit", arXiv: 2205.07897
  • 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
  • Yin-Chen He, Junchen Rong, Ning Su, "Conformal bootstrap bounds for the U(1) Dirac spin liquid and N=7 Stiefel liquid", SciPost Phys. 13, 014 (2022), arXiv: 2107.14637
  • Yin-Chen He, Junchen Rong, Ning Su, "A roadmap for bootstrapping critical gauge theories: decoupling operators of conformal field theories in d>2 dimensions", SciPost Phys. 11, 111 (2021), arXiv: 2101.07262
  • 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
  • Yin-Chen He, Junchen Rong, Ning Su, "Non-Wilson-Fisher kinks of O(N) numerical bootstrap: from the deconfined phase transition to a putative new family of CFTs", SciPost Phys. 10, 115 (2021), arXiv: 2005.04250
  • Ruochen Ma, Yin-Chen He, "Emergent QCD3 Quantum Phase Transitions of Fractional Chern Insulators", Phys. Rev. Research 2, 033348 (2020), arXiv: 2003.05954
  • W. Zhu, Zhoushen Huang, Yin-Chen He, Xueda Wen, "Entanglement Hamiltonian of Many-body Dynamics in Strongly-correlated Systems", Phys. Rev. Lett. 124, 100605 (2020), arXiv: 1909.08808
  • 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
  • Liujun Zou, Yin-Chen He, "Field-induced QCD3-Chern-Simons quantum criticalities in Kitaev materials", Phys. Rev. Research 2, 013072 (2020), arXiv: 1809.09091
  • Shijie Hu, W. Zhu, Sebastian Eggert, Yin-Chen He, "Dirac Spin Liquid on the Spin-1/2 Triangular Heisenberg Antiferromagnet", Phys. Rev. Lett. 123, 207203 (2019), arXiv: 1905.09837
  • Xue-Yang Song, Yin-Chen He, Ashvin Vishwanath, Chong Wang, "Electric polarization as a nonquantized topological response and boundary Luttinger theorem", Phys. Rev. Research 3, 023011 (2021), arXiv: 1909.08637
  • Xue-Yang Song, Chong Wang, Ashvin Vishwanath, Yin-Chen He, "Unifying Description of Competing Orders in Two Dimensional Quantum Magnets", Nature Communications 10, 4254 (2019), arXiv: 1811.11186
  • Han Ma, Yin-Chen He, "Shadow of complex fixed point: Approximate conformality of Q>4 Potts model", Phys. Rev. B 99, 195130 (2019), arXiv: 1811.11189
  • Jong Yeon Lee, Chong Wang, Michael P. Zaletel, Ashvin Vishwanath, Yin-Chen He, "Emergent Multi-flavor QED3 at the Plateau Transition between Fractional Chern Insulators: Applications to graphene heterostructures", Phys. Rev. X 8, 031015 (2018), arXiv: 1802.09538
  • Yi-Zhuang You, Yin-Chen He, Cenke Xu, Ashvin Vishwanath, "Symmetric Fermion Mass Generation as Deconfined Quantum Criticality", Phys. Rev. X 8, 011026 (2018), arXiv: 1705.09313
  • Xue-Feng Zhang, Yin-Chen He, Sebastian Eggert, Roderich Moessner, Frank Pollmann, "Continuous easy-plane deconfined phase transition on the kagome lattice", Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 115702 (2018), arXiv: 1706.05414
  • Yin-Chen He, Michael P. Zaletel, Masaki Oshikawa, Frank Pollmann, "Signatures of Dirac cones in a DMRG study of the Kagome Heisenberg model", Phys. Rev. X 7, 031020 (2017), arXiv: 1611.06238
  • Lukas Janssen, Yin-Chen He, "Critical behavior of the QED3-Gross-Neveu model: Duality and deconfined criticality", Phys. Rev. B 96, 205113 (2017), arXiv: 1708.02256
  • Yin-Chen He, Fabian Grusdt, Adam Kaufman, Markus Greiner, Ashvin Vishwanath, "Realizing and Adiabatically Preparing Bosonic Integer and Fractional Quantum Hall states in Optical Lattices", Phys. Rev. B 96, 201103 (2017), arXiv: 1703.00430
  • Yin-Chen He, Subhro Bhattacharjee, Frank Pollmann, R. Moessner, "Kagome chiral spin liquid as a gauged U(1) symmetry protected topological phase". Phys. Rev. Lett. 115, 267209 (2015), arXiv: 1509.03070
  • Yin-Chen He, Subhro Bhattacharjee, R. Moessner, Frank Pollmann, "Bosonic Integer Quantum Hall effect in an interacting lattice model", Phys. Rev. Lett. 115, 116803 (2015), arXiv: 1506.01645
  • Yin-Chen He, Yan Chen, "Distinct Spin Liquids and their Transitions in Spin-1/2 XXZ Kagome Antiferromagnets", Phys. Rev. Lett. 114, 037201 (2015), arXiv: 1407.2740
  • Yin-Chen He, D. N. Sheng, Yan Chen, "Chiral spin liquid in a frustrated anisotropic kagome Heisenberg model", Phys. Rev. Lett. 112, 137202 (2014), arXiv: 1312.3461
  • PIRSA:22050046, Bootstrapping critical gauge theories, 2022-05-19, Quantum Criticality: Gauge Fields and Matter
  • PIRSA:21100015, Towards bootstrapping critical quantum matter, 2021-10-04, Quantum Matter Frontier Seminars
  • PIRSA:19040110, Phase transition of fractional Chern insulators: QED3 and beyond, 2019-04-26, Quantum Matter: Emergence & Entanglement 3
  • PIRSA:17050011, Exotic emergent phenomena from many-body entanglement, 2017-05-01, Colloquium
  • PIRSA:16040106, Spin liquids on kagome lattice and symmetry protected topological phase, 2016-04-19, Condensed Matter