Yin-Chen He

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Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics
Areas of research:
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]
  • Moore Postdoctoral Fellow, Harvard University, 2016-2018
  • Postdoctoral Fellow, Max Planck Institute for the Physics of Complex Systems, 2014-2016
  • Han, C., Hu, L., Zhu, W., & He, Y. -C. (2023). Conformal four-point correlators of the three-dimensional Ising transition via the quantum fuzzy sphere. Physical Review B, 108(23), 235123. doi:10.1103/physrevb.108.235123
  • Zhou, Z., & He, Y. -C. (n.d.). Slightly broken higher-spin current in bosonic and fermionic QED in the large-$N$ limit. SciPost Physics, 15(2), 072. doi:10.21468/scipostphys.15.2.072
  • Hu, L., He, Y. -C., & Zhu, W. (2023). Solving Conformal Defects in 3D Conformal Field Theory using Fuzzy Sphere Regularization. arxiv:2308.01903v1
  • Hu, L., He, Y. -C., & Zhu, W. (2023). Operator Product Expansion Coefficients of the 3D Ising Criticality via Quantum Fuzzy Spheres. Physical Review Letters, 131(3), 031601. doi:10.1103/physrevlett.131.031601
  • Chen, Y., He, Y. -C., & Szasz, A. (2023). Phase diagrams of spin-S Kitaev ladders. Physical Review B, 108(4), 045124. doi:10.1103/physrevb.108.045124
  • Zhou, Z., Hu, L., Zhu, W., & He, Y. -C. (2023). The $\mathrm{SO}(5)$ Deconfined Phase Transition under the Fuzzy Sphere Microscope: Approximate Conformal Symmetry, Pseudo-Criticality, and Operator Spectrum. arxiv:2306.16435v3
  • Han, C., Hu, L., Zhu, W., & He, Y. -C. (2023). Conformal four-point correlators of the 3D Ising transition via the quantum fuzzy sphere. arxiv:2306.04681v1
  • Zhu, W., Han, C., Huffman, E., Hofmann, J. S., & He, Y. -C. (2023). Uncovering Conformal Symmetry in the 3D Ising Transition: State-Operator Correspondence from a Quantum Fuzzy Sphere Regularization. Physical Review X, 13(2), 021009. doi:10.1103/physrevx.13.021009
  • He, Y. -C., Rong, J., Su, N., & Vichi, A. (2023). Non-Abelian currents bootstrap. arxiv:2302.11585v2
  • Ye, W., Guo, M., He, Y. -C., Wang, C., & Zou, L. (n.d.). Topological characterization of Lieb-Schultz-Mattis constraints and applications to symmetry-enriched quantum criticality. SciPost Physics, 13(3), 066. doi:10.21468/scipostphys.13.3.066
  • Szasz, A., Wang, C., & He, Y. -C. (2022). Phase diagram of a bilinear-biquadratic spin-1 model on the triangular lattice from density matrix renormalization group simulations. Physical Review B, 106(11), 115103. doi:10.1103/physrevb.106.115103
  • He, Y. -C., Rong, J., & Su, N. (n.d.). Conformal bootstrap bounds for the $U(1)$ Dirac spin liquid and $N=7$ Stiefel liquid. SciPost Physics, 13(2), 014. doi:10.21468/scipostphys.13.2.014
  • He, Y. -C., Rong, J., & Su, N. (n.d.). A roadmap for bootstrapping critical gauge theories: decoupling operators of conformal field theories in $d>2$ dimensions. SciPost Physics, 11(6), 111. doi:10.21468/scipostphys.11.6.111
  • Zou, L., He, Y. -C., & Wang, C. (2021). Stiefel Liquids: Possible Non-Lagrangian Quantum Criticality from Intertwined Orders. Physical Review X, 11(3), 031043. doi:10.1103/physrevx.11.031043
  • He, Y. -C., Rong, J., & Su, N. (n.d.). Non-Wilson-Fisher kinks of $O(N)$ numerical bootstrap: from the deconfined phase transition to a putative new family of CFTs. SciPost Physics, 10(5), 115. doi:10.21468/scipostphys.10.5.115
  • Song, X. -Y., He, Y. -C., Vishwanath, A., & Wang, C. (2021). Electric polarization as a nonquantized topological response and boundary Luttinger theorem. Physical Review Research, 3(2), 023011. doi:10.1103/physrevresearch.3.023011
  • Quantum Matter Lecture, Quantum Matter 2023/24, 2024/03/15, PIRSA:24030043
  • Quantum Matter Lecture, Quantum Matter 2023/24, 2024/03/12, PIRSA:24030042
  • Quantum Matter Lecture, Quantum Matter 2023/24, 2024/03/11, PIRSA:24030049
  • Quantum Matter Lecture, Quantum Matter 2023/24, 2024/03/07, PIRSA:24030041
  • Physics Meets Geometry: a fuzzy sphere Odyssey in critical phenomena, Colloquium, 2024/03/06, PIRSA:24030076
  • Quantum Matter Lecture, Quantum Matter 2023/24, 2024/03/05, PIRSA:24030040
  • Introduction to the quantum Hall effect, 2023 Perimeter-SAIFR Journeys into Theoretical Physics, Sao Paulo, Brazil, 2023/07/17
  • A mini-course: Fuzzy sphere regularization of 3D CFTs, Bootstrap 2023 at SAIFR, Sao Paulo, Brazil, 2023/07/10
  • Fuzzy sphere regularization of the 3D Ising CFT: a miraculous gift of quantum Hall physics, KITP, Santa Barbara, United States, 2023/04/11, Video URL
  • Uncovering conformal symmetry of 3D Ising: a gift from quantum fuzziness, University of California, Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, United States, 2023/02/17
  • Uncovering conformal symmetry of 3D Ising: a gift from quantum fuzziness, Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot, Israel, 2022/12/13
  • Uncovering conformal symmetry of 3D Ising: a gift from quantum fuzziness, University of California, San Diego, San Diego, United States, 2022/11/15
  • Uncovering conformal symmetry of 3D Ising: a gift from quantum fuzziness, Technical University of Munich, Munich, Germany, 2022/11/02
  • Uncovering conformal symmetry of 3D Ising: a gift from quantum fuzziness, Galileo Galilei Institute for Theoretical Physics, Florence, Italy, 2022/10/04, Video URL
  • Stiefel liquids: anomaly, emergibility and classification, Caltech, Pasadena, United States, 2022/09/13
  • Stiefel Liquids: Possibly Non-Lagrangian Critical Spin Liquids, International Centre for Theoretical Sciences, Bengaluru, India, 2022/09/01, Video URL
  • Bootstrap critical gauge theories, University of Montreal, Montreal, Canada, 2022/08/18
  • Bootstrapping critical gauge theories, Quantum Criticality: Gauge Fields and Matter, 2022/05/19, PIRSA:22050046
  • Stiefel liquids: Dirac spin liquid and possible non-Lagrangian CFTs in quantum magnets, IHES, Paris, France, 2022/01/01
  • Towards bootstrapping critical quantum matter, Max-Planck institute, Dresden. Germany, 2022/01/01
  • Towards bootstrapping critical quantum matter, , 2021/10/04, PIRSA:21100015
  • Phase transition of fractional Chern insulators: QED3 and beyond, Quantum Matter: Emergence & Entanglement 3, 2019/04/26, PIRSA:19040110
  • Exotic emergent phenomena from many-body entanglement, Colloquium, 2017/05/01, PIRSA:17050011
  • Spin liquids on kagome lattice and symmetry protected topological phase, Condensed Matter, 2016/04/19, PIRSA:16040106