Yi-Zhuang You 尤亦庄 (He/Him)

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Credit: UCSD Division of Physical Sciences

Contact Information

Research Interests

Theoretical investigation on correlated topological phases and phase transitions in condensed matter and high-energy physics, understanding dynamics of quantum entanglement, and application of machine learning in many-body problems.

Professional Appointments

  • Associate Professor, University of California, San Diego (2024 - present)

  • Assistant Professor, University of California, San Diego (2018 - 2024)

Academic Background

  • B.Sc. Physics, Nanjing University (2004 - 2008)

  • Ph.D. Physics, Tsinghua University (2008 - 2013)

  • Postdoc, University of California, Santa Barbara (2013 - 2016)

  • Postdoc, Harvard University (2016 - 2018)

Awards and Honors

  • National Science Foundation, CAREER award (2022)
  • University of California Hellman Fellow (2021)
  • National Scholarship for Graduate Students –China (2012)
  • Graduate Scholarship –Tsinghua University (2010)
  • C.N. Yang Fellowship –Tsinghua University (2009)
  • Honor Graduate –Nanjing University (2008)

Publications

Selected Articles

  1. Chao-Ming Jian, Yi-Zhuang You, Romain Vasseur, Andreas W. W. Ludwig. Measurement-induced criticality in random quantum circuits. Physical Review B 101(10), 104302 (2020). arXiv:1908.08051

  2. Yi-Zhuang You, Ashvin Vishwanath. Superconductivity from valley fluctuations and approximate SO(4) symmetry in a weak coupling theory of twisted bilayer graphene. npj Quantum Materials 4(1), 16 (2019). arXiv:1805.06867

  3. Yi-Zhuang You, Zhao Yang, Xiao-Liang Qi. Machine learning spatial geometry from entanglement features. Physical Review B 97(4), 045153 (2018). arXiv:1709.01223

  4. Yi-Zhuang You, Andreas W. Ludwig, Cenke Xu. Sachdev-Ye-Kitaev model and thermalization on the boundary of many-body localized fermionic symmetry protected topological states. Physical Review B 95(16), 115150 (2017). arXiv:1602.06964

  5. Yi-Zhuang You, Cenke Xu. Interacting topological insulator and emergent grand unification theory. Physical Review B 91, 125147 (2015). arXiv:1412.4784

Book Chapters

  1. Yi-Zhuang You, Zheng-Yu Weng. Coexisting Itinerant and Localized Electrons. In: Iron-Based Superconductivity, P. D. Johnson ed., Springer International Publishing, Springer Series in Material Science 211, Chap. 10, p. 377-408 (2015). arXiv:1311.4094

Selected Invited Talks

  • Emergent classicality of information bottleneck. Perimeter Institute (2023). (video)
  • Machine learning physics: from quantum mechanics to holographic geometry. Perimeter Institute (2019). (video)
  • Entanglement features of random Hamiltonian dynamics. Kavli Institute for Theoretical Physics (2018). (video)

Services

  • UCSD Chancellor’s Advisory Committee on Gender Identity and Sexual Orientation Issues (GISOI) (2023 - present)
  • Editorial Board Member for Machine Learning: Science and Technology (2019 - present)
  • Referee for journals including Nature Physics, Physical Review Letters, Physical Review X, Physical Review B, etc.

Teaching Experience

  • Quantum Mechanics, UCSD (2018-2025)
  • Statistical Mechanics, UCSD (2024)
  • Condensed Matter Physics, UCSD (2022-2023)