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Yi-Zhuang You

Yi-Zhuang You, Ph. D.

Affiliation: Department of Physics, University of California, San Diego, CA 92093, USA
Phone: +1(858)822-4462
E-mail: yzyou@physics.ucsd.edu
Website: https://everettyou.github.io
Google Scholar: PLFbeHMAAAAJ
ORCiD: 0000-0003-4080-5340

Yi-Zhuang You is an Associate Professor of Physics at the University of California, San Diego. His research lies at the intersection of quantum many-body physics, quantum information science, and machine learning. He is known for pioneering work on symmetric mass generation, entanglement dynamics in quantum circuits, and AI-assisted quantum state learning. Recent efforts focus on developing machine learning algorithms for quantum error correction, quantum tomography, and representation learning of quantum systems. He is a recipient of the NSF CAREER Award and UC Hellman Fellowship, and he serves on the editorial board of Machine Learning: Science and Technology.

Work Experience

  • 2024 - present
    • Associate Professor
    • University of California, San Diego, CA
  • 2018 - 2024
    • Assistant Professor
    • University of California, San Diego, CA

Education and Training

  • 2004 - 2008
    • B. Sc. Physics
    • Nanjing University, Nanjing, China
  • 2008 - 2013
    • Ph. D. Physics
    • Tsinghua University, Beijing, China
  • 2013 - 2016
    • Postdoctoral Researcher
    • University of California, Santa Barbara, CA
  • 2016 - 2018
    • Postdoctoral Researcher
    • Harvard University, Cambridge, MA

PhD Students

  • 2021
    • Jonathan Lam (Quantlab)
  • 2022
    • Hong-Ye Hu (Harvard University)
  • 2023
    • Ahmed Akhtar (NASA Quantum Artificial Intelligence Lab (QuAIL))
  • 2024
    • Da-Chuan Lu (University of Colorado Boulder / Harvard University)
  • 2024
    • Meng Zeng (Max Planck Institute for the Physics of Complex Systems)
  • 2025
    • Wanda Hou (EdenCode Inc.)
  • current
    • Shuhan Zhang
  • current
    • Deepak Aryal

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)

Professional Activities

  • Editorial Board Member for IOP Science journal Machine Learning: Science and Technology (MLST), (2019 - now).
  • Referee for Nature Physics, APS Journals (Physical Review Letters, Physical Review X, Physical Review B), American Journal of Physics, and Chinese Physics Letters.
  • Co-organizer of Symmetric Mass Generation, Topological Phases and Lattice Chiral Gauge Theories, Simons Center for Geometry and Physics, New York, May 20-24 (2024).
  • Co-organizer of The First International Conference on Machine Learning and Physics, Tsinghua University, Beijing, July 4-6 (2018).
  • Co-organizer of Artificial Intelligence and Quantum Physics workshop, Nanjing University, Nanjing, December 20-22 (2017).
  • Co-organizer of Topological States and Phase Transitions in Strongly Correlated Systems, Kavli Institute for Theoretical Science, Beijing, July 3-14 (2017).

Publications

Articles:

  1. Artan Sheshmani, Yi-Zhuang You, Baturalp Buyukates, Amir Ziashahabi, Salman Avestimehr. Renormalization group flow, optimal transport, and diffusion-based generative model. Physical Review E (1), 015304 (2025).
  2. Jong Yeon Lee, Yi-Zhuang You, Cenke Xu. Symmetry protected topological phases under decoherence. Quantum, 1607 (2025).
  3. Ruyi Tao, Ningning Tao, Yi-zhuang You, Jiang Zhang. Data driven modeling for self-similar dynamics. Physica D: Nonlinear Phenomena, 134505 (2025).
  4. Shuhan Zhang, Xiaozhou Feng, Matteo Ippoliti, Yi-Zhuang You. Holographic classical shadow tomography. Physical Review B (5), 054306 (2025).
  5. Hong-Ye Hu, Andi Gu, Swarnadeep Majumder, Hang Ren, Yipei Zhang, Derek S Wang, Yi-Zhuang You, Zlatko Minev, Susanne F Yelin, Alireza Seif. Demonstration of robust and efficient quantum property learning with shallow shadows. Nature Communications (1), 2943 (2025).
  6. Menghan Song, Zhaoyi Zeng, Ting-Tung Wang, Yi-Zhuang You, Zi Yang Meng, Pengfei Zhang. Monte Carlo Simulation of Operator Dynamics and Entanglement in Dual-Unitary Circuits. Quantum, 1681 (2025).
  7. Wanda Hou, Miao Li, Yi-Zhuang You. Sequential learning on a Tensor Network Born machine with Trainable Token Embedding. Machine Learning: Science and Technology (2025).
  8. Ahmed A Akhtar, Namit Anand, Jeffrey Marshall, Yi-Zhuang You. Dual-unitary shadow tomography. Quantum, 1816 (2025).
  9. Da-Chuan Lu, Juven Wang, Yi-Zhuang You. Definition and classification of Fermi surface anomalies. Physical Review B (4), 045123 (2024).
  10. Xiaoyang Huang, Taige Wang, Shang Liu, Hong-Ye Hu, Yi-Zhuang You. Quantum magnetism in Wannier-obstructed Mott insulators. Crystals (2), 176 (2024).
  11. Ahmed A Akhtar, Hong-Ye Hu, Yi-Zhuang You. Measurement-induced criticality is tomographically optimal. Physical Review B (9), 094209 (2024).
  12. Meng Zeng, Lun-Hui Hu, Hong-Ye Hu, Yi-Zhuang You, Congjun Wu. High-order time-reversal symmetry breaking normal state. Science China Physics, Mechanics & Astronomy (3), 237411 (2024).
  13. Zhelun Zhang, Yi-Zhuang You. Observing schrödinger’s cat with artificial intelligence: emergent classicality from information bottleneck. Machine Learning: Science and Technology (1), 015051 (2024).
  14. Zi Hong Liu, Yuan Da Liao, Gaopei Pan, Menghan Song, Jiarui Zhao, Weilun Jiang, Chao-Ming Jian, Yi-Zhuang You, Fakher F Assaad, Zi Yang Meng, Cenke Xu. Disorder operator and Rényi entanglement entropy of symmetric mass generation. Physical Review Letters (15), 156503 (2024).
  15. Amir Ziashahabi, Baturalp Buyukates, Artan Sheshmani, Yi-Zhuang You, Salman Avestimehr. Frequency Domain Diffusion Model with Scale-Dependent Noise Schedule. 2024 IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory (ISIT), 19-24 (2024).
  16. Jia-Xin Zhang, Hao-Kai Zhang, Yi-Zhuang You, Zheng-Yu Weng. Strong Pairing Originated from an Emergent Z2 Berry Phase in La3Ni2O7. Physical Review Letters (12), 126501 (2024).
  17. Da-Chuan Lu, Zhengdi Sun, Yi-Zhuang You. Realizing triality and p-ality by lattice twisted gauging in (1+1)d quantum spin systems. SciPost Physics (5), 136 (2024).
  18. Artan Sheshmani, Yi-Zhuang You, Wenbo Fu, Ahmadreza Azizi. Categorical representation learning and RG flow operators for algorithmic classifiers. Machine Learning: Science and Technology (1), 015012 (2023).
  19. Hong-Ye Hu, Soonwon Choi, Yi-Zhuang You. Classical shadow tomography with locally scrambled quantum dynamics. Physical Review Research (2), 023027 (2023).
  20. Da-Chuan Lu, Meng Zeng, Juven Wang, Yi-Zhuang You. Fermi surface symmetric mass generation. Physical Review B (19), 195133 (2023).
  21. Ahmed A Akhtar, Hong-Ye Hu, Yi-Zhuang You. Scalable and flexible classical shadow tomography with tensor networks. Quantum, 1026 (2023).
  22. Weitang Liu, Yi-Zhuang You, Ying Wai Li, Jingbo Shang. Gradient-based wang-landau algorithm: A novel sampler for output distribution of neural networks over the input space. International Conference on Machine Learning, 22338-22351 (2023).
  23. Wanda Hou, Yi-Zhuang You. Variational Monte Carlo study of symmetric mass generation in a bilayer honeycomb lattice model. Physical Review B (12), 125130 (2023).
  24. Yuxuan Guo, Yi-Zhuang You. Symmetric mass generation of Kähler-Dirac fermions from the perspective of symmetry-protected topological phases. Physical Review B (11), 115139 (2023).
  25. Wanda Hou, Yi-Zhuang You. Machine learning renormalization group for statistical physics. Machine Learning: Science and Technology (4), 045010 (2023).
  26. Da-Chuan Lu, Meng Zeng, Yi-Zhuang You. Green’s function zeros in Fermi surface symmetric mass generation. Physical Review B (20), 205117 (2023).
  27. Taige Wang, Chen Wu, Masataka Mogi, Minoru Kawamura, Yoshinori Tokura, Zhi-Xun Shen, Yi–Zhuang You, Monica T Allen. Probing the edge states of Chern insulators using microwave impedance microscopy. Physical Review B (23), 235432 (2023).
  28. Hong-Ye Hu, Yi-Zhuang You. Hamiltonian-driven shadow tomography of quantum states. Physical Review Research (1), 013054 (2022).
  29. Yi-Zhuang You, Juven Wang. Deconfined quantum criticality among grand unified theories. A Festschrift in Honor of the CN Yang Centenary: Scientific Papers, 367-383 (2022).
  30. Bo Xiang, Zimo Yang, Yi‐Zhuang You, Wei Xiong. Ultrafast coherence delocalization in real space simulated by polaritons. Advanced Optical Materials (5), 2102237 (2022).
  31. Yi-Zhuang You, Ashvin Vishwanath. Kohn-Luttinger superconductivity and intervalley coherence in rhombohedral trilayer graphene. Physical Review B (13), 134524 (2022).
  32. Meng Zeng, Zheng Zhu, Juven Wang, Yi-Zhuang You. Symmetric Mass Generation in the 1+1 Dimensional Chiral Fermion 3-4-5-0 Model. Physical Review Letters (18), 185301 (2022).
  33. Juven Wang, Yi-Zhuang You. Gauge enhanced quantum criticality beyond the standard model. Physical Review D (2), 025013 (2022).
  34. Juven Wang, Zheyan Wan, Yi-Zhuang You. Proton stability: From the standard model to beyond grand unification. Physical Review D (2), 025016 (2022).
  35. Juven Wang, Yi-Zhuang You. Symmetric mass generation. Symmetry (7), 1475 (2022).
  36. Hong-Ye Hu, Dian Wu, Yi-Zhuang You, Bruno Olshausen, Yubei Chen. RG-Flow: A hierarchical and explainable flow model based on renormalization group and sparse prior. Machine Learning: Science and Technology (3), 035009 (2022).
  37. Juven Wang, Zheyan Wan, Yi-Zhuang You. Cobordism and deformation class of the standard model. Physical Review D (4), L041701 (2022).
  38. Da-Chuan Lu, Taige Wang, Shubhayu Chatterjee, Yi-Zhuang You. Correlated metals and unconventional superconductivity in rhombohedral trilayer graphene: A renormalization group analysis. Physical Review B (15), 155115 (2022).
  39. Carlos M Duque, Hong-Ye Hu, Yi-Zhuang You, Vedika Khemani, Ruben Verresen, Romain Vasseur. Topological and symmetry-enriched random quantum critical points. Physical Review B (10), L100207 (2021).
  40. Ruihua Fan, Sagar Vijay, Ashvin Vishwanath, Yi-Zhuang You. Self-organized error correction in random unitary circuits with measurement. Physical Review B (17), 174309 (2021).
  41. Koji Hashimoto, Hong-Ye Hu, Yi-Zhuang You. Neural ordinary differential equation and holographic quantum chromodynamics. Machine Learning: Science and Technology (3), 035011 (2021).
  42. Nathan J McLaughlin, Hailong Wang, Mengqi Huang, Eric Lee-Wong, Lunhui Hu, Hanyi Lu, Gerald Q Yan, Genda Gu, Congjun Wu, Yi-Zhuang You, Chunhui Rita Du. Strong correlation between superconductivity and ferromagnetism in an Fe-chalcogenide superconductor. Nano Letters (17), 7277-7283 (2021).
  43. Wei-Ting Kuo, Daniel P Arovas, Smitha Vishveshwara, Yi-Zhuang You. Decoherent quench dynamics across quantum phase transitions. SciPost Physics (4), 084 (2021).
  44. Da-Chuan Lu, Cenke Xu, Yi-Zhuang You. Self-duality protected multicriticality in deconfined quantum phase transitions. Physical Review B (20), 205142 (2021).
  45. Jonathan Lam, Yi-Zhuang You. Machine learning statistical gravity from multi-region entanglement entropy. Physical Review Research (4), 043199 (2021).
  46. Artan Sheshmani, Yi-Zhuang You. Categorical representation learning: morphism is all you need. Machine Learning: Science and Technology (1), 015016 (2021).
  47. Juven Wang, Yi-Zhuang You, Yunqin Zheng. Gauge enhanced quantum criticality and time reversal deconfined domain wall: SU (2) Yang-Mills dynamics with topological terms. Physical Review Research (1), 013189 (2020).
  48. Chao-Ming Jian, Yi-Zhuang You, Romain Vasseur, Andreas WW Ludwig. Measurement-induced criticality in random quantum circuits. Physical Review B (10), 104302 (2020).
  49. Huitao Shen, Pengfei Zhang, Yi-Zhuang You, Hui Zhai. Information scrambling in quantum neural networks. Physical Review Letters (20), 200504 (2020).
  50. Hong-Ye Hu, Shuo-Hui Li, Lei Wang, Yi-Zhuang You. Machine learning holographic mapping by neural network renormalization group. Physical Review Research (2), 023369 (2020).
  51. Wei-Ting Kuo, AA Akhtar, Daniel P Arovas, Yi-Zhuang You. Markovian entanglement dynamics under locally scrambled quantum evolution. Physical Review B (22), 224202 (2020).
  52. Wei-Qiang Chen, Chao-Ming Jian, Liang Kong, Yi-Zhuang You, Hao Zheng. Topological phase transition on the edge of two-dimensional Z2 topological order. Physical Review B (4), 045139 (2020).
  53. AA Akhtar, Yi-Zhuang You. Multiregion entanglement in locally scrambled quantum dynamics. Physical Review B (13), 134203 (2020).
  54. Ce Wang, Haiwei Li, Zhenqi Hao, Xintong Li, Changwei Zou, Peng Cai, Yayu Wang, Yi-Zhuang You, Hui Zhai. Machine learning identification of impurities in the STM images. Chinese Physics B (11), 116805 (2020).
  55. 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 (1), 16 (2019).
  56. Nvsen Ma, Yi-Zhuang You, Zi Yang Meng. Role of Noether’s theorem at the deconfined quantum critical point. Physical Review Letters (17), 175701 (2019).
  57. Zhihuang Luo, Yi-Zhuang You, Jun Li, Chao-Ming Jian, Dawei Lu, Cenke Xu, Bei Zeng, Raymond Laflamme. Quantum simulation of the non-fermi-liquid state of Sachdev-Ye-Kitaev model. Npj Quantum Information (1), 53 (2019).
  58. Chao-Ming Jian, Zhen Bi, Yi-Zhuang You. Lattice construction of duality with non-Abelian gauge fields in 2+ 1D. Physical Review B (7), 075109 (2019).
  59. Wei Wang, Da-Chuan Lu, Xiao Yan Xu, Yi-Zhuang You, Zi Yang Meng. Dynamics of compact quantum electrodynamics at large fermion flavor. Physical Review B (8), 085123 (2019).
  60. Rui-Zhen Huang, Da-Chuan Lu, Yi-Zhuang You, Zi Yang Meng, Tao Xiang. Emergent symmetry and conserved current at a one-dimensional incarnation of deconfined quantum critical point. Physical Review B (12), 125137 (2019).
  61. Ce Wang, Hui Zhai, Yi-Zhuang You. Emergent Schrödinger equation in an introspective machine learning architecture. Science Bulletin (17), 1228-1233 (2019).
  62. Romain Vasseur, Andrew C Potter, Yi-Zhuang You, Andreas WW Ludwig. Entanglement transitions from holographic random tensor networks. Physical Review B (13), 134203 (2019).
  63. Jong Yeon Lee, Yi-Zhuang You, Subir Sachdev, Ashvin Vishwanath. Signatures of a Deconfined Phase Transition on the Shastry-Sutherland Lattice: Applications to Quantum Critical SrCu2(BO3)2. Physical Review X (4), 041037 (2019).
  64. Yi-Zhuang You, Yin-Chen He, Cenke Xu, Ashvin Vishwanath. Symmetric fermion mass generation as deconfined quantum criticality. Physical Review X (1), 011026 (2018).
  65. Yi-Zhuang You, Zhao Yang, Xiao-Liang Qi. Machine learning spatial geometry from entanglement features. Physical Review B (4), 045153 (2018).
  66. Yi-Zhuang You, Yin-Chen He, Ashvin Vishwanath, Cenke Xu. From bosonic topological transition to symmetric fermion mass generation. Physical Review B (12), 125112 (2018).
  67. Meng Cheng, Zhen Bi, Yi-Zhuang You, Zheng-Cheng Gu. Classification of symmetry-protected phases for interacting fermions in two dimensions. Physical Review B (20), 205109 (2018).
  68. Xiaochuan Wu, Xiao Chen, Chao-Ming Jian, Yi-Zhuang You, Cenke Xu. Candidate theory for the strange metal phase at a finite-energy window. Physical Review B (16), 165117 (2018).
  69. Nvsen Ma, Guang-Yu Sun, Yi-Zhuang You, Cenke Xu, Ashvin Vishwanath, Anders W Sandvik, Zi Yang Meng. Dynamical signature of fractionalization at a deconfined quantum critical point. Physical Review B (17), 174421 (2018).
  70. Yi-Zhuang You, Andreas WW Ludwig, Cenke Xu. Sachdev-Ye-Kitaev model and thermalization on the boundary of many-body localized fermionic symmetry-protected topological states. Physical Review B (11), 115150 (2017).
  71. Zhen Bi, Ruixing Zhang, Yi-Zhuang You, Andrea Young, Leon Balents, Chao-Xing Liu, Cenke Xu. Bilayer graphene as a platform for bosonic symmetry-protected topological states. Physical Review Letters (12), 126801 (2017).
  72. Kevin Slagle, Zhen Bi, Yi-Zhuang You, Cenke Xu. Out-of-time-order correlation in marginal many-body localized systems. Physical Review B (16), 165136 (2017).
  73. Zhen Bi, Chao-Ming Jian, Yi-Zhuang You, Kelly Ann Pawlak, Cenke Xu. Instability of the non-Fermi-liquid state of the Sachdev-Ye-Kitaev model. Physical Review B (20), 205105 (2017).
  74. Yan Qi Qin, Yuan-Yao He, Yi-Zhuang You, Zhong-Yi Lu, Arnab Sen, Anders W Sandvik, Cenke Xu, Zi Yang Meng. Duality between the deconfined quantum-critical point and the bosonic topological transition. Physical Review X (3), 031052 (2017).
  75. Xiao-Liang Qi, Zhao Yang, Yi-Zhuang You. Holographic coherent states from random tensor networks. Journal of High Energy Physics (8), 1-29 (2017).
  76. Yi-Zhuang You, Xiao-Liang Qi, Cenke Xu. Entanglement holographic mapping of many-body localized system by spectrum bifurcation renormalization group. Physical Review B (10), 104205 (2016).
  77. Yi-Zhuang You, Zhen Bi, Dan Mao, Cenke Xu. Quantum phase transitions between bosonic symmetry-protected topological states without sign problem: Nonlinear sigma model with a topological term. Physical Review B (12), 125101 (2016).
  78. Yuan-Yao He, Han-Qing Wu, Yi-Zhuang You, Cenke Xu, Zi Yang Meng, Zhong-Yi Lu. Bona fide interaction-driven topological phase transition in correlated symmetry-protected topological states. Physical Review B (11), 115150 (2016).
  79. Yizhi You, Yi-Zhuang You. Stripe melting and a transition between weak and strong symmetry protected topological phases. Physical Review B (19), 195141 (2016).
  80. Yizhi You, Yi-Zhuang You. Geometry defects in bosonic symmetry-protected topological phases. Physical Review B (24), 245135 (2016).
  81. Zhen Bi, Yi-Zhuang You, Cenke Xu. Exotic quantum critical point on the surface of three-dimensional topological insulator. Physical Review B (2), 024433 (2016).
  82. Kevin Slagle, Yi-Zhuang You, Cenke Xu. Disordered XYZ spin chain simulations using the spectrum bifurcation renormalization group. Physical Review B (1), 014205 (2016).
  83. Xue-Yang Song, Yi-Zhuang You, Leon Balents. Low-energy spin dynamics of the honeycomb spin liquid beyond the Kitaev limit. Physical Review Letters (3), 037209 (2016).
  84. Han-Qing Wu, Yuan-Yao He, Yi-Zhuang You, Tsuneya Yoshida, Norio Kawakami, Cenke Xu, Zi Yang Meng, Zhong-Yi Lu. Visualizing a bosonic symmetry protected topological phase in an interacting fermion model. Physical Review B (16), 165121 (2016).
  85. Yuan-Yao He, Han-Qing Wu, Yi-Zhuang You, Cenke Xu, Zi Yang Meng, Zhong-Yi Lu. Quantum critical point of Dirac fermion mass generation without spontaneous symmetry breaking. Physical Review B (24), 241111 (2016).
  86. Cenke Xu, Yi-Zhuang You. Bosonic short-range entangled states beyond group cohomology classification. Physical Review B (5), 054406 (2015).
  87. Kevin Slagle, Yi-Zhuang You, Cenke Xu. Exotic quantum phase transitions of strongly interacting topological insulators. Physical Review B (11), 115121 (2015).
  88. Yi-Zhuang You, Cenke Xu. Interacting topological insulator and emergent grand unified theory. Physical Review B (12), 125147 (2015).
  89. Yi-Zhuang You, Zhen Bi, Alex Rasmussen, Meng Cheng, Cenke Xu. Bridging fermionic and bosonic short range entangled states. New Journal of Physics, 075010 (2015).
  90. Yi-Zhuang You, Cenke Xu. Topological orders with global gauge anomalies. Physical Review B (5), 054410 (2015).
  91. Han-Qing Wu, Yuan-Yao He, Yi-Zhuang You, Cenke Xu, Zi Yang Meng, Zhong-Yi Lu. Quantum Monte Carlo study of strange correlator in interacting topological insulators. Physical Review B (16), 165123 (2015).
  92. Cenke Xu, Yi-Zhuang You. Self-dual quantum electrodynamics as boundary state of the three-dimensional bosonic topological insulator. Physical Review B (22), 220416 (2015).
  93. Yi-Zhuang You, Zheng-Yu Weng. Two-fluid description for iron-based superconductors. New Journal of Physics (2), 023001 (2014).
  94. Yi-Zhuang You, Zhen Bi, Alex Rasmussen, Kevin Slagle, Cenke Xu. Wave function and strange correlator of short-range entangled states. Physical Review Letters (24), 247202 (2014).
  95. Peng Zhang, Pierre Richard, Tian Qian, Xun Shi, Jun Ma, L-K Zeng, X-P Wang, Emile Rienks, C-L Zhang, Pengcheng Dai, Y-Z You, Z-Y Weng, X-X Wu, JP Hu, Hong Ding. Observation of Momentum-Confined In-Gap Impurity State in Ba0.6K0.4Fe2As2: Evidence for Antiphase s± Pairing. Physical Review X (3), 031001 (2014).
  96. Yi-Zhuang You, Zhong Wang, Jeremy Oon, Cenke Xu. Topological number and fermion Green’s function for strongly interacting topological superconductors. Physical Review B (6), 060502 (2014).
  97. Zhen Bi, Yi-Zhuang You, Cenke Xu. Anyon and loop braiding statistics in field theories with a topological Θ term. Physical Review B (8), 081110 (2014).
  98. Yi-Zhuang You, Zheng-Yu Weng. Coexisting itinerant and localized electrons. Iron-Based Superconductivity, 377-408, 2014, 377-408 (2014).
  99. Yi-Zhuang You, Cenke Xu. Symmetry-protected topological states of interacting fermions and bosons. Physical Review B (24), 245120 (2014).
  100. Yi-Zhuang You, Chao-Ming Jian, Xiao-Gang Wen. Synthetic non-Abelian statistics by Abelian anyon condensation. Physical Review B (4), 045106 (2013).
  101. Xiaodong Zhou, Peng Cai, Aifeng Wang, Wei Ruan, Cun Ye, Xianhui Chen, Yizhuang You, Zheng-Yu Weng, Yayu Wang. Evolution from Unconventional Spin Density Wave to Superconductivity and a Pseudogaplike Phase in NaFe1-xCoxAs. Physical Review Letters (3), 037002 (2012).
  102. Yi-Zhuang You, Itamar Kimchi, Ashvin Vishwanath. Doping a spin-orbit Mott insulator: Topological superconductivity from the Kitaev-Heisenberg model and possible application to (Na2/Li2)IrO3. Physical Review B (8), 085145 (2012).
  103. Yi-Zhuang You, Xiao-Gang Wen. Projective non-Abelian statistics of dislocation defects in a ZN rotor model. Physical Review B (16), 161107 (2012).
  104. Yi-Zhuang You, Zhu Chen, Xiao-Qi Sun, Hui Zhai. Superfluidity of bosons in kagome lattices with frustration. Physical Review Letters (26), 265302 (2012).
  105. CN Yang, Yi-Zhuang You. One-dimensional w-component fermions and bosons with repulsive delta function interaction. Chinese Physics Letters (2), 020503 (2011).
  106. Yi-Zhuang You, Hong Yao, Dung-Hai Lee. Spin excitations of the block-antiferromagnetic state in K0.8Fe1.6Se2. Physical Review B (2), 020406 (2011).
  107. Yi-Zhuang You, Fan Yang, Su-Peng Kou, Zheng-Yu Weng. Magnetic and superconducting instabilities in a hybrid model of itinerant/localized electrons for iron pnictides. Physical Review B (5), 054527 (2011).
  108. Yi-Zhuang You, Fan Yang, Su-Peng Kou, Zheng-Yu Weng. Phase Diagram and a Possible Unified Description of Intercalated<? format?> Iron Selenide Superconductors. Physical Review Letters (16), 167001 (2011).
  109. Itamar Kimchi, Yi-Zhuang You. Kitaev-Heisenberg-J2-J3 model for the iridates A2IrO3. Physical Review B (18), 180407 (2011).
  110. Yi-Zhuang You. Ground State Energy of One-Dimensional δ-Function Interacting Bose and Fermi Gas. Chin. Phys. Lett. (8), 080305-080305 (2010).
  111. Yizhuang You, Xiaohan Wang, Sihui Wang, Yonghua Pan, Jin Zhou. A new method to demonstrate frustrated total internal reflection in the visible band. American Journal of Physics (3), 224-228 (2008).
  112. 王晓翰, 王喆, 尤亦庄, 龚国斌, 潘永华. 相位差法测受迫振动的阻尼系数. 物理实验 (7), 29-30 (2007).
  113. 尤亦庄, 王晓翰, 王喆, 龚国斌, 潘永华. 音叉振动阻尼系数的测定与研究. 大学物理 (5), 58-58 (2007).

Preprints:

  1. Chuanxin Wang, Yi-Zhuang You. Machine Learning for Ground State Preparation via Measurement and Feedback. ArXiv Preprint arXiv:2502.06517 (2025).
  2. Sheng Yang, Fu Xu, Da-Chuan Lu, Yi-Zhuang You, Hai-Qing Lin, Xue-Jia Yu. Deconfined criticality as intrinsically gapless topological state in one dimension. ArXiv Preprint arXiv:2503.01198 (2025).
  3. Da-Chuan Lu, Fu Xu, Yi-Zhuang You. Strange correlator and string order parameter for non-invertible symmetry protected topological phases in 1+ 1d. ArXiv Preprint arXiv:2505.00673 (2025).
  4. Xinyu Liu, Jingze Zhuang, Wanda Hou, Yi-Zhuang You. Measurement-Based Quantum Diffusion Models. ArXiv Preprint arXiv:2508.08799 (2025).
  5. Wanda Hou, Samuel J Garratt, Norhan M Eassa, Eliott Rosenberg, Pedram Roushan, Yi-Zhuang You, Ehud Altman. Machine learning the effects of many quantum measurements. ArXiv Preprint arXiv:2509.08890 (2025).
  6. Yadong Wu, Pengfei Zhang, Ce Wang, Juan Yao, Yi-Zhuang You. Designing Shadow Tomography Protocols by Natural Language Processing. ArXiv Preprint arXiv:2509.12782 (2025).
  7. Wanda Hou, Leon Zhou, Hong-Ye Hu, Yi-Zhuang You, Xiao-Liang Qi. How Focused Are LLMs? A Quantitative Study via Repetitive Deterministic Prediction Tasks. ArXiv Preprint arXiv:2511.00763 (2025).
  8. Ahmed A Akhtar, Namit Anand, Jeffrey Marshall, Yi-Zhuang You. Dual-unitary classical shadow tomography. ArXiv E-prints arXiv:2404.01068 (FERMILAB-PUB-24-0504-SQMS-V; arXiv: 2404) (2024).
  9. Meng Zeng, Fu Xu, Da-Chuan Lu, Yi-Zhuang You. Optical conductivity in symmetric mass generation insulators. ArXiv Preprint arXiv:2405.05339 (2024).
  10. Jian Yao, Yi-Zhuang You. ShadowGPT: Learning to Solve Quantum Many-Body Problems from Randomized Measurements. ArXiv Preprint arXiv:2411.03285 (2024).
  11. Yadong Wu, Ce Wang, Juan Yao, Hui Zhai, Yi-Zhuang You, Pengfei Zhang. Contractive unitary and classical shadow tomography. ArXiv Preprint arXiv:2412.01850 (2024).
  12. Yang-Yang Li, Zheyan Wan, Juven Wang, Shing-Tung Yau, Yi-Zhuang You. CRT Fractionalization in the First Quantized Hamiltonian Theory. ArXiv Preprint arXiv:2412.11958 (2024).
  13. Wanda Hou, Molan Li, Yi-Zhuang You. Machine Learning Symmetry Discovery for Classical Mechanics. ArXiv Preprint arXiv:2412.14632 (2024).
  14. Yang-Yang Li, Juven Wang, Yi-Zhuang You. Quantum Many-Body Lattice CRT Symmetry: Fractionalization, Anomaly, and Symmetric Mass Generation. ArXiv Preprint arXiv:2412.19691 (2024).
  15. Zheyan Wan, Juven Wang, Yi-Zhuang You. Topological Responses of the Standard Model Gauge Group. ArXiv Preprint arXiv:2412.21196 (2024).
  16. Da-Chuan Lu, Miao Li, Zhao-Yi Zeng, Wanda Hou, Juven Wang, Fan Yang, Yi-Zhuang You. Superconductivity from Doping Symmetric Mass Generation Insulators: Application to La_3Ni_2O_7 under Pressure. ArXiv Preprint arXiv:2308.11195 (2023).
  17. Wei-Xuan Chang, Sibo Guo, Yi-Zhuang You, Zi-Xiang Li. Fermi surface symmetric mass generation: a quantum Monte-Carlo study. ArXiv Preprint arXiv:2311.09970 (2023).
  18. Weitang Liu, Ying Wai Li, Yuelei Li, Zihan Wang, Yi-Zhuang You, Jingbo Shang. Evaluation of human-model prediction difference on the Internet Scale of Data. ArXiv E-prints, arXiv: 2312.03291 (2023).
  19. Weitang Liu, Ying Wai Li, Tianle Wang, Yi-Zhuang You, Jingbo Shang. OMNIINPUT: A Model-centric Evaluation Framework through Output Distribution. ArXiv Preprint arXiv:2312.03291 (2023).
  20. Zheyan Wan, Juven Wang, Shing-Tung Yau, Yi-Zhuang You. CRT Fractionalization, Fermions, and Mod 8 Periodicity. ArXiv Preprint arXiv:2312.17126 (2023).
  21. Hong-Ye Hu, Ryan LaRose, Yi-Zhuang You, Eleanor Rieffel, Zhihui Wang. Logical shadow tomography: Efficient estimation of error-mitigated observables. ArXiv Preprint arXiv:2203.07263 (2022).
  22. Hung-Hwa Lin, Wei-Ting Kuo, Daniel P Arovas, Yi-Zhuang You. Fluctuation of Chern Numbers in a Parametric Random Matrix Model. ArXiv Preprint arXiv:2207.12562 (2022).
  23. Yi-Zhuang You, Yingfei Gu. Entanglement features of random Hamiltonian dynamics. ArXiv Preprint arXiv:1803.10425 (2018).
  24. Chao-Ming Jian, Alex Rasmussen, Yi-Zhuang You, Cenke Xu. Emergent symmetry and tricritical points near the deconfined quantum critical point. ArXiv Preprint arXiv:1708.03050 (2017).
  25. Zhihuang Luo, Yi-Zhuang You, Jun Li, Chao-Ming Jian, Dawei Lu, Cenke Xu, Bei Zeng, Raymond Laflamme. Observing fermion pair instability of the Sachdev-Ye-Kitaev model on a quantum spin simulator. ArXiv Preprint arXiv:1712.06458 (2017).
  26. Alex Rasmussen, Yi-Zhuang You, Cenke Xu. Stable gapless bose liquid phases without any symmetry. ArXiv Preprint arXiv:1601.08235 (2016).
  27. Yi-Zhuang You, Meng Cheng. Measuring modular matrices by shearing lattices. ArXiv Preprint arXiv:1502.03192 (2015).
  28. Kevin Slagle, Zhen Bi, Yi-Zhuang You, Cenke Xu. Many-body localization of symmetry protected topological states. ArXiv Preprint arXiv:1505.05147 (2015).
  29. Yi-Zhuang You, Yoni BenTov, Cenke Xu. Interacting Topological Superconductors and possible Origin of 16n Chiral Fermions in the Standard Model. ArXiv Preprint arXiv:1402.4151 (2014).
  30. Fangzhou Liu, Zhenghan Wang, Yi-Zhuang You, Xiao-Gang Wen. Modular transformations and topological orders in two dimensions. ArXiv Preprint arXiv:1303.0829 (2013).

Talks

Invited Talks:

  • How focused are LLMs? KITP Program: Generative AI for High & Low Energy Physics, Santa Barbara. December 18 (2025).

  • Generative Models and Physics. KITP Program: Generative AI for High & Low Energy Physics, Santa Barbara. November 10 (2025).

  • Can large language model learn to speak the quantum language. KITP Conference: Frontiers of Programmable Quantum Dynamics: Advances and Applications, Santa Barbara. October 29 (2025).

  • Can large language model learn to speak the quantum language. Korean Institute for Advanced Study Workshop: Quantum Information Dynamics and Non-Equilibrium Physics, Seoul, Korea. June 27 (2025).

  • Can large language model learn to speak the quantum language. Aspen Winter Conference: AI + Quantum, Aspen. February 13 (2025).

  • Can large language model learn to speak the quantum language. Geometry and Correlations in Low-dimensional and Topological Materials, Hong Kong. December 13 (2024).

  • Renormalization Group and Generative Modeling. Workshop on Lattice Field Theory and Machine Learning, Institute of Mathematics, Academia Sinica, Taipei, Taiwan. December 5 (2024).

  • Realizing non-invertible symmetries in quantum circuits by twisted gauging. Simons Center for Geometry and Physics: Quantum Information Dynamics and Non-Equilibrium Quantum Matter, New York. December 2 (2024).

  • Emergent classicality of information bottleneck. Perimeter Institute: the conference on Machine Learning for Quantum Many-Body Systems, Princeton. June 15 (2023).

  • Scalable classical shadow tomography with shallow circuits and quantum dynamics. KITP Program: Quantum Many-Body Dynamics and Noisy Intermediate-Scale Quantum Systems, Santa Barbara. September 7 (2022).

  • Symmetric mass generation. Paths to Quantum Field Theory 2022, Durham UK. August 19 (2022).

  • Renormalization group and generative modeling. Institute for Artificial Intelligence and Fundamental Interactions (IAIFI) workshop, Boston. August 9 (2022).

  • Deconfined quantum criticality beyond the Standard Model. Simons Collaboration on Ultra-Quantum Matter Annual Meeting. January 21 (2022).

  • Renormalization group and machine learning. Conference on Causality Emergence, Swarmer Club, Beijing. August 20 (2021).

  • Entanglement feature and locally scrambled quantum dynamics. Recent Advances on Theories of Quantum Matters, Institute for Advanced Study, Tsinghua University. January 5 (2021).

  • Entanglement feature and locally scrambled quantum dynamics. Dynamics, Criticality, and Universality in Random Quantum Circuits, Princeton University. October 2 (2020).

  • Machine learning physics: from quantum mechanics to holographic geometry. Machine Learning for Quantum Design, Perimeter Institute. July 11 (2019).

  • Emergent symmetry and conserved currents at deconfined quantum critical points. KIAS Workshop on Topology and Correlation in Quantum Materials, Korean Institute for Advanced Study. May 29 (2019).

  • Machine learning holography. Machine Learning Meets Physics, Microsoft Research in Redmond. April 26 (2019).

  • Emergent symmetry and conserved currents at deconfined quantum critical points. Topological Aspects of Condensed Matter, Harvard University (CMSA). April 1 (2019).

  • Machine learning physics: from quantum mechanics to holographic geometry. APS March Meeting, Invited Talk. February 13 (2019).

  • Entanglement features of random Hamiltonian dynamics. Conference on Novel Approaches to Quantum Dynamics, Kavli Institute for Theoretical Physics. August 30 (2018).

  • Valley fluctuations and SO(4) symmetry in twisted bilayer graphene. Workshop on Electron Correlation and Superconductivity in Graphene and Related Materials: Moire is Different, Kavli Institute of Theoretical Science, Beijing. July 12 (2018).

  • Machine learning holography. The First International Conference on Machine Learning and Physics, Tsinghua University, Beijing. July 6 (2018).

  • Deconfined criticality - from bosonic topological transitions to symmetric mass generation. International Workshop on New Paradigms in Quantum Matter, Institute of Physics Chinese Academy of Science, Beijing. June 28 (2018).

  • Machine learning holography. Workshop on Machine Learning in Geometry and Physics, Tsinghua Sanya International Math Center, Sanya. June 14 (2018).

  • From bosonic topological transition to symmetric mass generation. Workshop on Field Theory Dualities and Strongly Correlated Matter, Aspen Center for Theoretical Physics. March 20 (2018).

  • Exotic quantum criticalities among 2+1D symmetry protected topological phases. Workshop on Entanglement Universality in Correlated Electronic Systems, Southern University of Science and Technology of China. December 23 (2017).

  • Tensor network holography and deep learning. Western Forum on Machine Learning and its Applications, Sichuan Normal University. December 13 (2017).

  • Symmetric mass generation in Dirac semimetals. Workshop on Chaos, Duality, and Topology in Condensed matter Physics, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. November 4 (2017).

  • Hyperbolic network, Boltzmann machine and holographic duality. Frontiers in Artificial Intelligence and Application, Tsinghua University. July 22 (2017).

  • Machine learning and tensor network holography. Workshop on Machine Learning and Many-Body Physics, Kavli Institute for Theoretical Science. June 30 (2017).

  • Bilayer graphene as a platform for bosonic symmetry protected topological states. Many-body Entanglement and Topological Quantum Phenomena Workshop, Tsinghua Sanya International Mathematics Forum. December 13 (2016).

  • Exotic topological phase transitions in correlated spin-orbit coupled systems. Program on New Phases and Emergent Phenomena in Correlated Materials with Strong Spin-Orbit Coupling, Kavli Institute for Theoretical Physics. September 3 (2015).

  • Exotic quantum phase transitions in strongly interacting topological insulators. Asia Pacific Workshop, Zhejiang University. April 14 (2015).

  • Two-fluid model for Iron-based superconductors. Beijing Forum on High-Temperature Superconductivity, Tengchong. May 30 (2013).

Seminar Talks:

  • Can large language model speak the quantum language. Georgia Institute of Technology. February 20 (2025).

  • Classical shadow tomography with locally scrambled quantum dynamics. Hong Kong University of Science and Technology. December 10 (2024).

  • Emergent classicality from information bottleneck. Shenzhen University. January 29 (2024).

  • Emergent classicality from information bottleneck. University of Tennessee. September 20 (2023).

  • Fermi surface anomaly and symmetric mass generation. Simons Center of Geometry and Physics. May 24 (2023).

  • Fermi surface anomaly and symmetric mass generation. Ohio State University. April 10 (2023).

  • Fermi surface anomaly and symmetric mass generation. University of California, Santa Barbara. March 31 (2023).

  • Symmetric mass generation. University of Colorado Boulder. March 24 (2023).

  • Classical shadow tomography with locally scrambled quantum dynamics. Texas A&M University. April 23 (2022).

  • Deconfined quantum criticality beyond the Standard Model. University of California, Santa Barbara. January 28 (2022).

  • Intervalley coherence and intervalley superconductivity in ABC-stacked trilayer graphene. University of Florida. November 29 (2021).

  • Intervalley coherence and intervalley superconductivity in ABC-stacked trilayer graphene. University of California, Berkeley. October 6 (2021).

  • Machine learning physics: from quantum mechanics to holographic geometry. Alibaba DAMO Academy. August 19 (2021).

  • Quantum magnetism in Wannier-obstructed Mott insulators. Pennsylvania State University. February 12 (2021).

  • Machine learning physics: from quantum mechanics to holographic geometry. University of Southern California. March 9 (2020).

  • Machine learning physics: from quantum mechanics to holographic geometry. California Institute of Technology. October 21 (2019).

  • Machine learning physics: from quantum mechanics to holographic geometry. University of California, Riverside. May 13 (2019).

  • Machine learning physics: from quantum mechanics to holographic geometry. Harvard University. April 17 (2019).

  • Application of machine learning in quantum physics. Philips (China) Investment Co. Ltd., Beijing. July 20 (2018).

  • Symmetry protected topological phases and phase transitions. Tsinghua University. July 17-19 (2018).

  • From bosonic topological transitions to symmetric mass generation. Sun Yat-Sen University. June 21 (2018).

  • Tensor network holography and deep learning. Pennsylvania State University. April 9 (2018).

  • Dynamical signature of fractionalization at the deconfined quantum critical point. Massachusetts Institute of Technology. March 27 (2018).

  • Tensor network holography and deep learning. University of Massachusetts Amherst. February 27 (2018).

  • Tensor network holography and deep learning. California Institute of Technology. November 27 (2017).

  • Tensor network holography and deep learning. Perimeter Institute. November 21 (2017).

  • Bosonic symmetry protected topological states: theory, numerics, and experimental platform. Yale University. May 18 (2017).

  • From symmetric mass generation to Sachdev-Ye-Kitaev model. Brown University. May 10 (2017).

  • Bosonic symmetry protected topological states: theory, numerics, and experimental platform. University of Maryland, College Park. February 28 (2017).

  • Bosonic symmetry protected topological states: theory, numerics, and experimental platform. University of Virginia. February 16 (2017).

  • Bosonic symmetry protected topological states: theory, numerics, and experimental platform. University of California, San Diego. January 25 (2017).

  • Sachdev-Ye-Kitaev model and thermalization on the boundary of many-body localized fermionic symmetry protected topological states. Harvard University. November 1 (2016).

  • Entanglement holographic mapping of many-body localized system by spectrum bifurcation renormalization group. Tsinghua University. September 21 (2016).

  • Entanglement holographic mapping of many-body localized system by spectrum bifurcation renormalization group. University of California, Berkeley. April 26 (2016).

  • Entanglement holographic mapping of many-body localized system by spectrum bifurcation renormalization group. California State University, Northridge. February 19 (2016).

  • Holographic mapping of many-body localized system by spectrum bifurcation renormalization group. Perimeter Institute. December 4 (2015).

  • Fermion Green’s function and strange correlator of strongly interacting topological superconductors. Tsinghua University. June 26 (2014).

Teaching

  • Undergraduate Quantum Physics I (Spring 2025)

  • Undergraduate Quantum Physics II (Spring 2025, Fall 2024, 23)

  • Undergraduate Quantum Physics III (Winter 2025)

  • Undergraduate Statistical and Thermal Physics II (Winter 2024)

  • Undergraduate Condensed Matter Physics I (Winter 2023, 22)

  • Graduate Quantum Mechanics I (Fall 2022, 21, 20, 19, 18)

  • Graduate Quantum Mechanics II (Winter 2021, 20, 19)

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.

I hereby certify that the above information is true and correct to the best of my knowledge and belief.

Yi-Zhuang You

San Diego, 2025/12/15