Education and Employment

Education：

1993.12: Ph.D., Physics, JILA, University of Colorado at Boulder, USA

1987.07: B.S., Physics, Nanjing University, China

Employment：

2009.12-present: Department of Physics, Tsinghua University, Professor

2004.07-2010.01: School of Physics, Georgia Institute of Technology, Professor

2001.07-2004.06: School of Physics, Georgia Institute of Technology, Associate Professor

1996.09-2001.06: School of Physics, Georgia Institute of Technology, Assistant Professor

1993.11-1996.09: ITAMP, Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, NSF Postdoctoral Fellow

Teaching

Quantum Mechanics I

Research Interests

Atomic Physics and Quantum Precision Measurement

Quantum Information and Quantum Computation

Awards&Services

Awards：

“Distinguished Employee” of Tsinghua University (2018)

Our work “Deterministic entanglement generation from driving through quantum phase transitions” was voted into the “Top-10 Science Advances of China” (2017)

First award in the “2013 Awards for Essays on Gravitation”, by the GRAVITY RESEARCH FOUNDATION

Fellow of the American Physical Society, (2007)

Cheung Kong Visiting Chair Professor, Ministry of Education, China, (2005-2008)

Oversea’s Excellent Researcher from Chinese NSF (collaborative grant), (2002-2004)

US National Science Foundation (NSF) Career Award, (1997-2002)

US Office of Naval Research (ONR) Young Investigator Award (YIP Program), (1997-2000)

US National Science Foundation (NSF) Postdoctoral Fellowship at

Institute for Theoretical Atomic and Molecular Physics (ITAMP),

Harvard University and Smithsonian Institution, (1993-1996)

China-U.S. Physics Examinations and Applications (CUSPEA program) student, (1987)

Services：

Lifetime Member of American Physical Society (APS,1996-)

Lifetime Member of Oversea’s Chinese Physics Association (OCPA,1998-)

Lifetime Member of Chinese Physical Society (CPA,2023-)

Associate Director, State Key Laboratory of Low Dimensional Quantum Physics, Department of Physics, Tsinghua University, (2009-)

Head, Division of Mesoscopic Optics and Cold Atoms, 2011 Collaborative Innovation Center of Quantum Matter, Beijing, China (2012-2022)

Member of the scientific committee of the Sant Feliu BEC conference, 2023-2029 (6 year term)

Executive Committee member, The International Conference on Photonic, Electronic, and Atomic Collisions (ICPEAC), (2015-2019)

Editorial board for the Springer Series Journal “Frontiers of Physics in China”, (2005.10-2014.10)

Editorial board of “National Science Review”, (2013-)

Editorial board of “Communications of Theoretical Physics”, (2018-)

Editorial board of “J. Phys. B: At. Mol. Opt. Phys.” (2020.11-)

Editorial board of “Phys. Rev. A,” (2022.01-)

Editorial board of “SCIENCE CHINA Physics, Mechanics & Astronomy”, (2022.10-)

Selected Publications

[1] Chen Y, You L. Optimal Control of Unknown Collective Spin Systems via a Neural Network Surrogate[J]. Chinese Physics Letters, 2025.

[2] Liang X, Yue Z, Chao Y X, et al. Observation of anomalous information scrambling in a Rydberg atom array[J]. Physical Review Letters, 2025, 135(5): 050201.

[3] Zhao X, Ge P, Yu H, et al. Quantum Hamiltonian algorithms for maximum independent sets[J]. National Science Review, 2025: nwaf304.

[4] Cao J, Li X, Mao T, et al. Joint estimation of a two-phase spin rotation beyond classical limit[J]. Physical Review Letters, 2025, 135(2): 023403.

[5] Chao Y X, Hua Z X, Liang X H, et al. Robust suppression of high-frequency laser phase noise by adaptive Pound-Drever-Hall feedforward[J]. Physical Review Applied, 2025, 23(1): L011005.

[6] Wu X, Wang Z, Yang F, et al. Dissipative time crystal in a strongly interacting Rydberg gas[J]. Nature Physics, 2024, 20(9): 1389-1394.

[7] Guo S F, Chen F, Liu Q, et al. Faster state preparation across quantum phase transition assisted by reinforcement learning[J]. Physical Review Letters, 2021, 126(6): 060401.

[8] Wu X, Liang X, Tian Y, et al. A concise review of Rydberg atom based quantum computation and quantum simulation[J]. Chinese Physics B, 2021, 30(2): 020305.

[9] Zou Y Q, Wu L N, Liu Q, et al. Beating the classical precision limit with spin-1 Dicke states of more than 10,000 atoms[J]. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 2018, 115(25): 6381-6385.

[10] Cui Y, Shen C, Deng M, et al. Observation of broad d-wave Feshbach resonances with a triplet structure[J]. Physical Review Letters, 2017, 119(20): 203402.

[11] Luo X Y, Zou Y Q, Wu L N, et al. Deterministic entanglement generation from driving through quantum phase transitions[J]. Science, 2017, 355(6325): 620-623.

[12] Zhang W, Zhou D L, Chang M S, et al. Coherent spin mixing dynamics in a spin-1 atomic condensate[J]. Physical Review A—Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics, 2005, 72(1): 013602.

[13] You L. Creating maximally entangled atomic states in a Bose-Einstein condensate[J]. Physical review letters, 2003, 90(3): 030402.

[14] You L, Chapman M S. Quantum entanglement using trapped atomic spins[J]. Physical Review A, 2000, 62(5): 052302.

[15] Yi S, You L. Trapped atomic condensates with anisotropic interactions[J]. Physical Review A, 2000, 61(4): 041604.

[16] Marinescu M, You L. Controlling atom-atom interaction at ultralow temperatures by dc electric fields[J]. Physical review letters, 1998, 81(21): 4596.

[17] Lewenstein M, You L. Quantum phase diffusion of a Bose-Einstein condensate[J]. Physical Review Letters, 1996, 77(17): 3489.

[18] You L, Lewenstein M, Glauber R J, et al. Quantum field theory of atoms interacting with photons. III. Scattering of weak cw light from cold samples of bosonic atoms[J]. Physical Review A, 1996, 53(1): 329.