CHEN Wenlan-Department of Physics

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Chen, Wenlan

Associate Professor

Department of Physics, Tsinghua University

Lee Shau Kee Science & Technology Building A111-1

Beijing 100084, China

Phone：8610-62776866

cwlaser@mail.tsinghua.edu.cn

Education and Research Experience

Education:

2001-2005 Peking University B.S.

2005-2008 Peking University M.S.

2008-2014 MIT Ph.D.

Research Experience:

1/2015- 12/2018 Postdoc Associate MIT

1/2019- 6/2021 Assistant Professor Tsinghua University

6/2021- present Associate Professor Tsinghua University

Research Interests

Wenlan Chen’s research is focused on experiments with ultracold atoms, in which entanglement and quantum many-body systems can be realized both statically and dynamically in a controlled way. This enables the possibility to study fundamental questions in quantum information and modern condensed matter with atomic physics experiments.

By loading ultracold atoms into a high-cooperativity optical resonator, she and her colleagues at MIT observed the phenomena of vacuum induced transparency. They also realized a transistor gated by a single photon, where one photon could manipulate the propagation of multi photons. By loading ultracold bosons into a three-dimensional optical lattice, they are aiming at reaching to the super-low-entropy system and use spin degree of freedom in atoms to simulate ferromagnetism and anti-ferromagnetism.

With her new team at Tsinghua, Chen is using the ultracold atoms platform to precisely manipulate quantum entanglement and many-body correlation, in which quantum simulation and quantum computation in neutral atoms could be developed.

Awards and Membership

Martin Deutsch Student Award for Excellence in Experimental Physics, MIT, 2013

Lester Wolfe Fellowship, MIT, 2008

Selected Publications

1. J Hu, A Urvoy, Z Vendeiro, V Crépel,W Chen, V Vuletic, “Creation of a Bose-condensed gas of 87Rb by laser cooling”,Science358 (6366), 1078-1080 (2017)

2. J Hu,W Chen, Z Vendeiro, A Urvoy, B Braverman, V Vuletic, “Vacuum spin squeezing”,Phys. Rev. A96, 050301(R) (2017)

3. J Hu, Z Vendeiro,W Chen, H Zhang, R McConnell, AS SФrensen, V Vuletic, “Strictly nonclassical behavior of a mesoscopic system”,Phys. Rev. A95 (3), 030105 (2017)

4. WC Burton, CJ Kennedy, WC Chung, S Vadia,W Chen, W Ketterle, “Coherence times of Bose-Einstein condensates beyond the shot-noise limit via superfluid shielding”,Phys. Rev. Lett. 117 (27), 275301 (2016)

5. M Hosseini, KM Beck, Y Duan,W Chen, V Vuletic, “Partially nondestructive continuous detection of individual traveling optical photons”,Phys. Rev. lett. 116 (3), 033602 (2016)

6.W Chen, J Hu, Y Duan, B Braverman, H Zhang, V Vuletic, “Carving complex many-atom entangled states by single-photon detection”,Phys. Rev. Lett. 115 (25), 250502 (2015)

7. J Hu,W Chen, Z Vendeiro, H Zhang, V Vuletic, “Entangled collective-spin states of atomic ensembles under nonuniform atom-light interaction”,Phys. Rev. A92 (6), 063816 (2015)

8. KM Beck,W Chen, Q Lin, M Gullans, MD Lukin, V Vuletic, “Cross modulation of two laser beams at the individual-photon level”,Phys. Rev. Lett.113 (11), 113603 (2014)

9.W Chen, KM Beck, R Bücker, M Gullans, MD Lukin, H Tanji-Suzuki, V Vuletic, “All-optical switch and transistor gated by one stored photon”,Science341 (6147), 768-770 (2013)

10. H Tanji-Suzuki,W Chen, R Landig, J Simon, V Vuletic, “Vacuum-induced transparency”,Science333 (6047), 1266-1269 (2011)