Faculty

ZHAI Hui

Professor

Department of Physics, Tsinghua University

Physics Building W244

Beijing 100084, China

Tel:8610-62781601

Email:hzhai@tsinghua.edu.cn

Education and Employment

Education:

Jan. 2005: Doctor of Science, Physics, Center for Advanced Study, Tsinghua University

Jun. 2002: Bachelor of Science, Physics, Department of Physics, Tsinghua University

Employment:

Sep. 2026-Present: Professor, Department of Physics, Tsinghua University

December 2015-Present: Professor, Institute for Advanced Study, Tsinghua University

August 2012-December 2015: Permenent Member, Institute for Advanced Study, Tsinghua University

July. 2009-July 2012: Member, Institute for Advanced Study, Tsinghua University

Sep. 2007-June 2009: Postdoc Scholar, Material Science Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory and Department of Physics, University of California at Berkeley

Jun. 2005-May 2007: Postdoc Scholar, Department of Physics, the Ohio-State University

Teaching

Course Video of Cold Atomic Physics:

https://cloud.tsinghua.edu.cn/d/10fafb3e553d417da655/

http://res.tsinghua.edu.cn/portal/community.jspx?id=0c904407715343f2806e4e5ba1d0f6cb

Research Interests

Research focus: quantum matter and quantum computing in cold atomic and condensed matter systems, including nonequilibrium dynamics of quantum matter, quantum computing with atomic arrays, quantum many-body physics in cold atomic systems, and the integration of artificial intelligence with quantum science and technology.

Postdoctoral Positions in the research group:https://academicjobsonline.org/ajo/jobs/31453

Awards&Services

Awards:

2022  Fellow of the American Physical Society

2021  Xplorer Prize

2020  Beijing Outstanding Young Scientist Zhongguancun Award

2019  Highly Cited Researcher, Web of Science Group

2019  Rao Yutai Prize, Chinese Physical Society

2018  Beijing Outstanding Young Scientist Program for Universities

2017  APS Outstanding Referee

Services:

Edit Workgroup, of National Science Review, 2021.8-

Editorial Board Member, of Reports on Progress in Physics, 2020.5-

Editorial Board Member, of Machine Learning:Science and Technology, 2019.6-

Editorial Board Member, of Journal of Physics B, 2013.10-2017.12

Selected Publications

Total publication: more than 150 SCI-indexed papers, including 1 in Science, 5 in Nature Physics, 2 in Physical Review X, and 39 in Physical Review Letters, as well as 2 review articles in Nature Reviews Physics and 1 in Reports on Progress in Physics. My papers have received over 9,000 citations in Web of Science and over 14,000 in Google Scholar. My H-index is 45 in Web of Science and 55 in Google Scholar, with 24 papers receiving more than 100 citations in the SCI database. Textbook 《Ultracold Atomic Physics》published with Cambirdge press in 2021

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Representative Papers:

1. Non-Hermitian Linear Response

Establish a generalized Kubu formula to probe many-body correlations through dissipation, named “non-Hermitian Linear response theory” [Nat. Phys. 2020; citation > 180 ].

2. Out-of-Time-Ordered Correlation

Propose and Prove a theorem that relates out-of-time-ordered correlation and the entanglement entropy dynamics [Sci. Bull 2017, citation > 400]. Collaborated with the USTC group, perform one of the first two experimental measurements of the out-of-time-ordered correlator [PRX 2017, citation>580].

3. Non-Equilibrium Topological Effect

Propose a method to realize the topological Haldane model using shaking optical lattice [PRA 2014, citation > 200]. The same method has been used later by the ETH group, realizing the Haldane model with cold atoms. Propose a scheme to detect the topological number of a Hamiltonian in quench dynamics [PRL 2017, citation >180], which has been observed experimentally by the Hamburg group.

4. Scale Invariant Quantum Fluids

Predict a quantum dynamics with discrete scaling symmetry in the time domain in scale invariant quantum fluids, named “ Efimivan Expansion ”, which has been observed by the ECNU group [Science 2016]. Discover a set of new exact solution for hydrodynamic equations of scale invariant quantum fluids [PRX 2021].

5. Orbital Feshbach Resonance

Predict a novel type of Feshbach resonance in alkaline-earth atoms. This novel mechanism ultilizes the orbital degree of freedoms to replace the role of electronic spins in conventional magnetic Feshbach resonance, therefore, it is named “ orbital Feshbach resonance” [PRL 2015, citation >180]. This novel Feshbach resonance has been observed by both Munich and Florence groups.

6. Repulsive Polarons

Discover a novel type of elementary excitation, known as the repulsive polaron, in fermionic atomic gases [PRA 2010, citation >160]. This polaron has been observed by the Cambridge group. Later the Florence group has measured its energy, in good agreement with this prediction.

7. Spin-Orbit Coupled Cold Atomic Gases

Predict stripe superfluid in spin-orbit coupled Bose-Einstein condensate [PRL 2010, citation > 800], experimentally observed by the MIT group later. Collaborated with the Shanxi University group, first experimentally realized spin-orbit coupled Fermi gas [PRL 2012, citation 1100].

8. Pairing Symmetry of Iron Pnictides

Predict the pairing symmetry of superconducting phase in iron pnictides [PRL 2009, citation > 650], confirmed by later experiments.