papers

Publications (54)

math.DG2021

A Liouville theorem on asymptotically Calabi spaces

Song Sun, Ruobing Zhang

In this paper, we will study harmonic functions on the complete and incomplete spaces with nonnegative Ricci curvature which exhibit inhomogeneous collapsing behaviors at infinity.…

math.DG2018

Nilpotent structures and collapsing Ricci-flat metrics on K3 surfaces

Hans-Joachim Hein, Song Sun, Jeff Viaclovsky +1

We exhibit families of Ricci-flat Kahler metrics on K3 surfaces which collapse to an interval, with Tian-Yau and Taub-NUT metrics occurring as bubbles. There is a corresponding con…

math.DG2012

Kahler-Einstein metrics and stability

Xiu-Xiong Chen, Simon Donaldson, Song Sun

We annnounce a proof of the fact that a K-stable Fano manifold admits a Kahler-Einstein metric and give a brief outline of the proof.

math.AG2011

Testing log K-stability by blowing up formalism

Yuji Odaka, Song Sun

We study logarithmic K-stability for pairs by extending the formula for Donaldson-Futaki invariants to log setting. We also provide algebro-geometric counterparts of recent results…

math.DG2010

Space of Kähler metrics (V)-- Kähler quantization

Xiuxiong Chen, Song Sun

We prove the convergence of geodesic distance during the quantization of the space of Kähler potentials. As applications, this provides alternative proofs of certain inequalities…

math.CV2023

An infinite dimensional balanced embedding problem I:existence

Jingzhou Sun, Song Sun

We investigate the problem of balanced embedding of a non-compact complex manifold into an infinite-dimensional projective space. In this paper we prove the existence of such an em…

math.DG2020

Reflexive sheaves, Hermitian-Yang-Mills connections, and tangent cones

Xuemiao Chen, Song Sun

In this paper we give a complete algebro-geometric characterization of analytic tangent cones of admissible Hermitian-Yang-Mills connections over any reflexive sheaves.

math.DG2012

The generalized Frankel conjecture in Sasaki geometry

Weiyong He, Song Sun

We prove some structure results for \emph{transverse reducible} Sasaki manifolds. In particular, we show Sasaki manifolds with positive Ricci curvature is transversely irreducible,…

math.DG2018

Algebraic tangent cones of reflexive sheaves

Xuemiao Chen, Song Sun

We study the notion of algebraic tangent cones at singularities of reflexive sheaves. These correspond to extensions of reflexive sheaves across a negative divisor. We show the exi…

cs.CR2021

Bionic Optical Physical Unclonable Functions for Authentication and Encryption

Yongbiao Wan, Pidong Wang, Feng Huang +9

Information security is of great importance for modern society with all things connected. Physical unclonable function (PUF) as a promising hardware primitive has been intensively…

math.DG2012

Calabi flow, Geodesic rays, and uniqueness of constant scalar curvature Kähler metrics

Xiuxiong Chen, Song Sun

We prove that constant scalar curvature Kähler metric "adjacent" to a fixed Kähler class is unique up to isomorphism. This extends the uniqueness theorem of Donaldson and Chen-Ti…

math.DG2015

Compact Moduli Spaces of Del Pezzo Surfaces and Kähler-Einstein metrics

Yuji Odaka, Cristiano Spotti, Song Sun

We prove that the Gromov-Hausdorff compactification of the moduli space of Kahler-Einstein Del Pezzo surfaces in each degree agrees with certain algebro-geometric compactification.…

math.DG2025

Kähler-Ricci shrinkers and Fano fibrations

Song Sun, Junsheng Zhang

In this paper, we build connections between Kähler-Ricci shrinkers, i.e., complete (possibly non-compact) shrinking gradient Kähler-Ricci solitons, and algebraic geometry. In par…

math.DG2023

Asymptotically Calabi metrics and weak Fano manifolds

Hans-Joachim Hein, Song Sun, Jeff Viaclovsky +1

We show that any asymptotically Calabi manifold which is Calabi-Yau can be compactified complex analytically to a weak Fano manifold. Furthermore, the Calabi-Yau structure arises f…

math.DG2020

Singularities of Hermitian-Yang-Mills connections and Harder-Narasimhan-Seshadri filtrations

Xuemiao Chen, Song Sun

This is the first of a series of papers where we relate tangent cones of Hermitian-Yang-Mills connections at an isolated singularity to the complex algebraic geometry of the underl…

cond-mat.mes-hall2023

Anomalous Nernst effect induced terahertz emission in a single ferromagnetic film

Zheng Feng, Wei Tan, Zuanming Jin +17

By developing a bidirectional-pump terahertz (THz) emission spectroscopy, we reveal an anomalous Nernst effect (ANE) induced THz emission in a single ferromagnetic film. Based on t…

math.DG2024

On conical asymptotically flat manifolds

Mingyang Li, Song Sun

We prove a conjecture of Petrunin and Tuschmann on the non-existence of asymptotically flat 4-manifolds asymptotic to the half plane. We also survey recent progress and questions c…

math.DG2017

Explicit Gromov-Hausdorff compactifications of moduli spaces of Kähler-Einstein Fano manifolds

Cristiano Spotti, Song Sun

We exhibit the first non-trivial concrete examples of Gromov-Hausdorff compactifications of moduli spaces of Kähler-Einstein Fano manifolds in all complex dimensions bigger than t…

math.DG2019

Classification results for expanding and shrinking gradient Kähler-Ricci solitons

Ronan J. Conlon, Alix Deruelle, Song Sun

We first show that a Kähler cone appears as the tangent cone of a complete expanding gradient Kähler-Ricci soliton with quadratic curvature decay with derivatives if and only if…

math.DG2025

From almost smooth spaces to RCD spaces

Shouhei Honda, Song Sun

We provide various characterizations for a given almost smooth space to be an RCD space, in terms of a local volume doubling and a local Poincaré inequality. Applications include…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2019

First principle calculation of the effective Zeeman's couplings in topological materials

Zhi-Da Song, Song Sun, Yuan-Feng Xu +4

In this paper, we propose a first principle calculation method for the effective Zeeman's coupling based on the second perturbation theory and apply it to a few topological materia…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2023

VASP2KP: kp models and Lande g-factors from ab initio calculations

Sheng Zhang, Haohao Sheng, Zhi-Da Song +8

The method is significant in condensed matter physics for the compact and analytical Hamiltonian. In the presence of magnetic field, it is described by the effective Zee…

cond-mat.mes-hall2022

Unprotected quadratic band crossing points and quantum anomalous Hall effect in FeB2 monolayer

Dongyu Wu, Yunpeng Huang, Song Sun +6

Quadratic band crossing points (QBCPs) and quantum anomalous Hall effect (QAHE) have attracted the attention of both theoretical and experimental researchers in recent years. Based…

math.DG2025

On the local topology of non-collapsed Ricci bounded limit spaces

Song Sun, Jikang Wang, Junsheng Zhang

We show that for a pointed Gromov-Hausdorff limit of non-collapsed Riemannian manifolds with bounded Ricci curvature, the local of the regular loci vanishes. We also discuss…

math.DG2022

Collapsing geometry of hyperkähler 4-manifolds and applications

Song Sun, Ruobing Zhang

We investigate the collapsing geometry of hyperkähler 4-manifolds. As applications we prove two well-known conjectures in the field. (1) Any collapsed limit of unit-diameter hyper…

math.DG2012

Gromov-Hausdorff limits of Kahler manifolds and algebraic geometry

Simon Donaldson, Song Sun

We prove a general result about the geometry of holomorphic line bundles over Kahler manifolds.

math.DG2012

Kahler-Einstein metrics on Fano manifolds, II: limits with cone angle less than 2 π

Xiuxiong Chen, Simon Donaldson, Song Sun

This is the second of a series of three papers which provide proofs of results announced in arXiv:1210.7494. In this paper we consider the Gromov-Hausdorff limits of metrics with c…

math.DG2009

Note on geodesic rays tamed by simple test configurations

Song Sun

In this short note, we give a new proof of a theorem of Arezzo-Tian on the existence of smooth geodesic rays tamed by a special degeneration.

physics.optics2024

Generation of nearly pure and highly directional magnetic light in fluorescence of rare earth ions

Anton D. Utyushev, Roman Gaponenko, Song Sun +3

A thorough analysis of the emission via the magnetic dipole (MD) transition, called magnetic light below, of trivalent rare-earth ions in or near dielectric homogeneous spheres has…

math.DG2016

Frankel Conjecture and Sasaki geometry

Weiyong He, Song Sun

We classify simply connected compact Sasaki manifolds of dimension with positive transverse bisectional curvature. In particular, the Kähler cone corresponding to such mani…

math.DG2026

Geometry of gravitational instantons

Mingyang Li, Song Sun

We survey recent progress in the classification of hyperkähler and Hermitian gravitational instantons (i.e., complete noncompact 4 dimensional Ricci-flat manifolds with quadratic…

math.DG2014

Existence and deformations of Kahler-Einstein metrics on smoothable Q-Fano varieties

Cristiano Spotti, Song Sun, Chengjian Yao

We prove the existence of Kahler-Einstein metrics on Q-Gorenstein smoothable, K-polystable Q-Fano varieties, and we show how these metrics behave, in the Gromov-Hausdorff sense, un…

math.DG2013

On the Kähler-Ricci flow near a Kähler-Einstein metric

Song Sun, Yuanqi Wang

On a Fano manifold, we prove that the Kahler-Ricci flow starting from a Kahler metric in the anti-canonical class which is sufficiently close to a Kahler-Einstein metric must conve…

math.DG2015

Gromov-Hausdorff limits of Kahler manifolds and algebraic geometry, II

Simon Donaldson, Song Sun

In this paper we continue to study Gromov-Hausdorff limits of Kahler manifolds and algebraic geometry. Our main focus is on the algebro-geometric meaning of Riemannian tangent cone…

math.DG2013

Kahler-Einstein metrics on Fano manifolds, III: limits as cone angle approaches 2π and completion of the main proof

Xiuxiong Chen, Simon Donaldson, Song Sun

This is the third and final paper in a series which establish results announced in arXiv:1210.7494. In this paper we consider the Gromov-Hausdorff limits of metrics with cone singu…

math.DG2016

Calabi-Yau manifolds with isolated conical singularities

Hans-Joachim Hein, Song Sun

Let be a complex projective variety with only canonical singularities and with trivial canonical bundle. Let be an ample line bundle on . Assume that the pair is…

math.DG2020

Analytic tangent cones of admissible Hermitian-Yang-Mills connections

Xuemiao Chen, Song Sun

In this paper we study the analytic tangent cones of admissible Hermitian-Yang-Mills connections near a homogeneous singularity of a reflexive sheaf, and relate it to the Harder-Na…

cs.CR2021

Authentication of optical physical unclonable functions based on single-pixel detection

Pidong Wang, Feiliang Chen, Dong Li +8

Physical unclonable function (PUF) has been proposed as a promising and trustworthy solution to a variety of cryptographic applications. Here we propose a non-imaging based authent…

math.DG2009

A note on Kähler-Ricci soliton

Xiuxiong Chen, Song Sun, Gang Tian

In this note we provide a proof of the following: Any compact KRS with positive bisectional curvature is biholomorphic to the complex projective space. As a corollary, we obtain an…

math.DG2023

On the generalized numerical criterion

Sean Timothy Paul, Song Sun, Junsheng Zhang

In this note, we give examples that demonstrate a negative answer to the generalized numerical criterion problem for pairs.

math.DG2012

Kahler-Einstein metrics on Fano manifolds, I: approximation of metrics with cone singularities

Xiu-Xiong Chen, Simon Donaldson, Song Sun

This is the first of a series of three papers which provide proofs of results announced recently in arXiv:1210.7494.

math.DG2024

Complex structure degenerations and collapsing of Calabi-Yau metrics

Song Sun, Ruobing Zhang

In this paper, we make progress on understanding the collapsing behavior of Calabi-Yau metrics on a degenerating family of polarized Calabi-Yau manifolds. In the case of a family o…

math.DG2023

No semistability at infinity for Calabi-Yau metrics asymptotic to cones

Song Sun, Junsheng Zhang

We discover a "no semistability at infinity" phenomenon for complete Calabi-Yau metrics asymptotic to cones, by eliminating the possible appearance of an intermediate K-semistable…

math.DG2023

Bubbling of Kähler-Einstein metrics

Song Sun

We prove the finite step termination of bubble trees for singularity formation of polarized Kähler-Einstein metrics in the non-collapsing situation. We also raise several question…

quant-ph2021

Excess-noise suppression for a squeezed state propagating through random amplifying media via wave-front shaping

Dong Li, Song Sun, Yao Yao

After propagating through a random amplifying medium, a squeezed state commonly shows excess noise above the shot-noise level. Since large noise can significantly reduce the signal…

math.DG2015

Kähler-Ricci flow, Kähler-Einstein metric, and K-stability

Xiuxiong Chen, Song Sun, Bing Wang

We prove the existence of Kahler-Einstein metric on a K-stable Fano manifold using the recent compactness result on Kahler-Ricci flows. The key ingredient is an algebro-geometric d…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2022

Strain-tuned topological phase transition and unconventional Zeeman effect in ZrTe5 microcrystals

Apurva Gaikwad, Song Sun, Peipei Wang +4

The geometric phase (Berry phase) of an electronic wave function is the fundamental basis of the topological properties in solids. Modulating band structure provides a tuning knob…

math.DG2017

Projective embedding of log Riemann surfaces and K-stability

Jingzhou Sun, Song Sun

Given a smooth polarized Riemann surface (X, L) endowed with a hyperbolic metric with cusp singularities along a divisor D, we show the L^2 projective embedding of (X, D) defi…

math.DG2012

Note on K-stability of pairs

Song Sun

We prove that a pair (X, D) with X Fano and D a smooth anti-canonical divisor is K-unstable for negative angles, and K-semistable for zero angle.

physics.optics2020

The critical role of shell in enhanced fluorescence of metal-dielectric core-shell nanoparticles

Song Sun, Ilia L. Rasskazov, P. Scott Carney +2

Large scale simulations are performed by means of the transfer-matrix method to reveal optimal conditions for metal-dielectric core-shell particles to induce the largest fluorescen…

math.DG2025

Gravitational instantons and harmonic maps

Mingyang Li, Song Sun

We study the interaction between toric Ricci-flat metrics in dimension 4 and axisymmetric harmonic maps from the 3-dimensional Euclidean space into the hyperbolic plane. Applicatio…

math.DG2012

Conical Kahler-Einstein metric revisited

Chi Li, Song Sun

In this paper we introduce the "interpolation-degneration" strategy to study Kahler-Einstein metrics on a smooth Fano manifold with cone singularities along a smooth divisor that i…

cond-mat.mes-hall2019

Topological metals induced by Zeeman effect

Song Sun, Zhida Song, Hongming Weng +1

In the present paper, we propose a new way to classify centrosymmetric metals by studying the Zeeman effect caused by an external magnetic field described by the momentum dependent…

cond-mat.mes-hall2022

Quantized and half-quantized Anomalous Hall effect induced by in-plane magnetic field

Song Sun, Hongming Weng, Xi Dai

In this paper we propose that, quantized and nearly half-quantized intrinsic anomalous Hall effect can be induced by in-plane external magnetic field through the Zeeman coupling in…