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20162025
most citedObservation of symmetry-protected topological band with ultracold fermions

148 citations · 524 across the 18 of their papers we have counts for

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18 papers

cond-mat.quant-gas2025

Localization behavior in a Hermitian and non-Hermitian Raman lattice

Entong Zhao, Yu-Jun Liu, Ka Kwan Pak +4

We propose a flexible Raman lattice system for alkaline-earth-like atoms to theoretically investigate localization behaviors in a quasi-periodic lattice with controllable non-Hermi…

cond-mat.quant-gas2025

Third-Order Exceptional Point in Non-Hermitian Spin-Orbit-Coupled cold atoms

Yu-Jun Liu, Ka Kwan Pak, Peng Ren +4

Exceptional points (EPs) has seen substantial advances in both experiment and theory. However, in quantum systems, higher-order exceptional points remain of great interest and poss…

cond-mat.quant-gas2024

Thermodynamics of Spin-Imbalanced Fermi Gases with SU(N) Symmetric Interaction

Chengdong He, Xin-Yuan Gao, Ka Kwan Pak +6

Thermodynamics of degenerate Fermi gases has been extensively studied through various aspects such as Pauli blocking effects, collective modes, BCS superfluidity, and more. Despite…

physics.atom-ph2024★ 1 cited

Multi-reservoir enhanced loading of tweezer atom arrays

Xu Yan, Chengdong He, Kai Wen +4

We introduce a species-independent method for improved loading into a single-atom optical tweezer array, utilizing iterative loading with multiple reservoir tweezers. Demonstrated…

quant-ph2024

Complete Interband Transitions for Non-Hermitian Spin-Orbit-Coupled Cold-Atom Systems

Dong Liu, Zejian Ren, Wai Chun Wong +5

Recently, synthetic spin-orbit coupling has been introduced into cold-atom systems for more flexible control of the Hamiltonian, which was further made time-varying through two-pho…

physics.optics2024★ 1 cited

Creation of a tweezer array for cold atoms utilizing a generative neural network

Zejian Ren, Xu Yan, Kai Wen +4

Optical tweezers have become essential tools for dynamically manipulating objects, ranging from microspheres or biological molecules to neutral atoms. In this study, we demonstrate…

cond-mat.quant-gas2023★ 96 cited

Two-dimensional non-Hermitian skin effect in an ultracold Fermi gas

Entong Zhao, Zhiyuan Wang, Chengdong He +6

The concept of non-Hermiticity has expanded the understanding of band topology leading to the emergence of counter-intuitive phenomena. One example is the non-Hermitian skin effect…

cond-mat.quant-gas2022★ 9 cited

Observing a topological phase transition with deep neural networks from experimental images of ultracold atoms

Entong Zhao, Ting Hin Mak, Chengdong He +4

Although classifying topological quantum phases have attracted great interests, the absence of local order parameter generically makes it challenging to detect a topological phase…

cond-mat.str-el2022

Defect-induced edge ferromagnetism and fractional spin excitations of the SU(4) -flux Hubbard model on honeycomb lattice

Yang Xie, Cheng-Ping He, Zhao-Yang Dong +1

Recently, a SU(4) -flux Hubbard model on the honeycomb lattice has been proposed to study the spin-orbit excitations of -ZrCl [Phys.~Rev.~Lett. 121.097201~(2017)]. Based…

cond-mat.quant-gas2021★ 7 cited

Chiral control of quantum states in non-Hermitian spin-orbit-coupled fermions

Zejian Ren, Dong Liu, Entong Zhao +4

Spin-orbit coupling is an essential mechanism underlying quantum phenomena such as the spin Hall effect and topological insulators. It has been widely studied in well-isolated Herm…

cond-mat.quant-gas2020

Heuristic machinery for thermodynamic studies of SU(N) fermions with neural networks

Entong Zhao, Jeongwon Lee, Chengdong He +4

The power of machine learning (ML) provides the possibility of analyzing experimental measurements with an unprecedented sensitivity. However, it still remains challenging to probe…

cond-mat.quant-gas2020★ 16 cited

Effective statistical fringe removal algorithm for high-sensitivity imaging of ultracold atoms

Bo Song, Chengdong He, Zejian Ren +3

High-sensitivity imaging of ultracold atoms is often challenging when interference patterns are imprinted on the imaging light. Such image noises result in low signal-to-noise rati…

cond-mat.quant-gas2019★ 31 cited

Evidence for Bosonization in a three-dimensional gas of SU() fermions

Bo Song, Yangqian Yan, Chengdong He +3

Blurring the boundary between bosons and fermions lies at the heart of a wide range of intriguing quantum phenomena in multiple disciplines, ranging from condensed matter physics a…

cond-mat.quant-gas2019★ 20 cited

Collective excitations in two-dimensional SU() Fermi gases with tunable spin

Chengdong He, Zejian Ren, Bo Song +5

We measure collective excitations of a harmonically trapped two-dimensional (2D) SU() Fermi gas of Yb confined to a stack of layers formed by a one-dimensional optical l…

cond-mat.quant-gas2018

Collective dipole oscillations of a spin-orbit coupled Fermi gas

Shanchao Zhang, Chengdong He, Elnur Hajiyev +3

The collective dipole mode is induced and measured in a spin-orbit (SO) coupled degenerate Fermi gas of Yb atoms. Using a differential optical Stark shift, we split the deg…

cond-mat.quant-gas2018★ 111 cited

Observation of nodal-line semimetal with ultracold fermions in an optical lattice

Bo Song, Chengdong He, Sen Niu +4

Observation of topological phases beyond two-dimension (2D) has been an open challenge for ultracold atoms. Here, we realize for the first time a 3D spin-orbit coupled nodal-line s…

cond-mat.quant-gas2017★ 148 cited

Observation of symmetry-protected topological band with ultracold fermions

Bo Song, Long Zhang, Chengdong He +5

Symmetry plays a fundamental role in understanding complex quantum matter, particularly in classifying topological quantum phases, which have attracted great interests in the recen…

cond-mat.quant-gas2016★ 84 cited

Spin-orbit coupled two-electron Fermi gases of ytterbium atoms

Bo Song, Chengdong He, Shanchao Zhang +4

We demonstrate all-optical implementation of spin-orbit coupling (SOC) in a two-electron Fermi gas of Yb atoms by coupling two hyperfine ground states with a narrow optical…