activity
20242026
collaborators

6 papers

cond-mat.str-el2026

On the Thermal Transport Puzzles in -RuCl

Zheng-Duo Fan, Xiao-Qi Sun, Jing-Yuan Chen

Thermal transport has been used to probe the nature of -RuCl, an important candidate of Kitaev material. Two remarkable observations were made under applied magnetic fields…

hep-th2026

Framing Anomaly in Lattice Chern-Simons-Maxwell Theory

Ze-An Xu, Jing-Yuan Chen

Framing anomaly is a key property of chiral topological orders, for it reveals that the chirality is an intrinsic bulk property of the system, rather than a property of th…

hep-lat2025

Instanton Density Operator in Lattice QCD from Higher Category Theory

Jing-Yuan Chen

A natural definition for instanton density operator in lattice QCD has long been desired. We show this problem is, and has to be, solved by higher category theory. The problem is s…

hep-th2025

Lattice Chern-Simons-Maxwell Theory and its Chirality

Ze-An Xu, Jing-Yuan Chen

We define and solve the Chern-Simons-Maxwell theory on spacetime lattice, with an emphasis on the chirality of the theory. Realizing Chern-Simons theory on lattice ha…

hep-lat2025

An Explicit Categorical Construction of Instanton Density in Lattice Yang-Mills Theory

Peng Zhang, Jing-Yuan Chen

Since the inception of lattice QCD, a natural definition for the Yang-Mills instanton on lattice has been long sought for. In a recent work, one of authors showed the natural solut…

cond-mat.mes-hall2024

A Discrete Formulation of Second Stiefel-Whitney Class for Band Theory

Ken Shiozaki, Jing-Yuan Chen

Topological invariants in band theory are often formulated assuming that Bloch wave functions are smoothly defined over the Brillouin zone (BZ). However, first-principles band calc…