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20162026
most citedTopological quantum matter with cold atoms

311 citations · 990 across the 22 of their papers we have counts for

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22 papers

quant-ph2026

Dynamical Signatures of Floquet Topology in Wave Packet Dynamics

Xin Shen, Bing Lu, Yan-Qing Zhu

Periodically driven quantum systems, known as Floquet systems, provide a versatile platform for engineering novel topological phases absent in static settings. However, dynamically…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2026

Identifying Oriented Spin Space Groups and Related Physical Properties Using an Online Platform FINDSPINGROUP

Yutong Yu, Xiaobing Chen, Yanzhou Zhu +5

Unconventional magnets that combine antiferromagnetic structures with ferromagnetic-like responses are essential for the development of next-generation spintronics. Their emergent…

cond-mat.quant-gas2024★ 4 cited

Synthetic spin-orbit coupling for the multispin models in optical lattices

Zhen Zheng, Yan-Qing Zhu, Shanchao Zhang +2

The essential role of synthetic spin-orbit coupling in discovering new topological matter phases with cold atoms is widely acknowledged. However, the engineering of spin-orbit coup…

cond-mat.quant-gas2024★ 9 cited

Synthetic non-Abelian topological charges in ultracold atomic gases

Qi-Dong Wang, Yan-Qing Zhu, Shi-Liang Zhu +1

Topological phases associated with non-Abelian charges can exhibit a distinguished bulk-edge correspondence compared with Abelian phases, although elucidating this relationship rem…

cond-mat.mes-hall2024★ 7 cited

Topological Insulators with Hybrid-order Boundary States

Yan-Qing Zhu, Zhen Zheng, Giandomenico Palumbo +1

We report the discovery of several classes of novel topological insulators (TIs) with hybrid-order boundary states generated from the first-order TIs with additional crystalline sy…

quant-ph2023

Exploring Parity Magnetic Effects through Experimental Simulation with Superconducting Qubits

Yu Zhang, Yan-Qing Zhu, Jianwen Xu +8

We present the successful realization of four-dimensional (4D) semimetal bands featuring tensor monopoles, achieved using superconducting quantum circuits. Our experiment involves…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2023★ 182 cited

Enumeration and representation theory of spin space groups

Xiaobing Chen, Jun Ren, Yanzhou Zhu +7

Those fundamental physical properties, such as phase transitions, Weyl fermions, and spin excitation, in all magnetic ordered materials, were ultimately believed to rely on the sym…

cond-mat.mes-hall2022★ 8 cited

Quantum quenches in a pseudo-Hermitian Chern insulator

Peng He, Yan-Qing Zhu, Jian-Te Wang +1

We propose to uncover the topology of a pseudo-Hermitian Chern insulator by quantum quench dynamics. The Bloch Hamiltonian of the pseudo-Hermitian Chern insulator is defined in the…

cond-mat.mes-hall2022★ 11 cited

Topological Electromagnetic Effects and Higher Second Chern Numbers in Four-Dimensional Gapped Phases

Yan-Qing Zhu, Zhen Zheng, Giandomenico Palumbo +1

Higher-dimensional topological phases play a key role in understanding the lower-dimensional topological phases and the related topological responses through a dimensional reductio…

quant-ph2022★ 12 cited

Link between \emph{Zitterbewegung} and topological phase transition

Xin Shen, Yan-Qing Zhu, Zhi Li

Topological quantum state described by the global invariant has been extensively studied in theory and experiment. In this letter, we investigate the relationship between \emph{Zit…

quant-ph2022★ 18 cited

Extracting non-Abelian quantum metric tensor and its related Chern numbers

Hai-Tao Ding, Yan-Qing Zhu, Peng He +4

The complete geometry of quantum states in parameter space is characterized by the quantum geometric tensor, which contains the quantum metric and Berry curvature as the real and i…

cond-mat.mes-hall2021★ 2 cited

Band topology of pseudo-Hermitian phases through tensor Berry connections and quantum metric

Yan-Qing Zhu, Wen Zheng, Shi-Liang Zhu +1

Among non-Hermitian systems, pseudo-Hermitian phases represent a special class of physical models characterized by real energy spectra and by the absence of non-Hermitian skin effe…

quant-ph2020★ 5 cited

A synthetic monopole source of Kalb-Ramond field in diamond

Mo Chen, Changhao Li, Giandomenico Palumbo +3

Magnetic monopoles play a central role in various areas of fundamental physics, ranging from electromagnetism to topological states of matter. While their observation is elusive in…

cond-mat.mes-hall2020★ 13 cited

Tensor monopoles and negative magnetoresistance effect in optical lattices

Hai-Tao Ding, Yan-Qing Zhu, Zhi Li +1

We propose that a kind of four-dimensional (4D) Hamiltonians, which host tensor monopoles related to quantum metric tensor in even dimensions, can be simulated by ultracold atoms i…

cond-mat.mes-hall2020★ 31 cited

Four-dimensional semimetals with tensor monopoles: From surface states to topological responses

Yan-Qing Zhu, Nathan Goldman, Giandomenico Palumbo

Quantum anomalies offer a useful guide for the exploration of transport phenomena in topological semimetals. In this work, we introduce a model describing a semimetal in four spati…

quant-ph2019★ 1 cited

Note on "Experimental Measurement of Quantum Metric Tensor and Related Topological Phase Transition with a Superconducting Qubit"

Yan-Qing Zhu, Dan-Wei Zhang, Xinsheng Tan +4

In the paper [X. Tan et al., Phys. Rev. Lett. 122, 210401 (2019)], we have studied the Euler characteristic number for a two-band model; However, the calculated there is no…

quant-ph2019★ 159 cited

Experimental Measurement of the Quantum Metric Tensor and Related Topological Phase Transition with a Superconducting Qubit

Xinsheng Tan, Dan-Wei Zhang, Zhen Yang +12

Berry curvature is an imaginary component of the quantum geometric tensor (QGT) and is well studied in many branches of modern physics; however, the quantum metric as a real compon…

cond-mat.quant-gas2018★ 15 cited

Topological metal bands with double-triple-point fermions in optical lattices

Xue-Ying Mai, Yan-Qing Zhu, Zhi Li +2

Novel fermionic quasiparticles with integer pseudospins in some energy bands, such as pseudospin-1 triple-point fermions, recently attract increasing interest since they are beyond…

cond-mat.quant-gas2018★ 311 cited

Topological quantum matter with cold atoms

Dan-Wei Zhang, Yan-Qing Zhu, Y. X. Zhao +2

This is an introductory review of the physics of topological quantum matter with cold atoms. Topological quantum phases, originally discovered and investigated in condensed matter…

cond-mat.quant-gas2017★ 70 cited

Emergent pseudospin-1 Maxwell fermions with a threefold degeneracy in optical lattices

Yan-Qing Zhu, Dan-Wei Zhang, Hui Yan +2

The discovery of relativistic spin-1/2 fermions such as Dirac and Weyl fermions in condensed-matter or artificial systems opens a new era in modern physics. An interesting but rare…

quant-ph2017★ 132 cited

Topological Maxwell Metal Bands in a Superconducting Qutrit

Xinsheng Tan, Dan-Wei Zhang, Qiang Liu +6

We experimentally explore the topological Maxwell metal bands by mapping the momentum space of condensed-matter models to the tunable parameter space of superconducting quantum cir…

cond-mat.quant-gas2016

Maxwell Quasiparticles Emerged in Optical Lattices

Yan-Qing Zhu, Dan-Wei Zhang, Hui Yan +2

We construct a two-dimensional tight-binding model of an optical lattice, where the low energy excitations should be described by the spin-1 Maxwell equations in the Hamiltonian fo…