Quantum Information Science Initiative

Good news from our groups

October 2022

  1. Chiho and Fan’s earlier theory gets verified by an STM experiment, reported as the cover story of Nature Materials in October 2022. Now, the quantum spin Hall edge state is QUANTUM LEAPING toward the room temperature!”

https://www.nature.com/nmat/volumes/21/issues/10 

September 2022

2. Prof. Chuanwei Zhang and collaborators published a paper on Nature Physics

Many-body Dynamical Delocalization in a Kicked Ultracold Gas

Nature Physics (2022)
News and Views, Kicked rotors back in action, by Jakub Zakrzewski, Nature Physics (2022)

1. UTD news published a news story about our NSF ExpandQISE grant

New NSF Grant To Advance Quantum Research, Education at UT Dallas

August 2022

1. Prof. Chuanwei Zhang and collaborators published a paper on Nature Physics

Excitonic Insulator in Heterojunction Moiré Superlattice

Nature Physics (2022)

See news report from Physics World: Excitonic insulators are created in moiré superlattices

From Phys.org Evidence of excitonic insulators in moiré superlattices

2. Prof. Fan Zhang and collaborators published an article on Nature.

Quantum cascade of new correlated phases in trigonally warped bilayer graphene

Nature (2022),

see news report on Science Daily

Unexpected quantum effects in natural double-layer graphene

3. Prof. Fan Zhang and collaborators published an article on Nature Materials.

Evidence of a room-temperature quantum spin Hall edge state in a higher-order topological insulator.

Nature Materials (2022),

4. Prof. Chuanwei Zhang and collaborators published an article on Nature Communications.

Tuning Moiré Excitons and Correlated Electronic States through Layer Degree of Freedom,

Nature Communications 13, 4810 (2022)

5. Profs. Chuanwei Zhang, Shengwang Du, Michael Kolodrubetz and collaborators received $5M grant from NSF to expand quantum information science and engineering program at UTD.

NSF award: ExpandQISE: Track 2: Neutral Atom Based Quantum Information Processing

6. Profs. Shengwang Du, Chuanwei Zhang, and collaborators received $1M grant from NSF for developing optical neural network at UTD.

NSF award: Collaborative Research: CNS Core: Medium: TeTON: A Testbed and a Toolkit for Expediting Investigation of and Accelerating Advancements in All-Optical Neural Networks

April 2022

1. Prof. Chuanwei Zhang and Shengwang Du work published a paper on Phys. Rev. Lett. on quantum sensing

Quantum squeezing and sensing with pseudo anti-parity-time symmetry

Phys. Rev. Lett. 128, 173602 (2022).

2. Prof. Fan Zhang and collaborators published an article in Nature.

Intelligent infrared sensing enabled by tunable moiré quantum geometry.

Nature, 604, 266–272 (2022),

selected for News & Views “A detector that can learn the fingerprint of light”

Nature 604, 252-253 (2022).

March 2022

  1. 1. Prof. Fan Zhang and collaborators’ work was selected as an Editors’ Suggestion and for a Viewpoint in Physics by Phys. Rev. Lett.

Acoustic Möbius insulators from projective symmetry.

Phys. Rev. Lett. 128, 116803 (2022).

2. Dr. Junpeng Hou (PhD 08/2021) received UTD David Daniel Thesis Award

February 2022

November 2021

  1. Prof. Shengwang Du and Prof. Chuanwei Zhang received a $450K grant from Air Force Office of Scientific Research in response to “3rd Annual International Quantum Information Science Workshop“.

October 2021

  1. Dr. Qiyue Wang, a graduate student of Prof. Fan Zhang, received the the 2021 Steven Weinberg Graduate Research Award for outstanding research at UTD. It is the very first time this prize has been awarded. Being linked to Steven Weinberg is a great honor for any theoretical physicist.

https://engage.aps.org/tsaps/honors/prizes-awards/weinberg-research-award

2. Prof. Fan Zhang and Colleagues’ paper “Quantum anomalous Hall octet driven by orbital magnetism in bilayer graphene” was published in Nature

September 2021

1. Prof. Shengwang Du, Prof. Chuanwei Zhang, and Colleagues received a $1.2M grant from Department of Energy

U.S. Department of Energy Announces $61 Million to Advance Breakthroughs in Quantum Information Science

award list

2. Prof. Chuanwei Zhang and colleagues’ paper “Nonlinear dynamics in a synthetic momentum state lattice” was selected as Editors’ Suggestions by Physical Review Letters

August 2021

1. Prof. Chuanwei Zhang received a grant from National Science Foundation

2. Prof. Shengwang Du received a grant from National Science Foundation

3. Dr. Junpeng Hou, a graduate student of Prof. Chuanwei Zhang, successfully defended his PhD thesis. He will join Facebook Research in September.

July 2021