Research

PUBLICATIONS 2022

  • Quantum dynamics of topological strings in a frustrated Ising antiferromagnet
    Zheng Zhou, Changle Liu, Zheng Yan, Yan Chen and Xue-Feng Zhang
    npj Quantum    . Mater. 7, 60 (2022)
    DOI:     10.1038/s41535-022-00465-3 / arXiv: 2010.01750

  • Slightly broken higher-spin current in bosonic and fermionic QED in the large-N limit
    Zheng Zhou, Yin-Chen He
    arXiv:     2205.07897

PUBLICATIONS 2021

  • Widely existing mixed phase structure of the quantum dimer model on a square lattice
    Zheng Yan, Zheng Zhou, Olav F. Syljuåsen, Junhao Zhang, Tianzhong Yuan, Jie Lou and Yan Chen
    Phys. Rev. B 103, 094421 (2021)
    DOI:     10.1103/PhysRevB.103.094421 / arXiv : 1911.05433

  • Fractal Quantum Phase Transitions: Critical Phenomena Beyond Renormalization
    Zheng Zhou, Xue-Feng Zhang, Frank Pollmann, Yizhi You
    arXiv:     2105.05851

  • Sweeping quantum annealing algorithm for constrained optimization problems
    Zheng Yan, Zheng Zhou, Yan-Cheng Wang, Zi Yang Meng, Xue-Feng Zhang
    arXiv:     2105.07134

  • Emergent Rokhsar-Kivelson point in realistic quantum Ising models
    Zheng Zhou, Zheng Yan, Changle Liu, Yan Chen, Xue-Feng Zhang
    arXiv:     2106.05518

PUBLICATIONS 2020

  • Quantum tricriticality of incommensurate phase induced by quantum domain walls in frustrated Ising magnetism
    Zheng Zhou, Dong-Xu Liu, Zheng Yan, Yan Chen and Xue-Feng Zhang
    arXiv:     2005.11133

PUBLICATIONS 2019

  • Universal critical behavior in the ferromagnetic superconductor Eu(Fe0.75Ru0.25)2As2
    Zheng Zhou, W. T. Jin, Wei Li, S. Nandi, B. Ouladdiaf, Zheng Yan, Xinyuan Wei, Xuguang Xu, W. H. Jiao, N. Qureshi, Y. Xiao, Y. Su, G. H. Cao and Th. Brückel
    Phys. Rev. B     100, 060406(R) (2019)
    DOI:     10.1103/PhysRevB.100.060406 / arXiv: 1904.07417

ACADEMIC TALKS

  • Slightly broken higher-spin current in bosonic and fermionic QED in the large-N limit
    Master thesis defence, Perimeter Institute, 14 Jun. 2022
    Slides

  • Fractal quantum phase transitions: Critical phenomena beyond renormalisation
    Condensed Matter Friday Club, Perimeter Institute, 5 Feb. 2022
    Slides

  • Simulating Rokhsar-Kivelson quantum critical point in a realistic quantum Ising model
    Condensed Matter Friday Club, Perimeter Institute, 24 Sept. 2021
    Slides

  • Simulating Rokhsar-Kivelson quantum critical point in a realistic quantum Ising model
    Conference on Computational Physics, Coventry (Online), 3 Aug. 2021
    Video

  • Tutorial on stochastic analytical continuation
    HKU-UCAS study group of numerical methods, The University of Hong Kong, 8 Nov. 2019
    Slides

THESIS

  • Slightly broken higher-spin current in bosonic and fermionic QED in the large-N limit
    Master thesis, under the supervision of Prof. Yin-Chen He, Perimeter Institute, May 2022
    Link

  • A quantum Monte Carlo study on novel quantum phases in frustrated systems and open systems
    Bachelor thesis, under the supervision of Prof. Yan Chen, Fudan University, May 2020
    Link