Xueda Wen
Faculty at Georgia Institute of Technology
Email: xueda.wen@physics.gatech.edu
Office: Howey W404
Research Interests:
My work focuses on theoretical physics. Specific research interests include:
– Non-equilibrium physics in quantum many-body systems
– Topological phases in general dimensions
– Connection between quantum many-body physics and quantum information science
Brief CV:
2024 Jan — : Faculty member at Georgia Tech
2020 Sept — 2023 Dec: Simons Collaboration Fellow at Harvard & CU Boulder
2017 Sept — 2020 Sept: Moore Fellow at MIT
2017: PhD at UIUC
Some recent Talks:
– Higher Berry phase and boundary conformal field theory (2025), pdf
– Conformal Floquet Cooling (2023), pdf
– Higher Berry Phase (2022), pdf
– Driven quantum critical systems (2021), pdf
– Distinguish topological orders beyond modular data (2020), pdf
Research Papers & Notes
– My papers on arXiv
– My Google Scholar
– Topological data for the lattice model here
Teaching:
– 2024 Spring: Physics 4782, Quantum Information and Quantum Computation
Others
– Einstein-Pythagoras equation: E=m(a2+b2). See mathematicians’ jokes here.