research overview My group works at the interface of theoretical condensed matter, high energy, mathematical and atomic physics. We specialize in the study of dynamics in strongly interacting quantum many-body systems.
selected publications journal article Quantum Routing and Entanglement Dynamics Through Bottlenecks. PRX Quantum. 2026 Toward Self-Correcting Quantum Codes for Neutral Atom Arrays. PRX Quantum. 2026 On the reconstruction map in JT gravity. Journal of High Energy Physics (JHEP). 2025 Quadrupole conserving dynamics in the noncommutative plane. Physical review B (PRB). 2025 Entropic order.. Nature Communications. 87. 2025 Lieb-Robinson Bounds with Exponential-in-Volume Tails. PRX Quantum. 2025 Low-Density Parity-Check Codes as Stable Phases of Quantum Matter. PRX Quantum. 2025 Stochastic theory of nonlinear electrical circuits in thermal equilibrium. Annals of Physics. 169997-169997. 2025 Breakdown of hydrodynamics in a Galilean quantum Hall crystal. Physical review B (PRB). 2025 Hydrodynamics as the effective field theory of strong-to-weak spontaneous symmetry breaking. Physical review B (PRB). 2025 Theory of Metastable States in Many-Body Quantum Systems. Physical Review X. 2025 Designing open quantum systems with known steady states: Davies generators and beyond. Quantum. 2025 Quantum memory at nonzero temperature in a thermodynamically trivial system. Nature Communications. 2025 Entangling Four Logical Qubits beyond Break-Even in a Nonlocal Code.. Physical Review Letters. 180601. 2024 Eigenstate Localization in a Many-Body Quantum System. Physical Review Letters. 2024 Long-range-enhanced surface codes. Physical Review A (PRA). 2024 Effective field theory for ersatz Fermi liquids. Physical review B (PRB). 2024 Flux-charge symmetric theory of superconducting circuits. Physical review B (PRB). 2024 Frobenius light cone and the shift unitary. Physical Review A (PRA). 2024 Symplectic Geometry and Circuit Quantization. PRX Quantum. 2024 Heisenberg-limited metrology with perturbing interactions. Quantum. 1303-1303. 2024 Locality bounds for quantum dynamics at low energy. Physical review B (PRB). 2024 Speed limits and locality in many-body quantum dynamics. Reports on progress in physics (Print). 2023 Fracton superfluid hydrodynamics. Physical review B (PRB). 2023 Disordered Quantum Critical Fixed Points from Holography. Physical Review Letters. 2023 Prethermalization and the Local Robustness of Gapped Systems. Physical Review Letters. 2023 Hydrodynamics with triangular point group. SciPost Physics. 2023 Goldstone bosons and fluctuating hydrodynamics with dipole and momentum conservation. Journal of High Energy Physics (JHEP). 2023 Anomalous hydrodynamics with triangular point group in 2+1 dimensions. Physical review B (PRB). 2023 Hydrodynamics of higher-rank gauge theories. SciPost Physics. 2023 Fracton Hydrodynamics without Time-Reversal Symmetry. Physical Review Letters. 2022 Nonequilibrium phase transitions in competitive markets caused by network effects. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America. 2022 Quantum error correction in a time-dependent transverse-field Ising model. Physical Review A (PRA). 2022 Imaging the Breakdown of Ohmic Transport in Graphene. Physical Review Letters. 2022 Breakdown of hydrodynamics below four dimensions in a fracton fluid. Nature Physics. 912-+. 2022 Fingerprints of quantum criticality in locally resolved transport. SciPost Physics. 2022 Finite Speed of Quantum Information in Models of Interacting Bosons at Finite Density. Physical Review X. 2022 Hidden quasiconservation laws in fracton hydrodynamics. Physical Review E. 2022 Renormalization group in quantum critical theories with Harris-marginal disorder. Physical Review D. 2022 Hydrodynamic effective field theories with discrete rotational symmetry. Journal of High Energy Physics (JHEP). 2022 Infinite families of fracton fluids with momentum conservation. Physical review B (PRB). 2022 Optimal Frobenius light cone in spin chains with power-law interactions. Physical Review A (PRA). 2021 Distinguishing viscous, ballistic, and diffusive current flows in anisotropic metals. Physical review B (PRB). 2021 Viscometry of Electron Fluids from Symmetry. Physical Review Letters. 2021 Lieb-Robinson Light Cone for Power-Law Interactions. Physical Review Letters. 2021 Operator Growth Bounds from Graph Theory. Communications in Mathematical Physics. 1273-1323. 2021 Optimal State Transfer and Entanglement Generation in Power-Law Interacting Systems. Physical Review X. 2021 Fast high-fidelity multiqubit state transfer with long-range interactions. Physical Review A (PRA). 2021 Electron-phonon hydrodynamics. Physical review B (PRB). 2021 Quantum operator growth bounds for kicked tops and semiclassical spin chains. Physical Review A (PRA). 2021 Multipole conservation laws and subdiffusion in any dimension. Physical Review E. 2021 Coherent terahertz radiation from a nonlinear oscillator of viscous electrons. Applied Physics Letters. 2021 Homogenization of hydrodynamic transport in Dirac fluids. Journal of Mathematical Physics. 2021 Hydrodynamics in lattice models with continuous non-Abelian symmetries. SciPost Physics. 2021 Measurement-induced phase transitions in quantum automaton circuits. Physical review B (PRB). 2020 Holographic subdiffusion. Journal of High Energy Physics (JHEP). 2020 Operator growth bounds in a cartoon matrix model. Journal of Mathematical Physics. 2020 Many-body quantum dynamics slows down at low density. SciPost Physics. 2020 Bound on quantum scrambling with all-to-all interactions. Physical Review A (PRA). 2020 Non-perturbative dynamics of the operator size distribution in the Sachdev-Ye-Kitaev model. Journal of Mathematical Physics. 2020 Fracton hydrodynamics. Physical Review Research. 2020 Hierarchy of Linear Light Cones with Long-Range Interactions. Physical Review X. 2020 Emergent conformal symmetry in nonunitary random dynamics of free fermions. Physical Review Research. 2020 Breakdown of emergent Lifshitz symmetry in holographic matter with Harris-marginal disorder. Journal of High Energy Physics (JHEP). 2020 Quantum butterfly effect in polarized Floquet systems. Physical review B (PRB). 2020 Sign of viscous magnetoresistance in electron fluids. Physical review B (PRB). 2020 Finite Speed of Quantum Scrambling with Long Range Interactions. Physical Review Letters. 2019 Hard combinatorial problems and minor embeddings on lattice graphs. Quantum Information Processing. 2019 Electron hydrodynamics with a polygonal Fermi surface. Physical review B (PRB). 2019 Operator Size at Finite Temperature and Planckian Bounds on Quantum Dynamics. Physical Review Letters. 2019 Holography and hydrodynamics with weakly broken symmetries. Physical Review D. 2019 Fast scrambling on sparse graphs. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America. 6689-6694. 2019 Emergent entropy production and hydrodynamics in quantum many-body systems. Physical Review E. 2019 Electronic hydrodynamics and the breakdown of the Wiedemann-Franz and Mott laws in interacting metals. Physical review B (PRB). 2018 Electronic sound modes and plasmons in hydrodynamic two-dimensional metals. Physical review B (PRB). 2018 Dyakonov-Shur instability across the ballistic-to-hydrodynamic crossover. Applied Physics Letters. 2018 Kinetic Theory of Electronic Transport in Random Magnetic Fields. Physical Review Letters. 2018 Hydrodynamics of electrons in graphene. Journal of Physics Condensed Matter. 2018 Kinetic theory of transport for inhomogeneous electron fluids. Physical review B (PRB). 2018 Origin of the Drude peak and of zero sound in probe brane holography. Physics Letters B. 569-574. 2017 Resistivity bound for hydrodynamic bad metals. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America. 11344-11349. 2017 Spread of entanglement in a Sachdev-Ye-Kitaev chain. Journal of High Energy Physics (JHEP). 2017 Hydrodynamic charge and heat transport on inhomogeneous curved spaces. Physical review B (PRB). 2017 Quantum critical response: from conformal perturbation theory to holography. Journal of High Energy Physics (JHEP). 2017 Magnetoresistance in relativistic hydrodynamics without anomalies. Journal of High Energy Physics (JHEP). 2017 Energy diffusion and the butterfly effect in inhomogeneous Sachdev-Ye-Kitaev chains. SciPost Physics. 2017 Stokes paradox in electronic Fermi liquids. Physical review B (PRB). 2017 Dynamical Response near Quantum Critical Points. Physical Review Letters. 2017 Charge diffusion and the butterfly effect in striped holographic matter. Journal of High Energy Physics (JHEP). 2016 Hydrodynamic theory of thermoelectric transport and negative magnetoresistance in Weyl semimetals. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America. 9463-9468. 2016 Shock waves, rarefaction waves, and nonequilibrium steady states in quantum critical systems. Physical Review D. 2016 Sound waves and resonances in electron-hole plasma. Physical review B (PRB). 2016 Conductivity bounds in probe brane models. Journal of High Energy Physics (JHEP). 1-18. 2016 Incoherent thermal transport from dirty black holes. Physical Review D. 2016 Observation of the Dirac fluid and the breakdown of the Wiedemann-Franz law in graphene. Science. 1058-1061. 2016 Transport in inhomogeneous quantum critical fluids and in the Dirac fluid in graphene. Physical review B (PRB). 2016 Absence of Disorder-Driven Metal-Insulator Transitions in Simple Holographic Models. Physical Review Letters. 2015 Hydrodynamic transport in strongly coupled disordered quantum field theories. New Journal of Physics. 2015 Energy flow in quantum critical systems far from equilibrium. Nature Physics. 509-514. 2015 Energy flow in quantum critical systems far from equilibrium. Nature Physics. 509-514. 2015 Memory matrix theory of magnetotransport in strange metals. Physical review B (PRB). 2015 Conductivity of a strange metal: from holography to memory functions. Journal of High Energy Physics (JHEP). 2015 Non-equilibrium steady states in the Klein-Gordon theory. Journal of Physics A: Mathematical and Theoretical. 2015 Conductivity of weakly disordered strange metals: From conformal to hyperscaling-violating regimes. Nuclear Physics B. 239-268. 2015 Phenomenology of nonrelativistic parity-violating hydrodynamics in 2+1 dimensions. Physical Review E: Statistical, Nonlinear, and Soft Matter Physics. 2014 Sound-induced vortex interactions in a zero-temperature two-dimensional superfluid. Physical Review A: Atomic, Molecular and Optical Physics. 2014 Simple model for multiple-choice collective decision making. Physical Review E: Statistical, Nonlinear, and Soft Matter Physics. 2014 Scale-invariant hyperscaling-violating holographic theories and the resistivity of strange metals with random-field disorder. Physical Review D: Particles, Fields, Gravitation and Cosmology. 2014 Parallel Implementation of Fast Randomized Algorithms for Low Rank Matrix Decomposition. Parallel Processing Letters. 2014 Conformal field theories in a periodic potential: Results from holography and field theory. Physical Review D: Particles, Fields, Gravitation and Cosmology. 2014 Ising formulations of many NP problems. Frontiers in Physics. 2014 Binary decision making with very heterogeneous influence. Journal of Statistical Mechanics: Theory and Experiment. 2013 Multistable binary decision making on networks. Physical Review E: Statistical, Nonlinear, and Soft Matter Physics. 2013 Undergraduate experiment in superconductor point-contact spectroscopy with a Nb/Au junction. American Journal of Physics. 133-140. 2012 In vivo evidence of differential impact of typical and atypical antipsychotics on intracortical myelin in adults with schizophrenia. Schizophrenia Research. 322-331. 2009
awards and honors George E. Valley Jr. Prize, conferred by American Physical Society, 2022 Faculty Early Career Development Program (CAREER), conferred by National Science Foundation, 2022 Sloan Research Fellowship-Physics, conferred by Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, 2020
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