Cenke Xu

Biography

Cenke received his bachelor's degree in 2003 from the Tsinghua University, Beijing and his Ph.D. in 2007 from the department of physics, University of California, Berkeley. From 2007 to 2010, he was the junior fellow of the Society of Fellows, Harvard University. Cenke joined the physics department of UCSB in 2010. He is a recipient of the Sloan Research Fellowship, the National Science Foundation Early Career award, the Packard Fellowship for Science and Engineering, and the Simons Investigator program.

Research

Cenke's research concerns quantum many-body systems, where the interplay between quantum fluctuation and correlation effect leads to very rich possibilities. He is particularly interested in, for example, quantum criticality and quantum phase transitions, non-Fermi liquid states, quantum spin liquids, topological matter, etc. These phenomena can occur in various experimental platforms, such as transition metal oxides, moiré heterostructures, and cold atom systems.

Selected Publications

Interaction-Driven Metal-Insulator Transition with Charge Fractionalization
Yichen Xu, Xiao-Chuan Wu, Mengxing Ye, Zhu-Xi Luo, Chao-Ming Jian, and Cenke Xu
Phys. Rev. X 12, 021067 (2022)

Construction of Fractal Order and Phase Transition with Rydberg Atoms
Nayan E. Myerson-Jain, Stephen Yan, David Weld, and Cenke Xu
Phys. Rev. Lett. 128, 017601 (2022)

Continuous Neel-VBS quantum phase transition in non-local one-dimensional systems with SO(3) symmetry
Chao-Ming Jian, Yichen Xu, Xiao-Chuan Wu, Cenke Xu
SciPost Phys. 10, 033 (2021)

Duality between (2+1)d Quantum Critical Points
T. Senthil, Dam Thanh Son, Chong Wang, Cenke Xu
Physics Reports, Volume 827, Pages 1-48 (2019)

Interacting Topological Insulators with Synthetic Dimensions
Chao-Ming Jian, Cenke Xu
Phys. Rev. X 8, 041030 (2018)

Deconfined Quantum Critical Point on the Triangular Lattice
Chao-Ming Jian, Alex Thomson, Alex Rasmussen, Zhen Bi, Cenke Xu
Phys. Rev. B 97, 195115 (2018)

Lieb-Schultz-Mattis Theorem and its generalizations from the Perspective of the Symmetry Protected Topological phase
Chao-Ming Jian, Zhen Bi, Cenke Xu
Phys. Rev. B 97, 054412 (2018)

Deconfined quantum critical points: symmetries and dualities
Chong Wang, Adam Nahum, Max A. Metlitski, Cenke Xu, T. Senthil
Phys. Rev. X 7, 031051 (2017)

Self-dual Quantum Electrodynamics as Boundary State of the three dimensional Bosonic Topological Insulator
Cenke Xu, Yi-Zhuang You
Phys. Rev. B 92, 220416 (2015)

Wave Functions of Bosonic Symmetry Protected Topological Phases
Cenke Xu, T. Senthil
Phys. Rev. B 87, 174412 (2013)