LEE Ching Hua
PhD, Stanford University, USA (2015)
Assistant Professor

Email: phylch@nus.edu.sg
Office: S12-02-11
Tel: +65 6516 6678

Current Research

Synthetic and non-equilibrium condensed matter
Topological signatures are widespread in various synthetic topological metamaterials and non-equilibrium setups, with potential applications in photonics and electronics. Non-equilibrium effects lead to a number of new phenomena such as unconventional critical scaling behavior and novel bulk-boundary correspondences.
Specific directions include:

  • non-Hermitian dynamics and phase transitions
  • Floquet engineering of new phases
  • topological photonics, mechanics and circuits
  • topology of non-linear dynamics
  • non-equilibrium complex networks

Strongly correlated systems
My group also explores the intriguing interplay of energetics and topology on strongly interacting particles. Current directions include:

  • entanglement entropy and conformal field theory
  • fractional quantum Hall systems
  • Simulation of topological and non-unitary systems on quantum computers

Selected Publications

  • Ching Hua Lee. “Exceptional bound states and negative entanglement entropy” Physical Review Letters 128 (1), 010402 (2022)
  • Jin Ming Koh, Tommy Tai, Yong Han Phee, Wei En Ng and Ching Hua Lee, “Simulation of interaction-induced chiral topological dynamics on a digital quantum computer”, Physical Review Letters 129 (14), 140502 (2022)
  • Tobias Helbig, Ching Hua Lee et. al, Generalized bulk–boundary correspondence in non-Hermitian topolectrical circuits, Nature Physics 1-4 (2020)
  • Ching Hua Lee, Linhu Li and Jiangbin Gong, Hybrid higher-order skin-topological modes in nonreciprocal systems, Physical review letters 123 (1), 016805 (2019)
  • Ching Hua Lee, Zlatko Papic and Ronny Thomale, Geometric construction of Quantum Hall clustering Hamiltonians, Physical Review X 5 (4), 041003 (2015)
  • Russell Yang, Jun Wei Tan, Tommy Tai, Jin Ming Koh, Linhu Li, Stefano Longhi and Ching Hua Lee, “Designing non-Hermitian real spectra through electrostatics”, Science Bulletin 67 (18), 1865-1873 (2022)
  • Jin Ming Koh, Tommy Tai and Ching Hua Lee, “Stabilizing multiple topological fermions on a quantum computer”, npj Quantum Information 8 (1), 1-10 (2022)
  • Linhu Li, Ching Hua Lee, Sen Mu, and Jiangbin Gong. “Critical non-Hermitian skin effect.” Nature communications 11, no. 1 (2020): 1-8
  • Stefan Imhof, Ching Hua Lee et. al, Topolectrical-circuit realization of topological corner modes, Nature Physics 14 (9), 925 (2018)
  • Ching Hua Lee, Wenwei Ho, Bo Yang, Jiangbin Gong and Zlatko Papić, Floquet mechanism for non-Abelian fractional quantum hall states, Physical review letters 121 (23), 237401 (2018)

Affiliations & Links

  • IPS Nanotechnology Physics Medal and Prize 2023
  • FoS Young Scientist Award 2023
  • Google Scholar