ZOU Liujun
PhD, Harvard University (2019)
Assistant Professor, NUS Presidential Young Professorship

Email: lzou@nus.edu.sg
Office: S16-07-03
Tel: +65 6637 6799

Current Research

  • Without being confined to particular subjects or limited to specific approaches, I am interested in all physics that uncovers the truth and beauty of Nature. So far my focus has been on the understanding of quantum phases of matter and their transitions, and some of my work also contributes to the study of quantum field theory and quantum information. In the near future, I will continue focusing on quantum matter, but also start working on quantum information more actively.

Selected Publications

  • Ruizhi Liu, Jinmin Yi, Shiyu Zhou, Liujun Zou, Lieb-Schultz-Mattis theorems and generalizations in long-range interacting systems, arXiv: 2405.14929.
  • Ruizhi Liu, Ho Tat Lam, Han Ma, Liujun Zou, Symmetries and anomalies of Kitaev spin-S models: Identifying symmetry-enforced exotic quantum matter, SciPost Phys. 16, 100 (2024), arXiv: 2310.16839.
  • Weicheng Ye, Liujun Zou, Classification of symmetry-enriched topological quantum spin liquids, Phys. Rev. X 14, 021053 (2024), arXiv: 2309.15118.
  • Weicheng Ye, Liujun Zou, Anomaly of (2+1)-Dimensional Symmetry-Enriched Topological Order from (3+1)-Dimensional Topological Quantum Field Theory, SciPost Phys. 15, 004 (2023), arXiv: 2210.02444.
  • Weicheng Ye, Meng Guo, Yin-Chen He, Chong Wang, Liujun Zou, Topological characterization of Lieb-Schultz-Mattis constraints and applications to symmetry-enriched quantum criticality, SciPost Phys. 13, 066 (2022), arXiv: 2111.12097.
  • Weicheng Ye, Sung-Sik Lee, Liujun Zou, Ultraviolet-infrared Mixing in Marginal Fermi Liquids, Phys. Rev. Lett. 128, 106402 (2022) (editors’ suggestion), arXiv: 2109.00004.
  • Liujun Zou, Yin-Chen He, Chong Wang, Stiefel liquids: possible non-Lagrangian quantum criticality from intertwined orders, Phys. Rev. X 11, 031043 (2021), arXiv: 2101.07805.
  • Liujun Zou, Debanjan Chowdhury, Deconfined Metal-Insulator Transitions in Quantum Hall Bilayers, Phys. Rev. Research 2, 032071(R) (2020), arXiv: 2004.14391.
  • Liujun Zou, Debanjan Chowdhury, Deconfined metallic quantum criticality: A U(2) gauge theoretic approach, Phys. Rev. Research 2, 023344 (2020), arXiv: 2002.02972.
  • Zhi Li, Liujun Zou, Timothy H. Hsieh, Hamiltonian Tomography via Quantum Quench, Phys. Rev. Lett. 124, 160502 (2020), arXiv: 1912.09492.
  • Hoi Chun Po, Liujun Zou, T. Senthil, Ashvin Vishwanath, Faithful Tight-binding Models and Fragile Topology of Magic-angle Bilayer Graphene, Phys. Rev. B 99, 195455 (2019) (editors’ suggestion), arXiv: 1808.02482.
  • Liujun Zou, Hoi Chun Po, Ashvin Vishwanath, T. Senthil, Band Structure of Twisted Bilayer Graphene: Emergent Symmetries, Commensurate Approximants and Wannier Obstructions, Phys. Rev. B 98, 085435 (2018) (editors’ suggestion), arXiv: 1806.07873.
  • Hoi Chun Po, Liujun Zou, Ashvin Vishwanath, T. Senthil, Origin of Mott Insulating Behavior and Superconductivity in Twisted Bilayer Graphene, Phys. Rev. X 8, 031089 (2018), arXiv: 1803.09742.
  • Liujun Zou, Bulk Characterization of Topological Crystalline Insulators: Stability under Interactions and Relations to Symmetry Enriched U(1) Quantum Spin Liquids, Phys. Rev. B 97, 045130 (2018) (editors’ suggestion), arXiv: 1711.03090.
  • Liujun Zou, Jeongwan Haah, Spurious Long-Range Entanglement and Replica Correlation Length, Phys. Rev. B 94, 075151 (2016), arXiv: 1604.06101.

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