Assistant Professor, Research Professor
Institute of Quantum Electronics
E-mail: hepeng.yao[at]pku.edu.cn
Research Areas: Cold atom physics, low dimensional quantum gas, quantum Monte Carlo
Educatoin Experience:
Ph.D, Department of Physics, École Polytechnique, France (2017.10-2020.11)
M.Sc. Department of Physics, Université Paris-Saclay, France (2015.09-2017.07)
B.Sc. School of Information Science and Technology，Peking University (2011.09-2015.06)
Working Experience：
Assistant Professor, School of Electronics, Peking University (2025.03-Present)
Postdoctoral Researcher, Department of Quantum Matter Physics, University of Geneva, Switzerland (2020.12-2024.11)
Academic Titles：
Reviewer for journals such as Physical Review Letters, Physical Review X Quantum, Physical Review A, and etc.
Publications：
(*) denotes equal contribution
1. Y. Guo*, H. Yao*, S. Ramanjanappa, S. Dhar, M. Horvath, L. Pizzino, T. Giamarchi, M. Landini, H.-C. Nägerl, Observation of the 2D-1D Dimensional Crossover in Strongly Interacting Ultracold Bosons, Nature Physics, 20, 934–938 (2024).
2. H. Yao, L. Tanzi, L. Sanchez-Palencia, T. Giamarchi, G. Modugno, C. D’Errico, Mott transition for a Lieb-Liniger gas in a shallow quasiperiodic potential: Delocalization induced by disorder", Phys. Rev. Lett. 133, 123401 (2024). Featured in Physics.
3. Y. Guo*, H. Yao*, S. Dhar, L. Pizzino, M. Horvath, T. Giamarchi, M. Landini, H.-C. Nägerl, Anomalous Cooling of bosons by dimensional reduction, Science Advances 10 (7), eadk6870 (2024).
4. H. Yao, T. Giamarchi and L. Sanchez-Palencia. Lieb-Liniger Bosons in a shallow quasiperiodic potential: Bose glass phase and fractal Mott lobes, Phys. Rev. Lett. 125(6), 060401 (2020).
5. H. Yao, A. Khoudli, L. Bresque and L. Sanchez-Palencia. Critical behavior and fractality in shallow one-dimensional quasiperiodic potentials, Phys. Rev. Lett. 123(7), 070405 (2019).
6. H. Yao, D. Clément, A. Minguzzi, P. Vignolo and L. Sanchez-Palencia. Tan’s contact for trapped Lieb-Liniger bosons at finite temperature, Phys. Rev. Lett. 121(22), 220402 (2018).
7. H. Yao*, T. Luan*, C. Li, Y. Zhang, Z. Ma, and X. Chen. Comparison of different techniques in optical trap for generating picokelvin atoms in microgravity, Optics Communications 359, 123-128 (2016).
8. Hepeng Yao, Guo Yan-Liang, et al. (2024). Cold atom physics and low dimensional quantum gas. China: Science Press.
