Research

I am an associate member of IASTU, working in the fields of theoretical quantum matter and quantum information. Recently, I have been mostly interested in quantum simulation and computation with Rydberg atom arrays, with sporatic excursions to open quantum systems, topological phases of matter, and other cold atom platforms.

Short CV

2024 – now	Associate member
	Tsinghua University
2021 – 2024	Postdoc
	Tsinghua University
	Supervisor: Prof. Hui Zhai
2017 – 2021	PhD in Physics
	University of British Columbia
	Supervisor: Prof. Marcel Franz
2015 – 2017	MSc in Physics
	University of British Columbia
	Supervisor: Prof. Marcel Franz
2011 – 2015	BSc in Physics
	Tsinghua University
	Supervisor: Prof. Li You & Prof. Meng Khoon Tey

Publication

Also see Google Scholar.

• “Unleashing Emergent Fermions with Rydberg Atom Simulators”,
  Hanteng Wang, Xingyu Li, Shang Liu, Yingfei Gu, and CL,
  arXiv:2606.19444.
• “Trapping 11,000 Atoms in a Tweezer Array Generated by a Single Metasurface”,
  Yuqing Wang*, Zhongchi Zhang*, Tao Zhang*, Yuxuan Liao*, Hanteng Wang, Ye Tian, Binjie Ji, Yujia Wu, Luming Ma, Chen Qing, CL, Wei Zhang, Yidong Huang, Wenjun Zhang, Xue Feng, Wenlan Chen, and Hui Zhai,
  arXiv:2606.02715.
• “Exceptionally Slow Relaxation from Micro-canonical to Canonical Ensembles in Quasi-one-dimensional Quantum Gases”,
  Huaichuan Wang*, Xixiang Du*, Zhongchi Zhang*, Yue Wu, Ken Deng, Zihan Zhao, CL, Zheyu Shi, Wenlan Chen, Hui Zhai, and Jiazhong Hu,
  arXiv:2604.04062.
• “General Construction of Quantum Error-Correcting Codes from Multiple Classical Codes”,
  Yue Wu, Meng-Yuan Li, CL, and Hui Zhai,
  arXiv:2512.22116.
• “Kibble–Zurek Meets Tricriticality: Breakdown of Adiabatic–Impulse and New Scaling Forms”,
  CL,
  Chin. Phys. Lett. 43, 010001 (2026), arXiv:2511.21386,
  invited Research Highlight article for CPL, recommending CPL 42, 110001 (2025).
• “Certifying Quantum States with Uniform Measurements”,
  Liang Mao*, Yifei Wang*, Yingfei Gu, and CL,
  Chin. Phys. Lett. 43, 070601 (2026), arXiv:2508.09259.
• “Random displacements in critical Rydberg atom arrays”,
  Xingyu Li*, Shuyan Zhou*, Xue Chen, CL, and Hanteng Wang,
  Phys. Rev. B 112, L180202 (2025), arXiv:2508.05381.
• “Tricritical Kibble–Zurek scaling in Rydberg atom ladders”,
  Hanteng Wang, Xingyu Li, and CL,
  Nat. Commun. 16, 10584 (2025), arXiv:2505.12979.
• “Observation of Near-Critical Kibble-Zurek Scaling in Rydberg Atom Arrays”,
  Tao Zhang*, Hanteng Wang*, Wenjun Zhang*, Yuqing Wang*, Angrui Du, Ziqi Li, Yujia Wu, CL, Jiazhong Hu, Hui Zhai, and Wenlan Chen,
  Phys. Rev. Lett. 135, 093403 (2025), arXiv:2505.07930.
• “Lattice defects in Rydberg atom arrays”,
  Hanteng Wang, CL, Xingyu Li, Yingfei Gu, and Shang Liu,
  Phys. Rev. B 112, 205103 (2025), arXiv:2502.07886.
• “Uncovering Emergent Spacetime Supersymmetry with Rydberg Atom Arrays”,
  CL*, Shang Liu*, Hanteng Wang, Wenjun Zhang, Zi-Xiang Li, Hui Zhai, and Yingfei Gu,
  Phys. Rev. Lett. 133, 223401 (2024), arXiv:2407.08194.
• “Numerical investigations of the extensive entanglement Hamiltonian in quantum spin ladders”,
  CL, Xingyu Li, and Yi-Neng Zhou,
  Quantum Front. 3, 9 (2024), arXiv:2311.01699.
• “Reviving the Lieb–Schultz–Mattis Theorem in Open Quantum Systems”,
  Yi-Neng Zhou*, Xingyu Li*, Hui Zhai, CL, and Yingfei Gu,
  Natl. Sci. Rev. 12, nwae287 (2024), arXiv:2310.01475,
  highlighted in the Journal Club for Condensed Matter Physics.
• “Euler–Chern correspondence via topological superconductivity”,
  Fan Yang*, Xingyu Li*, and CL,
  Phys. Rev. Res. 5, 033073 (2023), arXiv:2305.16113.
• “G₂ integrable point characterization via isotropic spin-3 chains”,
  CL, Victor L. Quito, Dirk Schuricht, and Pedro L. S. Lopes,
  Phys. Rev. B 108, 165123 (2023), arXiv:2305.03072.
• “Frustration-induced itinerant ferromagnetism of fermions in optical lattices”,
  CL, Ming-Gen He, Chang-Yan Wang, and Hui Zhai,
  Phys. Rev. B 109, 165131 (2024), arXiv:2305.01682.
• “Gauge theory description of Rydberg atom arrays with a tunable blockade radius”,
  Yanting Cheng and CL,
  Phys. Rev. B 107, 094302 (2023), arXiv:2212.14644.
• “Lee–Yang zeros in the Rydberg atoms”,
  CL and Fan Yang,
  Front. Phys. 18, 22301 (2023), arXiv:2203.16128.
• “Variational approach to quantum spin liquid in a Rydberg atom simulator”,
  Yanting Cheng, CL, and Hui Zhai,
  New J. Phys. 25, 033010 (2023), arXiv:2112.13688.
• “The case of SU(3) criticality in spin-2 chains”,
  CL, Victor L. Quito, Eduardo Miranda, Rodrigo Pereira, Ian Affleck, and Pedro L. S. Lopes,
  Phys. Rev. B 105, 085140 (2022), arXiv:2108.10329.
• “Coupled wire construction of a topological phase with chiral tricritical Ising edge modes”,
  CL, Hiromi Ebisu, Sharmistha Sahoo, Yuval Oreg, and Marcel Franz,
  Phys. Rev. B 102, 165123 (2020), arXiv:2008.04438.
• “Supersymmetry in an interacting Majorana model on the kagome lattice”,
  CL*, Étienne Lantagne-Hurtubise*, and Marcel Franz,
  Phys. Rev. B 100, 195146 (2019), arXiv:1811.06104.
• “Majorana-Hubbard model on the honeycomb lattice”,
  CL and Marcel Franz,
  Phys. Rev. B 98, 115123 (2018), arXiv:1806.06092.
• “Family of Sachdev-Ye-Kitaev models motivated by experimental considerations”,
  Étienne Lantagne-Hurtubise*, CL*, and Marcel Franz,
  Phys. Rev. B 97, 235124 (2018), arXiv:1803.07197.

The asterisk (*) denotes equal contribution.

More about me

My name is written as 李成疏 in Chinese and it is pronounced as /li²¹⁽⁴⁾ ʈ͡ʂʰɤŋ³⁵ ʂu⁵⁵/. (Not familiar with these symbols? They are called IPA and can be used to describe any language in the world! Did you know that Mandarin, like many other languages in the world, is a tonal language?)

I was born in Zhangjiakou, a city near Beijing, and moved to Shanghai at the age of 5. I went to Beijing for my undergrad and went to grad school in Vancouver.

Apart from physics, I am interested in linguistics, language learning (français and 日本語), classical music, and animes.

Contact

lichengshu272(at)gmail(dot)com