Department of Physics Faculty
Ying Ran
Associate Professor of Physics and Graduate Program Director
Ying Ran
Ph.D.
Contact
Higgins Hall 330H
Telephone: 617-552-6397
Email: ying.ran@bc.edu
Education
- B.S., Peking University
- Ph.D., Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Research Interests
Quantum condensed matter theory, electronic systems with strong interaction Frustrated magnets, high-Tc superconductors. Topological aspects of condensed matter system such as topological defects and topological band insulators.
Selected Publications
- Yuan-Ming Lu, Ying Ran, Masaki Oshikawa, Filling-enforced constraint on the quantized Hall conductivity on a periodic lattice, \textit{Annals of Physics}, Annals of Physics, Volume 413, 168060 (2020)\\ https://doi.org/10.1016/j.aop.2019.168060
- Gavin B. Osterhoudt, Laura K. Diebel, Xu Yang, John Stanco, Xiangwei Huang, Bing Shen, Ni Ni, Philip Moll, Ying Ran, Kenneth S. Burch, Colossal mid-infrared bulk photovoltaic effect in a type-I Weyl semimetal, \textit{Nature Materials}, \textbf{18}, 471 (2019)
- Xu Yang, Shenghan Jiang, Ashvin Vishwanath, Ying Ran, Dyonic Lieb-Shultz-Mattis Theorem and Symmetry Protected Topological Phases in Decorated Dimer Models, \textit{Phys. Rev. B} \textbf{98}, 125120 (2018)
- Shenghan Jiang, Ying Ran, Anyon condensation and a generic tensor-network construction for symmetry protected topological phases. arXiv:1611.07652 \textit{Phys. Rev. B} \textbf{95}, 125107 (2017)
- Ching-Kit Chan, Patrick A. Lee, Kenneth S. Burch, Jung Hoon Han, Ying Ran, When chiral photons meet chiral fermions - Photoinduced anomalous Hall effects in Weyl semimetals. arXiv:1509.05400 (2015), \textit{Phys. Rev. Lett.} \textbf{116}, 026805 (2016)
- Shenghan Jiang, Ying Ran, Symmetric tensor networks and practical simulation algorithms to sharply identify classes of quantum phases distinguishable by short-range physics. arXiv:1505.03171, \textit{Phys. Rev. B} \textbf{92}, 104414 (2015)
- Shenghan Jiang, Andrej Mesaros, Ying Ran, Generalized modular transformations in 3+1D topologically ordered phases and triple linking invariant of loop braiding. arXiv:1404.1062 \textit{Phys. Rev. X} \textbf{4}, 031048 (2014)
- Andrej Mesaros, Yong-Baek Kim, Ying Ran, Changing topology by topological defects in three-dimensional topologically ordered phases. arXiv:1305.0214, \textit{Phys. Rev. B} \textbf{88}, 035141 (2013)
- Andrej Mesaros, Ying Ran, A classification of symmetry enriched topological phases with exactly solvable models. arXiv:1212.0835, \textit{Phys. Rev. B} \textbf{87}, 155115 (2013)
- Di Xiao, Wenguang Zhu, Ying Ran, Naoto Nagaosa, Satoshi Okamoto, Interface engineering of quantum Hall effects in digital heterostructures of transition-metal oxides. arXiv:1106.4296, \textit{Nature Communications} \textbf{2}, Article number: 596 doi:10.1038/ncomms1602 (2011)
- Kai-Yu Yang, Yuan-Ming Lu, Ying Ran, Quantum Hall effects in a Weyl Semi-Metal: possible application in pyrochlore Iridates. arXiv:1105.2353, \textit{Phys. Rev. B} \textbf{84}, 075129 (2011)
- Yuan-Ming Lu, Ying Ran, Z2 spin liquid and chiral antiferromagnetic phase in the Hubbard model on a honeycomb lattice
\textit{Phys. Rev. B} \textbf{84}, 024420 (2011) - “Topological Insulators in Three Dimensions from Spontaneous Symmetry Breaking,” Y. Zhang, Y. Ran, and A. Vishwanath, arXiv:0904.0690, Phys. Rev. B 79, 245331 (2009).
- “Helical Metal Inside a Topological Band Insulator,” Y. Ran, Y. Zhang, and A. Vishwanath, arXiv:0810.5121, Nature Phys. 5, 289 (2009).
- “A Funtional Renormalization Group Study of the Pairing Symmetry and Pairing Mechanism of the FeAs Based High Temperature Superconductors,” F. Wang, H. Zhai, Y. Ran, A. Vishwanath, and D.-H. Lee, arXiv:0807.0498, Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 047005 (2009).
- “A Direct Transition Between a Neel Ordered Mott Insulator and a dx2-y2 Superconductor on the Square Lattice,” Y. Ran, A. Vishwanath, and D.-H. Lee, arXiv:0806.2321.
- “Nodal Spin Density Wave and Band Topology of the FeAs Based Materials,” Y. Ran, F. Wang, H. Zhai, A. Vishwanath, and D.-H. Lee, arXiv:0805.3535, Phys. Rev. B 79, 014505 (2009).
- “Topological Surface States in Three-Dimensional Magnetic Insulators,” J. E. Moore, Y. Ran, and X.-G. Wen, arXiv:0804.4527, Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 186805 (2008).
- “Properties of an Algebraic Spin Liquid on the Kagome Lattice,” M. Hermele, Y. Ran, P. A. Lee, and X.-G. Wen, arXiv:0803.1150, Phys. Rev. B 77, 224413 (2008).
- “Spin-Charge Separated Solitons in a Topological Band Insulator,” Y. Ran, A. Vishwanath, and D.-H. Lee, arXiv:0801.0627, Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 086801 (2008).
- “Spontaneous Spin Ordering of Dirac Spin Liquid in a Magnetic Field,” Y. Ran, W.-H. Ko, P. A. Lee, and X.-G. Wen,” arXiv:0710.4574, Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 047205 (2009).
- “Projected Wavefunction Study of Spin-1/2 Heisenberg Model on Kagome Lattice,” Y. Ran, M. Hermele, P. A. Lee, and X.-G. Wen, arXiv:cond-mat/0611414, Phys. Rev. Lett. 98, 117205 (2007).
- “Detecting Topological Order Through a Continuous Quantum Phase Transition,” Y. Ran, and X.-G. Wen, arXiv:cond-mat/0509155, Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 026802 (2006).