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Dr. Yuanda Liao is a physicist who specializes in quantum many-body numerical calculations. He is currently a Research Assistant Professor in the Department of Physics at the University of Hong Kong. Dr. Liao has published 17 research articles which have been cited over 500 times, giving him an h-index of 10. More details about his research and credentials can be found on his personal website at https://quantummc.xyz/yuanda-liao/.

Dr Liao's main research interests focus on the theoretical and numerical investigations of quantum many-body physics, such as quantum phase transition, quantum critical behavior and exotic topological states in strongly correlated fermionic systems and quantum magnetism, with help of the quantum Monte Carlo method, exact diagonalization and so on.
 

1. “Caution on Gross-Neveu criticality with a single Dirac cone: Violation of locality and its consequence of unexpected finite-temperature transition”, Yuan Da Liao, Xiao Yan Xu, Zi Yang Meng, Yang Qi, Phys. Rev. B 108, 195112 (2023)

2. “Dirac fermions with plaquette interactions. III. SU(N) phase diagram with Gross-Neveu criticality and first-order phase transition”, Yuan Da Liao, Xiao Yan Xu, Zi Yang Meng, Yang Qi, Phys. Rev. B 106, 155159 (2022)

3. “Dirac fermions with plaquette interactions. II. SU(4) phase diagram with Gross-Neveu criticality and quantum spin liquid”, Yuan Da Liao, Xiao Yan Xu, Zi Yang Meng, Yang Qi, Phys. Rev. B 106, 115149 (2022)

4. “Dirac fermions with plaquette interactions. I. SU (2) phase diagram with Gross-Neveu and deconfined quantum criticalities”, Yuan Da Liao, Xiao Yan Xu, Zi Yang Meng, Yang Qi, Phys. Rev. B 106, 075111 (2022)

5. “Realization of topological Mott insulator in a twisted bilayer graphene lattice model”, Bin-Bin Chen, Yuan Da Liao, Ziyu Chen, Oskar Vafek, Jian Kang, Wei Li, Zi Yang Meng, Nature Communications volume 12, 5480 (2021)

6. “Phase diagram of the quantum Ising model on a triangular lattice under external field”, Yuan Da Liao, Han Li, Zheng Yan, Hao-Tian Wei, Wei Li, Yang Qi, Zi Yang Meng, Phys. Rev. B 103, 104416 (2021)

7. “Correlation-induced insulating topological phases at charge neutrality in twisted bilayer graphene” Yuan Da Liao, Jian Kang, Clara N Breiø, Xiao Yan Xu, Han-Qing Wu, Brian M Andersen, Rafael M Fernandes, Zi Yang Meng, Phys. Rev. X 11, 011014 (2021)

8. “Evidence of the Berezinskii-Kosterlitz-Thouless phase in a frustrated magnet”, Ze Hu, Zhen Ma, Yuan-Da Liao, Han Li, Chunsheng Ma, Yi Cui, Yanyan Shangguan, Zhentao Huang, Yang Qi, Wei Li, Zi Yang Meng, Jinsheng Wen, Weiqiang Yu, Nature Communications 11, 5631 (2020)

9. “Kosterlitz-Thouless melting of magnetic order in the triangular quantum Ising material TmMgGaO4”, Han Li, Yuan Da Liao, Bin-Bin Chen, Xu-Tao Zeng, Xian-Lei Sheng, Yang Qi, Zi Yang Meng, Wei Li, Nature Communications 11, 1111 (2020)

10. “Valence bond orders at charge neutrality in a possible two-orbital extended hubbard model for twisted bilayer graphene”, Yuan Da Liao, Zi Yang Meng, Xiao Yan Xu, Phys. Rev. Lett. 123, 157601 (2019)