1. Xiao-Gang Wen is a Cecil and Ida Green Professor of Physics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Distinguished Visiting Research Chair at the Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics.
11 Facts About Xiao-Gang Wen
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Xiao-Gang Wen's expertise is in condensed matter theory in strongly correlated electronic systems.
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Xiao-Gang Wen is the author of a book in advanced quantum many-body theory entitled Quantum Field Theory of Many-body Systems: From the Origin of Sound to an Origin of Light and Electrons.
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In 1982, Xiao-Gang Wen came to the US for graduate school via the CUSPEA program, which was organized by Prof.
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Xiao-Gang Wen studied superstring theory under theoretical physicist Edward Witten at Princeton University where he received his Ph.
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Xiao-Gang Wen later switched his research field to condensed matter physics while working with theoretical physicists Robert Schrieffer, Frank Wilczek, Anthony Zee in Institute for Theoretical Physics, UC Santa Barbara.
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Xiao-Gang Wen introduced the notion of topological order and quantum order, to describe a new class of matter states.
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Xiao-Gang Wen found that states with topological order contain non-trivial boundary excitations and developed chiral Luttinger theory for the boundary states.
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Xiao-Gang Wen proposed a special class of topological order: non-Abelian quantum Hall states.
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Xiao-Gang Wen pointed out that topological order is nothing but the pattern of long range entanglements.
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Xiao-Gang Wen proposed the SU gauge theory of high temperature superconductors.