Yuan Wan

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Yuan Wan is a researcher at the Institute of Physics of the Chinese Academy of Sciences. He received his PhD in physics from Johns Hopkins University in Maryland in 2014 and held postdoctoral positions at the Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics in Canada and the University of Oxford in the UK before joining the Chinese Academy of Sciences in 2018. His research focuses on theoretical condensed-matter physics, with a particular interest in the dynamics of strongly correlated electrons near and far from equilibrium.


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Topological Insulators Turn a Corner

Theorists have discovered topological insulators that are insulating in their interior and on their surfaces but have conducting channels at corners or along edges. Read More »

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Neutrons Illuminate the Magnetic Dance of Chiral Phonons

Neutron scattering has provided a new and broader view of the twirling collective atomic vibrations in a magnetic crystal. Read More »