Phone (852) 3943 6368
Email tlan(at)cuhk.edu.hk
Office Room G6, G/F, Science Centre North Block
Education: 2013–2017, PhD in Theoretical Physics Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics & University of Waterloo
2012–2013, MSc in Theoretical Physics, Perimeter Scholars International (PSI) Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics & University of Waterloo
2008–2012, BSc in Mathematics and Physics, Tsinghua University
Position: 2021-now, Assistant Professor, The Chinese University of Hong Kong
2018-2020, Postdoctoral Fellow, Institute for Quantum Computing, University of Waterloo
Research Interest: Mathematical framework for topological phases of matter
Higher categorical structures of symmetry, quantum phases and phase transitions
Exactly solvable models for topological phases and quantum computation
Selected Recent Publications: L. Kong, T. Lan, X.-G. Wen, Z.-H. Zhang and H. Zheng, "Algebraic higher symmetry and categorical symmetry: A holographic and entanglement view of symmetry
Classification of topological phases with finite internal symmetries in all dimensions
Classification of 3+1D Bosonic topological orders (II): The case when some pointlike excitations are Fermions
Classification of 3+1D bosonic topological orders: The case when pointlike Excitations are all bosons
Classification of (2+1)-dimensional topological order and symmetry-protected topological order for bosonic and fermionic systems with on-site symmetries
Modular extensions of unitary braided fusion categories and 2+1D topological/SPT orders with symmetries
Theory of (2+1)-dimensional fermionic topological orders and fermionic/bosonic topological orders with symmetries
Matrix formulation for non-Abelian families
Hierarchy Construction and Non-Abelian Families of Generic Topological Orders
Gapped Domain Walls, Gapped Boundaries, and Topological Degeneracy", Phys. Rev. Lett. 114, 076402 (2015), arXiv:1408.6514.
