Phone (852) 39436100
Email zcgu(at)phy.cuhk.edu.hk
Education:Ph.D., Physics, Center for Advanced Study, Tsinghua University, 2003-2007
Bachelor, Fundamental Science (Mathematics and Physics), Tsinghua University, 1999-2003
Position: Mar 2016-now, Associate Professor, Department of Physics, The Chinese University of Hong Kong
2015-2020, Adjunct Professor, University of Waterloo
2012-2016, Director's Fellow, Perimeter Institute (IQIM Fellow 2012-2013, Caltech)
2009-2012, Associate Specialist, Kavli Institute for Theoretical Physics, UCSB
2007-2009, Postdoctoral Fellow, MIT
Research Interest:Entanglement renormalization and deep learning.
Classification of topological phases in interacting bosonic and fermionic systems.
Tensor network simulation for two dimensional strongly correlated systems, e.g., frustrated magnets and Hubbard model.
Unification of mass mixing phenomena in quark and lepton sectors. Predictions on leptonic CP violation angle and absolute neutrino mass.
Topological aspects of fundamental particles and unification of three generations.
Super topological quantum field theory and quantum gravity.
Selected Recent Publications:Z.-C. Gu and Xiao-Gang Wen, "Symmetry-protected topological orders for interacting fermions - fermionic topological non-linear sigma-models and a group super-cohomology theory
Symmetry protected topological orders in interacting bosonic systems
Braiding statistic approach to symmetry-protected topological order
Nearly flat bands with nontrivial topology
Classification of gapped symmetric phases in 1D spin systems", Phys. Rev. B 83, 035107 (2011).
