HongyuChern

Postdoctoral fellow

Department of Physics, University of Hong Kong

Email: hychern@hku.hk

Research interest

Density-Matrix Renormalization Group;
Quantum Transport;
Quantum Field Theory;
Group Theory and Perturbation Theory;
Quantum Simulation;
Light-matter Interactions

Educations
01/2022 - 06/2025
Institute of Physics, Nanyang Technological University
PhD's degree in Computational and Theoretical Condensed Matter Physics
09/2018 - 06/2021
Institute of Material Science and Engineering, Tsinghua University
Master's degree in Computational Material Science
09/2014 – 06/2018
Institute of Material Science and Engineering, University of Science and Technology Beijing
Bachelor's Degree in Material Science and Engineering
Publications (# Contribute equally)

Two-dimensional intrinsic ferromagnetic monolayer transition metal oxyhydroxide
Hongyu Chen, Peizhe Tang, Jia Li
Phys. Rev. B 103, 195402 (2021)

Intertwining of Magnetism and Charge Ordering in Kagome FeGe
Sen Shao#, Jia-Xin Yin#, Ilya Belopolski#, Jing-Yang You#, Tao Hou, Hongyu Chen, Yuxiao Jiang, Md Shafayat Hossain, Mohammad Yahyavi, Chia-Hsiu Hsu, Yuan Ping Feng, Arun Bansil, M Zahid Hasan, Guoqing Chang
ACS Nano 2023, 17, 11, 10164–10171 (2023)

Unveiling the chirality of the quantum anomalous Hall effect
Hongyu Chen
#, Yuanjun Jin#, Mohammad Yahyavi#, Ilya Belopolski, Sen Shao, Tao Hou, Naizhou Wang, Chia-Hsiu Hsu, Yilin Zhao, Bo Yang, Qiong Ma, Jia-Xin Yin, Su-Yang Xu, Wei-bo Gao, Guoqing Chang
Phys. Rev. B 109, 125305 (2024)

Dual quantum spin Hall insulator by density-tuned correlations in TaIrTe4
Jian Tang#, Thomas Siyuan Ding#, Hongyu Chen#, Anyuan Gao, Tiema Qian, Zumeng Huang, Zhe Sun, Xin Han, Alex Strasser, Jiangxu Li, Michael Geiwitz, Mohamed Shehabeldin, Vsevolod Belosevich, Zihan Wang, Yiping Wang, Kenji Watanabe, Takashi Taniguchi, David C Bell, Ziqiang Wang, Liang Fu, Yang Zhang, Xiaofeng Qian, Kenneth S Burch, Youguo Shi, Ni Ni, Guoqing Chang, Su-Yang Xu, Qiong Ma
Nature 628, 515–521 (2024)

A hybrid topological quantum state in an elemental solid
Md Shafayat Hossain#, Frank Schindler#, Rajibul Islam#, Zahir Muhammad#, Yu-Xiao Jiang#, Zi-Jia Cheng#, Qi Zhang, Tao Hou, Hongyu Chen, Maksim Litskevich, Brian Casas, Jia-Xin Yin, Tyler A Cochran, Mohammad Yahyavi, Xian P Yang, Luis Balicas, Guoqing Chang, Weisheng Zhao, Titus Neupert, M Zahid Hasan
Nature 628, 527–533 (2024)

Van Hove annihilation and nematic instability on a kagome lattice
Yu-Xiao Jiang#, Sen Shao#, Wei Xia#, M Michael Denner#, Julian Ingham#, Md Shafayat Hossain, Qingzheng Qiu, Xiquan Zheng, Hongyu Chen, Zi-Jia Cheng, Xian P Yang, Byunghoon Kim, Jia-Xin Yin, Songbo Zhang, Maksim Litskevich, Qi Zhang, Tyler A Cochran, Yingying Peng, Guoqing Chang, Yanfeng Guo, Ronny Thomale, Titus Neupert, M Zahid Hasan
Nat. Mater. 23, 1214–1221 (2024)

Laser-Controlled Nonlinear Hall Effect in Tellurium Solids via Nonlinear Phononics
Hongyu Chen#, Xi Wu#, Jiali Yang, Peizhe Tang, Jia Li
arXiv:2411.18843 (2025)

Photonic obstructed atomic insulator
Hongyu Chen
arXiv:2506.23713 (2025)