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Xiao-Gang Wen was born on 26 November, 1961 in Beijing, China, is a Chinese-American physicist. Discover Xiao-Gang Wen's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is he in this year and how he spends money? Also learn how he earned most of networth at the age of 62 years old?
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Beijing, China |
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United States
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Xiao-Gang Wen (born November 26, 1961) is a Chinese-American physicist.
He 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.
His expertise is in condensed matter theory in strongly correlated electronic systems.
Wen attended the University of Science and Technology of China and earned a B.S. in Physics in 1982.
In 1982, Wen came to the US for graduate school via the CUSPEA program, which was organized by Prof. T. D. Lee.
He attended Princeton University, from which be attained an M.A. in Physics in 1983 and a Ph.D in Physics in 1987.
Wen studied superstring theory under theoretical physicist Edward Witten at Princeton University where he received his Ph.D. degree in 1987.
He 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
Wen introduced the notion of topological order (1989) and quantum order (2002), to describe a new class of matter states.
This opens up a new research direction in condensed matter physics.
He found that states with topological order contain non-trivial boundary excitations and developed chiral Luttinger theory for the boundary states (1990).
The boundary states can become ideal conduction channel which may lead to device application of topological phases.
He proposed the simplest topological order — Z2 topological order (1990), which turns out to be the topological order in the toric code.
He also proposed a special class of topological order: non-Abelian quantum Hall states.
They contain emergent particles with non-Abelian statistics which generalizes the well known Bose and Fermi statistics.
Non-Abelian particles may allow us to perform fault tolerant quantum computations.
He also proposed the SU(2) gauge theory of high temperature superconductors (1996).
In particular, string-net condensation provides a unified origin of photons, electrons, and other elementary particles (2003).
It unifies two fundamental phenomena: gauge interactions and Fermi statistics.
He pointed out that topological order is nothing but the pattern of long range entanglements.
He 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 (Oxford University Press, 2004).
With Michael Levin, he found that string-net condensations can give rise to a large class of topological orders (2005).
This led to a notion of symmetry protected topological (SPT) order (short-range entangled states with symmetry) and its description by group cohomology of the symmetry group (2011).
The notion of SPT order generalizes the notion of topological insulator to interacting cases.
In Oct. 2016, he was awarded the Oliver E. Buckley Condensed Matter Prize.
