Personal profile

Yao Yao, Professor, Doctoral Supervisor. I obtained my PhD from the Department of Physics at Fudan University in 2010, and then stayed on as a postdoctoral fellow, lecturer, and associate professor. In 2016, I started working at South China University of Technology. I have a wide range of research interests, covering interdisciplinary fields such as physics, chemistry, and biology, and employing various research methods including theory, computation, and experimentation. My main research topics include the mechanisms and applications of light, electricity, and magnetism in organic molecular systems, as well as topological superconductors, ultracold ion traps, quantum heat engines, quantum compasses, and biological magnetic sensing related to quantum computing. So far, it has been included in Nature Chemistry、Nature Communications、Phys. Rev. Appl.、J. Phys. Chem. Lett.、Adv. Funct. Mater. Published over 60 SCI papers in journals and applied for 1 international PCT patent. I have led 4 National Natural Science Foundation projects and participated in key research and development programs in Guangdong Province. Main courses include Thermodynamics and Statistical Physics, Advanced Quantum Mechanics, Semiconductor Physics and Devices.

Research directions

Theoretical Condensed Matter Physics.

Education and Work Experience

2000-2004 Tongji University, Applied Physics, Bachelor's degree

2004-2009 Fudan University, theoretical physics, PhD

2009-2016 Fudan University, postdoctoral fellow, lecturer, associate professor

From 2016 to present, Associate Professor and Professor at South China University of Technology

Representative paper results 

Research field: Theoretical condensed matter physics (1) Organic electronics, studying the optical, electrical, and magnetic phenomena and their transport mechanisms caused by quantum coherence in organic molecules/free radical materials; (2) Quantum thermodynamics studies the macroscopic quantum effects related to quantum thermalization and multibody localization, including quantum quenching, quantum thermometers, Mafermions, time crystals, OTOCs, etc.  

Firstly, the time-dependent density matrix renormalization group (tDMRG) method was applied to the actual material electro acoustic interaction system. Based on Davydov Ansatz, a new scheme based on squeezed states was proposed, and the potential energy surface transition method was applied to charge injection at the metal organic interface. Firstly, the room temperature macroscopic magnetism in pure organic small molecule semiconductors was discovered, and the ultrafast long-range charge transfer states in organic photovoltaic systems were proposed. The long-range triplet pairs in singlet splitting were confirmed, and a topological string order was proposed to characterize the topological superconducting phase.  

So far, it has been included in Nat. Chem./Commun.、Adv. Mater.、Phys. Rev. A/B/E/Appl.、J. Chem. Theory Comput.、J. Phys. Chem. Lett. Published over 60 papers in journals, cited over 1000 times, with an H-factor of 18.  

Representative Achievements Q. Jiang et al, Adv. Mater. 2108103 (2022). W. Huang and Y. Yao*, Phys. Rev. B 105, 245144 (2022).

Contact Information

E-mail：yaoyao2016@scut.edu.cn