Wensheng Vincent Liu Professor of Physics, University of Pittsburgh

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Mail: Dept of Physics & Astronomy University of Pittsburgh  3941 O'Hara Street Rm 100 Allen Pittsburgh, PA 15260 Office: Location: 223 Allen Hall Phone:   (412) 624-9023       Fax: (412) 624-9163 Email: wvliu@pitt.edu         (for all emails)

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Publications in condensed matter, nonlinear dynamics  and more.

Future and Recent talks Recent and upcoming co-organized events 2020 KITP "Many-Body Phenomena with Spatiotemporal Control" Program, Santa Barbara, CA

Research General interests Selected Projects Orbital optical lattice: atomic chiral topological Bose-Einstein condensate (theory-exp collaboration) Nature (2021) a review in Rep. Prog Phys (2016) dynamical topological phases: Anomalous Floquet higher-order topological phases (PRL 2020a, PRL 2020b),  topological Bose superfluids: PRL(2020c) time crystal and realization: Phys. Rev. Lett. (2018). exotic superfluidity: breached pairing [News:  Phys. Rev. Focus story], Weyl fermions quasi-1D spin imbalanced Fermi gases: FFLO, thermodynamic Bethe ansatz, spin-charge mixing, novel two-component Luttinger liquid model due to spin polarization.  p-orbital lattice gases: emergent orbital symmetries, exotic px+ipy BEC at finite momentum, antiferro-orbit Mott insulators, time-symmetry breaking, topological semimetal, chiral p-wave, etc. and possible relevance to ultracold atomic gases [Nature Physics News and Views, Nature Physics, Pitt News, Maryland/NIST JQI press release, Nature Comm Articles (2013), and (2014a), and (2014b)]    correlated electron systems: superconductors, oxide heterostructures [Nature Nanotech highlight 2014] Supporting Grants [past and ongoing] Air Force Office of Scientific Research (AFOSR), Quantum Information & AMP Program [joint with George Mason Univ] MURI Anyons in 2D Materials and Cold Atomic Gases [team led by UC Santa Barbara] Army Research Office (ARO) [Condensed Matter Physics/AMO Cold Atom Program]  DARPA Optical Lattice Emulator Program [team led by Rice University] Charles E Kaufman Foundation & The Pittsburgh Foundation  [New Initiative grant 2013-2015] Teaching Physics 0175: Basic Physics for Science and Engineering (Spring 2022) Past courses

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