# Students ### Ph.D. Students - Jinwu Ye, Great Bay University, Guangdong, China Thesis: Some Examples of Quantum Phase Transitions - [T. Senthil](https://physics.mit.edu/faculty/senthil-todadri/), Professor, Department of Physics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Thesis: [Quantum Phase Transitions in Random Spin Systems](http://140.247.122.253/theses/T_Senthil_thesis.pdf) - [Kedar Damle](http://theory.tifr.res.in/~kedar/), Professor, Department of Theoretical Physics, Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, Mumbai, India. Thesis: [Turning on the Heat: Non-zero Temperature Dynamical Properties of Quantum Many-body Systems](http://140.247.122.253/theses/Kedar_Damle_thesis.pdf) - [Chiranjeeb Buragohain](https://www.linkedin.com/in/cburagohain), Architect, Oracle. Thesis: [Dynamical Properties of Quantum Antiferromagnets in One and Two Dimensions](http://140.247.122.253/theses/Chiranjeeb_Buragohain_thesis.pdf) - [Ying Zhang](https://www.linkedin.com/pub/ying-zhang/50/576/303), Portfolio Manager at Millennium, London. Thesis: [Competing Orders in the Cuprate Superconductors](http://140.247.122.253/theses/Ying_Zhang_thesis.pdf) - [Anatoli Polkovnikov](https://www.bu.edu/physics/profile/anatoli-polkovnikov/), Professor of Physics, Boston University. Thesis: [Manifestation of Quantum Fluctuations in Strongly Correlated Systems](http://140.247.122.253/theses/Anatoli_Polkovnikov_thesis.pdf) - [Stephen Powell](https://www.nottingham.ac.uk/physics/people/stephen.powell), Associate Professor, University of Nottingham Thesis: [Quantum phases and transitions of many-body systems realized using cold atomic gases](http://140.247.122.253/theses/Stephen_Powell_thesis.pdf) - [Adrian Del Maestro](http://www.delmaestro.org/adrian/index.html), Professor, University of Tennessee Thesis: [The superconductor-metal quantum phase transition in ultra-narrow wires](http://140.247.122.253/theses/Adrian_Del_Maestro_thesis.pdf) - [Emily Dunkel](http://www.linkedin.com/in/emilydunkel) (with [David Coker](http://www.bu.edu/chemistry/faculty/profile/coker.html), Boston University), NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory Thesis: [Quantum Phenomena in Condensed Phase Systems](http://140.247.122.253/theses/Emily_Dunkel_thesis.pdf) - [Yang Qi](http://www.spinon.science), Researcher, Department of Physics, Fudan University, Shanghai Thesis: [Spin and Charge Fluctuations in Strongly Correlated Systems](http://140.247.122.253/theses/Yang_Qi_thesis.pdf). - [Rudro Rana Biswas](https://www.linkedin.com/in/rudroranabiswas/), Actuarial Analyst II, Lincoln Financial Group Thesis: [Explorations in Dirac Fermions and Spin Liquids](http://140.247.122.253/theses/Rudro_Rana_Biswas_thesis.pdf). - [Eun Gook Moon](http://physics.kaist.ac.kr/index.php?document_srl=4570&mid=p_people1), Associate Professor, Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology Thesis: [Superfluidity in Strongly Correlated Systems](http://140.247.122.253/theses/Eun_Gook_Moon_thesis.pdf) - [Max Metlitski](https://physics.mit.edu/faculty/max-metlitski/), Associate Professor, Department of Physics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology Thesis: [Aspects of Critical Behavior of Two Dimensional Electron Systems](http://140.247.122.253/theses/Max_Metlitski_thesis.pdf) - [Yejin Huh](https://www.linkedin.com/in/yejin-huh-32911223), Founding AI Scientist at Stealth Thesis: [Quantum Phase Transitions in d-wave Superconductors and Antiferromagnetic Kagome Lattices](http://140.247.122.253/theses/Yejin_Huh_thesis.pdf) - [Susanne Pielawa](https://www.linkedin.com/pub/susanne-pielawa/4/675/866), Algorithm Developer, BMW Group Thesis: [Metastable Phases and Dynamics of Low-Dimensional Strongly-Correlated Atomic Quantum Gases](http://140.247.122.253/theses/Susanne_Pielawa_thesis.pdf) - [Debanjan Chowdhury](http://debanjanchowdhury.wixsite.com/homepage), Assistant Professor, Cornell University Thesis: [Interplay of Broken Symmetries and Quantum Criticality in Correlated Electronic Systems](http://140.247.122.253/theses/Debanjan_Chowdhury_thesis.pdf) - [Junhyun Lee](http://www.junhyunlee.org), Postdoctoral fellow, University of Maryland Thesis: [Novel quantum phase transitions in low-dimensional systems](http://140.247.122.253/theses/Junhyun_Lee_thesis.pdf) - [Andrew Lucas](https://www.colorado.edu/physics/andrew-lucas), Associate Professor, University of Colorado Thesis: [Transport and hydrodynamics in holography, strange metals and graphene](http://140.247.122.253/theses/Andrew_Lucas_thesis.pdf) - [Shubhayu Chatterjee](https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=wovjAPsAAAAJ&hl=en), Assistant Professor, Carnegie Mellon University Thesis: [Transport and symmetry breaking in strongly correlated systems with topological order](http://140.247.122.253/theses/Shubhayu_Chatterjee_thesis.pdf) - [Wenbo Fu](https://www.linkedin.com/in/wenbo-fu-9157a756/), Data Scientist, Med Data Quest, Cambridge MA Thesis: [The Sachdev-Ye-Kitaev model and matter without quasiparticles](http://140.247.122.253/theses/Wenbo_Fu_thesis.pdf) - [Seth Whitsitt](https://www.linkedin.com/in/seth-whitsitt-463bbb19), Senior Principal Transformational Quantum Physicist, Northrop Grumman Thesis: [Universal non-local observables at interacting quantum critical points](http://140.247.122.253/theses/Seth_Whitsitt_thesis.pdf) - [Alex Thomson](https://physics.ucdavis.edu/directory/faculty/alex-thomson), Assistant Professor, University of California, Davis Thesis: [Emergent gapless fermions in strongly-correlated phases of matter and quantum critical points](http://140.247.122.253/theses/Alex_Thomson_thesis.pdf) - [Aavishkar Patel](https://scholar.google.co.in/citations?user=K7a-EsQAAAAJ&hl=en), Center for Computational Quantum Physics, Flatiron Institute Thesis: [Transport, criticality, and chaos in fermionic quantum matter at nonzero density](http://140.247.122.253/theses/Aavishkar_Patel_thesis.pdf) - [Julia Steinberg](https://www.linkedin.com/in/julia-steinberg-11b61865/), Quantitative Researcher at Radix Trading Thesis: [Universal Aspects of Quantum-Critical Dynamics In and Out of Equilibrium](http://140.247.122.253/theses/Julia_Steinberg_thesis.pdf) - [Rhine Samajdar](https://pcts.princeton.edu/people/rhine-samajdar), Princeton University Thesis: [Topological and symmetry-breaking phases of strongly correlated systems: From quantum materials to ultracold atoms](http://140.247.122.253/theses/Rhine_Samajdar_thesis.pdf) - [Haoyu Guo](https://www.kicnano.cornell.edu/people/haoyu-guo), Cornell University Thesis: [Novel Transport Phenomena in Quantum Matter](http://140.247.122.253/theses/Haoyu_Guo_thesis.pdf) - [Leyna Shackleton](https://physics.mit.edu/research/pappalardo-fellowships-in-physics/henry-shackleton-pappalardo-fellow/), Pappalardo Fellow, MIT Thesis: [Fractionalization and disorder in quantum many-body systems](http://140.247.122.253/theses/Henry_Shackleton_thesis.pdf) - [Chenyuan Li](https://riceacademy.rice.edu/junior-fellows/dr-chenyuan-li), Academy of Fellows, Rice University Thesis: [Quantum Criticality and Superconductivity in Systems Without Quasiparticles](http://140.247.122.253/theses/Chenyuan_Li_thesis.pdf) - [Yanting Teng](https://people.epfl.ch/yanting.teng?lang=en), Scientist, Laboratory of Quantum Information and Computation, École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne Thesis: [Exploring Topological Phases in Quantum Many-Body Physics](http://140.247.122.253/theses/Yanting_Teng_thesis.pdf) - [Maria Tikhanovskaya](https://www.linkedin.com/in/tikhanovskaya/), Research Fellow, Allen Institute & University of Washington Thesis: [Disorder in quantum many-body physics: from strange metal to spin glass systems](http://140.247.122.253/theses/Maria_Tikhanovskaya_thesis.pdf) - [Maine Christos](https://www.pma.caltech.edu/people/maine-christos), AWS Postdoctoral Scholar Research Associate in Theoretical Physics, Caltech Thesis: [Criticality, fractionalization, and superconductivity in two-dimensional quantum materials](http://140.247.122.253/theses/Maine_Christos_thesis.pdf) - [Alexander Nikolaenko](https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=AVTLJ-gAAAAJ&hl=en), Harvard University - [Serhii Kryhin](https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=NSCesYwAAAAJ), Harvard University