About
I am a theoretical condensed matter physicist working on strongly correlated quantum many-body systems and topological phases of matter.
My research focuses on:
- Moiré materials and 2D heterostructures, including rhombohedral graphene multilayers and twisted transition-metal dichalcogenides.
- Fractional quantum Hall states, with a particular emphasis on graphene-based quantum Hall platforms.
- Unconventional superconductivity, such as fluctuation-mediated pairing and anyon superconductivity.
- Quantum criticality, including continuous transitions out of topological phases and applications of the fuzzy-sphere.
I work closely with experimental groups, combining microscopic modeling, field theory, and large-scale numerical simulations (DMRG and tensor networks) to compare theory with experiment at a quantitative level.
Currently, I am a postdoctoral fellow at Harvard University (HQI Prize Fellow, Simons UQM) and a joint postdoctoral fellow at MIT, working with Ashvin Vishwanath, Eslam Khalaf, and Patrick A. Lee.
Selected Publications
View All →Emergent QED$_3$ at the bosonic Laughlin state to superfluid transition
Taige Wang, Xue-Yang Song, Michael P. Zaletel, T. Senthil
arXiv:2507.07611
Quantum phase transitions between topologically ordered and symmetry-broken phases lie beyond Landau theory.
Chiral superconductivity near a fractional Chern insulator
Taige Wang, Michael P. Zaletel
arXiv:2507.07921
Superconductivity arising from fully spin-polarized, repulsively interacting electrons can host intrinsically chiral Cooper pairs and Majorana zero modes, yet no concrete microscopic route to such a state has been established.
Entropy of strongly correlated electrons in a partially filled Landau level
Alexandre Assouline, Taige Wang, Heun Mo Yoo, Ruihua Fan, Fangyuan Yang, Ruining Zhang, Takashi Taniguchi, Kenji Watanabe, Michael P. Zaletel, Andrea F. Young
arXiv:2503.16738
We use high-resolution chemical potential measurements to extract the entropy of monolayer and bilayer graphene in the quantum Hall regime via the Maxwell relation $left.fracdmudTright|_N = -left.fracdSdNright|_T$.
Diverse magnetic orders and quantum anomalous Hall effect in twisted bilayer MoTe2 and WSe2
Taige Wang, Trithep Devakul, Michael P. Zaletel, Liang Fu
arXiv:2306.02501
Twisted homobilayer transition metal dichalcogenide (TMD) offers a versatile platform for exploring band topology, interaction-driven phases, and magnetic orders.
Anomalous Hall Crystals in Rhombohedral Multilayer Graphene I: Interaction-Driven Chern Bands and Fractional Quantum Hall States at Zero Magnetic Field
Junkai Dong, Taige Wang, Tianle Wang, Tomohiro Soejima, Michael P. Zaletel, Ashvin Vishwanath, Daniel E. Parker
Phys. Rev. Lett. 133, 206503 (2024)
Recent experiments on rhombohedral pentalayer graphene flakes with a substrate induced moir'e potential have identified both Chern insulators and fractional Quantum Hall states in the absence of an applied magnetic field.
News
Started as an HQI Prize Fellow at Harvard University and a joint postdoctoral fellow at MIT.
Completed my PhD in Physics at UC Berkeley under the supervision of Michael P. Zaletel.
Posted three preprints on chiral superconductivity, quantum criticality, and edge reconstruction in quantum Hall systems.
Completed a Graduate Fellowship at the Kavli Institute for Theoretical Physics (KITP).