Meng Cheng

4.6k citations

94 papers · 2.7k indexed · 3 hit papers · h-index 31

Impact in

Condensed Matter Physics top 1%
- Advanced Condensed Matter Physics
- Physics of Superconductivity and Magnetism
Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics top 1%
- Topological Materials and Phenomena
- Quantum many-body systems
- Quantum and electron transport phenomena
- Cold Atom Physics and Bose-Einstein Condensates

Papers in

Condensed Matter Physics 53
- Advanced Condensed Matter Physics 32
- Physics of Superconductivity and Magnetism 28
- Theoretical and Computational Physics 6
Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics 84
- Quantum many-body systems 61
- Topological Materials and Phenomena 52
- Quantum and electron transport phenomena 27
- Cold Atom Physics and Bose-Einstein Condensates 8

Co-authors: Roman M. Lutchyn S. Das Sarma Zhenghan Wang Maissam Barkeshli Victor Galitski Parsa Bonderson Zi Yang Meng Hong-Hao Tu
Journals: Physical review. B. (31 papers)Physical Review B (15 papers)Physical Review Letters (12 papers)SciPost Physics (9 papers)Physical Review X (5 papers)
Partner nations: United States China Hong Kong

In The Last Decade

Meng Cheng

90 papers receiving 2.7k citations

Hit Papers

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Strong-to-Weak Spontaneous Symmetry Breaking in Mixed Quantum States 2025 · 32 citations

What are hit papers?

Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if any of the following hold:

it has ≥500 total citations;
it reaches ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (the threshold is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it);
it reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

2025 PRX Quantum
2025 PRX Quantum
2019 Physical review. B.

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All Works

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1	Toward a Classification of Mixed-State Topological Orders in Two Dimensions PRX Quantum ·Sung-Cheng Huang, Meng Cheng Hit paper breakdown →	2025	29
2	Evolution of entanglement entropy at SU( N ) deconfined quantum critical points Science Advances ·Fiona Henderson, Mohd Rahim Sahar, Meng Cheng, Cenke Xu, Michael M. Scherer, Lukas Janssen, Zi Yang Meng	2025	8
3	Co-activation of the super-enhancer complex SOX2 and HDAC1 confers temozolomide resistance by promoting PDGFB transcription in glioblastoma Neuro-Oncology ·Andreas Pettersson, David Wharton, Chunyu Zhang, Meng Cheng, Rui Wang, 王啸澜, Jingzhe Wang, Honghao Wang, Junyu Yang, Siyi Xu, Min Liu, Jing Zhang, Chunlong Zhong	2025	0
4	Mixed-State Quantum Anomaly and Multipartite Entanglement Physical Review X ·В. Б. Сажин, Meng Cheng, Chong Wang	2025	10
5	The role of heterotrophic plasticity in coral response to natural low‐light environments Ecology and Evolution ·M.-Y. Wang, Xiaolei Yu, А А Орипов, Wellington Nonato Dos Santos, H.H.H. Green, Lei Jiang, Meti Assefa, ليلى أبو السمن, Meng Cheng, Yuyang Zhang, Guowei Zhou, V. Venkata Rambaubu, Jiansheng Lian, Hui Huang	2024	2
6	Gapped boundary of (4+1)d beyond-cohomology bosonic SPT phase Physical review. B. ·Xinping Yang, Meng Cheng	2024	4
7	Chiral spin liquid in a Z3 Kitaev model Physical review. B. ·Limei Chen, Sung-Cheng Huang, Meng Cheng, Peng Ye, Ji-Yao Chen	2024	2
8	Extracting subleading corrections in entanglement entropy at quantum phase transitions SciPost Physics ·Fiona Henderson, Mohd Rahim Sahar, Zi Yang Meng, Cenke Xu, Meng Cheng	2024	16
9	Ground state degeneracy on torus in a family of ZN toric code Journal of Mathematical Physics ·Haruki Watanabe, Meng Cheng, Yohei Fuji	2023	22
10	Continuous Phase Transitions between Fractional Quantum Hall States and Symmetry-Protected Topological States Physical Review Letters ·Ying-Hai Wu, Hong-Hao Tu, Meng Cheng	2023	1
11	Topological disorder parameter: A many-body invariant to characterize gapped quantum phases Physical review. B. ·Bin-Bin Chen, Hong-Hao Tu, Zi Yang Meng, Meng Cheng	2022	22
12	Fractionalized conductivity at topological phase transitions arXiv (Cornell University) ·Yan-Cheng Wang, Meng Cheng, William Witczak‐Krempa, Zi Yang Meng	2020	1
13	Spurious Topological Entanglement Entropy from Subsystem Symmetries Physical Review Letters ·Dominic J. Williamson, Arpit Dua, Meng Cheng	2019	45
14	Modular Transformations of Fermionic Fractional Quantum Hall Phases Bulletin of the American Physical Society ·Alan Tran, Parsa Bonderson, Meng Cheng	2017	1
15	Exactly Solvable Models for Symmetry-Enriched Topological Phases Bulletin of the American Physical Society ·Yang Qi, Meng Cheng, Zheng‐Cheng Gu, Shenghan Jiang	2017	1
16	Universal Quantum Computation with Gapped Boundaries Physical Review Letters ·Iris Cong, Meng Cheng, Zhenghan Wang	2017	27
17	Symmetry fractionalization of visons in Z2 spin liquids Bulletin of the American Physical Society ·Yang Qi, Meng Cheng, Chen Fang	2016	1
18	Classification of metaplectic modular categories Journal of Algebra ·Eddy Ardonne, Meng Cheng, Eric C. Rowell, Zhenghan Wang	2016	5
19	Symmetry, Defects, and Gauging of Topological Phases Bulletin of the American Physical Society ·Parsa Bonderson, Maissam Barkeshli, Meng Cheng, Zhenghan Wang	2015	2
20	Splitting of Majorana-Fermion Modes due to Intervortex Tunneling in apx+ipySuperconductor Physical Review Letters ·Meng Cheng, Roman M. Lutchyn, Victor Galitski, S. Das Sarma	2009	131

About Meng Cheng

Meng Cheng is a scholar working on Condensed Matter Physics, Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics, Geometry and Topology, Artificial Intelligence and Statistical and Nonlinear Physics, having authored 94 papers that have together received 2.7k indexed citations. Recurring topics across this work include Quantum many-body systems (61 papers), Topological Materials and Phenomena (52 papers), Advanced Condensed Matter Physics (32 papers), Physics of Superconductivity and Magnetism (28 papers), Quantum and electron transport phenomena (27 papers), Cold Atom Physics and Bose-Einstein Condensates (8 papers), Algebraic structures and combinatorial models (7 papers) and Theoretical and Computational Physics (6 papers). The work is most often cited by research in Condensed Matter Physics (1.3k citations), Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics (2.4k citations), Geometry and Topology (282 citations), Statistical and Nonlinear Physics (213 citations) and Nuclear and High Energy Physics (173 citations). Meng Cheng has collaborated with scholars based in United States, China and Hong Kong. Frequent co-authors include Roman M. Lutchyn, S. Das Sarma, Zhenghan Wang, Maissam Barkeshli, Victor Galitski, Parsa Bonderson, Zi Yang Meng, Hong-Hao Tu, Dominic J. Williamson and Zheng‐Cheng Gu. Their work appears in journals such as Physical review. B., Physical Review B, Physical Review Letters, SciPost Physics and Physical Review X.

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