Shunyu Yao

5.7k total citations · 4 hit papers
20 papers, 3.2k citations indexed

About

Shunyu Yao is a scholar working on Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics, Statistical and Nonlinear Physics and Nuclear and High Energy Physics. According to data from OpenAlex, Shunyu Yao has authored 20 papers receiving a total of 3.2k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 9 papers in Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics, 7 papers in Statistical and Nonlinear Physics and 6 papers in Nuclear and High Energy Physics. Recurrent topics in Shunyu Yao's work include Black Holes and Theoretical Physics (6 papers), Quantum Mechanics and Non-Hermitian Physics (5 papers) and Topological Materials and Phenomena (5 papers). Shunyu Yao is often cited by papers focused on Black Holes and Theoretical Physics (6 papers), Quantum Mechanics and Non-Hermitian Physics (5 papers) and Topological Materials and Phenomena (5 papers). Shunyu Yao collaborates with scholars based in United States, China and Italy. Shunyu Yao's co-authors include Zhong Wang, Fei Song, Zhongbo Yan, Andreas Blommaert, Phil Saad, Jorrit Kruthoff, Stephen H. Shenker, Thomas G. Mertens, Douglas Stanford and Zhiyou Guo and has published in prestigious journals such as Physical Review Letters, Journal of High Energy Physics and Physical review. B..

In The Last Decade

Shunyu Yao

17 papers receiving 3.1k citations

Hit Papers

Edge States and Topological Invariants of Non-Hermitian S... 2018 2026 2020 2023 2018 2018 2019 2019 400 800 1.2k
What are hit papers?

Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if it has ≥500 total citations, achieves ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (this is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it), or reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

  1. Edge States and Topological Invariants of Non-Hermitian Systems
    2018 1.5k citations Shunyu Yao, Zhong Wang Physical Review Letters profile →
  2. Non-Hermitian Chern Bands
    2018 665 citations Shunyu Yao, Fei Song et al. Physical Review Letters profile →
  3. Non-Hermitian Skin Effect and Chiral Damping in Open Quantum Systems
    2019 427 citations Fei Song, Shunyu Yao et al. Physical Review Letters profile →
  4. Non-Hermitian Topological Invariants in Real Space
    2019 334 citations Fei Song, Shunyu Yao et al. Physical Review Letters profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

Peers by citation overlap · career bar shows stage (early→late) cites · hero ref

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Shunyu Yao United States 11 3.0k 1.7k 131 116 109 20 3.2k
Flore K. Kunst Germany 13 2.8k 0.9× 1.5k 0.9× 175 1.3× 16 0.1× 106 1.0× 22 2.9k
J. Negro Spain 21 1.0k 0.3× 985 0.6× 121 0.9× 145 1.3× 142 1.3× 98 1.4k
Yuto Ashida Japan 22 2.6k 0.9× 1.2k 0.7× 105 0.8× 28 0.2× 65 0.6× 51 2.7k
Huitao Shen United States 14 1.8k 0.6× 754 0.4× 298 2.3× 50 0.4× 46 0.4× 24 2.1k
Alexander G. Abanov United States 24 1.1k 0.4× 376 0.2× 166 1.3× 220 1.9× 81 0.7× 55 1.7k
J. M. Robbins United Kingdom 19 617 0.2× 567 0.3× 39 0.3× 85 0.7× 71 0.7× 43 973
Jan Carl Budich Germany 29 5.1k 1.7× 1.8k 1.0× 532 4.1× 32 0.3× 150 1.4× 77 5.2k
Israel Klich United States 22 2.2k 0.7× 799 0.5× 108 0.8× 264 2.3× 48 0.4× 59 2.5k
Igor Boettcher Canada 19 1.1k 0.4× 244 0.1× 144 1.1× 75 0.6× 65 0.6× 38 1.3k
Martin Greiter Germany 30 4.0k 1.3× 842 0.5× 623 4.8× 101 0.9× 158 1.4× 70 4.3k

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All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Yao, Shunyu & Gary P. T. Choi. (2025). Toroidal density-equalizing map for genus-one surfaces. Journal of Computational and Applied Mathematics. 472. 116844–116844.
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Saad, Phil, Stephen H. Shenker, & Shunyu Yao. (2024). Comments on wormholes and factorization. Journal of High Energy Physics. 2024(10). 14 indexed citations
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Saad, Phil, Stephen H. Shenker, Douglas Stanford, & Shunyu Yao. (2024). Wormholes without averaging. Journal of High Energy Physics. 2024(9). 20 indexed citations
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Yao, Shunyu, et al.. (2024). Quantum Energy Teleportation versus Information Teleportation. Quantum. 8. 1564–1564. 1 indexed citations
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Stanford, Douglas, et al.. (2024). Scramblon loops. Journal of High Energy Physics. 2024(10).
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Blommaert, Andreas, Thomas G. Mertens, & Shunyu Yao. (2024). The q-Schwarzian and Liouville gravity. Journal of High Energy Physics. 2024(11). 10 indexed citations
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Blommaert, Andreas, Thomas G. Mertens, & Shunyu Yao. (2024). Dynamical actions and q-representation theory for double-scaled SYK. Journal of High Energy Physics. 2024(2). 21 indexed citations
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Saad, Phil, et al.. (2024). A convergent genus expansion for the plateau. Journal of High Energy Physics. 2024(9). 14 indexed citations
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Blommaert, Andreas, Jorrit Kruthoff, & Shunyu Yao. (2023). The power of Lorentzian wormholes. Journal of High Energy Physics. 2023(10). 7 indexed citations
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Blommaert, Andreas, Jorrit Kruthoff, & Shunyu Yao. (2023). An integrable road to a perturbative plateau. Journal of High Energy Physics. 2023(4). 26 indexed citations
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Yao, Shunyu. (2021). Application of Data Mining Technology in Financial Fraud Identification. 2919–2922. 2 indexed citations
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Song, Fei, Shunyu Yao, & Zhong Wang. (2019). Non-Hermitian Skin Effect and Chiral Damping in Open Quantum Systems. Physical Review Letters. 123(17). 170401–170401. 427 indexed citations breakdown →
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Song, Fei, Shunyu Yao, & Zhong Wang. (2019). Non-Hermitian Topological Invariants in Real Space. Physical Review Letters. 123(24). 246801–246801. 334 indexed citations breakdown →
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Yao, Shunyu, Fei Song, & Zhong Wang. (2018). Non-Hermitian Chern bands and Chern numbers. arXiv (Cornell University). 1 indexed citations
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Yao, Shunyu, Fei Song, & Zhong Wang. (2018). Non-Hermitian Chern Bands. Physical Review Letters. 121(13). 136802–136802. 665 indexed citations breakdown →
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Yao, Shunyu & Zhong Wang. (2018). Edge States and Topological Invariants of Non-Hermitian Systems. Physical Review Letters. 121(8). 86803–86803. 1487 indexed citations breakdown →
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Yao, Shunyu, Zhongbo Yan, & Zhong Wang. (2017). Topological invariants of Floquet systems: General formulation, special properties, and Floquet topological defects. Physical review. B.. 96(19). 131 indexed citations
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Guo, Zhiyou, Yang Liu, Min Guo, et al.. (2017). Performance improvement of AlGaN-based ultraviolet light-emitting diodes by amending inverted-Y-shaped barriers with alternate doped Si and Mg. Superlattices and Microstructures. 107. 278–284. 12 indexed citations
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Liu, Yang, Zhiyou Guo, J. Li, et al.. (2015). Performance enhancement of InGaN-based light-emitting diodes with InGaN/AlInN/InGaN composition-graded barriers. Semiconductor Science and Technology. 30(12). 125014–125014. 3 indexed citations
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