Yingfei Gu

1.4k total citations · 1 hit paper
26 papers, 743 citations indexed

About

Yingfei Gu is a scholar working on Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics, Condensed Matter Physics and Statistical and Nonlinear Physics. According to data from OpenAlex, Yingfei Gu has authored 26 papers receiving a total of 743 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 20 papers in Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics, 9 papers in Condensed Matter Physics and 8 papers in Statistical and Nonlinear Physics. Recurrent topics in Yingfei Gu's work include Quantum many-body systems (19 papers), Physics of Superconductivity and Magnetism (7 papers) and Advanced Condensed Matter Physics (5 papers). Yingfei Gu is often cited by papers focused on Quantum many-body systems (19 papers), Physics of Superconductivity and Magnetism (7 papers) and Advanced Condensed Matter Physics (5 papers). Yingfei Gu collaborates with scholars based in United States, China and Germany. Yingfei Gu's co-authors include Subir Sachdev, Wenbo Fu, Kristan Jensen, Antoine Georges, Richard A. Davison, Andrew Lucas, Xueda Wen, Alexei Kitaev, Ruihua Fan and Ashvin Vishwanath and has published in prestigious journals such as Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Physical Review Letters and Journal of High Energy Physics.

In The Last Decade

Yingfei Gu

25 papers receiving 736 citations

Hit Papers

Thermoelectric transport in disordered metals without qua... 2017 2026 2020 2023 2017 50 100 150 200
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. Thermoelectric transport in disordered metals without quasiparticles: The Sachdev-Ye-Kitaev models and holography
    2017 237 citations Richard A. Davison, Wenbo Fu et al. Physical review. B. profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Yingfei Gu United States 13 514 295 264 222 158 26 743
Ling-Yan Hung China 17 457 0.9× 436 1.5× 241 0.9× 174 0.8× 320 2.0× 47 831
Wenbo Fu Canada 6 324 0.6× 335 1.1× 235 0.9× 209 0.9× 169 1.1× 6 624
Diptarka Das United States 13 329 0.6× 332 1.1× 179 0.7× 219 1.0× 201 1.3× 28 623
Ikuo Ichinose Japan 17 717 1.4× 442 1.5× 143 0.5× 561 2.5× 102 0.6× 116 1.2k
M. J. Bhaseen United Kingdom 18 1.0k 2.0× 173 0.6× 244 0.9× 240 1.1× 118 0.7× 34 1.2k
Peter Orland United States 13 338 0.7× 376 1.3× 152 0.6× 238 1.1× 86 0.5× 39 721
Tokiro Numasawa Japan 15 610 1.2× 687 2.3× 458 1.7× 98 0.4× 511 3.2× 26 1.0k
Fedor K. Popov United States 16 406 0.8× 415 1.4× 198 0.8× 91 0.4× 338 2.1× 39 759
C. D. Fosco Argentina 16 749 1.5× 342 1.2× 434 1.6× 123 0.6× 313 2.0× 106 984
Onkar Parrikar United States 13 244 0.5× 215 0.7× 147 0.6× 73 0.3× 147 0.9× 21 432

Countries citing papers authored by Yingfei Gu

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Fields of papers citing papers by Yingfei Gu

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

This network shows the impact of papers produced by Yingfei Gu. Nodes represent research fields, and links connect fields that are likely to share authors. Colored nodes show fields that tend to cite the papers produced by Yingfei Gu. The network helps show where Yingfei Gu may publish in the future.

Co-authorship network of co-authors of Yingfei Gu

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Yingfei Gu. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Yingfei Gu based on the total number of citations received by their joint publications. Widths of edges represent the number of papers authors have co-authored together. Node borders signify the number of papers an author published with Yingfei Gu. Yingfei Gu is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Li, Xingyu, et al.. (2025). Lattice defects in Rydberg atom arrays. Physical review. B.. 112(20). 3 indexed citations
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Liu, Shang, et al.. (2024). Uncovering Emergent Spacetime Supersymmetry with Rydberg Atom Arrays. Physical Review Letters. 133(22). 223401–223401. 8 indexed citations
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Gu, Yingfei, et al.. (2024). Size winding mechanism beyond maximal chaos. Journal of High Energy Physics. 2024(11). 1 indexed citations
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Wang, Yifei, Yu-An Chen, Tao Zhang, et al.. (2024). Efficient fault-tolerant implementations of non-Clifford gates with reconfigurable atom arrays. npj Quantum Information. 10(1). 2 indexed citations
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Gu, Yingfei, et al.. (2024). Detecting Quantum Anomalies in Open Systems. Physical Review Letters. 133(10). 106503–106503. 8 indexed citations
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Li, Xingyu, et al.. (2024). Reviving the Lieb–Schultz–Mattis theorem in open quantum systems. National Science Review. 12(1). nwae287–nwae287. 8 indexed citations
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Gu, Yingfei, et al.. (2023). Operator size distribution in large N quantum mechanics of Majorana fermions. Journal of High Energy Physics. 2023(10). 6 indexed citations
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Fan, Ruihua, Pengfei Zhang, & Yingfei Gu. (2023). Generalized real-space Chern number formula and entanglement hamiltonian. SciPost Physics. 15(6). 6 indexed citations
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Gu, Yingfei. (2023). Notes on the complex Sachdev-Ye-Kitaev model. OSTI OAI (U.S. Department of Energy Office of Scientific and Technical Information). 61 indexed citations
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Wen, Xueda, Yingfei Gu, Ashvin Vishwanath, & Ruihua Fan. (2022). Periodically, Quasi-periodically, and Randomly Driven Conformal Field Theories (II): Furstenberg's Theorem and Exceptions to Heating Phases. SciPost Physics. 13(4). 23 indexed citations
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Fan, Ruihua, Yingfei Gu, Ashvin Vishwanath, & Xueda Wen. (2021). Floquet conformal field theories with generally deformed Hamiltonians. SciPost Physics. 10(2). 32 indexed citations
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Fan, Ruihua, Yingfei Gu, Ashvin Vishwanath, & Xueda Wen. (2020). Emergent Spatial Structure and Entanglement Localization in Floquet Conformal Field Theory. Physical Review X. 10(3). 37 indexed citations
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Gu, Yingfei & Alexei Kitaev. (2019). On the relation between the magnitude and exponent of OTOCs. Journal of High Energy Physics. 2019(2). 46 indexed citations
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Guo, Haoyu, Yingfei Gu, & Subir Sachdev. (2019). Transport and chaos in lattice Sachdev-Ye-Kitaev models. arXiv (Cornell University). 1 indexed citations
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Fu, Wenbo, Yingfei Gu, Subir Sachdev, & Grigory Tarnopolsky. (2018). Z2 fractionalized phases of a solvable disordered t−J model. Physical review. B.. 98(7). 10 indexed citations
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Gu, Yingfei, Andrew Lucas, & Xiao-Liang Qi. (2017). Energy diffusion and the butterfly effect in inhomogeneous Sachdev-Ye-Kitaev chains. SciPost Physics. 2(3). 67 indexed citations
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Davison, Richard A., Wenbo Fu, Antoine Georges, et al.. (2017). Thermoelectric transport in disordered metals without quasiparticles: The Sachdev-Ye-Kitaev models and holography. Physical review. B.. 95(15). 237 indexed citations breakdown →
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Gu, Yingfei. (2017). A new tool for quantum chaos could be powerful for other problems: an inspiring application to many-body localization. Science Bulletin. 62(10). 669–670. 1 indexed citations
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Gu, Yingfei. (2016). Local criticality, diffusion and chaos in generalized Sachdev-Ye-Kitaev models. arXiv (Cornell University). 2017. 1 indexed citations
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Gu, Yingfei, Ching Hua Lee, Xueda Wen, et al.. (2016). Holographic duality between(2+1)-dimensional quantum anomalous Hall state and(3+1)-dimensional topological insulators. Physical review. B.. 94(12). 32 indexed citations

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