Zhen Bi

2.1k total citations · 2 hit papers
42 papers, 1.4k citations indexed

About

Zhen Bi is a scholar working on Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics, Condensed Matter Physics and Materials Chemistry. According to data from OpenAlex, Zhen Bi has authored 42 papers receiving a total of 1.4k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 37 papers in Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics, 23 papers in Condensed Matter Physics and 7 papers in Materials Chemistry. Recurrent topics in Zhen Bi's work include Quantum many-body systems (24 papers), Topological Materials and Phenomena (22 papers) and Physics of Superconductivity and Magnetism (17 papers). Zhen Bi is often cited by papers focused on Quantum many-body systems (24 papers), Topological Materials and Phenomena (22 papers) and Physics of Superconductivity and Magnetism (17 papers). Zhen Bi collaborates with scholars based in United States, China and Canada. Zhen Bi's co-authors include Cenke Xu, Liang Fu, Yi-Zhuang You, Noah F. Q. Yuan, Chao‐Ming Jian, Alex Rasmussen, Kevin Slagle, Meng Cheng, T. Senthil and Yang Zhang and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and Physical Review Letters.

In The Last Decade

Zhen Bi

40 papers receiving 1.4k citations

Hit Papers

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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.

Unconventional ferroelectricity in moiré heterostructures

2020 261 citations Zhiren Zheng, Qiong Ma et al. Nature profile →
Strong-to-Weak Spontaneous Symmetry Breaking in Mixed Quantum States

2025 32 citations Ruochen Ma, Jian-Hao Zhang et al. PRX Quantum profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Zhen Bi United States	18	1.0k	482	458	166	135	42	1.4k
Aavishkar A. Patel United States	20	1.4k 1.4×	1.2k 2.4×	667 1.5×	220 1.3×	248 1.8×	40	2.2k
Shan-Wen Tsai United States	18	903 0.9×	477 1.0×	477 1.0×	177 1.1×	191 1.4×	58	1.3k
Subroto Mukerjee India	23	1.5k 1.5×	476 1.0×	722 1.6×	205 1.2×	121 0.9×	63	1.8k
Sumilan Banerjee India	15	670 0.7×	310 0.6×	503 1.1×	92 0.6×	290 2.1×	46	1.0k
Andrej Mesaroš United States	12	1.1k 1.1×	506 1.0×	623 1.4×	51 0.3×	166 1.2×	26	1.3k
Mathias S. Scheurer United States	24	1.2k 1.2×	778 1.6×	967 2.1×	106 0.6×	476 3.5×	73	1.8k
T. Pereg-Barnea Canada	20	1.2k 1.2×	810 1.7×	443 1.0×	148 0.9×	277 2.1×	59	1.6k
Martin Claassen United States	15	1.2k 1.2×	902 1.9×	415 0.9×	275 1.7×	151 1.1×	38	1.7k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Zhen Bi

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Zhen Bi. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Zhen Bi 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 Zhen Bi. Zhen Bi is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

All Works

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20 of 20 papers shown

Zhang, Carolyn, et al.. (2025). Strong-to-weak spontaneous breaking of 1-form symmetry and intrinsically mixed topological order. Physical review. B.. 111(11). 8 indexed citations

Balram, Ajit C., et al.. (2025). Emergent Gauge Field in Composite-Fermion Metals: A Large-Scale Microscopic Study. Physical Review Letters. 135(24). 246503–246503.

Ma, Ruochen, et al.. (2025). Strong-to-Weak Spontaneous Symmetry Breaking in Mixed Quantum States. PRX Quantum. 6(1). 32 indexed citations breakdown →

Xu, Zian, Frank Schindler, Yuanfeng Xu, et al.. (2024). Topological minibands and interaction driven quantum anomalous Hall state in topological insulator based moiré heterostructures. Nature Communications. 15(1). 4 indexed citations

Li, Jiangxu, et al.. (2024). Maximally localized Wannier functions, interaction models, and fractional quantum anomalous Hall effect in twisted bilayer MoTe₂. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 121(8). e2316749121–e2316749121. 46 indexed citations

Guo, Yuchen, Jian-Hao Zhang, Zhen Bi, & Shuo Yang. (2023). Triggering boundary phase transitions through bulk measurements in two-dimensional cluster states. Physical Review Research. 5(4). 5 indexed citations

Zhang, Jian-Hao, Ke Ding, Shuo Yang, & Zhen Bi. (2023). Fractonic higher-order topological phases in open quantum systems. Physical review. B.. 108(15). 11 indexed citations

Zhang, Jian-Hao, Meng Cheng, & Zhen Bi. (2023). Classification and construction of interacting fractonic higher-order topological phases. Physical review. B.. 108(4). 10 indexed citations

You, Yizhi, et al.. (2022). Interaction-enabled fractonic higher-order topological phases. Physical review. B.. 105(24). 17 indexed citations

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Han, Jiahao, Pengxiang Zhang, Zhen Bi, et al.. (2021). Birefringence-like spin transport via linearly polarized antiferromagnetic magnons. Bulletin of the American Physical Society.

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Zheng, Zhiren, Qiong Ma, Zhen Bi, et al.. (2020). Unconventional ferroelectricity in moiré heterostructures. Nature. 588(7836). 71–76. 261 indexed citations breakdown →

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Han, Jiahao, Pengxiang Zhang, Zhen Bi, et al.. (2020). Birefringence-like spin transport via linearly polarized antiferromagnetic magnons. Nature Nanotechnology. 15(7). 563–568. 116 indexed citations

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Cheng, Meng, Zhen Bi, Yi-Zhuang You, & Zheng-Cheng Gu. (2018). Classification of symmetry-protected phases for interacting fermions in two dimensions. Physical review. B.. 97(20). 43 indexed citations

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Bi, Zhen, Rui-Xing Zhang, Yi-Zhuang You, et al.. (2017). Bilayer Graphene as a Platform for Bosonic Symmetry-Protected Topological States. Physical Review Letters. 118(12). 126801–126801. 12 indexed citations

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Jian, Chao‐Ming, Zhen Bi, & Cenke Xu. (2017). Lieb-Schultz-Mattis Theorem and its generalizations from the Perspective of the Symmetry Protected Topological phase. arXiv (Cornell University). 2018. 2 indexed citations

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You, Yi-Zhuang, Zhen Bi, Dan Mao, & Cenke Xu. (2016). Quantum phase transitions between bosonic symmetry-protected topological states without sign problem: Nonlinear sigma model with a topological term. Physical review. B.. 93(12). 28 indexed citations

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Bi, Zhen, Alex Rasmussen, Kevin Slagle, & Cenke Xu. (2015). Classification and description of bosonic symmetry protected topological phases with semiclassical nonlinear sigma models. Physical Review B. 91(13). 86 indexed citations

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Cheng, Meng, Zhen Bi, Yi‐Zhuang You, & Zheng‐Cheng Gu. (2015). Classification of Symmetry-Protected Phases for Interacting Fermions in Two Dimensions. Physical Review Letters. 3 indexed citations

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You, Yi-Zhuang, Zhen Bi, Alex Rasmussen, Kevin Slagle, & Cenke Xu. (2014). Wave Function and Strange Correlator of Short-Range Entangled States. Physical Review Letters. 112(24). 247202–247202. 68 indexed citations

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Bi, Zhen, et al.. (2013). Classification and Description of Bosonic Symmetry Protected Topological Phases with semiclassical Nonlinear Sigma models. arXiv (Cornell University). 2014. 2 indexed citations

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