Zi Yang Meng

8.9k total citations · 2 hit papers
159 papers, 4.6k citations indexed

About

Zi Yang Meng is a scholar working on Condensed Matter Physics, Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics and Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials. According to data from OpenAlex, Zi Yang Meng has authored 159 papers receiving a total of 4.6k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 124 papers in Condensed Matter Physics, 116 papers in Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics and 21 papers in Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials. Recurrent topics in Zi Yang Meng's work include Physics of Superconductivity and Magnetism (101 papers), Quantum many-body systems (80 papers) and Advanced Condensed Matter Physics (77 papers). Zi Yang Meng is often cited by papers focused on Physics of Superconductivity and Magnetism (101 papers), Quantum many-body systems (80 papers) and Advanced Condensed Matter Physics (77 papers). Zi Yang Meng collaborates with scholars based in China, Hong Kong and United States. Zi Yang Meng's co-authors include Stefan Weßel, Fakher F. Assaad, Thomas C. Lang, Yang Qi, Xiao Yan Xu, A. Muramatsu, Kai Sun, Junwei Liu, Yan-Cheng Wang and Liang Fu and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and Physical Review Letters.

In The Last Decade

Zi Yang Meng

154 papers receiving 4.6k 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.

Quantum spin liquid emerging in two-dimensional correlated Dirac fermions

2010 457 citations Zi Yang Meng, Fakher F. Assaad et al. profile →
Correlated states in twisted double bilayer graphene

2020 389 citations Cheng Shen, Yanbang Chu et al. Nature Physics profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Zi Yang Meng China	37	3.2k	3.0k	1.1k	725	281	159	4.6k
Stefan Weßel Germany	38	3.5k 1.1×	3.2k 1.1×	929 0.8×	624 0.9×	201 0.7×	142	4.9k
Congjun Wu United States	39	3.9k 1.2×	2.9k 1.0×	1.1k 1.0×	1.2k 1.6×	109 0.4×	114	5.3k
Adrian Feiguin United States	30	3.5k 1.1×	2.8k 0.9×	501 0.5×	939 1.3×	377 1.3×	116	4.5k
D. N. Sheng United States	44	5.8k 1.8×	4.2k 1.4×	1.6k 1.5×	997 1.4×	158 0.6×	187	7.2k
Roger S. K. Mong United States	29	3.2k 1.0×	1.6k 0.5×	960 0.9×	248 0.3×	279 1.0×	53	3.5k
Fakher F. Assaad Germany	36	3.6k 1.1×	3.7k 1.2×	723 0.7×	801 1.1×	88 0.3×	168	4.8k
Simon Trebst Germany	39	3.0k 0.9×	3.9k 1.3×	621 0.6×	1.4k 1.9×	379 1.3×	120	5.4k
Daniel P. Arovas United States	38	4.9k 1.5×	3.8k 1.3×	803 0.7×	824 1.1×	403 1.4×	93	6.1k
Cenke Xu United States	41	4.5k 1.4×	3.6k 1.2×	1.2k 1.1×	984 1.4×	206 0.7×	137	6.0k
Christopher Mudry Switzerland	39	3.8k 1.2×	2.0k 0.7×	1.2k 1.1×	403 0.6×	106 0.4×	105	4.6k

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Witczak‐Krempa, William, et al.. (2025). Entanglement microscopy and tomography in many-body systems. Nature Communications. 16(1). 96–96. 6 indexed citations

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Guo, Jing, Pengyu Wang, Cheng Huang, et al.. (2025). Deconfined quantum critical point lost in pressurized SrCu2(BO3)2. Communications Physics. 8(1). 1 indexed citations

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Huang, Meizhen, Xu Zhang, Zishu Zhou, et al.. (2025). Magnetic Bloch states at integer flux quanta induced by super-moiré potential in graphene aligned with twisted boron nitride. Nature Communications. 16(1). 1860–1860. 1 indexed citations

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Long, Min, Bo Liu, Maiko Kofu, et al.. (2025). Spin excitations arising from anisotropic Dirac spinons in YCu3(OD)6Br2[Br0.33(OD)0.67]. Physical review. B.. 112(4).

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Cheng, Meng, et al.. (2025). Evolution of entanglement entropy at SU( N ) deconfined quantum critical points. Science Advances. 11(6). eadr0634–eadr0634. 8 indexed citations

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Wu, Han-Qing, et al.. (2025). Continuous Transition between Bosonic Fractional Chern Insulator and Superfluid. Physical Review Letters. 134(7). 76601–76601.

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Yan, Zheng, Yan-Cheng Wang, Rhine Samajdar, et al.. (2024). Hidden orders and phase transitions for the fully packed quantum loop model on the triangular lattice. Communications Physics. 7(1). 5 indexed citations

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Meng, Zi Yang, et al.. (2024). Extracting subleading corrections in entanglement entropy at quantum phase transitions. SciPost Physics. 17(1). 16 indexed citations

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Zhang, Cheng-Ping, Qifang Li, Caiyun Chen, et al.. (2024). Experimental Evidence for a Berry Curvature Quadrupole in an Antiferromagnet. Physical Review X. 14(2). 17 indexed citations

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Li, Kuo, Maiko Kofu, Kenji Nakajima, et al.. (2024). Spectral evidence for Dirac spinons in a kagome lattice antiferromagnet. Nature Physics. 20(7). 1097–1102. 17 indexed citations

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Yan, Zheng, et al.. (2023). Different temperature dependence for the edge and bulk of the entanglement Hamiltonian. Physical review. B.. 108(7). 6 indexed citations

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Yan, Zheng, et al.. (2022). Evolution of dynamical signature in the X-cube fracton topological order. Physical Review Research. 4(3). 10 indexed citations

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Janssen, Lukas, Kai Sun, Zi Yang Meng, et al.. (2022). Nematic Quantum Criticality in Dirac Systems. Physical Review Letters. 128(15). 157203–157203. 12 indexed citations

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Yan, Zheng, et al.. (2022). Detecting subsystem symmetry protected topological order through strange correlators. Physical review. B.. 106(21). 7 indexed citations

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Yan, Zheng, et al.. (2021). Amplitude Mode in Quantum Magnets via Dimensional Crossover. Physical Review Letters. 126(22). 227201–227201. 23 indexed citations

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Janssen, Lukas, et al.. (2020). Confinement transition in the QED3-Gross-Neveu-XY universality class. Physical review. B.. 101(23). 16 indexed citations

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Wang, Yuxuan, et al.. (2020). Self-tuned Quantum Criticality and Non-Fermi-liquid in a Yukawa-SYK Model: a Quantum Monte Carlo Study. arXiv (Cornell University). 2 indexed citations

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Shen, Cheng, Na Li, Shuopei Wang, et al.. (2019). Observation of superconductivity with Tc onset at 12K in electrically tunable twisted double bilayer graphene. arXiv (Cornell University). 20 indexed citations

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Yuan, Wei, Zili Feng, Clarina dela Cruz, et al.. (2017). Evidence for a Z$_2$ topological ordered quantum spin liquid in a kagome-lattice antiferromagnet. arXiv (Cornell University). 2018. 5 indexed citations

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Shen, Huitao, Junwei Liu, Yang Qi, Zi Yang Meng, & Liang Fu. (2017). Self-Learning Monte Carlo Method in Fermion Systems. Bulletin of the American Physical Society. 2017. 2 indexed citations

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