Publications

Preprints

2026Preprint

Variational quantum simulation

A universal and efficient hybrid digital-analog fermionic quantum simulator

Hao-Tian Wei and Kaden R. A. Hazzard

arXiv:2606.05517

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Journal articles

2026Journal article

Atomic platforms

Quantum Science with Arrays of Metastable Helium-3 Atoms

Z. Li, R. De, R. Sivakumar, W. Huie, H.-T. Wei, J. D. Piel, C. H. Greene, K. R. A. Hazzard, Z. Z. Yan, and J. P. Covey

PRX Quantum 7, 033011

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2025Journal article

Collective quantum phenomena

Observation of the magnonic Dicke superradiant phase transition

D. Kim, S. Dasgupta, X. Ma, J.-M. Park, H.-T. Wei, L. Luo, J. Doumani, X. Li, W. Yang, D. Cheng, R. H. J. Kim, H. O. Everitt, S. Kimura, H. Nojiri, J. Wang, S. Cao, M. Bamba, K. R. A. Hazzard, and J. Kono

Science Advances 11, eadt1691

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2024Journal article

Programmable tweezer arrays Editors’ Suggestion

Hubbard parameters for programmable tweezer arrays

Hao-Tian Wei, Eduardo Ibarra-García-Padilla, Michael L. Wall, and Kaden R. A. Hazzard

Physical Review A 109, 013318

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2022Journal article

SU(N) quantum matter

Observation of antiferromagnetic correlations in an ultracold SU(N) Hubbard model

S. Taie, E. Ibarra-García-Padilla, N. Nishizawa, Y. Takasu, Y. Kuno, H.-T. Wei, R. T. Scalettar, K. R. A. Hazzard, and Y. Takahashi

Nature Physics 18, 1356–1361

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2022Journal article

Programmable tweezer arrays Editors’ Suggestion

Two-Dimensional Programmable Tweezer Arrays of Fermions

Z. Z. Yan, B. M. Spar, M. L. Prichard, S. Chi, H.-T. Wei, E. Ibarra-García-Padilla, K. R. A. Hazzard, and W. S. Bakr

Physical Review Letters 129, 123201

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2021Journal article

SU(N) quantum matter Editors’ Suggestion

Universal thermodynamics of an SU(N) Fermi-Hubbard model

E. Ibarra-García-Padilla, S. Dasgupta, H.-T. Wei, S. Taie, Y. Takahashi, R. T. Scalettar, and K. R. A. Hazzard

Physical Review A 104, 043316

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2021Journal article

Frustrated magnetism

Phase diagram of the quantum Ising model on a triangular lattice under external field

Y. D. Liao, H. Li, Z. Yan, H.-T. Wei, W. Li, Y. Qi, and Z. Y. Meng

Physical Review B 103, 104416

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Theses

2026Ph.D. thesis

Programmable, Universal, and Efficient Quantum Simulation with Tunnel-Coupled Fermionic Atoms

Haotian Wei · Rice University

2020Bachelor’s thesis

Behaviors of Uniform Magnetic Susceptibility near KT Critical Temperature in Triangular-lattice Easy-axis Antiferromagnetic Systems

Haotian Wei · Fudan University