Victor Kooi Ming Chua

3131 Engineering Sciences Building

Biography

My area of research is theoretical condensed matter physics, with a focus on aspects of correlated quantum matter. My graduate work tended to focus on quantum magnetism, specifically systems exhibiting exactly solvable spin-liquid ground states. Nevertheless I maintain in a broad interest in many areas of condensed matter physics where there is interesting interplay between two or more emergent themes, namely quantum entanglement, topological matter, quantum interactions and disorder. In addition I am keenly interested in interpreting experiments at the mesoscale. At the ICMT I continue to work in the areas of topological spin-liquids, deconfined quantum phases, superconducting proximity effects in the quasiclassical formalism, quantum entanglement of quantum magnets and interacting topological Hubbard models.

Selected Articles in Journals

M. Vissers, V. Chua, S. A. Law, S. Vishveshwara, J. N. Eckstein, "Measurement of junction conductance and proximity effect at superconductor/semiconductor junctions", arXiv:1402.6055 (2014)
J. Maciejko, V. Chua, G. A. Fiete, "Topological Order in a Correlated Three-Dimensional Topological Insulator", Phys. Rev. Lett. 112, 016404 (2014)
H.H. Hung, V. Chua, L. Wang, G. A. Fiete, "Finite-size and interaction effects on topological phase transitions via numerically exact quantum Monte Carlo calculations", arXiv:1307.2659 (2013)
R. Lundgren, V. Chua, G.A. Fiete, "Entanglement Entropy and Spectra of the One-dimensional Kugel-Khomskii Model", Phys. Rev. B 86, 224422 (2012)
S. Whitsitt, V. Chua, G.A. Fiete, "Exact Chiral Spin Liquids and Mean-Field Perturbations of Gamma Matrix Models on the Ruby Lattice", New J. Phys. 14, 115029 (2012)
J. Kim, V. Chua, G.A. Fiete, H. Nam, A.H. MacDonald, C.K. Shih, "Visualizing superconducting-gap landscapes in heterogeneous superconductor thin films: geometric influences on proximity effects", Nature Physics 8, 465 (2012)
V. Chua, G.A. Fiete, "Exactly solvable topological chiral spin liquid with random exchange", Phys. Rev. B 84, 195129 (2011)
V. Chua, Hong Yao, G.A. Fiete, "Exact chiral spin liquid with stable spin Fermi surface on the kagome lattice", Phys. Rev. B 83, 180412 (Rapid Comm.) (2011)
G. A. Fiete, V. Chua, M. Kargarian, R.Lundgren, A. RÃ¼egg, J. Wen, V. Zyuzin, "Topological insulators and quantum spin liquids", Physica E 44, number 5, 845 (2012)

Dr. Victor Chua, PhD University of Texas Austin, 2013. He was a postdoc and a Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation Postdoctoral Scholar at the University of Illinois from August 2013 through August 2016. He is now in the private sector in Switzerland.