QO Group

Tilman Esslinger
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Zijie Zhu

ETH Zürich
Institute for Quantum Electronics
Quantum Optics Group
Otto Stern Weg 1, HPF D23
8093 Zürich
Switzerland

Tel.: +41

Email: zhuzi@student.ethz.ch

PhD student in the Lattice Team


Research Interest


Ultracold atoms in optical lattices
Quantum simulation


Short CV


Since 07/2020: PhD student in Tilman Esslinger's group
10/19 - 04/20: Master thesis in Tilman Esslinger's group at ETH Zürich, Switzerland
09/18 - 06/20: Graduate studies in Physics at ETH Zurich, Switzerland
04/16 - 07/18: Research assistant in Xuzong Chen's group at Peking University, China
09/14 - 07/18: Undergraduate studies in Physics at Peking University, China


Publications


1 Splitting and connecting singlets in atomic quantum circuits
Zijie Zhu; Yann Kiefer; Samuel Jele; Marius Gächter; Giacomo Bisson; Konrad Viebahn; Tilman Esslinger
Arxiv preprint 2409.02984 (2025)
ArXiv: 🔗 link
2 Mitigating higher-band heating in Floquet-Hubbard lattices via two-tone driving
Chen, Yuanning, Zhu, Zijie, Viebahn, Konrad
Physical Review A, 112, L021301 (2025)
Paper: 🔗 link, ETHZ research collection: 🔗 link
3 Splitting and Connecting Singlets in Atomic Quantum Circuits
Zhu, Zijie, Kiefer, Yann, Jele, Samuel, Gächter, Marius, Bisson, Giacomo, Viebahn, Konrad, Esslinger, Tilman
Physical Review X, 15, 041032 (2025)
Paper: 🔗 link, ETHZ research collection: 🔗 link
4 Reversal of quantized Hall drifts at noninteracting and interacting topological boundaries
Zhu, Zijie, Gächter, Marius, Walter, Anne-Sophie, Viebahn, Konrad, Esslinger, Tilman
Science, 384, 317 (2024)
Paper: 🔗 link, ETHZ research collection: 🔗 link
5 Interactions Enable Thouless Pumping in a Nonsliding Lattice
Viebahn, Konrad, Walter, Anne-Sophie, Bertok, Eric, Zhu, Zijie, Gächter, Marius, Aligia, Armando A., Heidrich-Meisner Fabian, Esslinger, Tilman
Physical Review X, 14, 021049 (2024)
Paper: 🔗 link, ETHZ research collection: 🔗 link
6 Quantization and its breakdown in a Hubbard–Thouless pump
Walter, Anne-Sophie, Zhu, Zijie, Gächter, Marius, Minguzzi, Joaquín, Roschinski, Stephan, Sandholzer, Kilian, Viebahn, Konrad, Esslinger, Tilman
Nature Physics, 9, 1471 (2023)
Paper: 🔗 link, ETHZ research collection: 🔗 link
7 Topological Pumping in a Floquet-Bloch Band
Minguzzi, Joaquín, Zhu, Zijie, Sandholzer, Kilian, Walter, Anne-Sophie, Viebahn, Konrad, Esslinger, Tilman
Physical Review Letters, 129, 053201 (2022)
Paper: 🔗 link, ETHZ research collection: 🔗 link
8 Floquet engineering of individual band gaps in an optical lattice using a two-tone drive
Sandholzer, Kilian, Walter, Anne-Sophie, Minguzzi, Joaquín, Zhu, Zijie, Viebahn, Konrad, Esslinger, Tilman
Physical Review Research, 4, 013056 (2022)
Paper: 🔗 link, ETHZ research collection: 🔗 link

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