I’m a Ph.D. student at MIT Physics. I am currently working at Ultracold Quantum Gases Group at MIT-Harvard Center for Ultracold Atoms. My research interest is in the quantum simulation of strongly correlated system using ultracold atoms and molecules.

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Publications

L. Christakis, J. S. Rosenberg, R. Raj, S. Chi, A. Morningstar, D. A. Huse, Z. Z. Yan, and W. S. Bakr, “Probing site-resolved correlations in a spin system of ultracold molecules”, Nature 614 (7946), 64-69 (2023).

Z. Z. Yan, B. M. Spar, M. L. Prichard, S. Chi, H. Wei, E. Ibarra-Garc ́ıa-Padilla, K. R. A. Hazzard, and W. S. Bakr, “Two-dimensional programmable tweezer arrays of fermions”, Phys. Rev. Lett. 129, 123201 (2022).

B. M. Spar, E. Guardado-Sanchez, S. Chi, Z. Z. Yan, and W. S. Bakr, “Realization of a Fermi-Hubbard Optical Tweezer Array”, Phys. Rev. Lett. 128, 223202 (2022).