August 2017
NORDITA (Nordic Institute for Theoretical Physics in Stockholm, Sweden) has officially approved our program on “Quantum Anomalies and Chiral Magnetic Phenomena”, to be held on September 17-October 12, 2018. Applications are being currently accepted!
May 2017
Our paper Deep inelastic scattering as a probe of entanglement (with E. Levin) is accepted by Physical Review D. In this paper we give a new interpretation of the parton model that is entirely based on entanglement entropy. In particular, we find that at small Bjorken x the entanglement entropy is equal to the logarithm of the parton distribution.
April 2017
Humbled to receive the 2017 Chancellor’s Award for Excellence in Scholarship from the State University of New York
January 2017
The observation of the Chiral magnetic effect has been named one of the Top Ten Science Successes of 2016 of Brookhaven National Laboratory
Our paper Faraday Rotation Due to Surface States in the Topological Insulator (Bi1–xSbx)2Te3 , Y.Shao et al, appears in Nano Letters
December 2016
Together with K.Fukushima, A.Furusaki, T.Hatsuda, N.Nagaosa and H.-U.Yee, we have organized the first Chiral Matter conference in Tokyo, hosted by the RIKEN Institute