PEOPLE
SUN Rongyang 孫榕陽
SUN Rongyang / Research Assistant Professor
PHONE: (852) 3943 3395
EMAIL: rongyangsun@cuhk.edu.hk
OFFICE: Room 204, 2/F, Science Centre North Block
ORCID: 0000-0002-0514-6143
Education
- Ph.D. in Physics, Institute for Advanced Study, Tsinghua University (2015–2021)
- B.S. in Physics, School of Physics, Shandong University (2011–2015)
Position
- Research Assistant Professor, The Chinese University of Hong Kong (2026.1–present)
- Postdoctoral Researcher, California State University Northridge (2025.4–2025.12)
- Research Scientist, RIKEN iTHEMS / RIKEN Center for Computational Science (2024.10–2025.3)
- Postdoctoral Researcher, RIKEN Center for Computational Science (2021.10–2024.9)
- Research Associate, Kavli Institute for Theoretical Sciences, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences (2020.10–2021.9)
Research Interests
- Quantum many-body physics;
- Quantum simulation/computing;
- Tensor network methods;
- Condensed matter physics;
- Strongly correlated electron systems;
- High-performance computing;
- Parallel computing;
- Quantum machine learning
Selected Recent Publications
- R.-Y. Sun, Z. Zhu, and Z.-Y. Weng, “Localization in a t − J -Type Model with Translational Symmetry”, Phys. Rev. Lett. 123, 016601 (2019).
- R.-Y. Sun, T. Shirakawa, and S. Yunoki, “Parametrized quantum circuit for weight-adjustable quantum loop gas”, Phys. Rev. B 107, L041109 (2023).
- R.-Y. Sun, H.-K. Jin, H.-H. Tu, and Y. Zhou, “Possible chiral spin liquid state in the S = 1/2 kagome Heisenberg model”, Npj Quantum Mater. 9, 16 (2024).
- R.-Y. Sun, T. Shirakawa, and S. Yunoki, “Improved real-space parallelizable matrix-product state compression and its application to unitary quantum dynamics simulation”, Phys. Rev. B 110, 085149 (2024).
- R.-Y. Sun, T. Shirakawa, H. Kohshiro, D. N. Sheng, and S. Yunoki, “Tensor Computing Interface: An Application-Oriented, Lightweight Interface for Portable High-Performance Tensor Network Applications”, arXiv:2512.23917 (2025).