Bing Yang is Associate Professor (Principal Investigator), and PhD Supervisor at the department of Physics, Southern University of Science and Technology. 

He is supported by the National Youth Talent Program, recognized as a National-level Talent of Shenzhen, and serves as Chief Scientist of the Youth Project under the National Key R&D Program of China. His research focuses on quantum many-body physics, cold-atom quantum simulation and quantum computation. Representative Achievements include the observation of gauge symmetry in quantum simulation (Nature, 2020), deep cooling and manipulation of strongly correlated systems (Science, 2020), quantum tunneling of massive matter (Nature Physics, 2026), etc. He has published 12 high-impact papers, including 3 in Nature/Science, 6 in Nature Physics, and 3 in Physical Review Letters.

• Quantum simulation and quantum computation

•  Ultracold quantum matter

• Quantum entanglement and quantum metrology

2012.09–2015.06 Joint Ph.D. Program, Heidelberg University, Germany

2009.12–2012.09 Ph.D. , University of Science and Technology of China (USTC)

2005.09–2009.07 B.S. in s, Harbin Institute of Technology (HIT)

2021.08–Present Associate Professor (Researcher), Department of Physics, Southern University of Science and Technology (SUSTech)

2020.01–2021.06 Senior Postdoctoral Researcher, University of Innsbruck, Austria

2017.12–2020.01 Postdoctoral Researcher, Heidelberg University, Germany

2015.06–2017.12 Research Associate, Heidelberg University, Germany

2021 National-level Talent in Shenzhen 

[1] Scalable Generation of Massive Schrödinger Cat States via Quantum Tunneling.

H. Zhang, Y.-K. Wang, Y. Zheng, H.-T. Bai & B. Yang*. Nat. Phys. (2026). *通讯作者.

[2] Cold-atom quantum simulators of gauge theories.

J. C. Halimeh*, M. Aidelsburger, F. Grusdt, P. Hauke & B. Yang*. Nat. Phys. 21, 25–36 (2025). *通讯作者.

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41567-024-02721-8

[3] Realization of a Bosonic Antiferromagnet.

H. Sun, B. Yang*, H.- Y. Wang, Z.- Y. Zhou, G.- X. Su, H.-N. Dai, Z.-S. Yuan* & J.-W. Pan*. Nat. Phys. 17, 990-994 (2021). *通讯作者.

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41567-021-01277-1

[4] Observation of Gauge Invariance in a 71-site Quantum Simulator.

B. Yang, H. Sun, R. Ott, H.- Y. Wang, T. V. Zache, J. C. Halimeh, Z.-S. Yuan, P. Hauke & J.-W. Pan. Nature 587, 392–396 (2020).

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-020-2910-8

[5] Cooling and Entangling Ultracold Atoms in Optical Lattices.

B. Yang, H. Sun, C.-J. Huang, H.-Y. Wang, Y.-J. Deng, H.-N. Dai, Z.-S. Yuan & J.-W. Pan. Science 369, 550-553 (2020).

https://www.science.org/doi/abs/10.1126/science.aaz6801

[6] Four-body Ring-exchange Interactions and Anyonic Statistics within a Minimal Toric-code Hamiltonian.

H.-N. Dai#, B. Yang#, A. Reingruber, H. Sun, X.-F. Xu, Y.-A. Chen, Z.-S. Yuan* & J.-W. Pan*. Nat. Phys. 13, 1195-1200 (2017). #Contributed equally.

https://www.nature.com/articles/nphys4243

Research ID: https://scholar.google.com/citations?hl=zh-CN&user=FUgT6h4AAAAJ