Adrian Hoi Chun PO

Hari Harilela Assistant Professor of Physics

Research interest

It is oftentimes helpful to visualize electrons as tiny particles jiggling around in a piece of material. This classical picture, however, can break down when quantum mechanical effects come into play. Quantum materials display unconventional phenomena which could one day be harvested to power technological advances. As a condensed matter theorist, Prof. Adrian Po is broadly interested in the intrigue interplay between symmetry, topology, and locality in such materials, and more generally how related concepts can be extended to other setups like non-equilibrium quantum dynamics.

Biography

Prof. Adrian Po grew up in Hong Kong and obtained his Bachelor’s degree from The Chinese University of Hong Kong in 2013. He began his doctoral studies at the University of California at Berkeley, but transferred to Harvard University in 2016 together with the move of his thesis advisor, Prof. Ashvin VISHWANATH. After obtaining his PhD from Harvard in 2018, he moved to MIT as a Pappalardo Postdoctoral Fellow. He returned to Hong Kong and joined HKUST as an Assistant Professor in 2021.

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Email: hcpo@ust.hk

One-way quantum information channel could be realized at the boundary of a two-dimensional system undergoing topological quantum dynamics.

Figure 1. One-way quantum information channel could be realized at the boundary of a two-dimensional system undergoing topological quantum dynamics.

The world of materials could look messy, but by organizing them using symmetry labels one could identify patterns and discovery quantum materials.

Figure 2. The world of materials could look messy, but by organizing them using symmetry labels one could identify patterns and discovery quantum materials.