Qiang Gao - Publications

Peer-reviewed Papers

Gao, Qiang, Lanzetta, Ryan A., Ledwith, Patrick, Wang, Jie, and Khalaf, Eslam, "Bootstrapping the quantum Hall problem," Physical Review X, vol. 15, no. 3, p. 031034, 2025.
Li, Yanxing, Shi, Chuqiao, Zhang, Fan, Liu, Xiaohui, Xue, Yuan, Ha, Viet-Anh, Gao, Qiang, Dong, Chengye, Lin, Yu-Chuan, Holtzman, Luke N, and others, "Robust supermoiré pattern in large-angle single-twist bilayers," Nature Physics, pp. 1–8, 2025.
Liu, Zhida, Gao, Qiang, Li, Yanxing, Espitia, Giovanny, Liu, Xiaohui, Shi, Chuqiao, Zhang, Fan, Kim, Dong Seob, Ni, Yue, Mackenzie, Miles, and others, "Field-tunable valley coupling in a dodecagonal semiconductor quasicrystal," Nature Physics, pp. 1–6, 2025.

Li, Yanxing, Zhang, Fan, Ha, Viet-Anh, Lin, Yu-Chuan, Dong, Chengye, Gao, Qiang, Liu, Zhida, Liu, Xiaohui, Ryu, Sae Hee, Kim, Hyunsue, and others, "Tuning commensurability in twisted van der Waals bilayers," Nature, vol. 625, no. 7995, pp. 494–499, 2024.

Gao, Qiang, Dong, Junkai, Ledwith, Patrick, Parker, Daniel, and Khalaf, Eslam, "Untwisting moiré physics: Almost ideal bands and fractional Chern insulators in periodically strained monolayer graphene," Physical Review Letters, vol. 131, no. 9, p. 096401, 2023.

Gao, Qiang and Niu, Qian, "Semiclassical dynamics of electrons in a space-time crystal: Magnetization, polarization, and current response," Physical Review B, vol. 106, no. 22, p. 224311, 2022.
Gao, Qiang and Khalaf, Eslam, "Symmetry origin of lattice vibration modes in twisted multilayer graphene: Phasons versus moiré phonons," Physical Review B, vol. 106, no. 7, p. 075420, 2022.
Gao, Qiang, Ren, Yafei, and Niu, Qian, "DC current generation and power feature in strongly driven Floquet-Bloch systems," Physical Review Research, vol. 4, no. 1, p. 013216, 2022.

Gao, Qiang, Lin, Zhi, Li, Xiaoguang, and Zhang, Zhenyu, "Spontaneous surface plasmon polariton decay of band-edge excitons in quantum dots near a metal surface," Physical Review B, vol. 103, no. 3, p. 035416, 2021.
Gao, Qiang and Niu, Qian, "Floquet-Bloch oscillations and intraband Zener tunneling in an oblique spacetime crystal," Physical Review Letters, vol. 127, no. 3, p. 036401, 2021.
Ren, Yafei, Gao, Qiang, MacDonald, A. H., and Niu, Qian, "WKB estimate of bilayer graphene’s magic twist angles," Physical Review Letters, vol. 126, no. 1, p. 016404, 2021.

Shen, Huaibin, Gao, Qiang, Zhang, Yanbin, Lin, Yue, Lin, Qingli, Li, Zhaohan, Chen, Ling, Zeng, Zaiping, Li, Xiaoguang, Jia, Yu, and others, "Visible quantum dot light-emitting diodes with simultaneous high brightness and efficiency," Nature Photonics, vol. 13, no. 3, pp. 192–197, 2019.

Gao, Qiang, Han, Zhaoyu, and Khalaf, Eslam, "Bootstrapping flat-band superconductors: Rigorous lower bounds on superfluid stiffness," arXiv preprint arXiv:2506.18969 , 2025.
Han, Zhaoyu, Herzog-Arbeitman, Jonah, Gao, Qiang, and Khalaf, Eslam, "Exact models of chiral flat-band superconductors," arXiv preprint arXiv:2508.21127 , 2025.

Gao, Qiang, "Exotic phases in condensed matter systems: space-time crystals and moiré superlattices," Ph.D. Thesis, The University of Texas at Austin, 2023.