Xie Chen
Chinese physicist
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Early life and education
Chen received her bachelor's degree in physics from Tsinghua University in 2006 and her Ph.D. in theoretical physics from Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 2012 under the supervision of Isaac Chuang and Xiao-Gang Wen. From 2012–2014, Chen was a Miller Research Fellow in University of California, Berkeley. In 2014, she joined the California Institute of Technology as an assistant professor, was promoted to associate professor in 2017 and was promoted to professor in 2019. She is currently the Eddleman Professor of Theoretical Physics, a position she started in 2024.
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Research
Chen's research centers on novel phases and phase transitions in quantum condensed matter systems. Her major research topics include topological order in strongly correlated systems, dynamics in many-body systems, tensor network representation, fault tolerant quantum computation, speech recognition, quantum simulation, and quantum information application.