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2025

Research newsLiangjiang Science Review

Spacetime mirrors connect strong-field physics and quantum optics

Can a relativistic plasma mirror become a quantum light source? Starting from superluminal spacetime boundaries, the team theoretically investigates entangled photon-pair generation and the connection between strong-field plasma physics and quantum optics.

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Yiming Pan’s group at ShanghaiTech University shows that spacetime mirrors can generate entangled photons, bridging strong-field plasma physics and quantum optics

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People & outreachShuyuan de Tiankong · Kedao College

Stories of learning, discovery and growth

From his academic journey to everyday research, Yiming Pan reflects on setbacks, perspective and growth. Alongside scientific questions, he makes room for life and encourages students to build on every research experience.

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Kedao mentors | Stories of learning and growth: exploring possibilities (Part 1)

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2024

Research newsLiangjiang Science Review

How can quantum electron wavepackets radiate together?

How does an electron wavepacket’s shape affect radiation? This study examines phase correlations between density-modulated electrons, the quantum-electrodynamic origin of superradiance, and the effect of wavepacket shape on the quantum state of emitted light.

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Yiming Pan’s group at ShanghaiTech University reveals spontaneous superradiance from laser-modulated quantum electron wavepackets

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CommunityShanghaiTech SPST2024 admissions introduction · Archive

Meet ShanghaiTech SPST and our research areas

This graduate admissions feature introduces the experimental condensed-matter physics research cluster and its groups, including Yiming Pan’s group. The archived article provides a look at the school’s research environment and areas of study.

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Graduate admissions | Faculty and research areas: experimental condensed-matter physics at ShanghaiTech SPST

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Research newsShanghaiTech SPST

Constructing Berry–Maxwell equations in four-dimensional energy–momentum space

Extending Berry curvature to four-dimensional energy–momentum space, this work constructs Berry–Maxwell equations and proposes testable predictions, including reciprocal Thouless pumping.

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Research progress | Yiming Pan’s group at ShanghaiTech SPST proposes Berry–Maxwell equations for geometric-phase dynamics in four-dimensional energy–momentum space

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People & outreachScienceNet

From attosecond research to everyday femtosecond technology

How does attosecond physics connect with everyday life? In a letter answering public questions, Yiming Pan explains how frontier research supports the development and wider use of femtosecond laser technology.

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Letters from scientists | Yiming Pan: attosecond physics research advances the use of femtosecond technology

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Research newsShanghaiTech SPST

Using ultrafast lasers to trap low-energy free electrons

In collaboration with Technion, the team studies low-energy free electrons interacting with strong optical fields. Multiphoton processes create confinement in a synthetic energy space, suggesting routes to electron control and quantum simulation.

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Research progress | Yiming Pan’s group at ShanghaiTech and the Krueger team at Technion propose ultrafast laser trapping of low-energy free-electron beams

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2023

People & outreachChina Science Daily

Inside the attosecond world: discussing the Nobel Prize in Physics

The 2023 Nobel Prize in Physics recognized attosecond science. Yiming Pan was invited to explain how attosecond pulses let researchers observe electron motion, and to discuss the field’s development and potential applications.

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Nobel Prize in Physics: the ‘mother of attosecond physics’ wins, but a prize cannot be shared by four (with commentary from Yiming Pan)

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Research newsShanghaiTech SPST

Exploring Floquet gauge anomalies in periodically driven systems

Through topological-photonics modelling and laser-writing experiments, the team investigates π-mode anomalies and observes Floquet gauge anomaly currents, opening a route to studying quantum anomalies in driven systems.

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Research progress | Yiming Pan’s LiFE group at ShanghaiTech SPST proposes and verifies Floquet gauge anomalies in periodically driven systems

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2020

Research newsLiangjiang Science ReviewYiming Pan’s earlier collaborative work · Before the group was established

How does quantum measurement move from weak to strong?

This collaboration demonstrates a continuous transition from weak to strong measurement in a trapped-ion system and traces it to matter-wave interference. Yiming Pan is a co-first and co-corresponding author.

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Nature Physics: progress at the National University of Defense Technology on the mechanism of the weak-to-strong quantum measurement transition

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2019

Research newsLiangjiang Science ReviewYiming Pan’s earlier collaborative work · Before the group was established

Floquet topological photonic π modes under periodic driving

Using waveguide arrays that emulate periodic driving, this collaboration combines theory and experiment to investigate Floquet topological photonic π modes. Yiming Pan participated as a co-author in this early research.

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PRL: Qingqing Cheng of Songlin Zhuang’s optics team at the University of Shanghai for Science and Technology reports new research on Floquet topological photonic π modes

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