About me
Name: Cheng Shang
Affiliation: Analytical Quantum Complexity RIKEN Hakubi Research Team
Contact:
- RIKEN Email: cheng.shang@riken.jp
- Gmail: shangc1204@gmail.com
UTokyo Email: c-shang@iis.u-tokyo.ac.jp
ORCID: 0000-0001-8393-2329
: iNSPIRE
Hobby: B-boying (Breaking), Gomoku, music, running
Education
Oct. 2021 - Sep. 2024
The University of Tokyo, Japan
Ph.D. with Prof. Naomichi Hatano
Department of Physics
Oct. 2020 - Aug. 2021
Students to Japan, China
Preparatory School for Chinese
MEXT Doctoral Scholarship Candidate
MEXT Doctoral Scholarship Candidate
Sep. 2017 - June 2020
Northeast Normal University, China
Master of Science, with Prof. XueXi Yi
School of Physics
Api. 2023 - Sep. 2024
Center for Quantum Computing, Analytical Quantum Complexity RIKEN Hakubi Research Team
Junior Research Associate, with Dr. Tomotaka Kuwahara
Oct. 2024 - Present
Center for Quantum Computing, Analytical Quantum Complexity RIKEN Hakubi Research Team
Postdoctoral Researcher, with Dr. Tomotaka Kuwahara
Now! Special Collection Call for Papers
- Welcome! Now Open for Submissions! Special Collection Call for Papers: Exception Points in non-Hermitian Systems
- Journal: Discover Physics (Springer Nature)
- Submission Deadline: 21 April, 2026; Submit & Learn More
- If you are interested or have any questions, please contact: cheng.shang@riken.jp or shenhz458@nenu.edu.cn
News
- 2025 Our work on "Topological Quantum Batteries" was featured in PRL Trending.
- 2025 Our work on "Topological Quantum Batteries" was featured in press releases by RIKEN, also selected for inclusion in RIKEN Research (Summer), Mynavi News, NIKKEI Tech Foresight, PHYS.ORG, Interesting Engineering, ФОКУС, AGAlphaGalileo, MIRAGE, AZO Quantum, and Enerzine.
- 2024 As a Special Research Fellow, I joined the Kuwahara team as a postdoctoral researcher on October 1st.
- 2024 I attended the International Conference on Quantum Information Processing (QIP2024), the 19th Theory of Quantum Computation, Communication, and Cryptography (TQC2024), and the international conference Quantum Innovation, where I presented a poster titled "Equivalence between Operator Spreading and Information Propagation".
- 2024 I attended the graduation ceremony at the University of Tokyo on September 20 and was awarded a doctoral degree, with number: HAKU RI 7661.
- 2022 and 2024 As a committee member, I organized the "Stat&QuantPhys Autumn and Winter School" workshops, namely SQP2021 and SQP2024.
- 2021, 2022, 2023, and 2024 I presented a talk on The Physical Society of Japan meeting.
- 2021 I joined the Hatano Laboratory at the Department of Physics, the University of Tokyo, as a Japanese Government (MEXT) Scholarship student to start my doctoral program.
- 2019 I gave a talk at the Symposium on Frontiers and Progress in Quantum Physics held at Inner Mongolia University.
- 2017 I joined Prof. Yi Xuexi's laboratory at the Center for Quantum Sciences to begin my master's research journey.
Representative Honors and Awards
- 2024 Invited talk, 21st International Workshop on Pseudo-Hermitian Hamiltonians in Quantum Physics (PHHQP-XXI), Chania, Greece.
- 2023 Best Poster Award, the 5th International Symposium on Quantum Physics and Quantum Information Sciences (QPQIS-2023), Beijing, China.
- 2021 Japanese Government (MEXT) Doctoral Scholarships.
- 2019 Chinese National Scholarship for Postgraduates.
Doctoral Dissertation
Master’s Thesis
Journal(Published)
- Zhi-Guang Lu, Guo-Qing Tian, Xin-You Lü, Cheng Shang, Topological Quantum Batteries, Phys. Rev. Lett. 134, 180401 (2025)
- Bo-Wang Zhang, Cheng Shang, J. Y. Sun, Zhuo-Cheng Gu, X. X. Yi, Manipulating spectral transitions and photonic transmission in a non-Hermitian optical system through nanoparticle perturbations, Phys. Rev. A 111, 063702 (2025)
- Cheng Shang and Hong-Chao Li, Resonance-dominant optomechanical entanglement in open quantum systems, Physical Review Applied 21 (4), 044048 (2024)
- Zhi-Guang Lu, Cheng Shang, Ying Wu, Xin-You Lü, Analytical approach to higher-order correlation functions in U(1) symmetric systems, Physical Review A 108, 053703 (2023)
- H. Y. Sun, Cheng Shang, X. X. Luo, Y. H. Zhou, Hong-Zhi Shen, Optical-assisted Photon Blockade in a Cavity System via Parametric Interactions, International Journal of Theoretical Physics 58, 3640-3650 (2019)
- Cheng Shang, Hong-Zhi Shen, Xue-Xi Yi, Nonreciprocity in a strongly coupled three-mode optomechanical circulatory system, Optics Express 27 (18), 25882-25901 (2019)
- Hong-Zhi Shen, Cheng Shang, Y. H. Zhou, Xue-Xi Yi, Unconventional single-photon blockade in non-Markovian systems, Physical Review A 98 (2), 023856 (2018)
Preprint
- Donghoon Kim, Yusuke Kimura, Hugo Mackay, Yosuke Mitsuhashi, Hideaki Nishikawa, Carla Rubiliani, Cheng Shang, Ayumi Ukai, and Tomotaka Kuwahara, Spectral Small-Incremental-Entangling: Breaking Quasi-Polynomial Complexity Barriers in Long-Range Interacting Systems, arXiv:2509.12014 (2025).
- Cheng Shang, Zhi-Guang Lu, Hayato Kinkawa, and Tomotaka Kuwahara, Operator Spreading and Information Propagation: Equivalence and Beyond, arXiv:2505.07955 (2025)
- Hongchao Li, Cheng Shang, Tomotaka Kuwahara, Tan Van Vu, Macroscopic Particle Transport in Dissipative Long-Range Bosonic Systems, arXiv:2503.13731 (2025)
- J. X. Yang, Cheng Shang, Yan-Hui Zhou, and H. Z. Shen, Simultaneous nonreciprocal unconventional photon blockade via two degenerate optical parametric amplifiers in spinning resonators, arXiv:2505.10255 (2025)
- J. Y. Sun, C. Cui, Y. F. Li, Shuang Xu, Cheng Shang, Yan-Hui Zhou, H. Z. Shen, Dressed bound states and non-Markovian dynamics with a whispering-gallery-mode microcavity coupled to a two-level atom and a semi-infinite photonic waveguide, arXiv:2504.09695 (2025)
- L. Y. Ning, Zhi-Guang Lu, Cheng Shang, H. Z. Shen, Higher-order Exceptional Points Induced by Non-Markovian Environments, arXiv:2504.00617 (2025)
- H. Yi, T. Z. Luan, W. Y. Hu, Cheng Shang, Yan-Hui Zhou, Zhi-Cheng Shi, H. Z. Shen, Nonreciprocity and unidirectional invisibility in three optical modes with non-Markovian effects, arXiv:2503.23169 (2025)
- H. Z. Shen, Cheng Shang, Yan-Hui Zhou, X. X. Yi, Emergent Non-Markovian Gain in Open Quantum Systems, arXiv:2503.21739 (2025)
- T. Z. Luan, Cheng Shang, H. Yi, J. L. Li, Yan-Hui Zhou, Shuang Xu, H. Z. Shen, Nonreciprocal quantum router with non-Markovian environments, arXiv:2503.18647 (2025)
- Cheng Shang, Coupling enhancement and symmetrization of single-photon optomechanics in open quantum systems, arXiv:2302.04897 (2023)
Acknowledged works(Selected)
- Yue-Zhou Li, Stochastic inflation as an open quantum system, arXiv: 2507.02070 (2025).
- M. E. Shirokov, Upper bounds on the Holevo quantity arising from the fundamental entropic inequality, arXiv: 2506.05335 (2025).
- Tomotaka Kuwahara, Clustering of conditional mutual information and quantum Markov structure at arbitrary temperatures, arXiv: 2407.05835 (2024).
- Yue-Zhou Li, Holographic conformal field theories and their flat-space structures, 2023 PhD Theses (McGill University).
- Yoshinaga Atsuki, Quantum Thermalization and Quantum Metrology in Quantum Ising Systems, 2023 PhD Theses (The University of Tokyo).