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Xiao-Gang Wen
Condensed matter physicistborn 1961
Supervised 18 doctoral students (19 students at any level) at Massachusetts Institute of Technology; Wikidata names Edward Witten as doctoral advisor and lists 16 doctoral students. Linked to Wikidata, ORCID, and 7 other registers.

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Students19
- cited by a thesis record2026 · Massachusetts Institute of Technology · doctoral
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Arkya Chatterjee“Quantum Matter in the Era of Generalized Symmetries”
2025 · Massachusetts Institute of Technology · doctoral - cited by a thesis record2022 · Massachusetts Institute of Technology · doctoral
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Hamed Pakatchi“Interplay between FQH Ground States, Regular Graphs, Binary Invariants, and [formula] -Algebras”
2021 · Massachusetts Institute of Technology · doctoral - cited by a thesis record
Jimmy Fangzhou Liu“Many-body entanglement : topological orders, tensor networks and superconductivity”
2015 · Massachusetts Institute of Technology · doctoral - cited by a thesis record2015 · Massachusetts Institute of Technology · doctoral
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Juven Chun-Fan Wang“Aspects of symmetry, topology and anomalies in quantum matter”
2015 · Massachusetts Institute of Technology · doctoral - cited by a thesis record
Xie Chen“Many-body entanglement in gapped quantum systems : representation, classification, and application”
2012 · Massachusetts Institute of Technology · doctoral - cited by a thesis record
Brian Gordon Swingle“The structure of many-body entanglement”
2011 · Massachusetts Institute of Technology · doctoral - cited by a thesis record
Seyyed Mir Abolhassan Vaezi“Slave particle study of the strongly correlated electrons”
2011 · Massachusetts Institute of Technology · doctoral - cited by a thesis record
Maissam Barkeshli“Topological order in the fractional quantum Hall states”
2010 · Massachusetts Institute of Technology · doctoral - cited by a thesis record
Younghyun Kim“Ground states of a two-dimensional frustrated quantum antiferromagent Cs₂CuCl₄”
2008 · Massachusetts Institute of Technology · bachelor's - cited by a thesis record
Bas Jorn Overbosch“Edge tunneling and transport in non-abelian fractional quantum Hall systems”
2008 · Massachusetts Institute of Technology · doctoral - cited by a thesis record2007 · Massachusetts Institute of Technology · doctoral
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Michael Aaron Levin“String-net condensation and topological phases in quantum spin systems”
2006 · Massachusetts Institute of Technology · doctoral - cited by a thesis record
Tiago Castro Ribeiro“Electronic properties of doped Mott insulators and high temperature superconductors”
2005 · Massachusetts Institute of Technology · doctoral - cited by a thesis record
Walter Rantner“The algebraic spin liquid of a possible model description for the normal state of underdoped high temperature superconductors”
2002 · Massachusetts Institute of Technology · doctoral - cited by a thesis record
Joel Ellis Moore“Phase transitions and symmetry breaking in disordered quantum Hall edge states”
2001 · Massachusetts Institute of Technology · doctoral - cited by a thesis record
Cláudio de Carvalho Chamon“Electronic conduction and noise in strongly correlated systems”
1996 · Massachusetts Institute of Technology · doctoral
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Students on Wikidata16
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The advisors of their advisors, four steps up at most, in the thesis records and on Wikidata, each kind marked; a person in both is listed once.
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stated by WikidataEdward Witten
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stated by WikidataDavid Gross
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stated by WikidataGeoffrey Chew
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stated by WikidataEnrico Fermi
Below them, within 3 steps, the record reaches 46 people: 18 cited by thesis records, 28 stated by Wikidata.
Education and career3
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