Zhehao Dai

email: zhehao (at) berkeley.edu
My research focuses on strongly correlated condensed matter systems, including cuprate high-temperature superconductors, quantum critical points with new topological characters, periodically driven correlated systems, and cats.
Publications
2026
1. MoE Enhanced Federated Learning for Spatiotemporal Prediction
Zhehao Dai, Xiao Han, Zhaolin Deng, Zijian Zhang, Xiangyu Zhao, Guojiang Shen, Xiangjie Kong
arXiv: 2606.10499,
2025
2. No-go theorems for sequential preparation of two-dimensional chiral states via channel-state correspondence
Ruihua Fan, Yantao Wu, Yimu Bao, Zhehao Dai
arXiv: 2511.19612,
3. Multimodal Trajectory Representation Learning for Travel Time Estimation
Zhi Liu, Xuyuan Hu, Xiao Han, Zhehao Dai, Zhaolin Deng, Guojiang Shen, Xiangjie Kong
arXiv: 2510.05840,
4. Algorithms for variational Monte Carlo calculations of fermion projected entangled pair states in the swap gates formulation and the detailed balance of tensor network sequential sampling
Yantao Wu, Zhehao Dai
arXiv: 2506.20106,
5. Alternating and Gaussian fermionic Isometric Tensor Network States
Yantao Wu, Zhehao Dai, Sajant Anand, Sheng-Hsuan Lin, Qi Yang, Lei Wang, Frank Pollmann, Michael P. Zaletel
arXiv: 2502.10695,
2024
6. Designing exciton-condensate Josephson junction in quantum Hall heterostructures
Tianle Wang, Ruihua Fan, Zhehao Dai, Michael P. Zaletel
arXiv: 2409.19059, Phys. Rev. B 112, L041120 (2025)
2023
2022
8. Fermionic Isometric Tensor Network States in Two Dimensions
Zhehao Dai, Yantao Wu, Taige Wang, Michael P. Zaletel
arXiv: 2211.00043, Phys. Rev. Lett. 134, 026502 (2025)
9. Photo-induced Superconductivity = Discrete Time Crystal?
Zhehao Dai, Vibhu Ravindran, Norman Y. Yao, Michael P. Zaletel
arXiv: 2209.05510,
2021
10. Superconducting-like response in driven systems near the Mott transition
Zhehao Dai, Patrick A. Lee
arXiv: 2106.08354,
11. Photo-induced superconducting-like response in strongly correlated systems
Zhehao Dai, Patrick A. Lee
arXiv: 2103.09255, Phys. Rev. B 104, 054512 (2021)
2020
12. Exploring Strongly Interacting Gapless States: Cuprates, Pair Density Waves, and Fluctuating Superconductivity
Zhehao Dai
arXiv: 2005.12285,
2019
13. Quantum criticality of loops with topologically constrained dynamics
Zhehao Dai, Adam Nahum
arXiv: 1910.01136, Phys. Rev. Research 2, 033051 (2020)
14. Modeling the pseudogap metallic state in cuprates: quantum disordered pair density wave
Zhehao Dai, T. Senthil, Patrick A. Lee
arXiv: 1906.01656, Phys. Rev. B 101, 064502 (2020)
2018
15. Pair density wave, charge density wave and vortex in high Tc cuprates
Zhehao Dai, Ya-Hui Zhang, T. Senthil, Patrick Lee
arXiv: 1802.03009, Phys. Rev. B 97, 174511 (2018)
2016
16. Optical Conductivity From Pair Density Waves
Zhehao Dai, Patrick A. Lee
arXiv: 1608.01108, Phys. Rev. B 95, 014506 (2017)