{{short description|Chinese physicist}} {{Western name order|Chen Xie}} {{Infobox scientist | name = Xie Chen | native_name = 陈谐 | workplaces = University of California, Berkeley<br>California Institute of Technology | fields = Condensed matter theory<br>Quantum information | alma_mater = Tsinghua University<br>Massachusetts Institute of Technology | doctoral_advisor = Issac Chuang<br>Xiao-Gang Wen | awards = New Horizons in Physics Prize (2020) }}
'''Xie Chen''' ({{zh|s=陈谐|p=Chén Xié}}) is a Chinese physicist and a professor of theoretical physics at the California Institute of Technology.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.its.caltech.edu/~xcchen/index.html|title=Xie Chen|website=www.its.caltech.edu|access-date=2019-09-07}}</ref> Her work covers both the field of condensed matter physics and quantum information, with a focus on many-body quantum mechanical systems with unconventional emergent phenomena.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.caltech.edu/about/news/caltech-faculty-honored-breakthrough-and-new-horizons-prizes|title=Caltech Faculty Honored with Breakthrough and New Horizons Prizes|website=www.caltech.edu|date=6 September 2019 |language=en|access-date=2019-09-07}}</ref> She won the 2020 New Horizons in Physics Prize for "incisive contributions to the understanding of topological states of matter and the relationships between them".<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://breakthroughprize.org/News/54|title=Breakthrough Prize – Winners Of The 2020 Breakthrough Prize In Life Sciences, Fundamental Physics And Mathematics Announced|publisher=Breakthrough Prize|access-date=2019-09-07}}</ref>
== 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.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://academictree.org/physics/peopleinfo.php?pid=93675|title=Physics Tree - Xie Chen|website=academictree.org|access-date=2020-01-10}}</ref> 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 [https://eqi.uci.edu/ Eddleman Professor of Theoretical Physics], a position she started in 2024. <ref>{{Cite web |title=Info/CV |url=http://xiechen.caltech.edu/infocv |access-date=2025-12-16 |website=Xie Chen |language=en}}</ref>
== 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.
== Awards and honors == * Simons Investigator (2021)<ref>{{Cite web|date=2018-07-10|title=Simons Investigators|url=https://www.simonsfoundation.org/grant/simons-investigators/|access-date=2021-07-18|website=Simons Foundation|language=en-US}}</ref> *New Horizons in Physics Prize (2020) *Sloan Research Fellowship (2017)<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.caltech.edu/about/news/two-physicists-named-sloan-fellows-54178|title=Two Physicists Named Sloan Fellows|website=www.caltech.edu|language=en|access-date=2020-01-10}}</ref> *National Science Foundation Faculty Early Career Award (2017)<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://ece.duke.edu/about/events/14292|title=Fracton order: from quantum hard drive to foliated manifold|date=2019-01-18|website=Duke Electrical and Computer Engineering|language=en|access-date=2020-01-10}}</ref> * Miller Research Fellowship, UC Berkeley (2012) * Outstanding Chinese Self-financed Students Abroad (one of nine extraordinary prizewinners, 2012) * Andrew M. Lockett III Memorial Fund Award for best theoretical physics graduate student at MIT (2011) * Whiteman Fellowship for graduate study of physics at MIT (2006)
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