Summary of Research
Very broadly, I am interested in using both numerical and analytical tools to explore how disorder, aperiodicity, and self-similarity influence quantum many-body dynamics. For example, interacting quantum systems subjected to strong quenched disorder or quasiperiodic potentials can exhibit Many-Body Localization (MBL)—a dynamical phase marked by the absence of DC transport and a breakdown of thermalization.
Publications
Jiang, J. K., Surace, F. M., & Motrunich, O. I. (2025). Quasiconservation Laws and Suppressed Transport in Weakly Interacting Localized Models. https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.03115
Jiang, J., Ochoa, M., Bryant, G.W. "Finite Element Calculations of the Electron-Electron Coulomb Repulsions in a Quantum Dot Dimer", APS March Meeting, Las Vegas, NV, March 2023
Jiang, J., Felder, G. N. "Utilizing an Adaptive Earth Mover's Distance to Detect Quantum Chaos", APS Virtual March Meeting, Remote, March 2023 (Top Presenter)
Jiang, J., Felder, G.N., "Quantifying Quantum Chaos: Improving the Accuracy of Approximations of the Earth Mover's Distance with an Adaptive Grid", APS Conferences for Undergraduate Women in Physics, Remote, 2021 January
Jiang, J., Ochoa, M.A, "Coulomb Repulsion of Quantum Dot Arrays and the Finite Element Method", APS Conferences for Undergraduate Women in Physics, Boston University, 2023 January
Jiang, J., Zhang Y.T., Singh, R.R.P, "A Model Quantum Spin Ice: Construction of its Phase Diagram under the Transverse Ising Model with Exact Diagonalization and Numerical Linked Cluster Methods", APS Conferences for Undergraduate Women in Physics, Remote, 2022 January
Awards
APS Virtual March Meeting Top Presenter (2023)
Smith College Highest Honors for Thesis Titled: "A Search for Sensitive Dependence on Initial Conditions in Quantum Systems" (2023)
Smith College Physics Department Adelaide Wilcox Bull Paganelli '30 Prize (2023)
Smith College Mathematics Department Ann Kirsten Pokora Prize Prize (2023)
Smith College Physics Department Frank A. Waterman Prize (2023)
Sigma Xi (2023)
California Institute of Technology Applied Physics Departmental Fellowship (2023)
TREND REU Third Best Overall Project (2022)
Smith College Mathematics Department Suzan Rose Benedict Prize (2021)
Smith College Arthur Ellis Hamm Prize (2020)
Dean's List (2020, 2021, 2022, 2023)