• Ph.D. Physics, Johns Hopkins University, 2008.
• Ph.D. Optoelectronics Engineering, National Taiwan University, 2001.
• B.S. Electrical Engineering, National Taiwan University, 1996.
• Employment:
  • J.R. Oppenheimer Fellow, Los Alamos National Laboratory, 2012-present.
  • ICAM Postdoctoral Fellow, Institute for Complex Adaptive Matter, 2010-2012.
  • Research Associate, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 2008-2010.

Research Interests:

• Frustrated Systems.
• Quantum Magnetism.
• Critical Phenomena.
• Topological Defects.
• Topological Phases and Orders.
• Ultrafast Optics and Acoutics.

Selected Recent Publications:

1. G.-W. Chern, R. Moessner, Dipolar Order by Disorder in the Classical Heisenberg Antiferromagnet on the Kagome Lattice, Phys. Rev. Lett. 110, 077201 (2013).
2. G.-W. Chern, C. D. Batista, Spontaneous Quantum Hall Effect via a Thermally Induced Quadratic Fermi Point, Phys. Rev. Lett. 109, 156801 (2012).
3. G.-W. Chern, R. M. Fernandes, R. Nandkishore, A. V. Chubukov, Broken translational symmetry in an emergent paramagnetic phase of graphene, Phys. Rev. B 86, 115443 (2012).
4. G.-W. Chern, C. Wu, Orbital Ice: an exact Coulomb phase on the diamond lattice, Phys. Rev. E 84, 061127 (2011).
5. G.-W. Chern, P. Mellado, O. Tchernyshyov, Two-Stage ordering of spins in dipolar spin ice on the kagome lattice, Phys. Rev. Lett. 106, 207202 (2011).
6. G.-W. Chern, Non-coplanar magnetic ordering driven by itinerant electrons on the pyrochlore lattice, Phys. Rev. Lett. 105, 226403 (2011).
7. G.-W. Chern, Three-dimensional topological phases in a layered honeycomb spin-orbital model, Phys. Rev. B 81, 125134 (2010).