Katherine Ding

About me

I am a postdoctoral research fellow in theoretical condensed matter at Monash University, working with Professor Meera Parish and the QLIME group. I am interested in strongly-correlated electron systems, computational techniques, magneto-transport properties, and the interplay between topology, quantum geometry, and interactions.

I obtained a PhD in Applied Physics from Stanford University in September 2024. My PhD advisor is Tom Devereaux.

In 2024-2026, I was a postdoc at the University of Pennsylvania and I worked with Martin Claassen.

My CV. My ORCiD is 0000-0002-5387-2609. My Github page.

You can find me at jkding at sas dot upenn dot edu or Katherine dot Ding at monash dot edu.

Selected Papers

• J. K. Ding, Martin Claassen, "Quantum-geometry-driven Mott transitions and magnetism."
• S. Zhao, R. Zhang, W. O. Wang, J. K. Ding, T. Liu, B. Moritz, E. W. Huang, and T. P. Devereaux, "Enhanced superconducting correlations in the Emery model and its connections to strange metallic transport and normal state coherence," Phys. Rev. B 112, 224513 (2025).
• J. K. Ding, E. Z. Zhang, W. O. Wang, T. Cookmeyer, B. Moritz, Y. B. Kim, and T. P. Devereaux, "Intrinsic Thermal Hall Effect in Mott Insulators," Phys. Rev. Lett., 134, 256501 (2025).
• J. K. Ding, L. Yang, W. O. Wang, Z. Zhu, C. Peng, P. Mai, E. W. Huang, B. Moritz, P. W. Phillips, B. E. Feldman, and T. P. Devereaux, "Particle-hole asymmetric ferromagnetism and spin textures in the triangular Hubbard-Hofstadter model," Phys. Rev. X 14, 041025 (2024).
• W. O. Wang, J. K. Ding, E. W. Huang, B. Moritz, and T. P. Devereaux, "Quantitative assessment of the universal thermopower in the Hubbard model," Nat. Commun. 14, 7064 (2023)
• W. O. Wang, J. K. Ding, Y. Schattner, E. W. Huang, B. Moritz, and T. P. Devereaux, "The Wiedemann-Franz law in doped Mott insulators without quasiparticles," Science 382, 1070-1073 (2023).
• J. K. Ding, W. O. Wang, B. Moritz, Y. Schattner, E. W. Huang, and T. P. Devereaux, "Thermodynamics of correlated electrons in a magnetic field," Commun. Phys. 5, 204 (2022).
• W. O. Wang, J. K. Ding, B. Moritz, E. W. Huang, and T. P. Devereaux, "Magnon heat transport in a two-dimensional Mott insulator," Phys. Rev. B 105, L161103 (2022).
• W. O. Wang, J. K. Ding, B. Moritz, Y. Schattner, E. W. Huang, and T. P. Devereaux, "Numerical approaches for calculating the low-field DC Hall coefficient of the doped Hubbard model," Phys. Rev. Research 3, 033033 (2021).
• E. W. Huang, W. O. Wang, J. K. Ding, T. Liu, F. Liu, X.-X. Huang, B. Moritz, and T. P. Devereaux, "Intertwined states at finite temperatures in the Hubbard model," J. Phys. Soc. Jpn. 90, 111010 (2021).
• W. O. Wang, J. K. Ding, B. Moritz, E. W. Huang, and T. P. Devereaux, "DC Hall coefficient of the strongly correlated Hubbard model," npj Quantum Mater. 5, 51 (2020).

Tutorials

• Some notes on determinant quantum Monte Carlo (DQMC) written up for a tutorial I gave to the Penn CMT group. I am deeply indebted to members of Devereaux group, especially Edwin Huang, for teaching me all I know about DQMC.
• A baby's first exact diagonalization (ED) tutorial for the Hubbard model.
• Some elementary notes about generalizing from SU(2) QHFM to SU(4) QHFM.

Upcoming Travel