蔡子，2005年毕业于武汉大学物理科学与技术学院，2010年于中国科学院物理研究所凝聚态理论专业取得博士学位。先后在美国加州大学圣迭戈分校，德国慕尼黑大学，奥地利科学院量子光学与量子信息研究所从事博士后工作。 2016年9月加入beat365中文版官方网站物理与天文系任特别研究员，博士生导师。主要从事凝聚态物理以及相关领域的数值计算和理论方面的工作，先后入选中组部第十四批“国家海外高层次青年人才“，上海市”国家高层次人才计划“。 主要研究领域涉及强关联电子系统，光晶格中的超冷原子,开放量子多体系统，非平衡统计物理，机器学习方法在物理学中的应用等方向。发展并推广了多种量子多体计算方法，如量子蒙特卡洛与密度矩阵重整化群方法，并将其应用到凝聚态物理与原子分子物理，量子光学，开放量子系统，机器学习与人工智能等前沿学科的交叉领域，拓宽了量子多体物理的研究范畴， 近年来发表括1篇Science、12篇 Phys.Rev.Lett.、26篇Phys.Rev系列、一篇综述在内的SCI收录论文四十余篇。

[1] Algebraic versus exponential decoherence in dissipative many-particle systems, Zi Cai,  and T. Barthel,  Phys. Rev. Lett. 111, 150403 (2013)

[2] Pomeranchuk cooling of the SU(2N) ultra-cold fermions in optical lattices , Zi Cai,  Hsiang-hsuan Hung, Lei Wang, Dong Zheng and Congjun Wu,  Phys. Rev. Lett. 110, 220401 (2013)

[3] Identifying a bath-induced Bose liquid in interacting spin-boson models, Zi Cai, U. Schollwoeck,  L. Pollet, Phys. Rev. Lett. 113, 260403 (2014)

[4] Competing orders in the 2D half-filled SU(2N) Hubbard model through the pinning field quantum Monte-Carlo simulations,  Da Wang, Yi Li, Zi Cai, Zhichao Zhou，Yu Wang and Congjun Wu,  Phys. Rev. Lett. 112, 156403 (2014)

[5] Extended Bose-Hubbard Models with Ultracold Magnetic Atoms, S. Baier, M. J. Mark, D. Petter, K. Aikawa, L. Chomaz, Z. Cai, P. Zoller, F. Ferlaino, Science, 352, 201 (2016)

[6] Noise-Driven Universal Dynamics towards an Infinite Temperature State， Jie Ren, Qiaoyi Li, Wei li, Zi Cai and Xiaoqun Wang  Phys. Rev. Lett. 124, 130602 (2020)

[7] Imaginary time crystal of thermal quantum matter,  Zi Cai, Yizhen Huang and W. Vincent Liu，Chin.Phys. Lett. (Express Lett)37, 050503 (2020)

[8] Pattern formation and exotic order in driven-dissipative Bose-Hubbard systems,  Zijian Wang, Carlos Navarrete-Benlloch and Zi Cai, Phys. Rev. Lett. 125, 115301 (2020)

[9] Dynamical Transitions and Critical Behavior between Discrete Time Crystal Phases, Xiaoqin Yang and Zi Cai, Phys. Rev. Lett. 126, 020602 (2021)

[10] Symmetry protected topological edge modes and emergent partial time reversal symmetry breaking in open quantum many-body systems, Zijian Wang, Qiaoyi Li, Wei Li and Zi Cai, Phys. Rev. Lett. 126, 237201 (2021)

[11] 1/3 Power-Law Universality Class out of Stochastic Driving in Interacting Systems, Zi Cai, Phys. Rev. Lett. 128, 050601 (2022)

[12] Prethermal time-crystalline spin ice and monopole confinement in a driven magnet, Mingxi Yue and Zi Cai, Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 056502 (2023)

[13] Spontaneous symmetry breaking and localization in nonequilibrium steady states of interactive quantum systems, Shuohang Wu and Zi Cai, Science Bulletin, 68,2010 (2023)

[14] Holographic dissipative space-time supersolids, Peng Yang,   Matteo Baggioli,  Zi Cai,  Yu Tian and Hongbao Zhang， Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 221601 (2023)

[15] Quantum slush state in Rydberg atom arrays, Tengzhou Zhang and Zi Cai, Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 206503 (2024) Editor’s suggestion