Shaoyang Jia

Postdoctoral Appointee, Theory Group, Physics Division

• Email: [email protected]

Research Interest

• Minkowski-space formulation of quantum field theories
• Schwinger-Dyson equations for propagators of confined particles
• Bethe-Salpeter equation for bound state amplitudes
• Light-front quantization approach to QCD bound states
• Gauge symmetry of QED and QCD

Work Experiencee

• Sep. 2020 – present: Postdoctoral Appointee, Physics Division, Argonne National Laboratory.
• Sep. 2017 – Aug. 2020: Postdoctoral Research Associate, Department of Physics and Astronomy, Iowa State University.
• Jan. 2014 – Aug. 2017: Research Assistant, Department of Physics, College of William and Mary.
• Sep. 2012 – Dec. 2013: Teaching Assistant, Department of Physics, College of William and Mary.

Education

• Sep. 2012 – Aug. 2017: Ph.D. Physics, College of William and Mary, Virginia, USA.
• Sep. 2012 – Jul. 2014: M.S. Physics, College of William and Mary, Virginia, USA.
• Sep. 2008 – Jul. 2012: B.S. Physics, Xiamen University, Fujian, P. R. China.

Selected Articles

• Simulating Hadronic Physics on NISQ devices using Basis Light-Front Quantization

  Michael Kreshchuk, Shaoyang Jia, William M. Kirby, Gary Goldstein, James P. Vary et al., arXiv: 2011.13443 [quant-ph].

• Semileptonic Decay of $B_c$ to $\eta_c$ and $J/\psi$ on the Light Front

  Shuo Tang, Shaoyang Jia, Pieter Maris, James P. Vary, arXiv: 2011.05454 [hep-ph].

• Parton Distribution Functions from a Light Front Hamiltonian and QCD Evolution for Light Mesons

  Jiangshan Lan, Chandan Mondal, Shaoyang Jia, Xingbo Zhao, James P. Vary, arXiv: 1901.11430 [nucl-th], Phys.Rev.Lett. 122 (2019) 17, 172001.

• Basis light front quantization for the charged light mesons with color singlet Nambu--Jona-Lasinio interactions

  Shaoyang Jia, James P. Vary, arXiv: 1811.08512 [nucl-th], Phys.Rev.C 99 (2019) 3, 035206.

• How gauge covariance of the fermion and boson propagators in QED constrain the effective fermion-boson vertex

  Shaoyang Jia, M.R. Pennington, arXiv: 1610.10049 [nucl-th], Phys.Rev.D 94 (2016) 11, 116004.

• Landau-Khalatnikov-Fradkin transformation for the fermion propagator in QED in arbitrary dimensions

  Shaoyang Jia, M.R. Pennington, arXiv: 1610.06436 [hep-th], Phys.Rev.D 95 (2017) 7, 076007.

• Gauge covariance of the fermion Schwinger-Dyson equation in QED

  Shaoyang Jia, M.R. Pennington, arXiv: 1610.06001 [nucl-th], Phys.Lett.B 769 (2017), 146-151.