(i) gravitational wave physics;
(ii) astrophysics in the strong gravity regime;
(iii) gravity-fluid correspondence and holographic theories
Positions Held
PhD: California Institute of Technology, Theoretical Astrophysics including Relativity, 2013
Recent Publications
Huan Yang, Fan Zhang, Luis Lehner, Magnetosphere of a Kerr black hole immersed in magnetized plasma and its perturbative mode structure, Phys. Rev. D 91, 124055, 2015. arXiv: 1503.06788
Huan Yang, Fan Zhang, Stephen Green, Luis Lehner, Coupled oscillator model for nonlinear gravitational perturbations, Phys. Rev. D 91, 084007, 2015. arXiv: 1502.08051.
Huan Yang, Aaron Zimmerman, Luis Lehner, Turbulent black holes, Phys. Rev. Letters 114, 081101, 2015, arXiv: 1402.4859
Zachary Mark, Huan Yang, Aaron Zimmerman, Yanbei Chen, The quasinormal modes of weakly charged Kerr-Newman black holes, Phys. Rev. D 91, 044025, 2015. arXiv: 1409.5800.
Fan Zhang, Huan Yang, Luis Lehenr, Towards a understanding of the force-free magnetosphere of rapidly rotating black holes, Phys. Rev. D 90 124009, 2014, arXiv: 1409.0345.
Huan Yang, Fan Zhang, Stability of force-free magnetospheres, Phys. Rev. D 90, 104022, 2014, arXiv: 1406.4602
Huan Yang, Marc Casals, Wavefront twisting by rotating black holes: orbital angular momentum generation and phase coherent detection, Phys. Rev. D 90, 023014 (2014).
arXiv: 1404.0722
Huan Yang, Fan Zhang, Aaron Zimmerman, Yanbei Chen, The scalar Green function of the Kerr spacetime, Phys. Rev. D 89, 064014 (2014), arXiv: 1311.3380
Huan Yang, Fan Zhang. Plasma wave generation in a dynamic spacetime. arXiv: 1508.02119
Huan Yang, Larry Price, Nicolas Smith, Haixing Miao, Rana X. Adhikari, Yanbei Chen. Towards the laboratory search for spacetime dissipation, arXiv: 1504.02545
Quasinormal modes beyond Kerr, Proceedings of the Sant Cugat Forum on Astrophysics (2014). Session on 'Gravitational Wave Astrophysics.'
Seminars
Holographic insights into black hole spacetimes, Fields Institute, June 2015
Recent developments in force-free magnetospheres of black holes and neutron stars, CITA, June 2015
Stability of force-free magnetospheres, ITC seminar, Harvard University, September 2014