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Biography

Yi-Fu Cai is a professor of physics and astronomy at the University of Science and Technology of China (USTC). He also serves as the deputy director of the Office of International Cooperation at USTC. He got PhD majored in theoretical physics at the Institute of High Energy Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences in 2010. He worked as a postdoc at Arizona State University and McGill University until 2015. Afterwards, he was awarded by the Chinese National Youth Talents Program in 2015 and became a faculty at USTC. His research focuses on fundamental questions for cosmology, namely, the big bang singularity, the destiny of the universe, the theories of cosmological perturbations and the cosmic microwave background (CMB). His particle cosmology group at USTC is responsible for scientific goals of the China’s CMB project associated with the origin of our universe.

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Employment (3)

University of Science and Technology of China: Hefei, Anhui, CN

2015-05-19 to present | Professor (Astronomy)
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McGill University: Montreal, QC, CA

2012-09-01 to 2015-05-01 | Postdoc Research Fellow (Physics)
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Arizona State University: Tempe, AZ, US

2010-09-01 to 2012-07-31 | Postdoc Research Scholar (Physics)
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Education and qualifications (2)

Institute of High Energy Physics Chinese Academy of Sciences: Beijing, Beijing, CN

2005-09-01 to 2010-07-31 | Ph.D
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University of Science and Technology of China: Hefei, Anhui, CN

2001-09-01 to 2005-07-31 | B.S.
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Professional activities (1)

International Astronomical Union: Nanjing, CN

2018 to present
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New test on the Einstein equivalence principle through the photon ring of black holes

Physical Review D
2021-09-08 | Journal article
Contributors: Chunlong Li; Hongsheng Zhao; Yi-Fu Cai
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Experimental Constraint on an Exotic Parity-Odd Spin- and Velocity-Dependent Interaction with a Single Electron Spin Quantum Sensor

Physical Review Letters
2021-06-29 | Journal article
Contributors: Man Jiao; Maosen Guo; Xing Rong; Yi-Fu Cai; Jiangfeng Du
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Data-driven reconstruction of the late-time cosmic acceleration with f(T) gravity

Physics of the Dark Universe
2021-05 | Journal article
Contributors: Xin Ren; Thomas Hong Tsun Wong; Yi-Fu Cai; Emmanuel N. Saridakis
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Measuring the Gravitomagnetic Distortion from Rotating Halos. I. Methods

The Astrophysical Journal
2021-04-01 | Journal article
Contributors: Chengfeng Tang; Pierre Zhang; Wentao Luo; Nan Li; Yi-Fu Cai; Shi Pi
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Sound Speed Resonance of the Stochastic Gravitational-Wave Background

Physical Review Letters
2021-02-19 | Journal article
Contributors: Yi-Fu Cai; Chunshan Lin; Bo Wang; Sheng-Feng Yan
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Primordial black holes and gravitational waves from resonant amplification during inflation

Physical Review D
2020-11-20 | Journal article
Contributors: Zihan Zhou; Jie Jiang; Yi-Fu Cai; Misao Sasaki; Shi Pi
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New test on general relativity and f(T) torsional gravity from galaxy-galaxy weak lensing surveys

Physical Review D
2020-11-16 | Journal article
Contributors: Zhaoting Chen; Wentao Luo; Yi-Fu Cai; Emmanuel N. Saridakis
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Dirac-Born-Infeld realization of sound speed resonance mechanism for primordial black holes

Physical Review D
2020-09-23 | Journal article
Contributors: Chao Chen; Xiao-Han Ma; Yi-Fu Cai
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Interpreting cosmological tensions from the effective field theory of torsional gravity

Physical Review D
2020-06-19 | Journal article
Contributors: Sheng-Feng Yan; Pierre Zhang; Jie-Wen Chen; Xin-Zhe Zhang; Yi-Fu Cai; Emmanuel N. Saridakis
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Testing the equivalence principle via the shadow of black holes

Physical Review Research
2020-05-13 | Journal article
Contributors: Sheng-Feng Yan; Chunlong Li; Lingqin Xue; Xin Ren; Yi-Fu Cai; Damien A. Easson; Ye-Fei Yuan; Hongsheng Zhao
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Model-independent Reconstruction of f(T) Gravity from Gaussian Processes

The Astrophysical Journal
2020-01-10 | Journal article
Contributors: Yi-Fu Cai; Martiros Khurshudyan; Emmanuel N. Saridakis
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Evading the theoretical no-go theorem for nonsingular bounces in Horndeski/Galileon cosmology

Classical and Quantum Gravity
2019-07-11 | Journal article
Contributors: Shreya Banerjee; Yi-Fu Cai; Emmanuel N Saridakis
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Numerical Study of Inflationary Preheating with Arbitrary Power-law Potential and a Realization of Curvaton Mechanism

The Astrophysical Journal
2019-05-10 | Journal article
Contributors: Jie Jiang; Qiuyue Liang; Yi-Fu Cai; Damien A. Easson; Yang Zhang
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Searching for the dark force with 21-cm spectrum in light of EDGES

Physics Letters B
2019-01 | Journal article
Contributors: Chunlong Li; Yi-Fu Cai
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Constraints on a Spin-Dependent Exotic Interaction between Electrons with Single Electron Spin Quantum Sensors

Physical Review Letters
2018 | Journal article
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2-s2.0-85052697853

Contributors: Rong, X.; Jiao, M.; Geng, J.; Zhang, B.; Xie, T.; Shi, F.; Duan, C.-K.; Cai, Y.-F.; Du, J.
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Yi-Fu Cai via Scopus - Elsevier

Dark matter and baryogenesis in the Fermi-bounce curvaton mechanism

Chinese Physics C
2018 | Journal article
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2-s2.0-85048102208

Contributors: Addazi, A.; Alexander, S.; Cai, Y.-F.; Marciano, A.
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Yi-Fu Cai via Scopus - Elsevier

F (T) gravity after GW170817 and GRB170817A

Physical Review D
2018 | Journal article
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2-s2.0-85048077064

Contributors: Cai, Y.-F.; Li, C.; Saridakis, E.N.; Xue, L.-Q.
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Yi-Fu Cai via Scopus - Elsevier

Fast radio bursts from primordial black hole binaries coalescence

Physical Review D
2018 | Journal article
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2-s2.0-85059411264

Contributors: Deng, C.-M.; Cai, Y.; Wu, X.-F.; Liang, E.-W.
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Yi-Fu Cai via Scopus - Elsevier

Primordial Black Holes from Sound Speed Resonance during Inflation

Physical Review Letters
2018 | Journal article
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2-s2.0-85052802989

Contributors: Cai, Y.-F.; Tong, X.; Wang, D.-G.; Yan, S.-F.
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Yi-Fu Cai via Scopus - Elsevier

Revisiting non-Gaussianity from non-attractor inflation models

Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics
2018 | Journal article
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2-s2.0-85048452323

Contributors: Cai, Y.-F.; Chen, X.; Namjoo, M.H.; Sasaki, M.; Wang, D.-G.; Wang, Z.
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Yi-Fu Cai via Scopus - Elsevier

Testing Dark Matter models with radio telescopes in light of gravitational wave astronomy

Physics Letters, Section B: Nuclear, Elementary Particle and High-Energy Physics
2018 | Journal article
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2-s2.0-85048790993

Contributors: Addazi, A.; Cai, Y.-F.; Marcianò, A.
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Yi-Fu Cai via Scopus - Elsevier

The effective field theory approach of teleparallel gravity, f(T) gravity and beyond

Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics
2018 | Journal article
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2-s2.0-85055977267

Contributors: Li, C.; Cai, Y.; Cai, Y.-F.; Saridakis, E.N.
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Yi-Fu Cai via Scopus - Elsevier

Searching for an exotic spin-dependent interaction with a single electron-spin quantum sensor.

Nature communications
2018-02 | Journal article
Contributors: Rong X; Wang M; Geng J; Qin X; Guo M; Jiao M; Xie Y; Wang P; Huang P; Shi F et al.
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Yi-Fu Cai via Europe PubMed Central

Matter bounce cosmology with a generalized single field: non-Gaussianity and an extended no-go theorem

Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics
2017 | Journal article
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WOS:000405653700041

Contributors: Li, Yu-Bin; Quintin, Jerome; Wang, Dong-Gang; Cai, Yi-Fu
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Yi-Fu Cai via ResearcherID

Nonsingular cosmology from an unstable Higgs field

International Journal of Modern Physics D
2017 | Journal article
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WOS:000395371800007

Contributors: Brandenberger, Robert H.; Cai, Yi-Fu; Wan, Youping; Zhang, Xinmin
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Superconducting cosmic strings as sources of cosmological fast radio bursts

European Physical Journal C
2017 | Journal article
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WOS:000414127500001

Contributors: Ye, Jiani; Wang, Kai; Cai, Yi-Fu
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Tracing primordial black holes in nonsingular bouncing cosmology

Physics Letters B
2017-06 | Journal article
Contributors: Jie-Wen Chen; Junyu Liu; Hao-Lan Xu; Yi-Fu Cai
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A possible interpretation of the Higgs mass by the cosmological attractive relaxion

Chinese Physics C
2016 | Journal article
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WOS:000389144400007

Contributors: Huang, Fa-Peng; Cai, Yifu; Li, Hong; Zhang, Xinmin
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Yi-Fu Cai via ResearcherID

Differentiating G-inflation from string gas cosmology using the effective field theory approach

Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics
2016 | Journal article
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WOS:000398395400006

Contributors: He, Minxi; Liu, Junyu; Lu, Shiyun; Zhou, Siyi; Cai, Yi-Fu; Wang, Yi; Brandenberger, Robert
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Experimental simulation of the Unruh effect on an NMR quantum simulator

Science China: Physics, Mechanics and Astronomy
2016 | Journal article
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2-s2.0-84958249259

Contributors: Jin, F.Z.; Chen, H.W.; Rong, X.; Zhou, H.; Shi, M.J.; Zhang, Q.; Ju, C.Y.; Cai, Y.F.; Luo, S.L.; Peng, X.H. et al.
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Yi-Fu Cai via Scopus - Elsevier

Features and stability analysis of non-Schwarzschild black hole in quadratic gravity

Journal of High Energy Physics
2016 | Journal article
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2-s2.0-84980378488

Contributors: Cai, Y.-F.; Zhang, H.; Liu, J.; Cheng, G.; Wange, M.
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Yi-Fu Cai via Scopus - Elsevier

Features from the non-attractor beginning of inflation

Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics
2016 | Journal article
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WOS:000394578400007

Contributors: Cai, Yi-Fu; Gong, Jinn-Ouk; Wang, Dong-Gang; Wang, Ziwei
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Yi-Fu Cai via ResearcherID

Fluctuations in a cosmology with a spacelike singularity and their gauge theory dual description

Physical Review D
2016 | Journal article
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WOS:000385246500002

Contributors: Brandenberger, Robert H.; Ferreira, Elisa G. M.; Morrison, Ian A.; Cai, Yi-Fu; Das, Sumit R.; Wang, Yi
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Yi-Fu Cai via ResearcherID

Hearing the echoes of electroweak baryogenesis with gravitational wave detectors

Physical Review D
2016 | Journal article
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WOS:000381414400001

Contributors: Huang, Fa Peng; Wan, Youping; Wang, Dong-Gang; Cai, Yi-Fu; Zhang, Xinmin
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Yi-Fu Cai via ResearcherID

Magnetogenesis in bouncing cosmology

Physical Review D
2016 | Journal article
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WOS:000387120400005

Contributors: Qian, Peng; Cai, Yi-Fu; Easson, Damien A.; Guo, Zong-Kuan
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Yi-Fu Cai via ResearcherID

New model of axion monodromy inflation and its cosmological implications

Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics
2016 | Journal article
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WOS:000378778300027

Contributors: Cai, Yi-Fu; Chen, Fang; Ferreira, Elisa G. M.; Quintin, Jerome
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Yi-Fu Cai via ResearcherID

Post-Newtonian parameters and cosmological constant of screened modified gravity

Physical Review D
2016 | Journal article
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WOS:000376999500008

Contributors: Zhang, Xing; Zhao, Wen; Huang, He; Cai, Yifu
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Yi-Fu Cai via ResearcherID

Probing the origin of our universe through primordial gravitational waves by Ali CMB project

Science China-Physics Mechanics & Astronomy
2016 | Journal article
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WOS:000384212100007

Contributors: Cai, Yi-Fu; Zhang, XinMin
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Scale-dependent CMB power asymmetry from primordial speed of sound and a generalized delta N formalism

Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics
2016 | Journal article
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WOS:000372467600020

Contributors: Wang, Dong-Gang; Cai, Yi-Fu; Zhao, Wen; Zhang, Yang
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Searching for a matter bounce cosmology with low redshift observations

Physical Review D
2016 | Journal article
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WOS:000399336100001

Contributors: Cai, Yi-Fu; Duplessis, Francis; Easson, Damien A.; Wang, Dong-Gang
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Bouncing Cosmologies with Dark Matter and Dark Energy

Universe
2016-12 | Journal article
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f(T) teleparallel gravity and cosmology.

Reports on progress in physics. Physical Society (Great Britain)
2016-09 | Journal article
Contributors: Cai YF; Capozziello S; De Laurentis M; Saridakis EN
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A ACDM bounce scenario

Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics
2015 | Journal article
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WOS:000355633800006

Contributors: Cai, Yi-Fu; Wilson-Ewing, Edward
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An extended matter bounce scenario: current status and challenges

General Relativity and Gravitation
2015 | Journal article
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WOS:000359023400009

Contributors: de Haro, Jaume; Cai, Yi-Fu
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Bounce inflation cosmology with Standard Model Higgs boson

Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics
2015 | Journal article
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WOS:000367884600019

Contributors: Wan, Youping; Qiu, Taotao; Huang, Fa Peng; Cai, Yi-Fu; Li, Hong; Zhang, Xinmin
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Evolution of cosmological perturbations and the production of non-Gaussianities through a nonsingular bounce: Indications for a no-go theorem in single field matter bounce cosmologies

Physical Review D
2015 | Journal article
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WOS:000361810600002

Contributors: Quintin, Jerome; Sherkatghanad, Zeinab; Cai, Yi-Fu; Brandenberger, Robert H.
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Yi-Fu Cai via ResearcherID

Fermi-bounce cosmology and the fermion curvaton mechanism

Physics Letters B
2015 | Journal article
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WOS:000353892300015

Contributors: Alexander, Stephon; Cai, Yi-Fu; Marciano, Antonino
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Parametric resonance of entropy perturbations in massless preheating

International Journal of Modern Physics D
2015 | Journal article
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WOS:000360981100005

Contributors: Moghaddam, Hossein Bazrafshan; Brandenberger, Robert H.; Cai, Yi-Fu; Ferreira, Elisa G. M.
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Searching for features of a string-inspired inflationary model with cosmological observations

Physical Review D
2015 | Journal article
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WOS:000367078600001

Contributors: Cai, Yi-Fu; Ferreira, Elisa G. M.; Hu, Bin; Quintin, Jerome
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On the possibility of blue tensor spectrum within single field inflation

Nuclear Physics B
2015-11 | Journal article
Contributors: Yi-Fu Cai; Jinn-Ouk Gong; Shi Pi; Emmanuel N. Saridakis; Shang-Yu Wu
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