2005年进入武汉大学物理科学与技术学院学习，2009年毕业并获得理学学士学位。
2009年进入兰州大学物理科学与技术学院，2015年毕业并获得博士学位；师从罗洪刚教授，研究方向为强关联体系的基态性质与数值计算方法（主要为密度矩阵重整化群算法），博士论文题目“一维强关联格点模型的数值计算研究”。
2015年8月~2018年11月，在北京计算科学研究中心进行博士后研究工作，合作导师为罗洪刚与Rubem Mondaini教授；主要研究方向除了强关联系统的基态，还包括孤立量子系统的非平衡性质。其中，2017年3月至9月，在美国宾夕法尼亚州立大学访问。
					

						凝聚态理论，强关联格点模型的物理性质，具体包括：
1）准一维体系的基态相变与低激发性质
2）非平衡物理，本征态热化假设与多体局域化
3）各类强关联算法与程序（部分代码：https://github.com/chengchen1987）
4）借助量子计算的发展研究传统的强关联问题
5）研究希尔伯特空间的关联与相变的关系，探寻研究格点模型相变的新思路
					

						研究生：
2019级：杨永峰，梁米吉（已毕业）
2021级：田钊瑞
2022级：苏文瑜
2023级：刘煜靖，邱思徉
					

						2023
1] Chen Cheng, Many-body Localization in Clean Chains with Long-Range Interactions, Physical Review B 108, 155113 (2023).
2] Wen-Yu Su,1, ∗ Feng Hu,2, ∗ Chen Cheng,1, † and Nvsen Ma2, ‡ Investigating Berezinskii-Kosterlitz-Thouless phase transitions in Kagome spin ice by quantifying Monte Carlo process: Distribution of Hamming distances, Physical Review B 108, 134422 (2023).
3] Mi-Ji Liang,1,∗ Yong-Feng Yang,1,∗ Chen Cheng,1,† and Rubem Mondaini2,‡ Disorder in interacting quasi-one-dimensional systems: flat and dispersive bands, Phys. Rev. B 108, 035131 (2023).
3] Y. Yao. et al., Observation of many-body Fock space dynamics in two dimensions, Nature Physic 19 1459 (2023).

2022:
1] Yong-Feng Yang, Jing Chen, Chen Cheng,* and Hong-Gang Luo,† "Enhanced superconductivity and various edge modes in modulated t-J chains", Phys. Rev. B 105, 165123 (2022).
2] Lei Gao, Chen Cheng, Wen-Bin He, Rubem Mondaini, Xi-Wen Guan, and Hai-Qing Lin, "Scaling of energy and power in a large quantum battery-charger model”, Phys. Rev. Research 4, 043150 (2022).

2021:
1] Yucheng Wang, Chen Cheng, Xiong-Jun Liu, and Dapeng Yu, "Many-Body Critical Phase: Extended and Nonthermal", Phys. Rev. Lett. 126, 080602 (2021).
2] Qiujiang Guo, Chen Cheng, Hekang Li, Shibo Xu, Pengfei Zhang, Zhen Wang, Chao Song, Wuxin Liu, Wenhui Ren, Hang Dong, Rubem Mondaini, and H. Wang. "Stark Many-Body Localization on a Superconducting Quantum Processor", Phys. Rev. Lett. 127, 240502 (2021).
3] Fu-Zhou Chen, Chen Cheng, Hong-Gang Luo,†  "Real-space parallel density matrix renormalization group with adaptive boundaries", Chin. Phys. B 30, 8-080202 (2021).

2020:
1] Wing Chi Yu*, Chen Cheng, and P. D. Sacramento†, "Energy bonds as correlators for long-range symmetry-protected topological models and models with long-range topological order", Physical Review B 101, 245131 (2020).
2] Fu-Zhou Chen(陈富州), Chen Cheng(程晨), and Hong-Gang Luo(罗洪刚), "Improved hybrid parallel strategy for density matrix renormalization group method", Chin. Phys. B Vol. 29, No. 7 070202 (2020).
3] Qiujiang Guo#, Chen Cheng#, Zheng-Hang Sun#, Zixuan Song, Hekang Li, Zhen Wang, Wenhui Ren, Hang Dong, Dongning Zheng, Yu-Ran Zhang, Rubem Mondaini, Heng Fan & H. Wang, "Observation of energy-resolved many-body localization", Nature Physics, 17, 234–239 (2021).

2019:
1] Xingbo Wei, Chen Cheng*, Gao Xianlong, and Rubem Mondaini2†, "Investigating many-body mobility edges in isolated quantum systems", Physical Review B 99, 165137 (2019).
2] Fu-Zhou Chen, Chen Cheng, Hong-Gang Luo, "Hybrid parallel optimization of density matrix renormalization group method", Acta Physica Sinica, 68, 120202 (2019).
3] Yangsen Ye, et al., "Propagation and Localization of Collective Excitations on a 24-Qubit Superconducting Processor", Physical Review Letters 123, 050502 (2019)

Before 2019:
1] Chen Cheng, Rubem Mondaini, Marcos Rigol, "Singlet pairing and superconductivity in 𝑡-𝐽 ladders with Mott insulating stripes", Physical Review B 98, 121112(R) (2018).
2] Jian Li, Chen Cheng†, Thereza Paiva, Hai-Qing Lin, and Rubem Mondaini∗, "Giant Magnetoresistance in Hubbard Chains", Phys. Rev. Lett. 121, 020403 (2018).
3] Bin-Bin Mao, Chen Cheng, Fu-Zhou Chen, Hong-Gang Luo, "Magnetization jump in one dimensional 𝐽 −𝑄2 model with anisotropic exchange", Scientific Reports 7, 18104 (2017).
4] Chen Cheng, Rubem Mondaini, "Many-body delocalization with random vector potentials", Phys. Rev. A 94, 053610 (2016).
5] Bin-Bin Mao, Chen Cheng, Fu-Zhou Chen, Hong-Gang Luo, "Phase separation induced by density-spin interaction in one-dimensional extended t-J model", Acta Physica Sinica, 64, 187105 (2015).
6] Chen Cheng, Bin-Bin Mao, Fu-Zhou Chen, Hong-Gang Luo, "Phase separation in one-dimensional hardcore boson system with two- and three-body interactions", Eur. Phys. J. B 88, 152 (2015).
7] Chen Cheng, Bin-Bin Mao, Fu-Zhou Chen, Hong-Gang Luo, "Phase diagram of one-dimensional t−J model with long-range dipolar interactions", Euro. Phys. Lett. 110 37002 (2015).
8] Haiping Hu, Chen Cheng, Hong-Gang Luo, and Shu Chen, "Topological incommensurate magnetization plateaus in quasi-periodic quantum spin chains", Scientific Reports 5, 8433 (2015).
9] Haiping Hu, Chen Cheng, Zhihao Xu, Hong-Gang Luo, and Shu Chen, "Topological nature of magnetization plateaus in periodically modulated quantum spin chains", Phys. Rev. B 90, 035150 (2014).
					

						主持项目：
国家自然科学基金青年项目（项目批准号11904145），外场诱导的条纹相对电子配对与超导态的影响，27万元，2020.01-2022.12.
国家自然科学基金面上项目（项目批准号12174167），量子多体系统中多体局域化转变及有序非平衡稳态的研究，61万元，2022.01-2025.12.
					

						For open-source code please check https://github.com/chengchen1987/.