Clare C. Yu

Clare C. Yu

Professor, Department of Physics and Astronomy

University of California, Irvine

Biography

Clare C. Yu is a Professor in the Department of Physics and Astronomy at the University of California, Irvine. She completed her A.B. in Physics with high honors in 1979 and her Ph.D. in Physics in 1984, both from Princeton University. Her doctoral research focused on a local phonon model for strong-coupling superconductors under the supervision of Philip W. Anderson. Yu joined UC Irvine in 1989 as an Assistant Professor, subsequently becoming an Associate Professor in 1993, and a full Professor in 2002. In May 2022, she was named a Chancellor’s Professor at UC Irvine.

Yu's research encompasses various topics within condensed matter physics, including electron-glass dynamics, noise in superconducting qubits, and the properties of glasses at low temperatures. She has published extensively, with over 90 peer-reviewed articles to her credit, and her work has appeared in prominent journals such as Physical Review Letters and the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. Yu has been recognized for her contributions to physics with several honors, including being elected a Fellow of the American Physical Society, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and the American Association for the Advancement of Science. She was also named an Outstanding Referee by the Physical Review Journals in 2024.

At UC Irvine, Yu teaches courses in physics and mentors graduate students, fostering the next generation of physicists. She has served on numerous university committees and actively participates in professional organizations. Her service extends to panels and committees, such as the American Physical Society's Division of Condensed Matter Physics and the Aspen Center for Physics, where she has held positions including Trustee and Executive Committee member. Yu is also involved in outreach, having founded the Aspen Center for Physics outreach program aimed at supporting high school students from underrepresented backgrounds.

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Degrees

  • A.B. in Physics, Princeton University, 1979
  • Ph.D in Physics, Princeton University, 1984

Distinctions

  • Elected to Phi Beta Kappa Society, 1979
  • Kusaka Memorial Prize for senior thesis research, 1979
  • National Science Foundation Graduate Fellowship, 1979
  • Alfred P. Sloan Fellow, 1991
  • Outstanding Contributions to Undergraduate Education, UCI School of Physical Sciences, 2005
  • Fellow of the American Physical Society (APS), 2005
  • Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, 2019
  • Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, 2020
  • University of California, Irvine Chancellor’s Professor, 2022
  • Outstanding Referee of the Physical Review Journals, 2024
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Areas of Expertise

  • Condensed Matter Physics
  • Strong-Coupling Superconductors
  • Coulomb Glass
  • Quantum Dot Qubits
  • Two-Level Systems
  • Biological Physics
  • Cancer Research
  • Noise in SQUIDs
  • Kondo Insulators
  • Phase Transitions

Recent Publications

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Most Cited Publications

  • J. M. Martinis, K. B. Cooper, R. McDermott, M. Steffen, M. Ansmann, K. Osborn, K. Cicak, S. Oh, D. P. Pappas, R. W. Simmonds, C. C. Yu, “Decoherence in Josephson Qubits from Dielectric Loss”, Physical Review Letters, vol. 95, pp. 210503-1 - 210503-4, 2005.
  • C. C. Yu, P. Anderson, “A Local Phonon Model of Strong Electron-Phonon Interactions in A-15 Compounds and Other Strong-Coupling Superconductors”, Physical Review B, vol. 29, pp. 6165-6186, 1984.
  • B. Mitchell, J. L. Stubbs, F. Huisman, P. Taborek, C. Yu, C. Kintner, “The PCP pathway instructs the planar orientation of ciliated cells in the Xenopus larval skin”, Current Biology, vol. 19(11), pp. 924-929, 2009.
  • A. Kunwar, S. K. Tripathy, J. Xu, M. K. Mattson, P. Anand, R. Sigua, M. Vershinin, R. J. McKenney, C. C. Yu, A. Mogilner, S. P. Gross, “Mechanical Stochastic Tug-of-war Models Cannot Explain Bi-directional Lipid droplet Transport”, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA, vol. 108, pp. 18960, 2011.
  • M. E. Werner, P. Huang, F. Huisman, P. Taborek, C. C. Yu, B. J. Mitchell, “Actin and microtubules drive differential aspects of planar cell polarity in multi-ciliated cells”, Journal of Cell Biology, vol. 195, pp. 19, 2011.
  • El Bairi K., Haynes H.R., Blackley E., Fineberg S., Shear J., Turner S., de Freitas J.R., Sur D., Amendola L.C., Gharib M., Kallala A., Arun I., Azmoudeh-Ardalan F., Fujimoto L., Sua L.F., Liu S.W., Lien H.C., Kirtani P., Balancin M., El Attar H., Guleria P., Yang W., Shash E., Chen I.C., Bautista V., Do Prado Moura J.F., Rapoport B.L., Castaneda C., Spengler E., Acosta-Haab G., Frahm I., Sanchez J., Castillo M., Bouchmaa N., Md Zin R.R., Shui R., Onyuma T., Yang W., Husain Z., Willard-Gallo K., Coosemans A., Perez E.A., Provenzano E., Ericsson P.G., Richardet E., Mehrotra R., Sarancone S., Ehinger A., Rimm D.L., Bartlett J.M.S., Viale G., Denkert C., Hida A.I., Sotiriou C., Loibl S., Hewitt S.M., Badve S., Symmans W.F., Kim R.S., Pruneri G., Goel S., Francis P.A., Inurrigarro G., Yamaguchi R., Garcia-Rivello H., Horlings H., Afqir S., Salgado R., Adams S., Kok M., Dieci M.V., Michiels S., Demaria S., Loi S., Haynes H.R., Blackley E., Fineberg S., Shear J., Turner S., de Freitas J.R., Sur D., Amendola L.C., Kallala A., Arun I., Azmoudeh-Ardalan F., Fujimoto L., Sua L.F., Liu S.W., Lien H.C., Kirtani P., Balancin M., El Attar H., Guleria P., Yang W., Shash E., Chen I.C., Bautista V., Do Prado Moura J.F., Rapoport B.L., Spengler E., Acosta-Haab G., Frahm I., Sanchez J., Castillo M., Bouchmaa N., Md Zin R.R., Shui R., Onyuma T., Yang W., Husain Z., Willard-Gallo K., Coosemans A., Perez E.A., Provenzano E., Ericsson P.G., Richardet E., Sarancone S., Ehinger A., Rimm D.L., Denkert C., Hida A.I., Sotiriou C., Loibl S., Hewitt S.M., Badve S., Symmans W.F., Kim R.S., Goel S., Inurrigarro G., Yamaguchi R., Garcia-Rivello H., Horlings H., Afqir S., Salgado R., Adams S., Kok M., Demaria S., Schelfhout V., Arbzadeh E., Bondanar A., Reyes S.A.G., Ruz J.R., Kang J., Xiang L., Zimovjanova M., Togores P., Ozturk T., Patil A., Corpa M., Whitehouse A., Tan B., de Paula A., Rossetti C., Lang-Schwarz C., Mahon S., Giacometti C., Linderholm B., Deman F., Montagna G., Gong G., Pavcovich M., Chaer Y., Cabrero I.A., de Brito M.L., Ilieva N., Fulop A., Souza M., Bilancia D., Idowu M., Johri R., Szpor J., Bachani L., Schmitt F., Giannotti M., Kurebayashi Y., Ramirez B.E.A., Salido E., Bortesi L., Bonetto S., Elomina K., Lopez P., Sharma V., Edirisinghe A., Mathur D., Sahay A., Mouloud M.A., Giang C.H., Mukolwe E., Kiruka E., Samberg N., Abe N., Brown M., Millar E., Li X.(., Yuan Z., Pasupathy A., Miele R., Luff R., e Porfirio M.M.A., Ajemba O., Soni R., Orvieto E., DiMaio M., Thomas J., Merard R., Subramaniam M.M., Apolinario T., Preda O., Preda R., Makanga A., Maior M.S., Li L., Saghatchian M., Saurine T., Janssen E., Cochran J., Vlada N., Cappellesso R., Elfer K., Hollick M., Desai S., Oner G., Schreurs A., Liu S., Perera R., Mercurio P., Garcia F., Hosny K., Matsumoto H., van Deurzen C., Bianchini G., Coban I., Jahangir A., Rahman A., Stover D., Luz P., Martel A., Waumans Y., Stenzinger A., Cortes J., Dimitrova P., Nauwelaers I., Velasco M., Fan F., Akturk G., Firer M., Roxanis I., Schneck M., Wen H., Cockenpot V., Konstantinov A., Calatrava A., Vidya M.N., Choi H.J., Jank P., ÇÏinen A.H., Sabanathan D., Floris G., Hoeflmayer D., Hamada T., Laudus N., Grigoriadis A., Porcellato I., Acs B., Miglietta F., Parrodi J., Clunie D., Calhoun B., Lu F.I., Lefevre A., Tabbarah S., Tran W., Garcia-murillas I., Jelinic P., Boeckx C., Souza S., Cebollero M., Felip E., Rendon J.L.S., El Gabry E., Saltz J., Bria E., Garufi G., Hartman J., Sebastian M., Olofsson H., Kooreman L., Cucherousset J., Mathieu M.C., Ballesteros-Merino C., Siziopikou P., Fong J., Klein M., Qulis I.R.I., Wesseling J., Bellolio E., Araya J.C., Naber S., Cheang M., Castellano I., Ales A., Laenkholm A.V., Kulka J., Quinn C., Sapino A., Amendoeira I., Marchio C., Braybrooke J., Vincent-Salomon A., Korski K.(., Sofopoulos M., Stovgaard E.I.S., Bianchi S., Bago-Horvath Z., Yu C., Regitnig P., Hall S., Kos Z., Sant S., Tille J.C., Gallas B., Bethmann D., Savas P., Mendes L., Soler T., van Seijen M., Gruosso T., Quintana A., Giltnane J., Van den Eynden G., Duregon E., de Cabo R., Recamo P.C., Gaboury L., Zimmerman J., Pop C.S., Wernicke A., Williams D., Gill A., Solomon B., Thapa B., Farshid G., Gilham L., Christie M., O’Toole S., Hendry S., Fox S.B., Luen S.J., Lakhani S.R., Fuchs T., John T., Brcic I., Hainfellner J., Sigurd L., Preusser M., Poortmans P., Decaluwe A., Carey C., Colpaert C., Larsimont D., Peeters D., Broeckx G., van de Vijver K., Buisseret L., Dirix L., Hertoghs M., Piccart M., Ignatiadis M., Van Bockstal M., Sirtaine N., Vermeulen P., de Wind R., Declercq S., Gevaert T., Haibe-Kans B., Nelson B.H., Watson P.H., Leung S., Nielsen T., Shi L., Balslev E., Thagaard J., Almangush A., Makitie A., Joensuu H., Lundin J., Drubay D., Roblin E., Andre F., Penault-Llorca F., Lemonnier J., Adam J., Lacroix-Triki M., Ternes N., Radosevic-Robin N., Klaushen F., Weber K., Harbeck N., Gluz O., Wienert S., Cserni G., Vingiani A., Criscitiello C., Solinas C., Curigliano G., Konishi E., Suzuki E., Yoshikawa K., Kawaguchi K., Takada M., Toi M., Ishida M., Shibata N., Saji S., Kogawa T., Sakatani T., Okamoto T., Moriya T., Kataoka T., Shimoi T., Sugie T., Sugie T., Mukohara T., Shu Y., Kikawa Y., Kozuka Y., Sayed S., Rahayu R., Ramsaroop R., Senkus-Konefka E., Chmielik E., Cardoso F., Ribeiro J., Chan J., Dent R., Martin M., Hagen C., Guerrero A., Rojo F., Comerma L., Nuciforo P., Serrano V.V., Cámaea V.P., Steenbruggen T., Ciompi F., Jan Hudecek, Jan Hudecek, van der Laak J., van den Berg J., Voorwerk L., van de Vijver M., de Maaker M., Linn S., McKenzie H., Somaiah N., Tutt A., Swanton C., Hiley C., Moore D.A., Hall J.A., Le Quesne J., Jabbar K.A., al Bakir M., Hills R., Irshad S., Yuan Y., Li Z., Liu M., Klein J., Fadare O., Thompson A., Lazar A.J., Gown A., Lo A., Garrido Castro A.C., Madabhushi A., Moreira A., Richardson A., Beck A.H., Bellizzi A.M., Wolff A., Harbhajanka A., Sharma A., Cimino-Mathews A., Srinivasan A., Singh B., Chennubhotla C.S., Chauhan C., Dillon D.A., Zardavas D., Johnson D.B., Thompson A.E., Brogi E., Reisenbichler E., Huang E., Hirsch F.R., McArthur H., Ziai J., Brock J., Kerner J., Zha J., Lennerz J.K., Carter J.M., Reis-Filho J., Sparano J., Balko J.M., Pogue-Geile K., Steele K.E., Blenman K.R.M., Allison K.H., Pusztai L., Cooper L., Estrada V.M., Flowers M., Robson M., Rebelatto M.C., Hanna M.G., Goetz M.P., Khojasteh M., Sanders M.E., Regan M.M., Misialek M., Amgad M., Tung N., Singh R., Huang R., Pierce R.H., Leon-Ferre R., Swain S., Ely S., Kim S.R., Bedri S., Paik S., Schnitt S., d’Alfons T., Kurkure U., Bossuyt V., Tong W., Wang Y., Dos Anjos C.H., Gaire F., Van Diest P.J., “The tale of TILs in breast cancer: A report from The International Immuno-Oncology Biomarker Working Group”, npj Breast Cancer, vol. 7, 2021.
  • P. Kumar, S. Sendelbach, M. A. Beck, J. W. Freeland, Z. Wang, H. Wang, C. C. Yu, R. Q. Wu, D. P. Pappas, R. McDermott, “Origin and Reduction of 1/f Magnetic Flux Noise in Superconducting Devices”, Physical Review Applied, vol. 6, pp. 041001, 2016.
  • C. C. Yu, S. R. White, “A Numerical Renormalization Group Study of the One Dimensional Kondo Insulator”, Physical Review Letters, vol. 71, pp. 3866-3869, 1993.
  • C. C. Yu, J. J. Freeman, “The Thermal Conductivity and Specific Heat of Glasses”, Phonon Scattering in Condensed Matter, Springer, Berlin, pp. 20-22, 1986.
  • C. C. Yu, “Time Dependent Development of the Coulomb Gap”, Physical Review Letters, vol. 82, pp. 4074-4077, 1999.
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Contact Information

Email: cyu@uci.edu

Phone: (949) 824-2174

Address: Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of California, Irvine, Irvine, CA 92697-4575

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