Xiao Zheng

Physical Chemistry

Professor

xzheng@fudan.edu.cn

A3033 Chemistry Building

Research Interests

  • Theoretical methods for open quantum systems

  • Theoretical methods for strongly correlated electronic systems

  • Novel numerical algorithms in the era of artificial intelligence and quantum computing

  • First-principles simulation of surface and interfacial chemical systems and nanostructures

  • Precise measurement and control of quantum states in molecules on surfaces

Academic Appointments

  • Editorial board member of New Journal of Physics

Prizes and awards

  • 2015, Chinese Chemical Society Tang Ao-Qing Young Investigator Award in Theoretical Chemistry

Biography

  • 1998.9-2002.8BSc, Department of Chemical Physics, University of Science and Technology of China

  • 2002.9-2006.12PhD, Department of Chemistry, The University of Hong Kong

  • 2007.1-2009.11Postdoc, Department of Chemistry, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology

  • 2008.12-2009.11Visiting Scholar, Department of Chemistry, Duke University

  • 2009.12-2010.11Postdoc, Department of Chemistry, Duke University

  • 2010.12-2022.2Professor, Hefei National Research Center for Physical Sciences at the Microscale & Department of Chemical Physics, University of Science and Technology of China

  • 2022.3-Professor, Department of Chemistry, Fudan University

Key Publications

  • Q. Zhuang, X. Wang, L. Ye, Y. J. Yan, X. Zheng. Origin of asymmetric splitting of Kondo peak in spin-polarized scanning tunneling spectroscopy: Insights from first-principles-based simulations. J. Phys. Chem. Lett. 13, 2094-2100 (2022).  

  • J. Wang, D. Zhang, R.-X. Xu, C.-Y. Yam, G.H. Chen, X. Zheng. Improving density functional prediction of molecular thermochemical properties with a machine-learning-corrected generalized gradient approximation. J. Phys. Chem. A 126, 970-978 (2022).

  • L. Ye, L. Yang, X. Zheng, and S. Mukamel. Enhancing circular dichroism signals with vector beams. Phys. Rev. Lett. 126, 123001 (2021)  

  • X. Li, L. Zhu, B. Li, J. Li, P. Gao, L. Yang, A. Zhao, Y. Luo, J. Hou, X. Zheng, B. Wang, J. Yang. Molecular molds for regularizing Kondo states at atom/metal interfaces. Nat. Commun. 11, 2566 (2020).  

  • H.-D. Zhang, L. Cui, H. Gong, R.-X. Xu, X. Zheng, Y. J. Yan. Hierarchical equations of motion method based on Fano spectrum decomposition for low temperature environments. J. Chem. Phys. 152, 064107 (2020).

  • X. Yang, Z. He, X. Zheng. Unit cell consistency of maximally localized Wannier functions. Electron. Struct. 2, 014001 (2020).  

  • L. Han, V. Chernyak, Y.-A. Yan, X. Zheng, Y. J. Yan. Stochastic representation of non-Markovian fermionic quantum dissipation. Phys. Rev. Lett. 123, 050601 (2019).  

  • D. Zhang, X. Zheng, M. Di Ventra. Local temperatures out of equilibrium. Phys. Rep. 830, 1-66 (2019).

  • X. Wang, L. Yang, L. Ye, X. Zheng, Y. J. Yan. Precise control of local spin states in an adsorbed magnetic molecule with an STM tip: Theoretical insights from first-principles based simulation. J. Phys. Chem. Lett. 9, 2418−2425 (2018).

  • L. Ye, X. Wang, D. Hou, R.-X. Xu, X. Zheng, Y. J. Yan. HEOM-QUICK: A program for accurate, efficient, and universal characterization of strongly correlated quantum impurity systems. WIREs Comput. Mol. Sci. 6, 608-638 (2016).