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ZHANG Lei

Job Title: Professor

School/Institute:State Key Lab of Quantum Optics and Quantum Optics Devices, Institute of Laser Spectroscopy, Shanxi University, Taiyuan

E-mail: zhanglei@sxu.edu.cn

Biography

ZHANG Lei is a professor and doctoral advisor at State Key Laboratory of Quantum Optics and Quantum Optics Devices, Institute of Laser Spectroscopy, Shanxi University. He has been selected as Shanxi Province 100-Plan Talent Program in 2017 and young talent of the Shanxi Province "SanJin Talents" Support Program in 2019. He has presided over 4 funds, including the national and provincial funds. He has developed many quantum transport theories and algorithms that have been used widely in commercialized and non-commercialized softwares. In the recent five years, he has also published 42 SCI-cited papers with 29 written as the first or corresponding author, including Nature, Phys. Rev. Lett., Phys. Rev. B, ACS Photonics, Nanoscale, etc.

Education:

[1] 2009.09 to 2012.08

The University of Hong Kong, Department of Physics, Doctor of Philosophy.

[2] 2007.09 to 2009.08

The University of Hong Kong, Department of Physics, Master of Philosophy.

[3] 2003.09 to 2007.07

Shanxi University, College of Physics and Electronic Engineering, Bachelor of Science.

Research Area:

[1] Quantum transport, including quantum transport theory development based on non-equilibrium Green’s function theroy and corresponding algorithms design and code development.

[2] Electronic and Optical properties of low-dimensional materials, including various two-dimensional materials and their heterostructures and topological insulators.

[3] Optical manipulation, including optical forces and optical torques exerted on the microscopic particles.

Employment:

[1] 2017.12-Now: Institute of Laser Spectroscopy, Shanxi University, Professor.

[2] 2016.03-2017.11: Institute of Laser Spectroscopy, Shanxi University, Lecture.

[3] 2013.04-2016.02: Department of Physics, McGill University, Postdoc.

[4] 2012.09-2013.03: Deapartment of Physics, The University of Hong Kong, Research Assistant.

Grants and Projects:

[1] The National Natural Science Foundation of China: “Theoretical Study on the 3D Quantum Hall Effect Electron Transport Properties in Topological Semimetals”, Grant No. 12074230, 2021/01-2024/12.

[2] The National Natural Science Foundation of China for Young Scholar: “Theoretical study on time-dependent transport properties of two-dimensional valley electronic devices”, Grant No. 11704232, 2018/01-2020/12.

Selective Publications

[1]Wei Xiao, Lili Kang, Hua Hao, Yanhong Zhou, Lei Zhang*, Xiaohong Zheng,and Zhi Zeng,“Giant tunneling electroresistance induced by interfacial doping in Pt/BaTiO3/Pt ferroelectric tunnel junctions”, Phys. Rev. Applied, 17, 044001 2022 .

[2] Xiaoyu Cheng, Jun Chen*, Lei Zhang, Liantuan Xiao, Suotang Jia,“Anti-chiral edge states and hinge states based on the Haldane model”; Phys. Rev. B, 104, L081401,2021 .

[3] Qinghua Guo, Tianshu Jiang, Ruo-Yang Zhang, Lei Zhang, Zhao-Qing Zhang, Biao Yang, Shuang Zhang, C.T. Chan,“Experimental observation of non-Abelian topological charges and bulk-edge correspondence”, Nature, 594, 195,2021.

[4] Yaqing Yang, Liwen Zhang, Jun Chen, Xiaohong Zheng*, Lei Zhang, Liantuan Xiao, Suotang Jia,“An electrically switchable anti-ferroelectric bilayer In2Se3 based opto-spintronics device”,Nanoscale 13, 8555,2021.

[5] Lili Kang, Peng Jiang, Hua Hao, Yanhong Zhou, Xiaohong Zheng*, Lei Zhang, and Zhi Zeng,“Giant tunnel electroresistance in ferroelectric tunnel junctions with metal contacts to two-dimensional ferroelectric materials”, Phys. Rev. B, 103, 125414,2021.

[6] Gaomin Tang*, Jun Chen, Lei Zhang,“Twist-induced near-field thermal control between magnetic Weyl semimetals”,ACS Photonics, 8, 443,2021 .

[7] Liwen Zhang, Jun Chen*, Lei Zhang, Fuming Xu, Liantuan Xiao, Suotang Jia, “Gate controllable optical spin current generation in zigzag graphene nanoribbon”; Carbon, 173, 565, 2021.

[8] Xixi Tao, Peng Jiang, Hua Hao, Xiaohong Zheng*, Lei Zhang, and Zhi Zeng,“Pure spin current generation via photogalvanic effect with spatial inversion symmetry”; Phys. Rev. B.,102, 081402(R),2020 .

[9] Lili Kang, Peng Jiang, Yanhong Zhou, Hua Hao, Xiaohong Zheng*, Lei Zhang, Zhi Zeng,“Giant tunneling electroresistance in two-dimensional ferroelectric tunnel junctions with out-of-plane ferroelectric polarization”, Phys. Rev. B.,101, 014105,2020.

[10] Lili Kang, Peng Jiang, Ning Cao, Hua Hao, Xiaohong Zheng*, Lei Zhang, Zhi Zeng,“Realizing giant tunneling electroresistance in two-dimensional graphene/BiP ferroelectric tunnel junction”, Nanoscale. 11, 16837,2019.

[11] Liwen Zhang, Jun Chen, Xiaohong Zheng, Bin Wang*, Lei Zhang, Liantuan Xiao, Suotang Jia,“Gate-tunable large spin polarization in few-layer black phosphorus based spintronic device”, Nanoscale,11, 11872,2019.

[12]Lei Zhang, Bin Fu, Bin Wang, Yadong Wei, and Jian Wang*,“Frequency-dependent transport properties in disordered systems: A generalized coherent potential approximation approach”, Phys. Rev. B. 99, 155406, 2019 .

[13] Gaomin Tang, Lei Zhang*, Jian Wang,“Thermal rectification in a double quantum dots system with a polaron effect”, Phys. Rev. B. ,97, 224311,2018.

[14] Lei Zhang, Zhizhou Yu, Fuming Xu, Jian Wang*;“Influence of dephasing and B/N doping on valley Seebeck effect in zigzag graphene nanoribbons”; Carbon. 126, 183,2018.

[15] Bin Fu, Lei Zhang*, Yadong Wei, and Jian Wang,“Full counting statistics of conductance for disordered systems”, Phys. Rev. B. 96, 115410,2017 .