• Ph.D. (2005) Physics and Astronomy, Rice University
• Employment:
  • 2009-present Postdoctoral Research Associate, T-4/CNLS, LANL
  • 2007-2009 Postdoctoral Research Fellow, California State University, Northridge
  • 2004-2007 Postgraduate Researcher, University of California, Riverside

Research Interests:

• I am interested in many-body theory on strongly correlated electron systems, including heavy fermion(rare-earth and actinide based) compounds, cuprates and low dimensional systems. Current efforts are being focused on developing cluster dynamical-mean field theory algorithms to study the novel spin/charge orders and quantum phase transitions due to the mulitple competing energy scales.

Selected Recent Publications:

1. L. Zhu, R. Ma, L. Sheng, M. Liu, and D. N. Sheng, Universal Thermoelectric Effect of Dirac Fermions in Graphene, arXiv:0908.4302 (2009).
2. R. Ma, L. Zhu, L. Sheng, M. Liu, and D. N. Sheng, Quantum Hall Effect in Biased Bilayer Graphene, Europhys. Lett. 87, 17009 (2009).
3. L. Zhu, V. Aji, A. Shekhter, and C. M. Varma, Universality of the single-particle spectra of cuprate superconductors, Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 057001 (2008).
4. C. M. Varma and L. Zhu, Topological Transition in the Fermi Surface of Cuprate Superconductors in the Pseudogap Regime, Phys. Rev. Lett. 98, 177004 (2007).
5. L. Zhu and C. M. Varma, Coherence in the Two Kondo Impurity Problem, cond-mat/0607426.
6. C. M. Varma and L. Zhu, Helicity Order: Hidden order parameter in URu₂Si₂, Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 036405 (2006).
7. S. Kirchner, L. Zhu, Q, Si, and D. Natelson, Quantum critical Kondo effect in ferromagnetic single-eletron transistors, Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 102, 18824 (2005).