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 Wei ZHUPostdocCNLS/UnknownTheoretical Condensed Matter PhysicsOffice: TA-3, Bldg 1690, Room 125Mail Stop: B258Phone: (505) 667-1078Fax: (505) 665-2659weizhu@lanl.govhome pageResearch highlight LINK Educational Background/Employment: B.Sc. (2007) Department of Physics, University of Science and Technology of China, P. R. China Ph.D. (2012) Department of Physics, University of Science and Technology of China, P. R. China Employment: Postdoctoral Fellow (2016-present), T-4 and CNLS, Los Alamos National Lab, USA Postdoctoral Research Associate (2016), Department of Physics, California State University Northridge, USA Visiting Scholoar (2015), Physics Department, Princeton University, USA Postdoctoral Research Associate (2012-2014), Department of Physics, California State University Northridge, USA Research Interests: Topological states of matter in strongly correlated systems: Topological orders and fractional excitations on geometrically frustrated lattices, fractional quantum Hall effects, and the applications of quantum information concepts to quantum many-body systems Novel phases, emergent phenomena and collective states of matter in strongly-correlated systems and quantum materials, especially focusing on the interplay between Coulomb interaction, spin exchange interaction and orbital, spin, charge degrees of freedom Mesoscopic phenomena in two-dimensional materials: Electronic structure, quantum transport properties and quantum hall effects, especially the role of the extrinsic (intrinsic) disorder, electron-electron interactions and the interplay of interactions and disorder Developing the state-of-the-art numerical methods and applying them to real materials Selected Recent Publications: Z. Huang, W. Zhu, D. P. Arovas, J.-X. Zhu, and A. V. Balatsky, Invariance of Topological Indices Under Hilbert Space Truncation , Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 116403 (2018) B. Fu, W. Zhu, Q.-W. Shi, Q. Li, J. Yang, and Z.-Y. Zhang, Accurate Determination of the Quasiparticle and Scaling Properties Surrounding the Quantum Critical Point of Disordered Three-Dimensional Dirac Semimetals , Phys. Rev. Lett. 118, 146401 (2017) W. Zhu, S.-S. Gong, T.-S. Zeng, Liang Fu, and D.N. Sheng, Interaction-Driven Spontaneous Quantum Hall Effect on a Kagome Lattice Phys. Rev. Lett. 117, 096402 (2016) W. Zhu, S. S. Gong, F. D. M. Haldane, D. N. Sheng, The Fractional Quantum Hall States at \nu=13/5 and 12/5 and their Non-Abelian Nature , Phys. Rev. Lett. 115, 126805 (2015) W. Zhu, S. S. Gong, F. D. M. Haldane, D. N. Sheng, Identifying Non-Abelian Topological Order through Minimal Entangled States, Phys. Rev. Lett. 112, 096803 (2014) S. S. Gong, W. Zhu, D. N. Sheng, O. I. Motrunich, Matthew P. A. Fisher, Plaquette ordered phase and quantum spin liquid in the spin-1/2 J1-J2 square Heisenberg model, Phys. Rev. Lett. 113, 027201 (2014) S. S. Gong, W. Zhu, D. N. Sheng, Emergent Chiral Spin Liquid: Fractional Quantum Hall Effect in a Kagome Heisenberg Model, Scientific Reports 4, 6317 (2014) W. Zhu, Q. W. Shi, J. G. Hou and X. R. Wang, Comment on Interaction-Induced Shift of the Cyclotron Resonance of Graphene Using Infrared Spectroscopy'', Phys. Rev. Lett. 105, 159703(2010) W. Zhu, Q. W. Shi, X. R. Wang, J. Chen, J. L. Yang and J. G. Hou, Shape of Disorder-Broadened Landau Subbands in Graphene, Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 056803(2009)
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