Extended dynamical mean-field theory (EDMFT) to quantum phase transition and criticality in heavy fermion systems.
Electronic structure theory (LDA and LDA+DMFT) in strongly correlated electronic materials.
Theory of potential and quantum impurity problem in strongly correlated electronic and functional materials, especially in unconventional superconductors.
Theory of quantum tunneling and transport through low-dimenional hybrid structures.
Theoretical analysis in scanning tunneling microscopy (STM) and angle-resolved photoemission spectroscopy (ARPES).
Laboratory Fellow, Los Alamos National Laboratory (2022)
Outstanding Referee for the journals of American Physical Society (2019)
Los Alamos National Laboratory Postdoctoral Distinguished Mentor Award (2018)
Fellow of American Physical Society (2016)
Los Alamos National Laboratory Fellows Prize in Science and Engineering (2016)
Distinguished Performance Award, Los Alamos National Laboratory (small team, 2015)
Achievement Award, Los Alamos National Laboratory (2015)
Spot Award, Los Alamos National Laboratory (2015)
Postdoctoral Distinguished Performance Award, Los Alamos National Laboratory (individual winner, 2003)
LANL Director’s Postdoctoral Fellow (2001-2004)
Li Ka-Shing Prize for the Best Ph.D. Thesis of the University of Hong Kong (1997)
Professional Societies
Session Chair, the 2018 APS March Meeting, Los Angeles
Session Chair, the 2014 APS March Meeting, Denver
Session Chair, the 2012 APS March Meeting, Boston
Member of the Materials Research Society
Member of the American Physical Society
Reviewer of Natural Science Foundation (NSF) and Department of Energy (DOE)
Referee of Physical Review and Physical Review Letters, Journal of Physics: Condensed Matter, Physics Letters A, Europhysics Letters, European Physical Journal B, New Journal of Physics, Physica E, Materials Research Letters, and International Journal of Modern Physics B, Nano Letters, Scientific Reports, Journal of Alloys and Compounds, Journal of Superconductivity and Novel Magnetism
Publications
[Ahmed, Towfiq * Haraldsen, Jason T. * Zhu, Jian-Xin * Balatsky, Alexander V.], "Next-Generation Epigenetic Detection Technique: Identifying Methylated Cytosine Using Graphene Nanopore", JOURNAL OF PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY LETTERS, Vol.5, iss.15, p.2601-2607, AUG 7 2014.
[Singh, S. * Haraldsen, J.T. * Xiong, J. * Choi, E.M. * Lu, P. * Yi, D. * Wen, X.D. * Liu, J. * Wang, H. * Bi, Z. * Yu, P. * Fitzsimmons, M.R. * MacManus-Driscoll, J.L. * Ramesh, R. * Balatsky, A.V. * Jian-Xin Zhu * Jia, Q.X.], "Induced Magnetization in La 0.7Sr 0.3MnO 3/BiFeO 3 Superlattices", Physical Review Letters, Vol.113, iss.4, p.047204, 25 July 2014.
[Zhu, Jian-Xin * Janoschek, Marc * Rosenberg, Richard * Ronning, Filip * Thompson, J. D. * Torrez, Michael A. * Bauer, Eric D. * Batista, Cristian D.], "LDA plus DMFT Approach to Magnetocrystalline Anisotropy of Strong Magnets", PHYSICAL REVIEW X, Vol.4, iss.2, p.021027, MAY 15 2014.
[Ren, Jie * Fransson, Jonas * Zhu, Jian-Xin], "Nanoscale Spin Seebeck Rectifier: Controlling Thermal Spin Transport across Insulating Magnetic Junctions with Localized Spin", PHYSICAL REVIEW B, Vol.89, iss.21, p.214407, JUN 10 2014.
[Zhu, Jian-Xin * Wen, Xiao-Dong * Haraldsen, J. T. * He, Mi * Panagopoulos, C. * Chia, Elbert E. M.], "Induced Ferromagnetism at BiFeO3/YBa2Cu3O7 Interfaces", SCIENTIFIC REPORTS, Vol.4, p.5368, JUN 20 2014.
[Liang Cheng * Chan, L.-O.-V. * Chi Sin Tang * Nair, S.K. * Bin Xia * Lan Wang * Jian-Xin Zhu * Chia, E.E.M.], "Temperature-dependent ultrafast carrier and phonon dynamics of topological insulator Bi 1.5Sb 0.5Te 1.8Se 1.2", Applied Physics Letters, Vol.104, iss.21, p.211906, 26 May 2014.
[La-o-vorakiat, C. * Tian, Y. * Wu, T. * Panagopoulos, C. * Zhu, J.-X. * Haibin Su * Chia, E.E.M.], "Interface-induced magnetic coupling in multiferroic/ferromagnetic bilayer: an ultrafast pump-probe study", Applied Physics Letters, Vol.104, iss.14, p.141602, 7 April 2014.
[Yu, Rong * Zhu, Jian-Xin * Si, Qimiao], "Orbital-selective superconductivity, gap anisotropy, and spin resonance excitations in a multiorbital t-J(1)-J(2) model for iron pnictides", PHYSICAL REVIEW B, Vol.89, iss.2, p.024509, JAN 22 2014.
[Gilbertson, Steve M. * Durakiewicz, Tomasz * Dakovski, Georgi L. * Li, Yinwan * Zhu, Jian-Xin * Conradson, Steven D. * Trugman, Stuart A. * Rodriguez, George], "Ultrafast Photoemission Spectroscopy of the Uranium Dioxide UO2 Mott Insulator: Evidence for a Robust Energy Gap Structure", PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS, Vol.112, iss.8, p.087402, FEB 28 2014.
[Li, Wei * Wei, Xin-Yuan * Zhu, Jian-Xin * Ting, C. S. * Chen, Yan], "Pressure-induced topological quantum phase transition in Sb2Se3", PHYSICAL REVIEW B, Vol.89, iss.3, p.035101, JAN 2 2014.
[Ren, Jie * Zhu, Jian-Xin], "Asymmetric Andreev reflection induced electrical and thermal Hall-like effects in metal/anisotropic superconductor junctions", PHYSICAL REVIEW B, Vol.89, iss.6, p.064512, FEB 26 2014.
[Ahmed, Towfiq * Albers, R. C. * Balatsky, A. V. * Friedrich, C. * Zhu, Jian-Xin], "GW quasiparticle calculations with spin-orbit coupling for the light actinides", PHYSICAL REVIEW B, Vol.89, iss.3, p.035104, JAN 6 2014.
[Seo, S. * Lu, Xin * Zhu, J-X. * Urbano, R. R. * Curro, N. * Bauer, E. D. * Sidorov, V. A. * Pham, L. D. * Park, Tuson * Fisk, Z. * Thompson, J. D.], "Disorder in quantum critical superconductors", NATURE PHYSICS, Vol.10, iss.2, p.120-125, FEB 2014.
[Tang, Chi Sin * Xia, Bin * Zou, Xingquan * Chen, Shi * Ou, Hong-Wei * Wang, Lan * Rusydi, A. * Zhu, Jian-Xin * Chia, Elbert E. M.], "Terahertz conductivity of topological surface states in Bi1.5Sb0.5Te1.8Se1.2", SCIENTIFIC REPORTS, Vol.3, p.3513, DEC 17 2013.
[Yu, Rong * Goswami, Pallab * Si, Qimiao * Nikolic, Predrag * Zhu, Jian-Xin], "Superconductivity at the border of electron localization and itinerancy", NATURE COMMUNICATIONS, Vol.4, p.2783, NOV 2013.
Jian-Xin Zhu, Bogoliubov-de Gennes Method and Its Applications (Springer, Berlin, 2016)
Jian-Xin Zhu, First-principles simulations for transition metal oxide multiferroics, in Multiferroic Materials: Properties, Techniques, and Applications, Junling Wang ed. (CRC Press, New York, 2016)
Center for Integrated Nanotechnologies
