ZHOU Qi
Assistant Professor
Assistant Professor
Education:
- PhD, Department of Physics, The Ohio State University, Columbus
- BS, Department of Physics, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China
Position:
- Assistant Professor (2011-Now), Department of Physics, The Chinese University of Hong Kong
- Postdoctoral Fellow (2009-2011), Joint Quantum Institute, University of Maryland, College Park
Research Interests:
- Macroscopic quantum phenomena in multi-component ultra-cold atoms
- Strongly correlated systems in optical lattices
- Ultra-cold atoms in synthetic gauge fields
- Few- and many-body problems in strongly interacting quantum gases
Selected Recent Publications:
- Qi Zhou, J.V. Porto and S. Das Sarma, "Interaction-induced excited-band condensate in a double-well optical lattice", to appear on PRA(R) (2011).
- Qi Zhou and Tin-Lun Ho, "Universal Thermometry for Quantum Simulation", Phys. Rev. Lett. 106, 225301 (2011).
- Qi Zhou, J.V. Porto and S. Das Sarma, "Condensates induced by interband coupling in a double-well lattice", Phys. Rev. B 83, 195106 (2011).
- Qi Zhou and Tin-Lun Ho, "Signature of Quantum Criticality in Density Profiles of Quantum Gases", Phys. Rev. Lett. 105, 245702 (2010).
- Qi Zhou and S. Das Sarma, "Bosons in a Double-well Potential: Understanding the Interplay between Interaction and Disorder in a Simple Model", Phys. Rev. A 82, 041601(R) (2010).
- Tin-Lun Ho and Qi Zhou, "Obtaining Phase Diagram and Thermodynamic Quantities of Bulk Systems from the Densities of Trapped Gases", Nature Physics 6, 131 (2010).
- Qi Zhou, Yasuyuki Kato, Naoki Kawashima and Nandini Trivedi, "Direct Mapping of the Finite Temperature Phase Diagram of Strongly Correlated Quantum Models", Phys. Rev. Lett. 103, 085701 (2009).
- Tin-Lun Ho and Qi Zhou, "Squeezing Out the Entropy of Fermions in an Optical Lattice ", Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 106, 6916 (2009).
| Office: | Room 344, 3/F Science Centre North Block |
| Phone: | (852) 39431122 |
| E-mail: | qizhou@phy.cuhk.edu.hk |