Professor Zhengwei Zhou

Education

• BS in Physics, 09/1992-06/1996, Physics Department, University of Science and Technology of China (USTC)
• Ph.D in Physics, 09/1996-06/2001, Physics Department, University of Science and Technology of China (USTC)

Experience

• 07/2001-01/2004 , Lecturer, University of Science and Technology of China
• 01/2004-12/2007, Associate Professor, University of Science and Technology of China
• 11/2004-01/2005, Visiting Scholar, University of Michigan
• 11/2005-01/2006, Visiting Scholar, The University of Hong Kong
• 12/2007--, Professor, University of Science and Technology of China

Research Interest

• Physical Fundamentals of Quantum information
• Quantum simulation in scalable quantum systems
• Cold atom physics in the low spatial dimension

Research Projects

• Principal Investigator, "Quantum simulation for highly-correlated many body system and detection methods to quantum phases," funded by the NNSF of China under Grant No. 11174270, 2012-2015.
• Principal Investigator, "Physical Fundamentals of Quantum Computation," funded by the Ministry of Science and Technology of China under Grant No. 2006CB921908, 2006-2010.
• Principal Investigator, "Some investigations on quantum manipulating in many body quantum systems," funded by the NNSF of China under Grant No. 10874170, 2009-2011.
• Principal Investigator, "Manipulating coherence in many body quantum systems," funded by the NNSF of China under Grant No. 10574126, 2006-2008.
• Principal Investigator, "Quantum information processes in encoded subspaces," funded by the NNSF of China under Grant No. 10204020, 2003-2005.

Selected Publications

• Overlaying optical lattices for simulation of complex frustrated antiferromagnets, Chen ZX, Ma H, Chen MH, Zhou XF, He LX, Guo GC, Zhou XX, Chen Y, and Zhou ZW*, PHYSICAL REVIEW A 85, 013632 (2012).
• Simulation of non-Abelian anyons using ribbon operators connected to a common base site, Luo XW, Han YJ, Guo GC, Zhou XX, and Zhou ZW*, PHYSICAL REVIEW A 84, 052314 (2011).
• Quantum phase transition of Bose-Einstein condensates on a nonlinear ring lattice, Zhou ZW*, zhang SL, Zhou XF, Guo GC, Zhou XX, Pu H, PHYSICAL REVIEW A 83, 043626 (2011).
• Quantum simulation of Heisenberg spin chains with next-nearest-neighbor interactions in coupled cavities, Chen ZX, Zhou ZW*, Zhou XX, Zhou XF, Guo GC, PHYSICAL REVIEW A 81, 022303 (2010).
• Scalable fault-tolerant quantum computation in decoherence-free subspaces, Zhou ZW*, Yu B, Zhou XX, Feldman MJ, Guo GC, PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS 93, 010501 (2004).
• Quantum computation with untunable couplings, Zhou XX, Zhou ZW, Guo GC, Feldman MJ, PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS 89, 197903 (2002).

Awards and Honors

• Guang-Hua graduate student Fellowship (1997,1999), Guang-Hua Education Foundation
• Qiu Shi graduate student Fellowship (2000), Qiu Shi Science & Technology Foundation
• CAS Presidential Fellowship for graduate students (2001), Chinese Academy of Sciences
• Second-Class National Natural Science Award in 2003 (2004), Chinese Government
• First-Class Excellent Natural Science Research Paper Award (2007), Science & Technology Society of Anhui Province
• Lu Jia-Xi Young Scholar Award (2008), Chinese Academy of Sciences