Ren Zhang

renzhang@xjtu.edu.cn

Education

2008-2014  Renmin University of China, Ph.D. in Theoretical Physics

2004-2008  Henan Normal University, B.Sc. in Physics

Experience

2023–Present  Scientist at Hefei National Laboratory

2025–Present  Professor at Xi’an Jiaotong University

2017–2024  Associate Professor at Xi’an Jiaotong University

2014–2017  Postdoctoral Researcher at Tsinghua University

Overview of Academic Research

Prof. Zhang’s research interest includes cold atom physics, non-Hermitian physics, quantum dynamics theory, and quantum physics in curved space. He has made a series of internationally influential contributions in the control of interactions in cold atom systems, including the proposal of the “orbital Feshbach resonance,” the application of confinement-induced resonance to control spin-exchange interactions, the development of a geometric theory of quantum dynamics, and the duality between non-Hermitian and curved space physics. Several theoretical results have been experimentally verified. To date, he has pulished more than 40 papers in academic journals such as Nature Physics, Nature Reviews Physics, Physical Review Letters, and Science Bulletin.

Major Honors and Awards

2024  National Young Talent Program

2022  Cyrus Tang Young Scholar Award

Representative Publications

1.R. Zhang, Y. Yan, and Q. Zhou, Localization on a Synthetic Hall Cylinder, Phys. Rev. Lett. 126, 193001 (2021).

2.R. Zhang, Y. Cheng, P. Zhang, and H. Zhai, Controlling the Interaction of Ultracold Alkaline-Earth Atoms, Nat. Rev. Phys. 2, 213 (2020).

3.C. Lv#, R. Zhang#, and Q. Zhou, SU(1,1 ) Echoes for Breathers in Quantum Gases, Phys. Rev. Lett. 125, 253002 (2020).

4.C. Lv#, R. Zhang#, Z. Zhai, and Q. Zhou, Curving the Space by Non-Hermiticity, Nat. Commun. 13, 2184 (2022).

5.R. Zhang, C. Lv, Y. Yan, and Q. Zhou, Efimov-like States and Quantum Funneling Effects on Synthetic Hyperbolic Surfaces, Science Bulletin 66, 1967 (2021).

6.R. Zhang, Y. Cheng, H. Zhai, and P. Zhang, Controlling Orbital Feshbach resonance in Alkali-Earth Atoms, Phys. Rev. Lett. 115, 135301 (2015). (Editor’s Suggestion)