Nan Zhao Curriculum Vitae - Department of Physics - The Chinese ...

Nan Zhao
Room G29, Science Centre North Block,
The Chinese University of Hong Kong,
Shatin, New Territories, Hong Kong, China
E-mail: nzhao@phy.cuhk.edu.hk
Curriculum Vitae
I
Basic Information
Name:
Nan Zhao
Gender:
Male
Date of Birth: 27 September 1981
Nationality: P. R. China
Present Address: Room G29, Science Centre North Block,
The Chinese University of Hong Kong,
Shatin, New Territories, Hong Kong, China
Phone: +852-6706 9692
E-mail:
nzhao@phy.cuhk.edu.hk
zhaonan@gmail.com
II
Education and Research Experience
Sep. 1999−Jul. 2003
Jul. 2003−Jul. 2008
Jul. 2008−Nov. 2008
Dec. 2009−May 2009
Sep. 2009−now
Department of Physics, Tsinghua University.
Bachelor of Science.
Department of Physics, Tsinghua University.
Ph.D., Condensed matter physics. Supervised by Prof. Jia-Lin Zhu.
Institution of Theoretical Physics, Chinese Academy of Science.
Visiting scholar, Cooperator Prof. Chang-Pu Sun.
Department of Physics, The Chinese University of Hong Kong.
Research assistant, Cooperator Prof. Ren-Bao Liu.
Department of Physics, The Chinese University of Hong Kong.
Postdoctoral Fellow, Cooperator Prof. Ren-Bao Liu.

III
Research Interest
1. Physics and applications of spin coherence of NV centers in diamond
Electron spin decoherence mechanisms of Nitrogon-Vacancy (NV) centers in diamond;
Controlling and preserving NV center electron spin coherence by dynamical decoupling
methods; Quantum information processing schemes using NV center electron and nuclear
spins in diamond; NV center-based high-resolution and ultra-sensitive magnetometry
and magnetic resonance imaging and their chemical and biological applications.
2. Spin decoherence and dynamical decoupling in other solid systems
Electron spin decoherence mechanism in solid-state systems such as quantum dots,
donors in Silicon, and radical spins in organic crystals; Quantum many-body theory
for central spin dephasing and relaxation in finite spin baths; Observable effects of
many-body correlations of solid-state bath spins though the central spin coherence.
IV
Main Research Works
1. Nan Zhao, Jian-Liang Hu, Sai-Wah Ho, Jones Tsz-Kai Wan, and Ren-Bao Liu, Atomicscale
magnetometry using nuclear spin pair coherence in diamond, Nature Nanotechnology
(2011), advanced online publication, doi:10.1038/NNANO.2011.22
2. Nan Zhao, Zhen-Yu Wang, and Ren-Bao Liu, Anomalous decoherence effect, submitted
to Phys. Rev. Lett.
3. Jiangfeng Du, Xing Rong, Nan Zhao, Ya Wang, Jiahui Yang, and R. B. Liu, Preserving
electron spin coherence in solids by optimal dynamical decoupling, Nature 461, 1265-1268
(2009).
4. Nan Zhao, Jia-Lin Zhu, R.-B. Liu, and C. P. Sun, Quantum noise theory for quantum
transport through nanostructures, accepted by New Journal of Physics, in press.
5. Nan Zhao, H. Dong, Shuo Yang, and C. P. Sun, Observable topological effects in molecular
devices with Möbius topology. Phys. Rev. B 79, 125440 (2009).
6. Nan Zhao, D.L. Zhou, Jia-Lin Zhu, and C. P. Sun, Cooling Torsional Nanomechanical
Vibration by Spin-Orbit Interactions. Commun. Theor. Phys. 50, 1457 (2008).
7. Nan Zhao, L. Zhong, Jia-Lin Zhu, and C. P. Sun, Spin entanglement induced by spinorbit
interactions in coupled quantum dots. Phys. Rev. B 74, 075307 (2006).