Education and Employment

High Education:

March 1988 – March 1991,

Department of Physics, Shanghai Jiaotong University, Shanghai, China.

Specialty: Condensed Matter Physics.;

Academic degree: Ph. D.

Doctoral dissertation: Quantum critical fluctuations of the sine-Gordon equation, Kondo problem, and dissipative tunneling systems.

September 1985 -- March 1988,

Department of Physics, Shanghai Jiaotong University, Shanghai,China.

Specialty: Theoretical physics and biophysics.

Academic degree: Master of Science.

Master thesis: Theoretical studies on three basic problems in molecular biophysics.

September 1981 – September 1985,

Department of Physics, National University of Defense Technology, Changsha, Hunan, China.

Specialty: Experimental Nuclear Physics.

Academic degree: Bachelor of Science.

Degree thesis: Optical measurements of the nuclear explosion.

Employment:

April 2004 – present,

Professor in Condensed Matter Section,

Department of Physics, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China

November 1997 – March 2004,

Professor in Condensed Matter Physics,

Center for Advanced Study, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China.

September 1994 – September 1997,

Research Associate

Department of Mathematics, Imperial College of Science, Technology, and Medicine, London, U.K.

September 1992 -- September 1994,

Research Fellow

Condensed Matter Section, International Center for Theoretical Physics, Trieste, Italy.

March 1991– July 1992,

Lecturer

Pohl Institute of Solid State Physics, Tongji University, Shanghai, China.

January 1999—June 1999,

Visiting Scholar

Department of Physics, University of California, Berkeley, California, U. S. A.

February 2001—May 2001,

Visiting Scholar,

Department of Physics, the University of Hong Kong, Pokfulam Road, Hong Kong, China.

Teaching

Undergraduate Course“Complex Analysis”(2000 Spring);

Undergraduate Course “ Statistical Physics” (2004 Spring).

Interests

Research is in the multi-disciplinary area of condensed matter physics theory. Special attention is paid to the following areas:

a. Exotic quantum magnetic states and quantum phase transitions in low-dimensional strongly correlated systems;

b. Quantum impurities and defects in correlated electron systems.

c. Transport properties of quantum mesoscopic electronic devices;

Awards and Membership

Awards:

a.September 2001, Winner of the ‘Grant for Outstanding Young Scientists’ by National Science Foundation of China.

b.September 1999, ‘Outstanding Young Scientists’ awarded by Qiu Shi Science & Technologies Foundation in Hong Kong.

c. July 1991, second prize of ‘Progress of Science and Technology’ awarded by National Education Commission of China.

Professional Activities:

a. Referee of Physical Review Letters and Physical Review B.

b. Concurrent research fellow at National Laboratory for Superconductivity, Institute of Physics, Chinese Academy of Science.

c. Concurrent research fellow at Interdisciplinary Center of Theoretical Studies, Institute of Theoretical Physics, Chinese Academy of Science.

Selected Publications

Recent Representative Research Works:

1.Guang-Ming Zhang, Hui Hu, and Lu Yu,

Interplay of quantum magnetic and potential scattering around Zn and Ni

impurity ions in superconducting cuprates,

Physical Review B 66, 104511 (2002).

2.Guang-Ming Zhang, Hui Hu, and Lu Yu,

Marginal Fermi liquid resonance induced by a quantum magnetic impurity in

d-wave superconductors,

Physical Review Letters, 86, 704 (2001).

3.Guang-Ming Zhang and Shun-Qing Shen,

Ordered valence bond states in symmetric two-dimensional spin-orbital

systems,

Physical Review Letters, 87, 157201 (2001).

4.Guang-Ming Zhang, Hui Hu, and Lu Yu,

Spin-orbital gapped phase with least symmetry breaking in one-dimensional

symmetrically coupled spin-orbital model,

Physical Review B 67, 064420 (2003).

5.Hui Hu, Guang-Ming Zhang, and Lu Yu,

Mesoscopic Kondo screening effect in a single-electron transistor embeded in

a metallic ring,

Physical Review Letters, 86, 5558 (2001).

6.Guang-Ming Zhang and Lu Yu,

Kondo singlet state coexisting with antiferromagnetically long-range

ordered: A possible ground state for Kondo insulators,

Physical Review B 62, 76 (2000).

Pulication List：

1. J. Ni and Guang-Ming Zhang, 2004

Effects of local oxygen distortions on the electronic structure of

Na_xCoO_2,

Physical Review B 69, 214503.

2. Guang-Ming Zhang, Hui Hu, and Lu Yu, 2003,

Valence-bond spin liquid state in two-dimensional frustrated spin-1/2

Heisenberg antiferromagnets

Physical Review Letters, 91, 067201.

3. Guang-Ming Zhang, Hui Hu, and Lu Yu, 2003,

Spin-orbital gapped phase with least symmetry breaking in one-dimensional

symmetrically coupled spin-orbital model,

Physical Review B 67, 064420.

4. Guang-Ming Zhang, Hui Hu, and Lu Yu, 2002,

Interplay of quantum magnetic and potential scattering around Zn and Ni

impurity ions in superconducting cuprates,

Physical Review B 66, 104511.

5. S. Q. Shen and Guang-Ming Zhang, 2002,

Formation of energy gap in high-dimensional spin-orbital liquids,

Europhysics Letters 57, 274.

6. Guang-Ming Zhang and Shun-Qing Shen, 2001,

Ordered valence bond states in symmetric two-dimensional spin-orbital

systems,

Physical Review Letters, 87, 157201.

7. Hui Hu, Guang-Ming Zhang, and Lu Yu, 2001,

Mesoscopic Kondo screening effect in a single-electron transistor embeded

in a metallic ring,

Physical Review Letters, 86, 5558.

8. Guang-Ming Zhang, Hui Hu, and Lu Yu, 2001,

Marginal Fermi liquid resonance induced by a quantum magnetic impurity in

d-wave superconductors,

Physical Review Letters, 86, 704.

9. Hui Hu, Guang-Ming Zhang, Jia-Lin Zhu, and Jia-Jiong Xiong, 2001,

Low energy exciton states in a nanoscopic semiconducting ring,

Physical Review B 63, 45320.

10.Guang-Ming Zhang, Qiang Gu, and Lu Yu, 2000,

Kondo spin liquid and magnetically long-range ordered states in the Kondo

necklace model,

Physical Review B 62, 69.

11.Guang-Ming Zhang and Lu Yu, 2000,

Kondo singlet state coexisting with antiferromagnetically long-range

ordered: A possible ground state for Kondo insulators,

Physical Review B 62, 76.

12.Guang-Ming Zhang and Lu Yu, 2000,

Two-channel Kondo model as a generalized one-dimensional inverse square

long-range Haldane-Shastry spin model,

Journal of Physics: Condensed Matter 12, L217.

13.Guang-Ming Zhang, A. C. Hewson, and B. Bulla, 1999,

Majorano fermion formulation of the two-channel Kondo model,

Solid State Communications, 112, 105.

14.Guang-Ming Zhang, 1999,

Consequences of momentum independence of self-energy for the one-band

Hubbard model,

Solid State Communications, 112, 109.

15.S. Bradley, R. Bulla, A. C. Hewson, and Guang-Ming Zhang, 1999,

Spectra densities of response functions for the O(3) symmetric Anderson and

two-channel Kondo models,

European Physical Journal B, 11, 535.

16.Guang-Ming Zhang and Lu Yu, 1998,

Anomalous resonance of the symmetric single-impurity Anderson model in the

presence of pairing fluctuations,

Physical Review Letters, 81, 4129.

17.B. Bulla, A. C. Hewson, and Guang-Ming Zhang, 1997,

Low-energy fixed points of the and O(3) symmetric Anderson model,

Physical Review B, 56, 11721.

18.Guang-Ming Zhang and A. C. Hewson, 1996,

Linear temperature dependence of electric resistivity in a single impurity

model,

Physical Review Letters, 76, 2137.

19.Guang-Ming Zhang and A. C. Hewson, 1996,

Non-Fermi liquid theory of a compactified Anderson impurity model,

Physical Review B, 54, 1169.

20.Guang-Ming Zhang, Zhao-Bin Su, and Lu Yu, 1996,

Universality class of non-Fermi liquid behavior in mixed valence systems,

Physical Review B, 53, 715.

21.Guang-Ming Zhang, Zhao-Bin Su, and Lu Yu, 1995,

Non-Fermi liquid behavior in a single-impurity mixed valence system,

Mod. Phys. Lett. B, 9, 1527.

22.Guang-Ming Zhang and Lu Yu, 1994,

Asymptotically exact solution of a local copper-oxide model,

Physical Review Letters, 72, 2474.

23.Guang-Ming Zhang, Zhao-Bin Su, and Lu Yu , 1994,

Asymptotically exact solution of the multi-channel resonance -level model,

Physical Review B, 49, 7759.

24.Xin-Yun Zhang and Guang-Ming Zhang, 1994,

Asymptotic solution of infinite dimensional Hubbard model,

Physical Review B, 49, 7929.

25.Shiping Feng, Guang-Ming Zhang, Zhao-Bin Su, and Lu Yu, 1994,

Fermion-spin transformation and strong coupling behavior of two-coupled t-J

chains, in Superconductivity and Strong Correlated Electron Systems, edited

by C. Noce, A. Romano and G. Scarpetta (World Scientific).

26.Guang-Ming Zhang, Shiping Feng, and Lu Yu, 1994,

Strong-coupling behavior of the two t-J chains with interchain single

electron hopping,

Physical Review B, 49, 9997.

27.Guang-Ming Zhang, Hong Chen, and Xiang Wu, 1993,

First order transition in the dense two-dimensional classical Coulomb gas,

Physical Review B, 48, 12304.

28.Guang-Ming Zhang, Hong Chen, and Xiang Wu, 1991,

Perturbation approach for the Kondo Hamiltonian,

Physical Review B, 44, 721.

29.Guang-Ming Zhang, Hong Chen, and Xiang Wu, 1991,

Critical properties of the quantum sine-Gordon equation,

Physical Review B, 43, 13566.

30.Guang-Ming Zhang, Hong Chen, and Xiang Wu, 1990,

Variational approach for tunneling diffusion of a particle interacting with

phonons,

Physical Review B, 41, 11600.