Xifan Wu
Physics Department
Temple University
Philadelphia, PA 19122
Tel: (215)204-7637
Fax: (215)204-5652
Email:
http://astro.temple.edu/~xifanwu/
Education
2001 BS in Physics, Physics Department of Nanjing University, Nanjing, China
2006 PhD in Physics, Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey, Piscataway, NJ
(Thesis advisor: David Vanderbilt)
Professional Experience
Fall 2010 - Tenure track assistant professor, Physics Department, Temple University, PA
(Medical leave and exempt from teaching from December 2011 to August 2012)
2009 – 2010 Associate research scholar, Chemistry Department, Princeton University, NJ
(Supervisor: Roberto Car)
2006 – 2009 Postdoctoral associate, Chemistry Department, Princeton University, NJ
(Supervisor: Roberto Car and Annabella Selloni)
2001 – 2006 Graduate research assistant
(Supervisor: David Vanderbilt)
Honors, Awards, Fellowships
2001 Graduate school fellowship, Rutgers, Piscataway NJ
2000 Motorola Outstanding Research Award, Nanjing University
2000 Outstanding Graduate Student Award, Nanjing University
Recent Publications
Publication list at physics department of Temple University
1. Xifan Wu, Interface enhanced functionalities in BaTiO3/CaTiO3 superlattices, Journal of Physics: Condensed Matter, Invited review paper, in press. 42
(Contribution: This is a single author topic review paper invited by the journal editor.)
2. Xifan Wu, Interface enhanced multifunctionalities in oxide thin-films and superlattices under mechanical and electric boundary conditions, Computational Material (Nature Partner Journals) Invited review paper, in press.41
(Contribution: This is a single author topic review paper invited by the journal editor)
3. Hongwei Wang, Jianguo Wen, Dean J. Miller, Qibin Zhou, Ho Nyung Lee, Karin M. Rabe, and Xifan Wu, Highly polar phase stabilized at interface of perovskite superlattice designed by oxygen octahedron rotation reconstruction, Submitted to Nature Communications.40
(Contribution: This is a mainly a theoretical project confirmed by experiments, Xifan Wu’s group is leading this project and the first author is currently a postdoc in his group.)
4. D. Lee, H. Lu, Y. Gu, S.-Y. Choi, S. Li, T. Paudel, K. Song, E. Mikheev, A. Kajdos, S. Ryu, Si-Da. Lee, X. Wu, D. A. Tenne, S. H. Oh, S. Stemmer, E. Y. Tsymbal, L.-Q. Chen, A. Gruverman, C. B. Eom, Giant Enhancement of Ferroelectricity in a Reduced Dimension, under review of Science.39
(Contribution: This is a collaborative project between our group and experimentalists of Dr. Eom’s group in University of Wisconsin–Madison.)
5. J. Wen, D. A. Miller, N. J. Zaluzec, J. M. Hiller, H. N. Lee, and X. Wu, Amplitude contrast high-resolution transmission electron microscopy of a ferroelectric superlattice film, submitted to Physical Review X.38
(Contribution: This is a collaborative project between our group and TEM experimentalists in Argonne national lab.)
6. M. R. Cosgriff, P. Chen, N. P. Corey, Y.Y. Jo, A. Menta, M. Tajiri, H.N. Lee, X. Wu, P. G. Evans, Disorder effect in electric-field-induced octahedral dynamics of BaTiO3/CaTiO3 superlattices, submitted to Physics Review B.37
(Contribution: This is a collaborative project between theory (my group) and experiment (Dr. Paul Evan’s group, who is an associate professor in University of Wisconsin–Madison).)
7. X. Z. Lu, Xifan Wu, H. J. Xiang, General Microscopic Model of Magnetoelastic Coupling from First-Principles, Physical Review B 91, 100405(R) (2015).36
(Contribution: This is a collaborative project between my group and a junior professor in Fudan University, China)
8. A. Bankura, B. Santra, R. A. DiStasio Jr., C. W. Swartz, M. L. Klein, and X. Wu, A Systematic Study of Chloride Ion Solvation in Water using van der Waals Inclusive Hybrid Density Functional Theory, Molecular Physics, Accepted in production.35
(Contribution: This is a project supervised by Xifan Wu and the calculations were carried by A. Bankura as postdoc in Temple.)
9. Hongwei Wang, Lixin He, and Xifan Wu, Room temperature multiferroism in CaTcO3by interface engineering, Computational Materials Science 96, 171 (2015).34
(Contribution: This is a project supervised by Xifan Wu and the calculations were carried out by Hongwei Wang who was a visiting student from University of Science and Technology, China)
10. Robert A. DiStasio Jr.1, Biswajit Santra, Zhaofeng Li, Xifan Wu and Roberto Car, The individual and collective effects of exact exchange and dispersion, The Journal of Chemical Physics 141, 084502 (2014).33
(Contribution: This is in collaboration with Roberto Car’s group, my contribution is in the computational method development in linear scaling exact exchange in hybrid functional DFT.)
11. Hongwei Wang, Igor V. Solovyev, Wenbin Wang, Xiao Wang, Philip J. Ryan, David J. Keavney, Jong-Woo Kim, Thomas Z. Ward, Leyi Zhu, Jian Shen, X. M. Cheng, Lixin He, Xiaoshan Xu, and Xifan Wu, Structural and electronic origin of the magnetic structures in hexagonal LuFeO3, Physical Review B 90, 014436 (2014).32
(Contribution: This is a mainly theoretical project supervised by Xifan Wu, the experiment collaboration is from Dr. Xiaoshan Xu’s group, who is an assistant professor in University of Nebraska–Lincoln. The first author is the student from Xifan Wu’s group.)
12. Charles Swartz and Xifan Wu, Ab initio studies of ionization potentials of hydrated hydroxide and hydronium, Physical Review Letters 111, 087801 (2013).31
(Contribution: This is a project supervised by Xifan Wu and the calculations were carried out by Charles Swartz who was a graduate student of Xifan Wu’ group at Temple.)
13. Hongwei Wang, Lixin He, and Xifan Wu, Interface enhancement of spin-polar phonon coupling in perovskite multiferroic superlattices, Europhysics Letters 100, 17005 (2012).30
(Contribution: This is a project supervised by Xifan Wu and the calculations were carried out by Hongwei Wang who was a visiting student from University of Science and Technology, China)
14. Charles Swartz and Xifan Wu, Modeling functional piezoelectricity in perovskite superlattices with competing instabilities, Physical Review B 85, 054102 (2012).29
(Contribution: This is a project supervised by Xifan Wu and the calculations were carried out by Charles Swartz who was a garduate student of Xifan Wu’s group at Temple)
15. Wenbin Wang, Hongwei Wang, Xiaoying Xu, Leyi Zhu, Lixin He, Elizabeth Wills, Xuemei Cheng, David J. Keavney, Jian Shen, Xifan Wu, Xiaoshan Xu, Crystal field splitting and optical band gap of hexagonal LuFeO3 films, Applied Physics Letters 101, 241907 (2012).28
(Contribution: This is a collaborative project between theory (my group) and experiment (Dr. Xiaoshan Xu’s group, who is an assistant professor in University of Nebraska–Lincoln).)
16. Lingzhu Kong, Xifan Wu, and Roberto Car, Roles of quantum nuclei and inhomogeneous screening in the x-ray absorption spectra of water and ice, Physical Review B 86, 134203 (2012).27
(Contribution: This is in collaboration with Roberto Car’s group, my contribution is in the computational method development in quasiparticle compuational approach.)
17. Jia Chen, Xifan Wu and Annabella Selloni, Electronic structure and bonding properties of cobalt oxide in the spinel structure, Physical Review B 83, 245204 (2011).26
(Contribution: This is the project performed by myself in collaboration with Annabella Selloni’s group, my contribution is in the computational method development in linear scaling exact exchange in hybrid functional DFT.)
18. Xifan Wu, Karin M. Rabe, David Vanderbilt, Interfacial enhancement of ferroelectricity in CaTiO3/BaTiO3 superlattices, Physical Review B 83, 020104 (2011).25
(Contribution: This is the project performed by myself in collaboration with PhD advisor.)
Publication list during postdoctoral and graduate student period
19. Wei Chen, Xifan Wu, and Roberto Car, X-ray absorption signatures of the molecular environment in water and ice, Physical Review Letters 105, 017802 (2010).24
20. Xifan Wu, Eric J. Walter, Andrew M. Rappe, Roberto Car and Annabella Selloni, Hybrid density functional calculations of the band gap of GaxIn1-xN, Physical Review B 80, 115201(R) (2009).23
21. Xifan Wu, Annabella Selloni, and Roberto Car, Order N implementation of exact exchange in extended insulating system, Physical Review B 79, 085102 (Editors' Suggestions and selected for synopsis in Physics) (2009).22
22. Xifan Wu, Massimiliano Stengle, Karin M. Rabe, and David Vanderbilt, Predicting polarization and nonlinear dielectric response of arbitrary perovskite superlattice sequence, Physical Review Letters 101, 087601 (Editors' Suggestions) (2008).21
23. Xifan Wu, Oswaldo Dieguez, Karin M. Rabe, and David Vanderbilt, Wannier-based defnition of layer polarizations in perovskite superlattices, Physical Review Letters 97, 107602 (2006).20
24. Xifan Wu and David Vanderbilt, Theory of hypothetical ferroelectric superlattices incorporating head-to-head and tail-to-tail 180 degree domain walls, Physical Review B 73, 020103(R) (2006).19
25. Gabriel Bester, Alex Zunger, Xifan Wu, and David Vanderbilt, Effect of linear and non-linear piezoelectricity on the electronic properties of InAs/GaAs quantum dots, Physical Review B 74, 081305 (2006).18
26. Gabriel Bester, Xifan Wu, Alex Zunger, and David Vanderbilt, Importance of second-order piezoelectric effects in zincblende semiconductors, Phys. Review Letters 96, 187602 (2006).17
27. Xifan Wu, David Vanderbilt, and D. R. Hamann, Systematic treatment of displacements, strains and electric fields in density-functional perturbation theory, Physical Review B 72, 035105 (2005).16
28. D. R. Hamann, Xifan Wu, Karin M. Rabe, and David Vanderbilt, Metric tensor formulation of strain in density-functional perturbation theory, Physical Review B 71, 035117 (2005).15
Teaching
Xifan Wu is teaching a general education course “how things work- physics of everyday life” at Temple University for five semesters, in which the physics will be taught to undergraduate students from non-science majors. He has also taught recitation courses for “General physics”.
Synergistic Activities
· Referee for Phys. Rev. B, Phys. Rev. Lett., Sci. Rep., J. Chem. Phys., J. Am. Chem. Soc., etc.
· Serve in NSF and DOE grant review panels
· Organize one symposium for electronic structure workshop 2015 in June 2015 Seattle.
· Outside PhD committee member for Maryam Taherinejad (PhD in Physics 2015, Rutgers U.)
· Outside PhD committee member for Mark Scafetta (PhD in Material Science 2015, Drexel U.)
· Serve Graduate admission committee of physics department, Temple
Students and Postdoc supervised
Charles Swartz (PhD, June 2014, Physics Department, Temple University)
Hongwei Wang, (PhD, November 2014 co-supervised with University of Science and Technology, China)
Zhaoru Sun (Postdoc), Yubo Zhang (Postdoc), Hongwei Wang (Postdoc)
Lixin Zheng (Graduate student), Pratik Dhuvad (Graduate student), Fengcheng Wu (Graduate student)
Invited talks in conferences, seminars and colloquiums
“Advanced ab initio methods: Bridging electron excitation and H-bond structure in liquid water and ion solutions”, Colloquium of Center for Nanoscale Material, Argonne National Laboratory June 2014.
“Highly efficient hybrid functional DFT and many-body perturbation theory by Wannier-based linear scaling exact exchange method”, Department Seminar, August 2014, Fudan University, Shanghai, China.
“Highly efficient hybrid functional DFT and many-body perturbation theory by Wannier-based linear scaling exact exchange method”, Invited talk at Large scale DFT work shop held by Department of Defense, July 2014, Aberdeen, MD.“Structural and electronic origin of the magnetic structures in hexagonal LuFeO3”, invited talk at the oxide workshop in University of Buffalo, May 2014, Buffalo, NY.
“Interface enhanced functionalities in BaTiO3/CaTiO3 superlattices”, invited talk in American physical society march meeting, March 2014, Denver.
“Order-N exact exchange and its applications in advanced electronic and molecular structure modeling of liquids”, PACS seminar of ETH, September 2013, ETH, Zürich, Switzerland.
“Linear scaling exact exchange in advanced modeling of ab initio studies of liquids”, Temple and NIMS Japan exchange program, December 2013, NISM, Tsukuba, Japan.
“Ab initio studies of ionization potentials of hydrated hydroxide and hydronium”, Keynote speaker of CPMD 2013 conference in Germany, September 2013, Lepzig, Germany.
“Ab initio Studies of Ionization Potentials of Hydrated Hydroxide and Hydronium”, CMCSN workshop, June 2013, UC Davis, CA.
“Linear scaling method of exact exchange -- towards better understandings of electronic and molecular structures in liquids”, Department seminar, May 2013, Wisconsin Madison.
“Functional oxide thin-films by interface design”, LSM seminar, December 2012, Rutgers, NJ.
“Interface Enhancement of Spin-Lattice Coupling in Oxide Superlattices”, Novel Electronic Devices Based on Coupled Phase Transitions Workshop, January 2011, Arlington, VA.
“X-Ray Absorption Signatures of the Molecular Environment in Water and Ice”, CMCSN conference, December 2011, Princeton NJ.