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Faculty

Kunhua Zhang Associate Professor

Academic Area: 
Condensed Matter Physics
Research Interests: 
  • Quantum transport in low-dimensional electronic systems
  • Spintronics
  • Topological quantum states
  • Majorana bound states and Non-Abelian statistics
Bio: 

Educational Background:

  • 2008.09 – 2015.07    PhD, Theoretical Physics, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences
  • 2002.09 – 2006.07    BA, Physics, Northwest University

Working Experience:

  • 2020.07 – Now       Associate Professor, Department of Physics, Nanjing Normal university
  • 2018.07 – 2020.07    Associate Researcher, University of Science and Technology of China
  • 2015.07 – 2018.06    Postdoc, University of Science and Technology of China
  • 2006.07 – 2007.09    Engineer Assistant, Institute of Modern Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences

Research Projects:

  • Theoretical study on the transport properties of topological superconductors (2016M590569), China Postdoctoral Science Foundation, 2016.5-2018.6
  • Spin-related properties of Majorana fermions in topological superconductors (11704366), National Natural Science Foundation of China, 2018.1-2020.12

Journal Articles:

  1. Qingming Li, Yulei Han, Kunhua Zhang, Ying-Tao Zhang, Jian-Jun Liu, and Zhenhua Qiao, Multiple Majorana edge modes in magnetic topological insulator–superconductor heterostructures, Phys. Rev. B 102, 205402 (2020) .
  2. Kunhua Zhang, Xinling Dong, Junjie Zeng, Yulei Han, and Zhenhua Qiao, Universal current correlations induced by the Majorana and fermionic Andreev bound states, Phys. Rev. B 100, 045421 (2019). 
  3. Kunhua Zhang, Junjie Zeng,Xinglong Dong, and Qiang Cheng, Spin dependence of crossed Andreev reflection and electron tunneling induced by Majorana fermions, J. Phys.: Condens. Matter 30, 505302(2018). 
  4. Kunhua Zhang and Qiang Cheng, Electrically tunable crossed Andreev reflection in a ferromagnet-superconductor-ferromagnet junction on a topological insulator, Supercond. Sci. Technol. 31,075001(2018).
  5. Xin-Long Dong, Kun-Hua Zhang, and Ming-Xiang Xu, First-principles study of electronic structure and magnetic properties of SrTi1-xMxO3 (M=Cr, Mn,Fe, Co, or Ni), Front. Phys. 13, 137106 (2018).
  6. Qiang Cheng, Kunhua Zhang, and Hongyang Ma, Controllable phase transitions and novel selection rules in Josephson junctions with inherent orthogonality, Phys. Lett. A 382, 646–655 (2018). 
  7. Kunhua Zhang, Junjie Zeng, Yafei Ren, and Zhenhua Qiao, Spin-pairing correlations and spin polarization of Majorana bound states in two-dimensional topological insulator systems, Phys. Rev. B 96, 085117 (2017) . 
  8. Qiang Cheng, Yinhan Zhang, Kunhua Zhang, Biao Jin, and Changlian Zhang, Symmetry analysis of transport properties in helical superconductor junctions, J. Phys.: Condens. Matter 29, 085601 (2017). 
  9. Xinzhou Deng, Shifei Qi, Yulei Han, Kunhua Zhang, Xiaohong Xu, and Zhenhua Qiao, Realization of quantum anomalous Hall effect in graphene from n-p cooping induced stable atomic adsorption, Phys. Rev. B 95, 121410 (2017). 
  10. Junjie Zeng, Yafei Ren, Kun-Hua Zhang, and Zhenhua Qiao, Topological phase transition from trigonal warping in van derWaals multilayers, Phys. Rev. B 95, 045424 (2017).
  11. Qiang Cheng, Kunhua Zhang, Dongyang Yu, Chongju Chen, Yinhan Zhang, and Biao Jin, Tunable ground states in helical p-wave Josephson junctions, Supercond. Sci. Technol. 29, 075010 (2016). 
  12. Kun-Hua Zhang, Zhen-Gang Zhu, Zheng-Chuan Wang, Qing-Rong Zheng, and Gang Su, Effective manipulation of Andreev bound states, zero mode Majorana fermion and Josephson current in a superconductor-normal-superconductor junction on the surface of a topological insulator, Phys. Lett. A 378,3131–3135 (2014). 
  13. Kun-Hua Zhang,Zheng-Chuan Wang, Qing-Rong Zheng, and Gang Su, Gate-voltage  controlled electronic transport through a ferromagnet/normal/ferromagnet junction on the surface of a topological insulator, Phys. Rev. B 86, 174416 (2012). 

Contact:

zhangkh@njnu.edu.cn