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Professor Shizhong Zhang is currently professor in Department of Physics in the University of Hong Kong. He graduated from Tsinghua University in 2003, and received his Ph.D degree in physics from University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 2009. He joined the University of Hong Kong in August 2012.

Professor Zhang's main area of research is the physics of cold atomic gases, which explores the quantum behavior of interacting particles at extremely low temperature. Cold atom physics is an interdisciplinary field that has inherited the precision measurement and control from atomic physics, and explored this advantage to study both many-body and few-body physics. Currently, his research focuses on the transport properties of such cold atomic gases and their possible implications for our understanding of other correlated materials.

1. “Flow in a one-dimensional spin-polarized Fermi gas: The role of integrability on viscosity”, Jeff Maki, Shizhong Zhang, Phys. Rev. A 107, 013310 (2023)
2. “Three-body recombination in a single-component Fermi gas with p-wave interaction”, Shangguo Zhu, Zhenhua Yu and Shizhong Zhang, Phys. Rev. A 106, 063309 (2023)
3. “Dynamics of Strongly Interacting Fermi Gases with Time-Dependent Interactions: Consequence of Conformal Symmetry”, Jeff Maki, Shizhong Zhang and Fei Zhou, Phys. Rev. Lett. 128, 040401 (2022)
4. “Role of Effective Range in the Bulk Viscosity of Resonantly Interacting s- and p-Wave Fermi Gases”, Jeff Maki and Shizhong Zhang, Phys. Rev. Lett. 125, 240402 (2020)
5. “Fermi-Liquid Description of a Single-Component Fermi Gas with p-Wave Interactions”, Shangshan Ding and Shizhong Zhang, Phys. Rev. Lett. 123, 070404 (2019)
6. “Quantum Spin Dynamics in a Normal Bose Gas with Spin-Orbit Coupling”, Wai Ho Tang and Shizhong Zhang, Phys. Rev. Lett. 121, 120403 (2018)
7. “Strongly interacting p-wave Fermi gas in two dimensions: Universal relations and breathing mode”, Yi-Cai Zhang and Shizhong Zhang, Phys. Rev. A 95, 023603 (2017)
8. “Universal Relations for a Fermi Gas Close to a p-Wave Interaction Resonance”, Zhenhua Yu, J. H. Thywissen, Shizhong Zhang, Phys. Rev. Lett. 115, 135304 (2015)

1. RGC Research Fellow Scheme (RFS) 2022/23 (PI): Quantum gases with high partial-wave scattering (HKU Project Code: RFS2223-7S03)

2. General Research Fund (GRF) 2022/23 (PI): Physics of a single component Fermi gas in one-dimensional optical trap: three-body interaction and bulk viscosity around resonance (HKU Project Code: 17313122)