Joint Associate Professor of IQSE and Physics Department. Research area include quantum optics and atomic, molecular and optical physics. Research projects include national science foundation in precision measurement, quantum control etc.

Research Interest 

Single photon generation and manipulation; Quantum correlation; Laser cooling and trapping

Education Background

2003/09- 2007/06, Physics，Sun Yat-Sen University, Bachelor of Science (Physics)

2007/09-2012/01, Physics Department，Hong Kong University of Science and Technology

Working Experience

2012.03---2019.05 East China Normal University, Physics Department, Research Professor

2019.05 to present, Southern University of Science and Technology, China, Physics Department and Shenzhen Institute for Quantum Science and Technology, Joint Associate Professor

2019.12 to present, Topical Editor, Journal of the Optical Society of America B (JOSA B)

Honors & Awards

Winner of 2011 Young Scientist Award in Physical/Mathematical Science, awarded by Hong Kong Institution of Science;

2016 Critical Progress of Optics in China: Temporal Purity and Quantum Interference of Single Photons from Two independent Cold Atomic Ensembles.

Papers

[1] J. Wang, Y. Zuo, X. Wang, D. N. Christodoulides, Georgios A. Siviloglou, and J. F. Chen, Spatiotemporal single-photon Airy bullets, Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 143601 (2024). (Editors’ Suggestion & Featured in Physics)

[2] Wang, X. et al. Quantum Interference between Photons and Single Quanta of Stored Atomic Coherence. Phys. Rev. Lett. 128, 083605 (2022).

[3] Du. W. et al., SU(2)-in-SU(1,1) Nested Interferometer for High Sensitivity, Loss-Tolerant Quantum Metrology. Phys. Rev. Lett 128, 033601 (2022).

[4] W. Du, J. F. Chen, Z. Y. Ou, W. Zhang, Quantum dense metrology by an SU(2)-in-SU(1,1) nested interferometer, Appl. Phys. Lett. 117, 024003 (2020).

[5] Wen, R. et al. Non-Hermitian magnon-photon interference in an atomic ensemble. Phys. Rev. Lett. 122, 253602 (2019).

Research ID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7108-6214