Personal Introduction:

2023.2--，Department of Physics, Hefei University of Technology, Professor

2019--2023.1, Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of California, Santa Cruz, Postdoctor

2016.8--2018.10, Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences, Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich, Postdoctor

2011.9 – 2016.6, National Synchrotron Radiation Laboratory, University of Science and Technology of China, PhD

2007.8 – 2011.6, Department of Thermal Science and Energy Engineering, University of Science and Technology of China, Bachelor

Research Interest：

First-principle simulation (DFT/DMFT); Spin dynamics, spin lifetime; Carrier transport; Optical properties and core-level spectroscopy; Two-dimensional material

Courses：

Research Projects:

1. National Natural Science Youth Fund，12304214，Jan. 2024-Dec. 2026，¥300,000，Project leader

2. Hefei University of Technology Outstanding Youth Training Program A，JZ2023HGPA0291, Apr. 2023-Dec. 2025，¥400,000，Project leader

3. Hefei University of Technology scientific research start-up funding，Feb. 2023-Feb. 2028，¥300,000，Project leader

4. Participated in 6 scientific research projects of the United States and the European Union

Research Papers：

1. J. Xu, K. Li, U. N. Huynh, M. Fadel, J. Huang, R. Sundararaman, V. Vardeny and Y. Ping, “How Spin Relaxes and Dephases in Bulk Halide Perovskites”, Nat. Commun.， Accepted (2023)

2. J. Xu, A. Habib, S. Kumar, F. Wu, R. Sundararaman and Y. Ping, “Spin-phonon relaxation from a universal ab initio density matrix approach”, Nat. Commun. 11, 2780 (2020) (Featured in ScienceDaily)

3. J. Xu, P. Zhang, K. Haule, J. Minar, S. Wimmer, H. Ebert and R. E. Cohen, “Thermal Conductivity and Electrical Resistivity of Solid Iron at Earth’s Core Conditions from First principles”, Phys. Rev. Lett. 121, 096601 (2018)

4. J. Xu, H. Takenaka, A. Habib, R. Sundararaman and Y. Ping, “Giant Spin Lifetime Anisotropy and Spin-Valley Locking in Silicene and Germanene from First-Principles Density-Matrix Dynamics”, Nano Lett. 21, 9594 (2021)

5. J. Xu and Y. Ping, “Substrate effects on spin relaxation in in two-dimensional Dirac materials with strong spin-orbit coupling”, Npj Comput. Mater. 9, 47 (2023)

6. B. Zhao, Z. Wan, Y. Liu, J. Xu, ……, Y. Ping, X. Duan and X. Duan (first author of theoretical part), “High-order superlattices by rolling up van der Waals heterostructures”, Nature 591, 385 (2021)

7. A. Habib, J. Xu, Y. Ping and R. Sundararaman (co-first author), “Electric fields and substrates dramatically accelerate spin relaxation in graphene”, Phys. Rev. B 105, 115122 (2022)

8. J. Xu, A. Habib, R. Sundararaman and Y. Ping, “Ab initio Ultrafast Spin Dynamics in Solids”, Phys. Rev. B 104, 184418 (2021) (Featured in Physics ; Editors' Suggestion)

9. J. Xu, P. Krüger, C. R. Natoli, K. Hayakawa, Ziyu Wu, and K. Hatada, “X-ray absorption spectra of graphene and graphene oxide by full-potential multiple scattering calculations with self-consistent charge density”, Phys. Rev. B 92, 125408 (2015)

10. P. Chen, T. L. Atallah, Z. Lin, P. Wang, S. Lee, J. Xu, Z. Huang, X. Duan, Y. Ping, Y. Huang, J. R. Caram, X. Duan, "Approaching the intrinsic exciton physics limit in 2D semiconductor diodes", Nature 599, 404 (2021)

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