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Renbao Liu

BSc (Nanjing University 1995);  PhD (CAS 2000)

Education   Experience   Research   Publications   Openings    Contacts

Education

BSc, Department of Physics, Nanjing University, Nanjing, 1995

PhD, Institute of Semiconductors, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, 2000

Experience

2005-present, Assistant Professor, Department of Physics, The Chinese University of Hong Kong

2002-2005, Postgraduate Researcher, Institute for Pure and Applied Physical Sciences, University of California, San Diego

2000-2002, Postdoctoral Fellow, Center for Advanced Study, Tsinghua University

1995-2000, Ph.D. Candidate, Institute of Semiconductors, Chinese Academy of Sciences

Research Interest

Condensed matter physics

Quantum optics

Quantum computation and quantum physics

Selected Publications

  1. W. Yao, R. B. Liu, and L. J. Sham, Phys. Rev. B 74, 195301 (2006) Theory of electron spin decoherence by interacting nuclear spins in a quantum dot

  2. M. V. Gurudev Dutt, J. Cheng, B. Li, X. Xu, X. Li, P. R. Berman, D. G. Steel, A. S. Bracker, D. Gammon, S. E. Economou, R. B. Liu, and L. J. Sham, Phys. Rev. Lett. 94, 227403 (2005). Stimulated and spontaneous optical generation of electron spin coherence in charged GaAs quantum dots

  3. S. E. Economou, R. B. Liu, L. J. Sham, and D. G. Steel, Phys. Rev. B  71, 195327 (2005).  Unified theory of consequences of spontaneous emission in a Lambda system

  4. R. B. Liu, W. Yao, and L. J. Sham, Phys. Rev. B  72, 081306(R) (2005).  Coherent control of cavity quantum electrodynamics for quantum nondemolition measurements and ultrafast cooling

  5. W. Yao, R. B. Liu, and L. J. Sham, Phys. Rev. Lett.  95, 030504 (2005). Theory of control of spin/photon interface for quantum networks

  6. W. Yao, R. B. Liu, and L. J. Sham, Phys. Rev. Lett.  92, 217402 (2004).  Nanodot-Cavity Electrodynamics and Photon Entanglement

  7. R. B. Liu and B. F. Zhu, App. Phys. Lett.  84, 2730 (2004).  Tunable terahertz emission from difference-frequency in biased superlattices

  8. R. B. Liu and B. F. Zhu, Phys. Rev. B 68, 195206 (2003). Nonlinear optics of semiconductors under an intense terahertz field

  9. R. B. Liu and B. F. Zhu, Phys. Rev. B  66, 033106 (2002).  Adiabatic stabilization of excitons in an intense terahertz laser

  10. R. B. Liu and B. F. Zhu, J. Phys.: Conds. Matter  12, L741 (2000).  Dynamic Fano resonance of Floquet-state excitons in superlattices

  11. R. B. Liu and B. F. Zhu, Europhys. Lett. 50, 526 (2000). Bloch oscillation under a bichromatic laser: Dynamical delocalization
    and localization, persistent terahertz emission, and harmonics generation

  12. R. B. Liu and B. F. Zhu, Phys. Rev. B  59, 5759 (1999).  Degenerate four-wave-mixing signals from a dc- and ac-driven semiconductor superlattice

Job Vacancies

Students are welcome to join the group.  Recruitment information for the PhD and MPhil programs is available in the department admission webpage. Applications for postdoctoral positions are also invited. Send email for more details.