Xifan Wu

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Xifan Wu

  • College of Science and Technology

    • Physics

      • Professor

Courses Taught

Number

Name

Level

PHYS 2101

Classical Mechanics

Undergraduate

PHYS 3101

Analytical Mechanics

Undergraduate

PHYS 8050

Physics Seminar

Graduate

Selected Publications

Recent

  • Xu, J., Chen, M., Zhang, C., & Wu, X. (2019). First-principles study of the infrared spectrum in liquid water from a systematically improved description of H-bond network. Physical Review B, 99(20). doi: 10.1103/PhysRevB.99.205123.

  • Zhou, L., Xu, J., Xu, L., & Wu, X. (2019). Importance of van der Waals effects on the hydration of metal ions from the Hofmeister series. Journal of Chemical Physics, 150(12). doi: 10.1063/1.5086939.

  • Sinha, K., Wang, H., Wang, X., Zhou, L., Yin, Y., Wang, W., Cheng, X., Keavney, D., Cao, H., Liu, Y., Wu, X., & Xu, X. (2018). Tuning the Néel Temperature of Hexagonal Ferrites by Structural Distortion. Physical Review Letters, 121(23). doi: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.121.237203.

  • Sun, Z., Zheng, L., Chen, M., Klein, M., Paesani, F., & Wu, X. (2018). Electron-Hole Theory of the Effect of Quantum Nuclei on the X-Ray Absorption Spectra of Liquid Water. Physical Review Letters, 121(13). doi: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.121.137401.

  • Lee, D., Wang, H., Noesges, B., Asel, T., Pan, J., Lee, J., Yan, Q., Brillson, L., Wu, X., & Eom, C. (2018). Identification of a functional point defect in SrTi O3. Physical Review Materials, 2(6). doi: 10.1103/PhysRevMaterials.2.060403.

  • Zheng, L., Chen, M., Sun, Z., Ko, H., Santra, B., Dhuvad, P., & Wu, X. (2018). Structural, electronic, and dynamical properties of liquid water by ab initio molecular dynamics based on SCAN functional within the canonical ensemble. Journal of Chemical Physics, 148(16). doi: 10.1063/1.5023611.

  • Chen, M., Zheng, L., Santra, B., Ko, H., Distasio, R., Klein, M., Car, R., & Wu, X. (2018). Hydroxide diffuses slower than hydronium in water because its solvated structure inhibits correlated proton transfer. Nature Chemistry, 10(4), 413-419. doi: 10.1038/s41557-018-0010-2.

  • Shen, H., Chen, M., Sun, Z., Xu, L., Wang, E., & Wu, X. (2018). Signature of the hydrogen-bonded environment of liquid water in X-ray emission spectra from first-principles calculations. Frontiers of Physics, 13(1). doi: 10.1007/s11467-017-0700-z.

  • Giannozzi, P., Andreussi, O., Brumme, T., Bunau, O., Nardelli, M.B., Calandra, M., Car, R., Cavazzoni, C., Ceresoli, D., Cococcioni, M., Colonna, N., Carnimeo, I., Corso, A.D., Gironcoli, S.D., Delugas, P., Distasio, R., Ferretti, A., Floris, A., Fratesi, G., Fugallo, G., Gebauer, R., Gerstmann, U., Giustino, F., Gorni, T., Jia, J., Kawamura, M., Ko, H., Kokalj, A., Kücükbenli, E., Lazzeri, M., Marsili, M., Marzari, N., Mauri, F., Nguyen, N., Nguyen, H., Otero-De-La-Roza, A., Paulatto, L., Poncé, S., Rocca, D., Sabatini, R., Santra, B., Schlipf, M., Seitsonen, A., Smogunov, A., Timrov, I., Thonhauser, T., Umari, P., Vast, N., Wu, X., & Baroni, S. (2017). Advanced capabilities for materials modelling with Quantum ESPRESSO. Journal of Physics Condensed Matter, 29(46). doi: 10.1088/1361-648X/aa8f79.

  • Chen, M., Ko, H., Remsing, R., Andrade, M.C., Santra, B., Sun, Z., Selloni, A., Car, R., Klein, M., Perdew, J., & Wu, X. (2017). Ab initio theory and modeling of water. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 114(41), 10846-10851. doi: 10.1073/pnas.1712499114.

  • Sun, Z., Chen, M., Zheng, L., Wang, J., Santra, B., Shen, H., Xu, L., Kang, W., Klein, M., & Wu, X. (2017). X-ray absorption of liquid water by advanced ab initio methods. Physical Review B, 96(10). doi: 10.1103/PhysRevB.96.104202.

  • Wang, H., He, L., Jiang, H., Steele, C., & Wu, X. (2017). Electronic origin of the spin-phonon coupling effect in transition-metal perovskites. Physical Review B, 96(7). doi: 10.1103/PhysRevB.96.075121.

  • Zhang, Y., Sun, J., Perdew, J., & Wu, X. (2017). Comparative first-principles studies of prototypical ferroelectric materials by LDA, GGA, and SCAN meta-GGA. Physical Review B, 96(3). doi: 10.1103/PhysRevB.96.035143.

  • Sinha, K., Zhang, Y., Jiang, X., Wang, H., Wang, X., Zhang, X., Ryan, P., Kim, J., Bowlan, J., Yarotski, D., Li, Y., Dichiara, A., Cheng, X., Wu, X., & Xu, X. (2017). Effects of biaxial strain on the improper multiferroicity in h-LuFe O3 films studied using the restrained thermal expansion method. Physical Review B, 95(9). doi: 10.1103/PhysRevB.95.094110.