Xufeng Zhang

About

Dr. Xufeng Zhang received his Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from Yale University in 2016. After graduation, he joined Argonne National Laboratory as the Nikola Tesla Named Postdoctoral Fellow, and was promoted as an Assistant Scientist as of 2018. He has a diverse research interest in device physics and applications, with a main focus on experimental study of spin wave dynamics and magnonic devices hybridized with microwave/photonics/mechanics for coherent and quantum information processing.

Selected Publications

• Jing Xu, Changchun Zhong, Xu Han, Dafei Jin, Liang Jiang, and Xufeng Zhangy, “Floquet
  Cavity Electromagnonics,” Physical Review Letters 125, 237201 (2020).
• Xianjing Zhou, Xu Han, Dieter Koelle, Reinhold Kleiner, Xufeng Zhangy, and Dafei Jin,
  “On-chip sensing of hotspots in superconducting terahertz emitters,” Nano Letters 20,
  4197 (2020).
• Na Zhu, Xufeng Zhang, Xu Han, Chang-Ling Zou, Changchun Zhong, Chiao-Hsuan
  Wang, Liang Jiang, and Hong Tang, “Waveguide cavity optomagnonics for broadband
  multimode microwave-to-optics conversion,” Optica 7, 1291 (2020).
• Xufeng Zhangy, Alexey Galda, Xu Han, Dafei Jin, and V.M. Vinokur, “Broadband nonreciprocity
  enabled by strong coupling of magnons and microwave photons,” Physical
  Review Applied 13, 044039 (2020). Editors’ suggestion.
• Matthew Otten, Xianjing Zhou, Xufeng Zhang, and Dafei Jin, “Coherent Manipulation
  of Single Electrons with Optical Photons in Condensed Helium-4 ,” Advanced Theory and
  Simulations 3, 2000008 (2020). Cover story.

Faculty

Mar 27, 2024

Exploring Dissipation Engineering in Hybrid Magnonic Systems

ECE Assistant Professor Xufeng Zhang, in collaboration with Boston University, was awarded a $420,000 NSF grant for “Harnessing Magnonic Nonreciprocity Through Dissipation Engineering.” This project will investigate the principals of energy dissipation in magnonic systems and engineering approaches for manipulating dissipations.

Faculty

Nov 02, 2023

Quantum Computing Discovery Improves Processing Time, Accuracy

Xufeng Zhang, assistant professor of electrical and computer engineering, in collaboration with Argonne National Laboratory and the University of Notre Dame, completed research to improve quantum computing performance by isolating qubits and reducing exposure to performance-altering noise. A research paper was published in Nature Physics.

Faculty

Sep 28, 2022

Zhang Receives ONR YIP Award to Develop THz System-on-a-Chip

ECE Assistant Professor Xufeng Zhang was awarded an Office of Naval Research Young Investigator Program Award for “Cryogenically Enabled Ultrabroadband THz System-on-a-Chip.” With its comprehensive on-chip signal processing capabilities including THz generation, routing, manipulation, and detection, novel THz SOCs will be suitable for a broad range of applications such as THz wireless communication and sensing without any off-chip components.

Faculty

Jun 24, 2022

New Quantum Bit Platform Points to New Direction for Low-Cost, Large-Scale Quantum Computers

A paper, titled “Single electrons on solid neon as a solid-state qubit platform,” published in the journal Nature by Assistant Professor Xufeng Zhang, electrical and computer engineering, who had a key contribution in the quantum microwave measurements, and researchers at Argonne National Lab and other collaborative institutions, demonstrates a fundamentally new quantum bit (qubit) platform.

Faculty

Jan 03, 2022

New Faculty Spotlight: Xufeng Zhang

Xufeng Zhang joins the Electrical and Computer Engineering department in January 2022 as an Assistant Professor.

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